Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-19
Douglas, May r, 1905. AS TO BONDING MINES.

40 V RONOtNG MtN6S.
 Editor lnternational-Americ
 Sir.-I see in your issue of the 16th an article credited Star, giving advice to miners. and prospectors as to how to get their claims developed don't know who Star" is, whether person or paper, but l am very certain the writer never owned a claim or used a pick or drill.
 He says that those unable to work their claims should give options of two and three years to capital to find out whether they want the property or not. Now, let us see how much de- velopment capital could do, say in two years of continuous work with only four men to start with. (But of course capital would have twenty). Four men will sink a reasonable shaft, say 4XS feet, fifty feet in twenty-five days, and one hundred feet in two months: at this depth you will get water suf- ficient to run compressed air drills, which more than doubles the amount of work that can be done by hand drilling. This is in shaft work, the hardest and slowest part of mining, for in drifting you will make two or three feet to one in a shaft. Then with four men you will average three feet a day in sinking and drifting or over two thousand feet of work in two years. Now if we ever come across a sure-enough capitalist and he wants to do business he would slap on more hands and do all this work in ninety days. and if the property has any vir- tue or pay mineral he should be ship ping ore to the shelter inside of six months. and he don't want the pros pector 10 die with old age before he realizes something for his hard earned prospect.
 We will take the six or eight proper ties that have been bonded in Doug las as an example of giving long options on properties. The Atlas company bonded the Paro Rico claim, took out seven thousand dollars on top of the ground and then spent or threw away ten thousand dollars disfiguring the face of the mountain. The Provi- dencia bonded the claim by that name and of course incorporated and commenced to sell stock; done a hundred feet of work and never got to the vein at the bottom of their shaft and fizzled out. The Santa Rosa, a splendid prospect, bonded and stocked, then butchered and returned it to its original owners, a htue disfigured, but still in the ring. The Esmaralda, rich paying prospect, bonded, butchered and robbed. not only of its wealth but of it's goou name also, and there is plenty of others that have gone the same way. These properties might have fared better if they had been looked after by a mining man bus they were run by cattle and sheep men, clerks and bookkeepers, and it will take them long time to get over a case of malpractice. But if you give bond and find that the parties are not working according to contract. 1t is a two to one wager that you have to go to court to get possession of your property, and in fact you may not get it if you nave not got the money to get good attorneys to help you. So I say again that Star" had better stick to the heavens and mat ters pertaining thereto and let those things that he knows nothing about alone. BOULDER Rev. Craig Honored.-The Rev. R NJ. Craig, who for the past eight years has been synodical missionary of the Presbyterian church for Arizona and T