Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-17
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MINING IN JEROME
 DISTRICT MAKES GiiSSSS
IMPROVEMENT OCCURS AT GLE
 OPATRA COMPANY.

IMPROVEMENT OCCURS AT GLE
 OPATRA COMPANY.
 cross Cut From South Drift Into
 Ledge and ore-Viee-President of
 United Verde Visiting Property. Vice-President Macdonald, of the United Verde Copper Company, is in Jerome on lis annual inspection of the company's property. General Manager Chas. w. Clark is expected in tonight from his home on the coast, where he has been for some weeks. President w. A. Clark, who is fast re- covering his usual good health, is in Europe.
 The full breast of the south drift from the Dillon tunnel in the Cleopa- tra property is in what now looks like an immense body of high grade ores, is the good news that the News has for its readers this week.
 Tuesday the southeast side of the face was shot into the ledge, and Wednesday and Thursdays work broke the whole face in. The drift. (which, by the way, can be more properly called crosscgt -;;,;iii; -.Gss;,ii,- :, west from the south drift,) has fo~ more than tbirty feet been encounter Ing snI.r~hides in punches, and for the last ten feet the sides and breast have been showing more and more mineral, and from the creyices in the fOrma- ton gone through, water strongly i'm pregnated with copper has corse, bringing with it black sulphides. Tk1s is especially so on the south side of the cross-cut, which, would indicate that this crosscut has been run for many feet parallel with the ore body. The face of the crosscut is now more than 100 feet from the winze sunk from the Winingham tunnel, and in which about 35 feet of high grade ore was struck when work on it was stopp- ed.
 The crosscut below is in the neigh bornood of 200 feet lower than where the winze was sunk into the ore. Thus the work already done would give an idea of the immense body of ore now known to exist in the Cleopatra group.
 Hundreds of feet north from the south drift this mine is being devel- oped by a north drift from the Dillon tunnel, and by continuing the Dillon tunnel itself.
 Both of these workings are now showing changes in formation that in dicate the close proximity of ore. This is especially so in the north drift, where the workmen expect to shoot into the ledge and ore any day. With ore exposed here the Cleopatra will take place among the great mines of the world. At present machines are now only used in the work south ot the Dillon tunnel, but another machine is now on the ground, and Foreman Hubbard is now making preparations 10 place it ir commission in the north drift. This will expedite work.
 The opening up of the Cleopatra means a difference of 100 per cent in the business of Jerome, and to thf district it means everything possible in mining way.
 At the Black Hills Copper Co.'S group they have got everything 1T | splendid working order, and the worl of sinking their 1000-foot shaft is rap idly progressing, and with very satis factory results. Two eight houl shifts are being worked. The under ground work at this mine is under thr
 direct supervision of an experiences miner from the Bisbee district. - hS -
 Il Delays in receiving some of thu
 minor parts of the machinery just re ceiyed at the PittsbuTg-Jerome prop
 erty delayed work on that mine, bu the missing parts arrived during tn week, and Mine Superintendent LaI
 sen informed the News Thursday nigh that the shaft would be unwatered b, Saturday night. when the work O sinking the shaft to the 500-foot leve would be commenced. The shaft i 5 making water all the time, and tn keeping of it dry will be a matter c
 more work than was at first anticipaf
 ed.
 The superintendent says that tn , new plant works to perfection. : was placed in position by Fred Smiti . Work on the Verde Consolidated l being showed along with good result l and it is being predicted by those wh r are doing the developing, that the
 will expose ore that will make Nth
 Consolidated one of the best prospect ) in the Jerome district.