Bisbee daily review., 1906-11-06
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indications Point to Presence of Red Metal in Tombstone.
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 ..:sl TOMBSTONE. Nov. "A few week more will see the big shaft of tn, Tombstone Consolidated down to ths iooo-foot level. which the manage ment of the company has been desir. ous of reaching ever since they be. gan the work of re-opening the Tomb stone mines. This level has been the objective point, as they expect to be- gin the work of opening up the sur rounding 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 ten and fifteen feet per week and have now but about forty feet further 10 go to reach that level.
 The pumps have no trouble in the least in handling the flow of water which is averaging about 1000. 900 gallons every twenty-four hours and which is considerable of a decrease since the first of the year and up to a few months ago.
 The work of sinking has progressed headway has been made than was ex- pected, the water in the shafts has not been such a hindrance during the present work as it was when the shaft was being sunk to the S00-foot level l As soon as the station has been cut ou, on the 1o00-foot level another large pump, similar to the one now on the 600 and 800-foot levels, will be in stalled and be used to drain the lower levels of the mine and from the shaf, in the further sinking.
 Forsz4uS ttyre there have been in dfcatfoh x Hifnber of the proper ties of the Tombstone Consolidated company that lsl the management of the company to expect the appear ance of acoppers s>vsrai small streaks of copper ore being found in the Elm eraid and in the big shaft; but the most promising indication that shows 1 that 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 direction of Foreman Rog- CT Sanders. and which, after being sunk a distance of something over 100 | ~ haf shows native copper all through it The ore is not in chunks of native cop per, but there are little pieces of the l red metal scattered entirely through the oxide ore. The extent of the ore body cannot be determined, owing to the fact that -soon~nfter 1t was dis covered the water began to fill in the winze and further development had to be stopped until the country was 1 drained by the pumps at the big shaft The finding of this body of ore has led many to believe that Tombstone will follow in the footsteps of Butte | and develop from a silver and gold the contention of many for some time ] that it would be the case and the in- iications at the present time would most certainly lead to that conclusion With the price of copper at 20 cents and the opening up of large bodies ot that ore in this district there will certainly be something doing.
 | Nothing could be more appropriate as a reward to the untiring faith and perseverance of President Gage and Frank Murphy of the Tombstone Con- solidated company, in their efforts to reopen the Tombstone properties than to have them become one of the prin- cipal copper properties of Arizona. P B. Cheney, one of the principal stock holders of the company in the east was here during the past week IT company with one or two other prom inent eastern mining men, and after an inspection by them of the proper more than pleased with the develop ments and were exceedingly exuber- ant over the outlook for the company Since our last report number oi Improvements have been made by the company at the big shaft and at the mill. At the big shaft the new boiler room has been completed and all oi the new boilers connected up. The work of hoisting some of the old | dumps adjacent to the shaft to rur through the bins and then to the mil has been going on for some time. One dump, which was composed entirel, of ore that was taken out when the shaft was being sunk, has been nearly all put through the mill during the past few weeks.
 At the mill the new boilers have been blown in and the engine room enlarged and the machinery put in ex' cellent shape. The zinc room ha: been enlarged and a new carpenter and blacksmith shop erected on tho hill above the mill. The work of run ming through the old tailings will bt