Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-17
Calumet & Pittsburg, Junction and Denn-Arizona Make
 Important Move.
SHOWS CONFIDENCE
 AMONG MANAGEMENT.
Believe They Are Draining Im- mense Underground Basin Which Can Be Exhausted by Installing Big Pumps.

One of the most significant matters that has taken place for a long time in connection with the development Of the Calumet & Arizona group of mines here is an order for pumping machinery just given the Prescott works by the Calumet & Pittsburg and Junction companies. It not only indicates the confidence in these two properties by the management but shows that both are to go far deeper in due time than they have yet reached, and is a most positive and direct answer to any who may have felt that The management did not have the most unbounded faith in either or both these companies.
 These orders for pumps do not in- dicate that a greater flow of water than the present 1000 gallons a min ute from Calumet & Pittsburg or the l 900 from Junction, is looked for, but that this flow is likely to be of consid- crabic permanence, and that as depth is attained in the two mines, the con tinued drainage of a great limestone tasin will require pumps capable of handling this volume of water from great depths.
 The water problem at Bisbee IS solved; that is, the source of the flow is known, and it is very well under stood that the companies pumping are draining a big basin which, once drained, will bother very little,
 In this problem of pumping at Bis bee there should be, and 1t is now cer- tain there will be cooperation by the various companies chiefly affected. This relieves the Calumet & Pittsburg of burden 1t has borne almost alone for three years. The management of Denn-Arizona has come to the front splendidly, now that it is in position to take its share of the work and has given a large pump order, while there is no question as to the attitude Of American or Warren, when their chance comes to assist. It is evident enough from the configuration of the ground, and from what is known of the limestone underlying the conglom- crate on all these later properties. that each of them will have all the op- portunity it wants to help in draining the basin.
 IC has been very apparent for some time 10 Superintendent Pattison of the Denn-Arizona Company that. once their shaft cuts through the overly ing conglomerate and into the mineral bearing limestone they krow to exist beneath, they would share the water of the deeper basin. That would mean a flow they now have no means of handling. This shaft is now 1050 feet deep. and a station is being cut preparatory to draining into the lime for ore. and also for pumps. which have been ordered.
 4 majority of the directors of the Calumet & Arizona group happened to be at Bisbee when the pump orders were under consideration. Messrs. Cole, Hoatson, Congdon, Tener and d'Autremont were all here. They all spent a good deal of time under. ground. and were of the opinion that the properties never looked so well as TOW This was not a perfunctory re mark or relating 10 one mine alone, but to every property of the group, from Pittsburg & Duluth on one side to Junction on the other. Captain Hoatson expresses himself with par. ticular confidence as to Pittsburg & Duluth, which, he thinks, will make as good a mine as any in the group.