Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-09
STRIKE 0F ORE IN THE EXPRESS MINE Is
 SULPHIDES
Strike Is Made After Running But Twenty Feet on Ledge,
 Samples S48 Ton.

Among number of attractive min
 ing propositions now being developed | in this county may be mentioned the
 Express mine in the Big Bug district,
 LOW being operated by the Washing
 tcn-Arizona Mining company Recent
 ly test of 200 tons of its ores was
 made in the Poland American mill. the
 results far exceeding the expectations
 of the company's management.
 The ore was mintd from the upper
 tunnel and packed across the noun i tain to the mill by ;he primitive burro method. and the directors realizing
 that the expense of packing could be eliminated by the operation of their | property through ihe tunnel on the | Fitz Hugh Lee claim. which is an ex- i tension of the Express, secured per- | mission from the owners of the Fitz | Hugh Lee to continue the tunnel
 through the Express, and believing 1t l to be for the best interests of the company, let a contract for r/hning the tunnel ahead for a distance of ,000 feet.
 The Poland-American mill, in which
 the Express ore was treated is situate a short distance from the mouth of the tunnel. and the operation of the
 mine through the tunnel will effect reduction in the cost of transporting
 the ore to the mill in the sum of at
 least 1.75 9 ton.
 Contractors are now pushing the tunnel ahead. and recently paystreak
 of solid sulphide ore was struck. aver aging over 12 ainches in width. and sampling s4 Sto the ton in gold and i copper. This streak of ore is followed | by two feet of gangue. which also car 1 ries good value in gold. In the mean i tint. while the tunnel is being pushed ahead. stoping has been discontinued ! in the upper tunnel. where an air : compressor was recently installed. to be resumed as soon as the lower tun- nel is far enough ahead to make con- nectiOns with the upper level. when l the ore can be transported to the mill az the reduced expense. In the mean time new equipment is being installed | in the mill. so that a greater tonnage can be more advantageously and profit ahly treated.
 1 When work was discontinued in the u1ner workings. continuous and well | defined bodies of ore of good grade
 were exposed in eight different head i ines. blocked cut, and ready to be 1 stoped.
 ! The Fitz Hugh Lee tunnel strikes the vein in the Express ground at a distance of a little over 1000 feet 1 from it's mouth Its continuation ahead will tap the vein at a depth of about Gh0 feet from it's apex. where It's crop 7iuss show On the surface of the nGnntain or about 1G5 feet below the level of the upper workings. with which it is the intention to connect at an early date through an urraise n which an Cra chute will be built. When this $ dOre the mine can be ec~nnmicaIlv cpeTa-od as any in the country. When this conn actiOn is made he upDar tunnel. which now fol- fcws the vein 2 distance of over 500 ] feet. will he pushed ahead 10 the north 1 cr1v end of tho inc of the mine rna miro is sitrate1 near the head l of 2 branch Of Bib Bug creek on the 1 Po!and and Lvux creek tunnel. the 1 continuation of the vein passing 1 through the tunnel on the Lynx creek
 divide.
 | Opened On the Firz Hugh Lee. it will 1 be within easv reach of the terminus
 Of the Poland branch Of theSRradshaw Mountain railroad which is only about 1.G0O feet distant from the Roland American miil-Journal Miner