Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-21
Result of Assays
 HIGGINS ORE
 By Doctor Koenig SAMPLES CONTAIN fs AND 30 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
Samples Were Sent to Brokerage Firm At Horton, Mich., and Noted Pro- lessor Gives His Figures to Mining Gazette. Of that City, for Put Iication.

The following appeared in the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette which arrived at the Review office yesterday:
 Pain Webber & company have re- ceived a box of samples taken from he Higgins drift when the ore was first encountered. The box arrived friday and samples were immediate y given to Dr. George A. Keonig. of he Michigan College of Mines for as laying. This work was completed
 esterday afternoon. The following etter from Dr. Koenig to James R. Jee, written last evening. gives the results:
 The assay of two pieces of ore, said to have come from the Higgins mine of Bisbee. gave the following re suits:
 No. l was a large piece, showing a mineral mixture of hematite, sup rite. malachite, red and gray quartz. No. was a small piece, showing hem atite, cuprite, malachite, with much less quartz than No. l.
 ANO. l. 4NO Copper, percent ...... IS. 03 29. 94 Iron, percent .......... 19. 04 27. 92 Quartz, percent .-.... 3S. 40
 Silver, OF ...-........ 0. fl 6. oS Goiu, oZ- -..-........-.. trace O. UZ
 The quartz in No. was not deter mined. The silver in No has a val ue of s3.34sper ton. The gold in No. 2 has a value of 10 cents per ton.
 Tt is almost needless to say that this is very fine showing. The char acter of the ore is identical with the ore taken from the Calumet & Arizo- na shaft, which ore assayed. at the time, for Captain Hoatson. It is also very similar to the ore on the Copper Queen company's property adjoining the Higgins. in shallow prospect.
 Tt is rather Odd that the per cent age of iron and copper should be so nearly the sane in each sample. The ore. such as it is here shown. may be said to be self fiuxing in its per cent age of silica (quartz) and iron oxide It will only require lime, and of this there is plenty.
 ''Of course it is well understood that in order to make a clean slag (free from copper) sulphur ores must be added; and these ores will no doubt be encountered on the Higgins proper ty by further development. Tn fact sulphur ores have already been met xxrir tn s,nl ;ol, MT. Byrne gave some time ago"
 ''Dr. Koenig, in speaking to the Min ing Gazette, said the sample given him by MT. Byrne contained no copper, but was valuable as an indication of the presence of sulphur ores, which are necessary for the best results. Dr. Koenig has made thorough personal inspection of the Bisbee camp, and he understands from observations at first hand the relative positions of the prep critics and the relations they bear upon each other.
 The success of the Higgins in pene- trating high grade ore is the first re- suit of this kind outside of the Calu- met & Arizona sisterhood, and is the most important development since the success of the Calumet & Pittsburg and Lake Superior & Pittsburg. There were some eoubting Thomases who were skeptical concerning Higgins, but the present developments are of a character to establish faith in the full success of the property"
 The Review is in a position to state that distance of about thirty feet has been penetrated in the drift from the winze connecting thirty feet has been penetrated in the drift from the winze connecting the upper and low CT tunnels of the Higgins workings, and for the entire distance ore was en- countered, the body varying in size between two and one-half and three feet in width, the last several feet of the Grift carrying the larger amount. As was stated in a previous issue of the Review the drift dips toward the workings of the Copper Queen compa. ny and that condition still continues