Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-18
DOWN IN THE HINES

 new hoist will have a capacity for ssinking to a depth of 1000 feet or even more.
 The Lowell shaft has not yet reach ed the bottom of the deposits in that section, and at least three-eights of all the development work at present being prosecuted by the. Copper Queen is in thst vicinity.
 The engine which formerly did duty at the Lowell is at present in the shops being oyerhauled before placing at the Sacramento. This will be in the course of the next four or five mento will be resumed. At the Holbrook, repair gang has been busily engaged at a cost of one hundred dollars per day, keeping the shaft in repair caused by settling of tho ground. The Holbrook is one of the oldest shafts of the Copper Queen group. The old stopes have been ill ed with waste. in the course of the work, but necessarily settle a great deal. causing a pulling of the ground down around them to the damage of the shaft. The settling has not been serious enough to cause a cessati )l T production from the Holbrook, lut operations have been carried on wilh greater difficulty.
 During February, the Spray shaft sent 10000 tons of ore to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas and leI all other shafts in production. the Hol- brook, however. being a close seooId. The deepest workings at the Spray is Cply 800 feet.
 The Copper Queen Company is 0per- aung five producing shafts: Hoi- brook, Czar, Gardner, Spray and Low ell. The Holbrook and the Car are the Cld-timers, with the Holbrook in the lead, having produced more ore during the past twenty years than any other shaft in the group. During he monlh of February the output from l the Holbrook was approximately 19.- GU tons. a close second to the Spray. During the next two or threa days | tn. aft of the Cuprite will be b"t- toned at the 200 level Sinking will be resumed few feet past this level l for a stump. Pumps will be installed | to take care of surface water which | is seeping through. A machine drill is being placed in the old southwest drift of the Holbrook, which will be | driven for a connection with the Gu | prite, distance of 456 feet. drift | is also to be started from the 200 level of the Cuprite towards the Uncle Sam | claim.
 | During the month of February the | T its pay roll 2,600 miners and as many if not more, are being employed this week. The present high price of cop per-is an incentive for development work, and it is being vigorously prose cuted ali over the district.
 l Owing to a smash-up of ore cars in the vicinity of the old slag dump dur, ing the fore part of the week, ship ments of slag by the Copper Queen to the smelter was temporarily aband oned, but were resumed again yester day.
 The precipitating plant of the Cop per Queen is at last under construc. ton and is expected to be in opera ton some time in April.
 A track is being built up the gulch to a point beneath the old slag tres
 sic and slag will be loaded from this
 point also. In addition to afforGilg in
 creased facilities for loading the sleg
 this excavation of the gulch at that
 point is to serve double purpose
 The gulch is being excavated and the
 track laid along the bottom The
 deepening of the gulch at this poin'
 and farther below will also afford h' 1 subway, which carries the flood wa ters safely past Main street, a bettel , outlet The subway is to be remod eled as soon as the excavation is com pleted, affording a 2 per cent. grade from the Bank of Bisbee building tt the slag tressel, instead of a l De
 cent. grade at present.
 The finishing touches are being pu , on the change house at the Car ant will be ready for occupancy in Lh' course of the next two or three days THE cocHisE.
 } The CochiSe shaft. located in Du bacher Canyon, across the canyol from the Holbrook Of the Cope Queen Company, has attained dept z of 210 feet with the three new con |. rartments. The management expect 2 to reach the bottom of the old shaf ] at a depth of 300 feet by the 1st c : April, when new development wor r will be started, consisting of sinkin [ and running a cross-cut from this leve g northwest from the shaft The ol 8 cross-cut was in a distance of 275 fee
 and this is to be extended an add