Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-11

Six months of hard labor. with ap-
 parently no reward of a substantial
 nature was the condition of affairs
 which were staring Louis, Lnol and
 Donna W. Birdno. and Robert Bosgs in
 the face a few days age; today these
 four gentlemen are about as happy as
 men usually get on finding a good
 thing in the large field of mining.
 The Birdno brothers and Boggs for
 tho past six months have held, and at
 present hold lease on the Whitehall ' Deer claims owned by the Copper
 Queen. Fer the greater part of the time since they secured the lease they
 have been constantly busy in the work
 of searching for ore on this property
 where some years ago approximately
 some s6O,0O0 worth of rich ore was
 taken from the open workings.
 From all indications, up to afew days ago. it seemed that their efforts would be futile and the men were about to abandon the workings, when la slight change was noticeable in the formation where the last blasting had been done, so before giving up it was decided 10 put in just one more blast" This was done and a fine stringer of ere was encountered. A Isecond and third blast uncovered a good sized ore body and as a reward for the perseverance and persistent energy the leases of the property. up 10 last evening. had about twenty-five tens of mineral. that will average at least 25 per cent on the dump.
 How much mere ere will be taken cut through the further development and exploration to be done out through the further development and exploration 10 be dcne by the above named men cannot be estimated but there is every promise that the quan- tity~ will be considerable. The ore already taken out was secured from 6 crosse cut which was run at the bottom of the forty-foot tunnel The cross cut is now in about thirty fee; and the face exposes rich ore 6x6feet in dimensions. All of this is equally as rich as the mineral thus far taken out
 great extent. must, of course. be de Itermined by further work to be done It is possible that the body is in the nature of a pocket and that it's extent may be quite limited. but there are indications of a very favorable char acter that would induce the most con- servative to look forward for very sat isfaccory developments It is far l from being optimistic to predict that the present mineral will lead to other
 pockets CT bodies located nearer the heart of rhe mountain.
 The, discovery of ore on the White Tail Deer claims is not alone encour- aging to the men working the lease but is also of no little significance to the Wolverine and Arizona company,
 whose property is located about one thousand feet away, and whose de lvelopment work will shortly be car
 Tied on on a larger scale in the direc- ton of the Whitehall Deer claims | It was five years ago when the Ccp-
 per Queen operated on the claims and took s60,100 worth of mineral from
 the famous open workings. All of
 the mineral was found less than nine,
 ty feet from surface.
 The supposition that more ore will
 be found in the near vicinity would ap- bear to be well founded, at least Bird mo brothers and Boggs are willing to exert more of their energy for the
 purpose of arriving at more definite iconclusion.