Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-01
TOMBSTONE MINE Twenty New Stamps Will Be Dropping at the MiH
 This Week. 25O TONS CAPACITY
 EACH "A HOURS. Large Bodies of Ore Are Being Opened Up in the Up- per Levels,
Special to Reyiew.)


 the Tombstone properties of the Consolidated Company is progress ing very satisfactorily. and every day sees the opening up of ore bodies in the workings of the mine that was thought to have been worked out tlong ago.
 The mill is crushing at the rate of over 100 tons per day, and the com ing week will see the other 20 stamps dropping. increasing the amount of ore consumed to 250 tons per twentyfOur hours. During the past week number of minor changes have been made in the connections | of the shines, etc, which will ma 1 terially facilitate the handling of the tailings. The zinc room has about 1 been completed. and the work of treat 1 ing some of the concentrates will be i started during the coming week. Reg ular shipments of concentrates are l being made to the smelters al Fl l Paso. which are said to pay most ! handsomely. The refining furnaces were fired up on Tuesday and tested preparatory to making a partial clean ! up. Carpenters have been at work l during the past week. building fumes for the carrying of of the waste wa i ters, which have been causing trouble by seeping back into the old Tough nut workings, and which recently i broke through and flooded that shaft The water is now carried over the ridge into the adjoining gulch.
 At the big shaft development work is being carried on in the upper lev els and large bodies of low-grade ore are being opened up that will suthce 10 run the mill for some time. All of the ore at the present time being used at the mill is being hoisted here, besides shipments of another grade of ore being sent to Fl Paso daily. There has been no sinking attempted ip the shaft since the lSC of January, the pumps being run only at speed sufficient to keep the water below the 700-foot level Two more sinking pumps are expected to arrive almost daily and will be put in use al once. When these are put to work, with the others. the water will be lowered slowly. until the three new marine LOilers have been received and put in place. at which time all of the pumps on the GOO and zoo levels will be put in action and the water low cred without any trouble.
 It is the intention then to sink the four compartment shaft to the 1000 foot level as fast as the three eight hour shifts can do the work. A new cable house has just been completed on the old concentration dump and has been fitted up with new fixtures for the making of new and repair ing old cables. A new cablemaker has just arrived from BiSbee to take charge of the work.
 At the Emerald, under the direction of Foreman Corbett, considerable de velopment work has been done since our last report. The ore being taken from the bottom of the shaft and in the drifts Cn the lower level, still con tinue to carry values of : or per cent. copper, besides good values in gold. silver and lead. Regular snlp- ments are being made to the SI4Cit- CTS at Fl PaSo and this property of the Consolidated Company is a most eEGOuIdSluS y the work of rebuilding the hoist that was burned down a few months since is being hurried to completion. The work was delayed on account of the carpenter force being kept busy al the mill The grade and track Tor the use of ore trains has been com pleted to tlTe site of the new ore bins. It is the iISention of dhe company to use most of the ore that is rum through the mill from the Tranquility. The hoistiug engine and boiler that was formerly at the Stonewall Gr Oregon. has been moved to this place and will be installed as soon as the building has been completed.
 At the Silver Thread and Tough nut propsrties. under the di 'eG1ton of Roger Sanders, everything is run ming smoothly, and the latter is pro ducing ever a car day, which is shipped 5o Fl PGso.
 In the Lucky Cuss, Geo. Rafferty as foreman, Is opening up good bodies of ore. and during the pass month shipments have been on the increase to the Fl Paso smelters. The outlook for the Consolidated Company is very encouraging Messrs. Gage & Staun- ton are more than pleased with the results being obtained at all of the mines and the mill promises to ex- ceed the most sanguine hopes. That the management Is meeting with such good success goes to prove their theory that the Tombstone mines were not worked out above as well as below the water level, and the management are to be congratulat- ed upon their success. For years they have been spending hundreds of thou sands of dollars in getting the prop critics in shape and have at last begun