Arizona republican., 1906-11-11

A few weeks more will see the big shaft of the Tombstone Consolidated ] down to the 1000 foot level which the management of the company has beer desirous of reaching ever since it be- gan the work of re-Opening the Tomb stone mines says a Tombstone core ] spondent of a Bisbee paper. This level has been the objective point as they expect to begin the work of opening up the surrounding country from that level. and from present appearances the work will have made good headway from that station before the beginning of the new year The three shifts in the big shaft have been making between ten and fifteen feet per week and have now but about forty feet further to go to reach that level
 The pumps have TO trouble in the least in handling the flow of water which is averaging about 100000 gal Ions every twenty-four hours and which is considerable of a decrease since the first of the year and up to # few months ago.
 The work of sinking has progressed very satisfactorily and much better 1 headway has been made than was ex- ! pected, the water in the shafts has not been such a hindrance during the present work as f was when the shaft was being sunk to the 500 foot level l As soon as the station has been cut out on the OOO foot level another large pump, similar to the one now on the | 600 and 500 foot levels. will be in ! stalled and be used to drain the lower l levels of the mine and from the shaft in the further sinking
 For some time there have been in dications in a number of the proper ties of the Tombstone Consolidated company that led the management of the company to expect the appearance of copper. several small streaks of cop per ore being found in the Emerald and in the big shaft: but the most promising indication that shows thai there is copper below the water level in the Tombstone district was the body of ore recently struck in the winze in the Silver Thread. which has been sunk from the 500 foot level under the di- rectiOn of Foreman Roger Sanders, and which. after being sunk distance Ol
 something over 100 feet. opened up g body of ore that shows native coppei all through it. The ore is not in chunk.
 of native copper. but there are littl,
 pieces of the red metal scattered en-
 tireIy through the oxide ore. The ex
 tent of the ore body can not be deter. T |
 ter it was discovered the water began
 to fill in the winze and further deveI
 opment had to be stopped until tn country was drained by the pumps O the big shaft The finding of this bod,
 of ore has led many to believe tha i Tombstone will follow in the footstep of Butte and develop from a silver an,
 gold camp to a copper camp. It ha
 been the contention of many for som
 time that it would be the case and tn
 indications at the present time wouI
 most certainly lead to that conclusion With the price of copper at 20 cent
 and the opening up of large bodies O
 that ore in this district there will cer
 tainly be something doing.
 Nothing could be more appropriat
 as a reward to the untiring faith an q perseverance of President Gage an S Frank Murphy of the Tombstone Con
 sOlidated company. in their efforts { s i reopen the Tombstone properties tha 5 to have them become one Of the prin B cipaI copper properties of Arizona. F | B. Cheney. one of the principal stock E holders of the company in the eas
 was here during the past week in com
 pany with one or two other prominen
 eastern mining men, and after an in
 spection by them of the properties an
 the work being done. were more tha pleased with the developments an
 were exceedingly eXuberant over tn k outlook for the company.