Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-14

Bisbee ls lively place and a good eamp-no room for parks. drives. or even for front yards-just business: and the town is in keeping with the reduction works which remind one of the remark Of Professor Douglas. that 'nl0re copper is produced here 10 the square inch than in anv other camp Sn earth. Every thing is booming and many large mining oeals are made here every week. I, is the erineipal mining camp of the territo- v. The railrosd accommodations are greatly improved and travel is sery heavy Curing the whole year Saturday evening the Naco-Forest Sat,oT WAS com3letea and after "Wednesday all trains will be run over Chat line r has been several months building and is an expensive improvement or the road The tun- oel IS 1000 feet long and has been cut ne greater part cf the way through soiid rock IL Is the longest tunnel ,n the terrltoTy and a big project.
 The Copper Queen people are still Gmelting their ore here. but are build ing a modern shelter at Douglas. The company has built a fine gymnasium for its employees and has made liber- al donations 70 other worthy causes here and elsewhere. There has nev- ey been strike in the camps history and all seem satisfied with the compa- ny's treatment The highest wages are paid Q the miners and shelter men and wherever possible work is siopped on Sundays and holidays.
 Many former Phoenicians are in bus sness here and all expect 10 wander back again when they have recuperat- cd their fortunes.
 The mining class, to man assem- lsled at Q. n. Monday morning for a trip with several of the company off .eiais across the country geologizing Waving provided themselves with con SORr mans and cross sections of the country. the insDection nj the surface was begun. Here is where we missed Rrofessor Blake. as he has made an extended study of this locality and is xreparei 70 speak authoritatively on its geology. One theory among many regarding the ore deposits is that the limestone covered the whole district in the plane of the horison and the yorphyry was intruded, forcing the limestone up and apart. tipping the limestone northeast and southwest and probably the same convulsion that blew the porphyry out in this dike fcrced up the pre-cambrian schist. which lies in the great fault, parallel eo the pOrphyry dike. Great erosion has weatherei away the filling of the suleh in which the camp is built and the ore tha: was in the por-hyry which Nns been sroied has been concentrat- eh by nature along the contact of the Limestone and rorphyry. When the ,x3ca1ic action took nlace. the lime stone waa consi6erably shaken up and immense cavities were formed a,oof the contact in which the copper has collected. The Calumet & Ari- -ona has sunk along this contact on fsith and are now producing 100000 younds of copper per day. They went down 1000 feet and struck TO valuable ore until after the 700 level.
 The Copper King went across the sulch and sunk on the contact of the achfs. and porphyry and srent several hundred thousand dollars and found nothing. The Calumet & Pittsburg sank along the line cf the Queen, also tie Calumet & Arizona workings and have just lately struck some high grade ore in large quantities.
 The South Bishee. about q mile and a half farther south. is in good ore, and several other good properties are Geing opened up in this district and great deal Of prospecting and stalking cot of claims is going on, some on eaifh or reputation of the surrounding kpowle1Se. Water is pumped nine miles from the Naco wells and fur ufsbes a sufficient, amount for all nseds. The head is. about 1000 feet sod fs made in one lift from Naco, oser an eight inch pipe line. It IS oily recently that this line was com pseted and shows the faith that the present arrangement has in the quan- tiav of ore in the Queen workings, which is also corroborated by the e6ectien of such an immense smelting liant at Douglas. No roasting is be- ing done at present Some of the Neavy sulphjdes are being shipped to Worenci. where the same company sues the ores to help smelt their oxi- dized ores there.
 After examining the surface work jays and viewing the country from several points of view, the party re- turned fer lunch and made arrange