Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-24
RICH COPPER SHOWING
 WILL BE DEVELOPED
IS LOCATED EIGHT MILES FROM CANANEA, AND LOOKS
 BIG,
Expert Pitz Here to Meet St. Louis Pecple-Tells About Lost Mine of Local People in Arizpe-Says lt Is Wonderful Proposition.

Peter Pitz, Colorado gold mine ex- pert, and one of the best informed of western men with reference to mining in general. arrived in the city yester- day from Cananea for couple of weeks in Arizona before returning to Mexico, where he has lately been en- gagged in looking into several mining propositions for St. Louis and local people.
 MT. Pitz came to Arizona first in 1866, remaining in the territory until 1872. when he went to Colorado. He was connected with a number of en- terprises there in succeeding years, the famous Little Johnnie gold mine being one of the notable properties where he had a directing hand At present he is associated with St. Louis people in Sonora and Northern Arizo- na enterprises. His business here at the present time is to meet with the president of his company, who is en route from St. Louis, for the purpose of arranging for machinery for prop erty eight miles southeast of Cananea. This is a copper property. It is said by Mir. Pitz to be a CIg and rich prop osition. He believes it will make a second Cananea. Machinery is to be put on the ground at once by the St. Louis people. It will include a hoist that will carry a shaft down HOO feet.
 Regarding the lost mine property of the San Francisco Mining Co.,, in Arizpe, MT. Pitz said yesterday that he expected to go there during next
 +A nv,+c for opening of the old workings. He considers the property one of the best gold propositions that he has ever encountered, and expresses belief that it will pay from the minute the work is commenced. Six months. he states, should pay the property clear, and from that time the requirement. of a fund for the erection of a smelter and the putting in operation of hoist ing and other machinery should be short.
 The old workings need only be cleaned out to allow of the taking therefrom of wonderfully rich ore. In the old Spanish tunnel there is a great deal of splendid ore ready for removal in the 200 feet that are open. At the end of this 200 feet there is a cave-in beyond which exploration has not been made, but light thrown over the top of the cave-in indicates that the tunnel extends at least 15O feet further. The old Spanish shaft is filled with water to within ten feet of the top, but shows a strong vein of rich ore down to the water. In the tunnel three rich veins have come to- gether The water in the shaft, MT. Pitz considers, will be easily disposed of, he believing that it will disappear at the end of the rainy season. How ever, should it be necessary to drain the workings on the property there is tunnel site available that will give 800 feet depth. This site will give connection with the main ore body, it is thought, at about 600 feet in, whenever the company wants to make the lower connection.
 Shelter treatment, Mir. Pitz states, will be the economic way of handling the ore. All the fluxes necessary are right on the ground, and operating costs of the smelter will be exceeding ly low. The same character of ore in Colorado brings a premium of $2.SO to the ton at the smelter. In short time there will be railroad extensions completed which will put the mine within seven miles of rail and make the bringing in of materials much less expensive than at the present time. The shorter haul will be available by the time the company has paid off it's pEchase price and is ready to put in rrrfTI fr tho thousand feet that it will be the poli- cy to make with a shaft as soon as the new development is commenced.