Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-13
RULES FOR NATIONAL
 DRILLING CONTEST
HOW THE WORK WILL BE GOV
 ERNED BY JUDGES.
Some Changes May Later Be Made, But They Will Not Be Material
 Contests to Begin November 15-The Prizes and Entrance Fees Charged.


 Prizes and Entrance Fees Charged.
 Fl Paso. Oct. 12-Eight hundred dollars will go to the team winning first place in the worlds champion ship miners drilling contest to be held in Fl Paso during the American Aiming Congress. Two hundred dol lars have been set aside for the sec. ond team. while the team taking third place will walk off with S100.
 Rules for the contest have been formulated Minor changes may be made later, but the regulations laid down by the committee of the Inter. national Miners Association. which is in charge of the contest, are practi- cally in their final form.
 The contest will begin in this city on the 18th of November the second day of the congress, and will con tinue daily until the closing day, the 18th
 During these four days S110O of cash prize money will be distributed. This sum will be increased in case money is secured from other sources than those on which present plans have been based.
 The trophy will be the $2O0 silver loving cup presented in trust to the International Miners Association by the Mine and Shelter Supply Com pany. Only residents of Mexico, New Mexico. Texas and Arizona are eli gible to compete for the trophy
 Final possession of the trophy shall not result until the team or teams from any one district have been awarded first prize three times al three separate contests at intervals of more than three months. The names of the winners in each contest l are engraved on the cup, together with the date, the name of the district rep resented and the names of the mem- bers of the team.
 The San Pedro camp of Chihuahua at present has the best claim to the trophy. Chamberlain and Malley in 1901 and Chamberlain and Make in 1903, both representing the San Pedro, | captured first prize
 The stone upon which the worlds | record was made will be used for the | contest It is a piece of granite from [ the Gunnison quarry, of material sim | liar to that in the Colorado state capi- | tol It was purchased from the min CTS union at Cripple Creek. It is a | cube measuring five and half feet in | each dimension and weighing seven teen tons.
 Rules of the Contest.
 Following are the rules as they are at present laid down, subject, how ever. to addition or amendment up to | the first of November.
 First-Entrance fee will be charged | as follows:
 Double handed contest (team) $50, | and must be paid to the secretary of the International Miners Association | prior to 12 o'clock of the evening be fore the contest.
 Second-The judge will be chosen by the executive committee of the I International Miners Association.
 Third-Seven-eighths inch steel will be used-no swedge steel allowed l Hammers not to exceed eight pounds 1 Measurement of steel and weighing of hammers to be fnade at the stone.
 Fourth-Time of contest, fifteen minutes
 If the hammer is in the air when time is called the blow may be com pleted
 Fifth-Each hole will be measured immediately upon it's completion
 Sixth-All contestants will draw for place at p. m. day before the first contest at the headquarters of the h. ternational Miners Association.
 Seventh-Each and every drill will be measured at the starting of toe entry
 Eight-Contestants will be allowed a coacher and a private timekeeper. if they desire, but the time by the judges will govern absolutely.
 Ninth-In case of tie for any place their record shall stand as against a record above or below them, and those tieing shall drill over to determine their respective relations in the con test; i. e., they have been beaten by the men above them, they have beaten the men below them, and this shall stand, no matter what their new holes may show.
 Tenth-In case of drilling into an old hole, the drilling must be done over by the contestants who struck the old hole.
 Eleventh-In case of striking a soft place in the stone, the hole counts just the same
 The cash prizes offered are open to competition to all the world
 INFORMATION WANTED.