Bisbee daily review., 1905-02-19

finished it will give the Junction one of the best shafts in the district.
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 l.. s. & P. water flow is reported to be down to 225 gallons per minute, a very decided falling off since c. & P pumps were started. Other prop critics in the neighborhood also con tinue to feel the good effects of c. & P. pumping. There is nothing in the present situation winch gives to C. & P. people more confidence in its having the ore than does this water drainage showing.
 The great ore body in which No. ' crosscut of the L. s. & P. has been working on the HOO level for more than a month on Thursday opened up to the 300 level What is shown de- monstrates that the ore on the HOO is continuous for 200 feet above. How far below the HOO the same level extends is problematical, but tnere is enough high grade material in sight right now through No. No. develop ment to make big mine of itself.
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 Briggs shaft of the c. & A. con tinues to be hampered by water. The fact is causing no embarrassment to the management, because of the fact that the water did not come in as an unlocked for quantity. It will be talk en care of in due time. Junction pumps will probably aid considerably in this matter.
 Regarding the Junction pumps and the sinking of the shaft, it continues to be the talk that this property is to be very active in the assistance of it's neighbors. There is no long CT much doubt that the Junction shaft will have among it's duties the hoist ing of ore from much c. & P. ground The manner of recent drifting give: substantiation of this.
 AS noted in the Review during th' week, Superintendent Parnall anC Chief Clerk Paul., of the c. & A., botl made statement last week before thu Land Office at Tucson that the Juno tion has ore in place. This was thu first public acknowledgment made b. the management to this effect. Or has been coming from the Junction drifts for a couple of months but whel attention was brought to it's presenc on the dump the general inclinauO was to term it of insignificance. now appears that there are very goo ore bodies in sight in the Junctio workings. sufficient at least to bas statement on that it has proven an in portant ledge bearing piece ( ground
 Capt. Urn, of Negaunee, who spen a short time as superintendent of tn Mitchell company property, at the r' cent me eting of the stockholders c the company, gave his OpiS-on COT corning it, which was that nothing il that district approached it in tn showing of surface indications. H said the outcropping was 100 fee wide. There is zinc not far iron where the main shaft was put dow for copper. It was worked by Mexi cans many years ago, the ruins of tn, old smelter still being visible near tn, Mitchell camp buildings. In Coppe canyon there is also a vein of quart showing rich in gold in spots on sur face. but in a tunnel at a depth o 60 feet the quartz is barren. Tn' shaft put down by the Mitchell to ; depth of356 feet is a continuation O one begun years ago. The origina work found a surface pocket of cop per ore some of it being rich. l gave out in about 20 feet from th' surface. The location of this shaf s well up on the side of the canyon probably 800 feet above the bottom where the camps are built.
 Mitchell Development is by thi time in receipt of letters at the new ICaiumet offices from it's ground own lers in Montezuma canyon, with a wort Ito say about the terms for the new lcontracts the company will have tC make to get possession of the ground These letters are in response to le lters that had been sent ou by Secretary Bateman. The tone lof all the responses is not known but is it known that some or th' ground owners have advised MT. Bate lman that it would facilitate matters and make for a considerable headwa!