Bisbee daily review., 1906-01-14
RECORDS OF EARLY
 TRANSPORTATION IN WEST
THE MONTE visTo's DEVELOP MENT-TUNNEl WORK SHOWS UP THREE PARALLEL VEINS.
Ore Runs Fror, $5 to $2o to the Ton, Streaks Assay From $1o0 to $f2oc to the Tons-Greatness of the Ore Body.

Chas F. Hanson. superintendent of the Monte Visto mine. is in Douglas. MT Hanson IS a living example of a mining mar whose prophecy has come true. About a year ago in a report to Judge George w. Cass, president of the Monte yisto Mining company, he predicted that the mine would prove to be one of the best properties in Sonora. At that time the mine, which is located Ii miles east of Cos, and is reached by a good pack trail, had about 420 feet of development work done. including one 60-foot shaft and one 90-foot shaft. The rest of the work was in a tunnel now known as the Cass tunnel. Since then this tun- Rel has been extended through two veins. The first vein was cut at depth of IS5 feet below the surface. It proved to be a nine-foot vein. l Thirty feet further on an eight-foot vein was cut at depth of POS feet, and the tunnel is now within 35 feet of the great Dolores vein. There is 90-foot shaft on this vein, and at that depth the Dolores vein was 12 feet wide. The tunnel will cut it at depth of 340 feet below the surface By drifting on that vein to the last | 200 feet they will have q depth be- i low the surface of 500 feet. The | economy of the present work is that ! all three veins can be worked out of | this tunnel.
 There is already a very large body
 of low grade gold ore in sight It
 runs from s5 to S2O to the ton in
 gold and a showing of silver. There are streaks of ore, especially in inc large vein. where the assays run from l Sl00 to s1200 to the ton. The ore so
 far is free-milling. It can be mined
 and milled for S2 per ton, with a | twenty-stamp mill.
 | The company is contemplating the erection of twenty-stamp mill upon
 the property, with extra power, so
 that other stamps may be added from
 time to time.
 Little has been said by the people
 who have been developing this prop
 erty during the past year. They have
 been steadily at work developing the | mine. How great these ore bodies
 are will not be fully known until
 the Dolores vein is cut, which will be
 in few days now.
 The total amount of development work to date is 750 feet. The nature
 of the property is such, the veins
 being parallel, that it can be develop 1 ed and worked to a great depth by l means of tunnels, thus avoiding the great expense incurred in sinking shafts.
 The affairs of the company have
 been economically handled. The funds 1 of the company ha- been devoted
 solely to the development of the property, there being no salaried off, ] cers. The property has been paid 1 for in full and the company has no 1 debts. There is sufficient money in | the treasury to carry on development work for some time 10 come, and there remains uRsold 240,O0O shares of the stock, which may be realized upon l as more funds are required
 Mir. HansOns view of the Monte
 Visto property is now shared by sev~ | erai prominent mining men who have
 visited and examined the property. The Monte Visto stock sold last | summer at 10 cents per share. It is now quoted at 50 cents.
 The present owners acquired this property about seven months ago. The company is capitalized at s1,0O0,OO0, one million shares at one dollar per share. Most of the stock is owned in Bisbee and Douglas, and many of the large stockholders are men fanil- far with mining property.
 The officers of the company nearly all live in Douglas. They are: Geo. w. Cass, president; James E. Suits, vice president; Gid Graham, secretary and treasurer; Chas. F. Hanson, su- perintendent. The directors are: James E. Suits, Fred E. Cadxell, Gid Graham. Chas. F. Hanson and George