Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-02
Mining Gazette
 HAS SOME Unwritten History
EDUCATION PAPER GIVES eiseEE MATTERS SHE DID NOT KNOW
A Long Letter from this City Tells Us All About it.-The Same is Here with Presented for the Edifcation of Those who Have Never Heard of These Things.

The Mining Gazette is in receipt of a highly interesting letter containing scraps of unwritten history concern ing the development of the Warren district in the early days, which is synonymous with the development of the Copper Queen mine. The letter is from a source which is thoroughly acquainted with the facts. It pre- sents an argument for perseverance and grit which needs no support aside from a mere recital of the facts. IL is as follows:
 Bisbee, Ariz., Jan. 21, 194.
 Martin & Ballard did the first work in the Warren district about 25 years ago. in the open cut in front of wnere the Copper Queen hotel now stands, at Bisbee- They worked only part of the ore in sight. Then they became afraid it was going to exhaust, lost their grit and sold out for a small figure to the Copper Queen Mining company.
 The Prince company was the next 70 start development work, on the Allan ia claim Those responsible for the company sank shaft about 160 feet They got but little ore, which discour- aged them. So the Copper Queen bought them out and drifted under the Atlanta, where large bodies of ore were found that were worked on for ten years.
 The Silver Bear company, started operations between the present Spray and Pittsburg & Duluth shafts and spent several thousand dollars. The company became discouraged think ing there was no ore outside the Cop per Queen grounds, and sold out to the Copper Queen very cheaply, and this ground today contains some of the Copper Queens best workings.
 The Hayes company opened a shaft on its property, about 300 feet from the Holbrook shaft The work went down 300 feet, getting within 20 feet of large ore body. Then the compa- ny lost its grit and sold out to the Cop per Queen, which is taking rich ore Ont VI lAC ooAhC SiOAA0 No1os-
 The Holbrook company spent for tune in development work and came to the conclusion that the property was outside of the ore bodies. It al- so became financially embarrassed, when the Copper Queen took the Hol- brook into the consolidation. The production from the Holbrcok shaft today is proverbial
 The Lowell shaft, on the Galena claim, was sunk about 1000 feet by a man named Hanchette from Lowell, Massachusetts. At that depth he en- eountered very nice ledge matter and considerable water, and became dis couraged because he was not fortu- nate enough to drop into large ore body instead. He let go to the Cop per Queen, which sank the same shaft SC feet further and struck as nice an ore body as there Is in the Bisbee camp.
 caiument & Arizona's Grit.
 The Calumet & Arizona compa- ny, after getting its shaft on the Irish Mag down about 800 feet, was in bad financial straits, but it had men with grit at the helm, who stuck to it, and everybody knows the outcome.
 The Copper King company, which was financed in New York, sank a shaft on the opposite side of the gulch from the Holbrook. About 700 feet down it encountered Q very good form ation, but the management got weak in the knees, it is said, by bad finan- cial direction. This is the only shaft of any depth in the Warren district that is failure up to date. No one knows but that this would be a pro. ducer if it were properly developed.
 The South Bisbee company, after working three or four years and spend. ing good. deal of money. got disgust ed and sold out to the Lake SIperi0, & Pittsburg, which also spent several years and good many thousand dol lars, but had nothing in sight to speak of up to four months ago. It's stock went begging then at $30 a share. To day it brings $125 and is worth more
 The Calumet & Pittsburg company has been working hard and spending lots of money for two years. and fl was only short time ago that the management became satisfied that il had a mine.
 The Calumet & Bisbee company has been operating about year and have a shaft down nearly 1000 feet witt 29O feet of drifts. The work is in 2 very promising formation, within . ahort distance of the Lake Superior Pittsburg ore body. Their future de pends on the grit and financial man agement of the people behind the en ferprise-
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