Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-30
MASON PLEASED WlTR
 TOMBSTONE MINE
New Yorker on Annual Tour Of Inspection to the
 Properties,

PHOENIX, July 29.-Mr. V. l.. Ma son of New York spent yesterday in Phoenix, arriving in the morning train from the south and leaving this morning for the north. MT. Mason is vice president of the Development Company of America, the persent cor poration under which the Tombstone Consolidated, Imperial Copper, Con gress. Poland and other mining eGdn- panies in this territory are operated. He is here on his annual inspection of the properties, as he comes about once a year to look over the situation from a local view point, and generally in the summer time. probably because he can appreciate the Arizona sum- mers better than some people.
 He has visited Tombstone and SiE yer Bell the scene of the Imperial company's operations, and is now en route to the other properties iu which the Development Company of Ameri- ca is interested. He will be at Con- gress today and then go on b Pres colt, Poland and other points in the vicinity of the headwaters of the Has savanna. He was accompanied as | far as Phoenix by Messrs. L. B. Gage and W. F. Staunton, who are directly | in charge of local operations, and who left again last night.
 At Tombstone, said Mr. Mason, tTo strikes have been made recently of great importance. In one instance | the ore body has been located on the
 1OOO-foot level and only awaits lit. tie more work preliminary to being
 opened up, while in the other the lime 1 formations that indicate the near ID,
 proach to the ore b0ly, have been found exactly as predicted by Engin' eer Staunton.
 i The greatest public interest perhaps attaches to the operation of the I'm ! periaI mine which has broken all Ari
 zona records and per l4ps Ihe world
 record in point of early production.
 It has been shown by reports Thich
 have been given to the public that
 this property has produced S3,000,000
 It has only been operated for threC | years and even yet there is no reGuc tion plant in commission.
 MT. Mason had made quite a thor
 ough inspection both O. the mine ant the surface activities. Concerning
 the former he couli only say tha
 thers seemed to hiIi to be in cvi
 dence, eight or ten Gihes as nucl
 ore as on the occasIoh oi his visit | year ago, due to further development The more ore taken ont, the moil
 there seems to be left. The energy o . the company is being directed towar the completion ,of the reduction plan
 which will be accomplished this fal and the big shelter will be twelv
 miles from the mine, to which tn railroad runs. and the haul is dow f hill all the way At the mine a bi . concentrator will be operated and tn , major part of the machinery for bot the smelter and the concentratOr
 now on the ground. The foundatio Q for the concentrator has been grade : and the steel frames for the powe d house and boiler house are up an l. the boilers are all in place. he fram i. work and foundations for all thes |, l structures will be of steel and col 5 crete. An auISliary feature of tn 2 smelling plant will be an electri
 light plant which will also suppl e light and power for the mine an
 concentrator, supplanting the preseI
 smaller gasoline plant at that poin