Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-09

An engine was received al the rum boldt this week for the new air com pressor 70 be installed.
 There is no boom on in this district, but the whole section is keen to pro gress. Evidences of activity and head way appear in every quarter.
 All acquainted with the property join in agreeing that the great Hum boldt was never in better shape than now. The mine has a world uf ore blocked out and is ste1i:ly showing up more.
 In the Golden I-agle tunnel at the Polaris. Strike was made last Satur- day of three foot vein of ere going better than Si00 to the ton in gold, copper and silver. The ore is said to completely i'll the narrow tunnel be- ing driven. It was come upon on the other side of fault that for about five feet cut of the ore body. Elk cepting this fault, there is now a straight piece of tunnel in the Gold Eagle in ore for so feet.
 Recent reports on the Deer Creek coal fields, 150 miles down the Gila from Morenci, indicate good deal of new interest in the cid proposition. Despite the favorable late reports, olc time prospectors look for the most part with doubt on the field. John Molder is one of these. q was down there a good many years ago." says Mir. Molder, and prospectei the ground pretty thoroughly. l packed coal from there better than twenty years ago by burro trail to Globe and sold it for blacksmithing purposes. It The trouble with the field is that it ioes not go down. l do not believe that it will ever be found to do so. ProsPectors have been all over it with out permanent results. The field at the head of the Blue is the great sup ply for this section. There the sup ply does go down. It is in a block and millions of tons practically in sight. The Durango Clifton railroad will cut right through it.. When it coes coal will be at the door of this camp in quantity sufficient to put at rest all doubt as to future supply"
 One of the biggest propositions sug- gested in the MerenciClifton country n a long time is now being prepared for presentation to capital by Survey of Milner, of Clifton. It is a five mile tunnel, which MT. Milner figures would bring in an immense amount oi new ore and lose no time in getting on
 big paying basis to owners and pa- trons Mir Milner has finished a sur vey for the proposed tunnel and is now completing other matters of detail necessary to the plans before they can be placed in the hauds of capitalists. The survey of the tunnel carries it from the Rattlesnake group on Chase ci. Over forty claims would be direct ly cut by the tunnel, while short drifts would easily reach to many more. These properties are all in the hands of owners outside of the large compa- nies in the district. The tunnel would most unquestionably open up some way for the profitable operation of many properties in range of it that are now idle because of the lack of means of the individual owners to go ahead with development uncer existing con- ditions, which require considerable ex- pense to get ore to market, aside from a big dump carrying a great deal of ore that could be taken out profitably through a central tunnel along the lines proposed by Milner. A con servative estimate on the cost of the tunnel is considered s600,000. Mir. Milner is thoroughly acquainted with the ground he proposes cutting and on the strength of his knowledge of its value is satisfied that investigation of the merits of his proposed tunnel will unquestionably result in the plans be- ing taken up and in due time carried out by capital he is confident of inter- esting.
 Ben Crawford and Duke Await this week bonded by the W. T. Kinsey and E. E. Frye group of four claims at the head of Chase creek, on which recent strike of rich gold ore was made. Assay of a sample taken across the four foot vein shows it to carry six ounces of gold to the ton, besides some copper and silver values. A ten foot shaft has been sunk on the vein. 1t being from the bottom of this work that the sample was taken. It is the
 purpose of Crawford & Await to al
 once commence development work
 contract having been let for continu
 ance of the shaft and beginning of a tunnel. The latter is on one end oi
 the group and the shaft on the other
 The tunnel will go in on the ore and
 follow it to the shaft The extent oi the ore body and whether it will
 maintain the high value found in the
 shaft is of course problematical, but the prospect is a most excellent one
 Speaking of it Wednesday, Nick Cole whose judgment in the district is con