Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-17
SAVAGE LOOKING
 LIKE \ MINE
Ore Is Growing Richer With 0epth-Vein 23 Feet Wide
 in One Place.
lParad,se Recordl


 a mine is now almost certain. For some tlme-in fact ever since it was started-the Snowball shaft has been
 looking good; but during the past month with increased depth, the ore has increased both in quantity and
 quality. So far as the Record man
 Is able to judge from what he has seen, the Savage has the best shaft
 showing in the entire district, and if present plans are carr.ed out without any unfavorable ore conditions ap- bearing in the meantime, it should de yelop into a producing mine in the | near future.
 | The shaft, following the vein, was
 sunk vertically for a distance of thir-
 ty-five feet, and then at an incline.
 The vein is and has been for some | time dipping downward at an angle of about 45 degrees. The bottom of the
 shaft Is 710 feet from the collar, but
 on account of the angle and direction
 of the dip, carrying the incline down
 the hill towards the valley, the yer.
 teal depth from the surface overhead
 can not now be more than 120 feet. The fact that the vein pitches toward | the valley, which is not more than a
 stones throw distant, is not occa-
 sion for any uneasiness. On the con- | trary, the formation continues to be
 just the same and the vein Is strong
 CT and better than ever.
 At irregular intervals lime horses intrude and cut of the ore-bearing quartz. but so far these horses have | invariably disappeared within from two to five feet, when the vein again appears.
 With these exceptions the shaft has
 been in ore for TO feet, the width of
 the vein varying up to twenty-three feet. The first of the week it was twelve feet wide. Then a lime horse appeared. but on Wednesday quartz was coming in freely and it was then
 thought that in two or three days the shaft would again be entirely in ore.
 This twelve feet of ore was in a shaft SKI feet, and here it is estimat- ed that fifty-eight tons of ore was talk en out. On the thirty-fiye-foot level stope yielded about 100 tons, and from a larger stope just below an esti- mate places the number of tons of ore taken out at 346, the latter stope being about 30x15x10 feet in size.
 This is the extent Of the develop ment work in the shaft. Considerable can indefinite quantity-could now be stopped out, for the ven ap- parently continues in both directions from the shaft, nearly all the way down. But it was decided not to do so at present, for several reasons. It would more or less impede further sinking; the ore that might thus be taken out can, it is believed be mined in a cheaper manner later; further more, some of the ore near the sur face might not pay to ship, and the company contemplates treating it themselves later on the ground. While the ore near the surface did not exceed SIP or 15 in value, that now being encountered runs about S3225 to the ton-fOrty ounces in sl- yer, and l F per cent copper. There l is a rich streak, from two to four | inches wide, in the vein. From it two samples assayed as follows: No. 1 1-356.3 ounces silver, 19.3 per cent
 copper total per ton $290.9S; No. 2- SS02 ounces silver, SC per cent cop
 per, total per ton S55S.25.
 With depth, the ore carries more silica, also. When the silica content
 was only 60 per cent it was class of ore not desired Sy the Copper Queen smeIter. Now that the ore
 carries about 79 per sent silica il is accepted, the silica being used for converter Things.
 Ore IS now being sacked and a
 second shipment, richer than the | first, will soon be made, there being enough ore for a full carload taken out during the past four weeks or SO Regular shipments will then be made | thereafter. The first carload of twen- ty-five tons netted S1S6 above all
 transportation and smelter charges. Manager James Reay employs seven
 men, on two shifts. A third shift will soon be put on. A champion blower
 which has for some time furnished air | for the shaft was this week connected with a Weber 214 horsepower gaso- i line engine that will in future re place hand power for that purpose. An engine house, covered ore bins and a car with about fifty feet of trackage completed the equipment at 1 the mine recently.
 Machinery will in the near future take the place of the horse whim now | in use. and machine rock drills will
 probably be installed. The company
 is willing to equip the present work | ing with machinery, but Manager
 Reay has wisely decided to wait and
 later sink a vertical shaft at some
 other place and there install the ma | chinery. Tn a new shaft machinery
 would work more smoothly and sat!s- | factorily, also more economically, and | thus be a great saving in the end For the work done. It would be
 difficult to find better showing than
 that of the Snowball shaft at the Say age. It has all the earmarks of a
 mine And the company, having the
 means, Is going at the work after the right fashion. It looks now like only
 question of time before the com pany will have a steady, paying prop
 osition, though of course this cannot
 definitely be asserted at the present time.
 At any rate, without sinking any
 deeper, there is enough ore in sight 10 ! F....