Bisbee daily review., 1904-01-08
MINING NEVIS
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(Continued From Page Two.) driving a tunnel 500 feet into the hill l side at an altitude $50 feet below the crest of the hill, and sinking a winze 20 feet deep. 500 feet from the portal of the tunnel It would be possible, if desirable, to carry this tunnel clear through the hill and bring its opposite portal on the territory of the Chiri- cahua company. This plan was talked of, but it was deemed more advisable to secure greater depth, and with this purpose a three-compartment shaft is to be sunk at once, starting at a point considerably lower than the tunnel portal.
 The machinery for this purpose isl now being purchased by Mir. Cole. ltI will come mostly from Chicago and portions of it are all ready for ship ment. The shaft will go down in a portion of the claims which, so far asI is known now, is not mineralized-
  lions at that point. These are ex. actly the conditions under which the Calumet & Arizona was developed, all hopes being set on entering the ore body at depth. What the sinking of the shaft will show is, of course. problematical, but 800 feet is looked upon as likely depth at which to meet with encouragement, as against 1000 feet in the Bisbee field.
 $2o,ooo for Machinery.
 The purpose of the company can be well understood from the fact that be tween s2o,OO0 and s25,ooo will be spent for machinery alone at the new shaft The shaft will be sunk as rapidly as possible to depth of 500 feet. and if nothing develops in the course of the operations to changeI present plans, drift or crosscut wil1| be driven from that point to the ore zone.
 The Chiricahua property was first brought to the attention of the Michi- gan people last February by James H. Knowles, formerly of the Gogebicl iron range. with a wide circle of ac- quaintances throughout the upper pen insula ut who has spent the last ten years in Arizona He had run acrossl the property through an acquaintance with one of its owners, Captain Thom- as Burns, who had been in the Chlri- cahua mountains for + years and who had operated the property for silver values. Burns had driven tunnel into the hill at an altitude 100 feet below its crest, carrying it in 800 feet, and had taken considerable silver from it.
 In the course of this work the char acteristic leached ore which has been such an infailible guide in locating copper ere bodies in the Warren dis trict, was penetrated. Burns had nev- CT worked in copper ores. and did not grasp the importance of the indica- tion, but when Knowles heard of 1t he felt that it gave more than ordi- nary promise, and he brought it to the attention of his Marquette and Calu met friends.
 Visited By Captain Jas. hoatson.
 On Knowles representations, Cap tain James Hoatson, S. R. Kaufman and William G. Rice went into the Chiricahua mountains last February and looked at the claims. Captain | Hoatson at once recognized that the altered lime and iron gossen which 1 caps the country there gave all of the 1 surface indications which had been | so potent in governing his judgment | during the early days of the new Bis | bee development, and felt that it was worthy 6f the most exhaustive explo- | ration. These indications, and in | fact all the many things which lead | the expert to believe that copper will 1 be found at depth, are even more striking in the Chiricahua field than | in the Warren district. These, to- | gether with the leached ore both in | the old tunnel and in the tunnel at 1 lower altitude which has been driven | by the new owners. are such as to