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Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
THE SILVER BELL DISTRICT

two on it's .tortuous course up to the ere chutes un the Union mine A prettief place to, pitch a tent or build cabin couldn't be found to an Ari- zcnan's way Of thinking.
 The connpany offices and store oc- cupy a 'thr'ee.story structure In the store, which is in charge of MT. R. W. Warren, some twenty clerks are employed. A large stock is carried and the different departments which include well equipped butcher shop. are complete stores in themselves. As an instance of the modern methods employed the installation of Lampson compressed air cash tubes may be mentioned The company mess-house is nearby and also the quarters of the mine staff. Dotting the hill sides are the cabins and tents of the miners.
 From the. town the railroad curves around the base of a peak and winds up a canyon to the Union mine. This is the new working of the Imperial company and is over ridge from the Old Boot working. now known as the Mommoth. A tunnel driven nearly ] two thousand feet through this ridge, and another some four hundred feet in length provide outlets for the ores the Compressed air plant from which both mines are supplied. A Leyner I hoist. operated by a 35 h. p. gasoline engine and a boiler plant consisting lsof six 125 h. p. Atlas units completes the machinery equipment on the Union. 4 double compartment shaft is down $50 feet on this working and frf. Nrn fo being taken from the Union at pres ent.
 A good ten minutes walk through tunnels and sunshine brings the wis itor to the Mammoth mine. About 150 tons of copper suiphide ore Is being taken daily from this shaft and about 200 men are employed. The surface equipment consists of a fine steam hoist with steel gailows frame, boiler plant of eight 125 h. p. Atlas boilers burning oil for fuel, machine and blacksmith shops. ore sorter and bins: At the pumping station a fine Cameron pump of large capacity Is at work. The main shaft is now down over 7e6 feet.
 There are, in addition to these workings a number of tunnels and open cots on the property. 4 fine wagon road gives access to the Nam moth.
 The labor employed is mostly Mex ican and the prevailing wage is s2 for Mexican miners.
 Beside the Imperial company there are operating at Silver Bell the Cleye- land-Arizona. the ClevelandIndiana and the oxide company. The last named is owned by the Standard Oil company.
 The Cleveland-Arizona employs thir- ty nen. Over the hills for Silver Bell. about four miles distant, the Young America group is giving em- pIoyment to about 175 men.
 The Imperial Copper company is branch of the. corporation which owns the Tombstone mines, the Con gress and the Poland properties. The railroad and the smelling companies are separate. though allied. corpora tions.
 The Silver Bell district is fortunate in the character of the interests now engaged In developing it's resources. Ample meaps. to go deep and ore bodies which will stand developing combine to give thie district thes as- surance of a permanent place in the front rank of copper producers.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
WAS GREAT CAMP
 ONCE
Interesting Story of the Place Which Attracted Much At tention to Arizona in the Early Days.
R. B. Brinsmade writes the sollov

R. B. Brinsmade writes the follow ing to Mines and Minerals far this month:
 Its rich surface ores exhausted. it's best mine shafts in ruins and their lower levels under water, the camp Of Tombstone. Arizona, from 1893 to 1900. was all that its name implied, it was but monument to the glories of the past.
 Situated in Cochise county 25 miles from the Mexican line, the discovery was made in 1878 by prospector E. L. Schieffelin, who christened the dis trict Tombstone" as a reminder of the object that his friends said he would most need. if he dared enter this country of Apache raids to search for minerals.
 Within four years of the first loca-
 ion, Tombstone was one of the larges; cities in the Southwest. Of the 1000 claims located. many had become rica producers and 150 stamps were uIUp ping in various mills to extract the values. though all machinery at that time had to be hauled from the near est railroad point. Fort Yuma, on the Colorado River, 300 miles away. The camp being dry. water supply for the residents was brought from the Hua- chuca Mountains, 25 miles across wide valley to the southwest. and the mills were located on the San Pedro River. to 10 miles from the mines. The average mill ore i'll 1SS1 assayed $70 a ton and thought about 25 per cent of this was lost in tailings, opera tions were very profitable for, up to January. 1882. S3,000, 600 net had been paid to shareholders, out of a total production of s7,359, 900. It is calcu- lated that the aggregate production to 1900 exceeded s25,O00, GOO of which at least s7,0O0, 900 were paid in dividends.
 The early mining was in dry ground, but the troubles of the camp began with the striking of water at depth of 800 feet in the Contention vein in the early eighties. The installation of direct steam pumps. to handle $50 gal Ions per minute in the Grand Central shaft. did not lower. the water. even when supplemented by the 900 gallons per minute Cornish pump of the Con tention company. The descent of the water began with help of a 1000 gal Ions per minute condensing Cornish pump, put in at the Grand Central,
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
TWO QUEENS co. SHOWING
 HAS STARTED BOOM.

wINKELMAN. Ariz., March 16.-As a result of the high values in gold and copper discovered on the Two Queens property, the whole surrounding dis trict is rapidly filling up with new min ing camps, and claims are being stalk ed out in every direction. It is well known that about two-thirds of the surface area of Pinal county is cover ed by vein systems. but there are yet large areas of unprospected ground awaiting the advent of the railroads. Pinsl county has already shown min eral production of s65 .000, 900. and there can be little question as to the future of the district now that enter prising capitalists have come to realize it's possibilities. Among the most prominent of the developing proper ties of the county is the Dan O'S.arroll group located near the Saddle Moul- tain Shelter at Christmas. The crude ore from the Saddle Mountain mines averages from to per cent in cop per.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
C. G A. IN PIMA.


 The Calumet and Arizona is pushing work on its large holdings and by this time. three diamond drills are in opera tiop over on No. 99, one of the Tom Bortop mines. This mine is proving very. rich in native copper, which has been found in large quantities. About ten 500 foot shafts will be sunk on this property. with the. diamond drills. On the. Tom Hughes, belonging to the same. company, a very fine diamond drill is at work. Ten or twenty 800 foot shafts. will be sunk on the Wheel CT and Perry, and the Red Carbonate. Three other groups taken over by the Calumet and Arizona are being deyel- .oped in like manner, and it is under stood that large bodies of ore have al ready been found in some of the work ingS
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
MCKINLEY GOLD MINES
 co. IS IN GOOD SHAPE

BOISE. IDAHO. March 16.-Pros- pector Robert Mckinley has returned from a visit to Kansas City, where he has been in the interests of the Me Kinley Gold Mines Company. He re- ports that the financing of the compa- ny Is now well under way. and that the Notation is meeting with the most gratifying success. The company is planning for extensive tunnel opera tions on it's property at Moore's Greek. where values are said to have been found running 'as high as $500 to the ton in gold.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
GEORGE WALKERS
 COPPER LETTER,
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Continued From Page 9.)
 at an early date or increasing pres ent payments, and those which have been developing immense ore bodies and are about ready to begin produc- tion on large scale. The stocks of this character which look most at tractiye to me at present are Copper Range, Utah Consolidated. Old Dom. inion, Boston Consolidated, Utah Cop per and Arizona Commercial. Other stocks which seem especially cheap at present prices are Amalgamated, North Butte, Granby. Calumet & Ari- zona, Quincy, Greene Cananea and most attractive and promising are Butte Coalition Among the low priced, semi-speculative issues, the Michigan, Beast Butte, Boston & Cor bin, Utah Apex and Boston Ely.
 Amalgamated's decline resulted from combination of unfavorable circumstances. There was an unusual ly large amount of stock carried on margin in speculative accounts, caus- ing it to be one of the first stocks to feel the pinch of tke tightening money market. The news from Montana that federal government officials had been sent by President Roosevelt to secure evidence in connection with the smoke and fumes damages in the az ricultural districts' around Anaconda, of course had disturbing influence. Another unfavorable factor was the demand of the Miners Union for an increase in wages to S4 per day. Un- der such circumstances it was not sur pTising that the stock had bad de- cline.
 have the following private dis patch from Butte: At a big meeting of the miners last night the commit tee which had held conference with John D. Ryan, managing director of the Amalgamated company, on the question of the new wage scale, made its report It stated that the increase in wages would be granted contingent upon continuation, of high prices for copper, and provided, also, that the Miners Union would control the wages of the stationary engineers and smeltermen. The Union believes that it will be able to do this. The com mittee was instructed to meet the smeltermen and engineers and bring about settlement with them. 1t was also authorized to make an agreement with the mining companies on the wage scale referred to-"
 For the immediate future, Amalgam- ated will probably move with the gen eral market It should be one of the first stocks on the New York list to advance after the present general ii- quidation runs its course. It's earn ings and dividends make 1t an attrac- tive investment.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
TWIN aur1Es.

The Twin Buttes is still keeping up the full quota of ore shipments. About 100 tons per day of good grade ore is the output. This is about the same the Imperial Copper Company is ship ping. The town of Twin Buttes is fast assuming the airs Of small city. and it will not be long before they will have electric lights, paved streets, sew CT system and perchance little graft. This company has about 200 men em- ployed as miners, teamsters and rail road hands.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
FILMED KNIGHT.

The Plumed Knight, of twelve full claims. belongs to Mir. Chilison of Tucson. the development work con sisting of more thon 500 feet of shafts, drifts and cross-cuts. A force of men
 are now at work taking out good ship ping ore and shipments are made daily to Tucson for the Douglas smelt-
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
PArMAsTER's RICH RETURNS.

Returns from the Fl Paso smelter on q fifteen ton car of the copper ore from the Paymaster mine, received yesterday. gave a net return of s790.40. These people expect to ship not less than three carloads a week. to be soon increased to one car load daily Tucson Star. .---.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17
swAsrlcA-

The Swastika are pushing work on the several claims. with the result that many tons of high grade lead and silver ore is sacked ready to go to the smelters. It is understood the company owns about 200 acres of proven mineral ground Tn Pima coun- fy
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-24
MESSAGE FROM SWETTENHAM
British Colonial once Declines to
Make Public Explanation of
Governor of Jamaica.

LONDON, Jan. 2.-The Colonial office
now has official advices from Sir Alexander
Swettenham, governor OF Jamaica, concern
ing the exchange OF letters between him
self and Rear Admiral Davis.
The extent of the advlces however. and
whether they coiitSn an explanation, an
apology or extenuating circumstances has
1t appears that the imperial authorities
requested the governor OF Jamaica to send
them a copy OF his letter to Rear Admiral
Davis. This has been furnished, and 1t
shows that the letter sent out by the Asso-
ciated Press was, to all intents and pur-
poses, a correct copy. Secretary Of the
Colonies Lord Elgin sent second cable
gram to Governor Swettenham asking him
to give his version of the affair. and to this
the foreign Office informed the Associated
Press tonight no answer has yet been re-
ceived
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The president
has finally dismissed the incident connected
with the refusal by Governor Swettenham
CT aid from Admiral Davis, as is shown in
the following letter, made public at the
State department today, addressed by Act
ing Secretary Bacon to Charge Howard OF
the British embassy:
Sir: / have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note of yesterday. by
which YOU communicate the substance OF
the instructions received by you from Sir
Edward Grey in reference to the Jamaica
incident
hasten to assure you that on behalf Of
the president this, government will pay no
heed whatever tC the matter, and very
much appreciates the frank and ready
courtesy and consideration shown in this
dispatch by Sir Edward Grey.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 22-Two
earthquake shocks. the heaviest since the
destructive ones OF January A. were felt
here at o'clock this afternoon. Several
buildings were thrown down and there was
great alarm among the people. No one
was injured
The Daily Telegraph, in a scathing ed
itorial article, arraigns Governor Swetten-
ham as follows:
1--WE would be unfaithful to our duties as
exponents Of public opinion If we failed to
call attention TO the extraordinary conduct
Of his eXcellency In the present crisis. His
general behavior at a moment OF great
peril and difficulty was unworthy Of a re-
sponsible British official and even a cul-
tured English gentleman. The action OF
the governor was absolutely reprehensible.
We want a man who does not spend his
time riding about the city cursing officials
who are endeavoTtng TO work loyalty. The
people OF this community have lost conf
dence in his power and guidance and are
indignant at his autocratic, bullying and
Insulting manner"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-24
TWENTY COAL MINERS KILLED
Explosion Wrecks Mine of Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company Near
Trinidad.

TRINIDAD. Colo, Jan. %. Twenty
miners according to the most authorita-
tive information available this evening. lost
their lives as u result of an explosion
which occurred at 8 o'clock this morning
In the Colorado Fuel and Iron company's
coal mine near Primero, twenty miles west
of this city.
Twenty cofflns have been ordered by the
company from a local undertaking estnb-
lishment. Two of the dead are Frank
Hobat miner, and r. ]. Lumley, fire boss.
The names of the other men killed have
not been learned. as the shift boss who
checked up the men who went into the
mine last night is missing. All the men
except Lumley we're foreigners, most OF
them being Italians The explosion stopped
the air fan, which was not repaired until
late today, and there is little chance that
any OF the men in the mine at the time
of the explosion are still alive District
Superintendent Robert O'Neill is person
ally directing the work of rescue. Volun-
teers from adjacent mines are assisting.
Rescuers have been divided into two-hour
shifts and work will be kept up continu-
ously until the entire mine is explored.
An attempt Is being mace to force air
into the mine IN hope that some. of the
entombed men may be alive and thus pre-
vent their suffocation.
John T. Kebler, manager of the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron company, arrived from
Denver tonight and left on a special train
for Primero.
Late advices are that the mine is badly
wrecked. The rescue party has pene-
trated 800 feet and recovered four bodies,
the names not being given.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-24

GAMBLE DECLARED ELECTED
Result of Ballot Announced In Joint
Session of Legislature Rt
Pierre.

PIERRE. s. D., Jan. 23.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-At noon today the journals OF the
two HOUSES were read in joint session and
Senator Gamble was declared to be elected
FOR the term beginning March next The
senator left this city today for his home
in Yankton. where he viii remain until the
first OF next week and win go from that
place to Washington.
Both houses are getting ready for the
recess adjournment and the house today
pushed over all bills likely to create de-
bate and kill time until their return next
week. The house passed the anti-lobby
bill. as we'll as the one extending street
railway franchises for thirty years, after a
vote both going through without a dis
senting vote.
The horse doctors won over the veteri-
nary surgeons in the defeat OF the bill re-
auiring practitioners of veterinary surgery
TO be able TO show diplomas
The senate passed the bill defining due
diligence in the collection OF checks and
drafts. and fixing liabilities for damages
by traction engines on highways Two
more railroad bills went in today one to
prohibit paTalleling tracks and the other
to require connecting tracks at junction
points,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-24
STUDENT COMMITS SUICIDE
Prominent Young Man from Kansas
City Kills Himself In New
York Hotel.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-within fifteen min
utes after registering at the Grand Union
this afternoon, Lathrop Smith, a student
In the law school at Columbia university,
from Kansas City. committed suicide by
shooting. No cause for the act can be
learned. His fellow students are unable to
account for II and a message, apparently
written just before he fired the fatal shot,
was:
Mother and all the loved ones. Good bye,
mother, good bye"
KANSAS CITY, No, Jan. 23.-Lathrop
Smith. who committed suicide I'm a hotel
In New York today, was a member of one
OF the most prominent families I'm this city
and was a well known leader In exclusive
social circles here. He was a nephew of
Gardner Lathrop, general solicitor of the
Santa Fe railroad, with headquarters in
Chicago. and a son of Medill Smith, gem
eral claim agent OF the Santa Fe. Young
Smith was attending Columbia university
in New York and his relatives here know
Of no reason which might cause him 20
take his own life.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-24
EVIDENCE AGAINST BAILEY
Auditor OF OF Company identifies
Vouchers OF Payments 60
Texas senator


AUSTIN. Tex, Jan. 2S.-ActlnE under
authority of the Texas antitrust law,
County Attorney Brady this afternoon had
II. Naudin, one OF the auditors Of the
Waters-Piorce Oil company at st. Louis.
brought before Judge J. d. Moore to secure
testimony to the authenticity Of docu-
mcntary evidence held by the state in con-
nection with the Waters-Pierce oil COM
pany and which will be used in the forth
coming antitrust suits against the COM
pany. This testimony now has a promi-
nent part in the investigation of Senator
Joseph w. Bailey by the legislative COM
mittee
Mr.. Naudln. through his attorneys. j. ID.
Johnson of St Louis and r. L. Penn Of
this city, exerted every effort to refrain
from passing upon the authenticity OF the
papers but he was finally ordered to do so
by the court. the ruling being that the
Texas antitrust law granted the prosecu-
ton the right to get any statement from
any one concerning cases at any time that
they could secure witnesses 1t was possi-
BILE, added the court, that Naudin would be
without the jurisdiction of the state courts
when the case was called for trial in March.
. Among the facts obtained from Mr.. Nau-
din were that the notations on a voucher
drawn in favor of Henry and Stribbling
of Texas for $3.50, part of the documentary
evidence. was placed there by Naudin him
self on the date stated in the notation and
that the various signatures on other checks
and vouchers and other documents I'm the
possession of the attorney general of Texas
are correct records of the transactions be-
tween the Waters-Pierce Oil company, Sen
ator Bailey and others.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-24
RATE HEARING IN SEATTLE
Northern Pacific OmciaIs Say Road
Has Reached Limit of Its
Capacity.

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 2.-That the
Northern Pacific railroad had reached the
limit OF its capacity as a single track
railroad was the principal defense put for
ward as TO the condition Of freight con-
gestion that exists on the. sound by c. NJ.
Levy. third vice president OF the road and
b. f. Palmer. assistant general superin-
tendent. at tho investigation before Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Lane today.
Mr.. Levy said that the road had con-
tracted for improvements. which are either
under way or soon would be- and additional
equipment. which would mean an expendi-
ture by the Northern Pacific OF S73, 600 900
in the next year and a half
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-24
DENVER RATE HEARING ENDS
MIR. Prouty suEEe-ts THAT Reduction
of Local Tsrims would Give
Relief Desired.


DENVER, Colo. Jan. 2.-The hearing be-
fore Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Charles A. Prouty on the complaints OF the
Merchants Traffic association and George
j. Kindel, manufacturer alleging illegal
discrimination against Denver by the trunk
line railroads in freight tariffs, was con-
cluded this afternoon.
The most important development today
was the suggestion by Mr. Prouty that the
local rates between Missouri river points
and Denver and Denver and Utah points be
reduced, instead OF establishing a new
basic division point at Denver, asked for
by the petitions II this were done without
a corresponding reduction in through rates
he thought 1t would give a measure of re-
lief to Denver without great harm to other
points.
1t was brought out that the rate from
Denver to Ogden was so per cent OF the
through rate on all classes and cOmmodi-
ties. and the rate on the same goods from
Omaha to Denver was 60 per cent of the
through rate. Therefore. where goods were
broken In bulk at Denver and transshipLed
to Ogden, the total cost was 40 per cent of
the through rate.
Mr.. Prouty asked II 1t would not be pos
sble to cut down this per cent to about 100
per cent Of the through rate. Mr.. wild of
the Rio Grande said he would be willing TO
meet with the trafic manager of the Union
Pacific railroad to discuss such a matter.
A. ]. Spengel president OF the chamber
of commerce, was called to the stand by
Attorney Costigan and explained that the
chamber OF commerce had intervened in
the case for the purpose Of securing for
Denver the same rights. terminal and 9TH
erwise, Missouri river points.
Commissioner Prouty announced that
there would be vigorous protest on the
part OF Salt Lake II basic line should be
established at Denver. as 1t would allow
Denver almost to reach the gates Of Salt
Lake as competition from the Pacific coast
now reaches 1t on the west He asked Mr..
Spengel whether II wauld relieve the situa-
tlon II rates were reduced as he had sug-
gested to Mr.. wild. Mr.. Spengel answered
that he thought 1t would and the commits
soner said he thought that something of
the kind ought to prevail in the case Of
Denver. Mr.. Prouty added that the case
of Denver depended TO a great extent on
the disposition Of the case of Spokane,
which would be heard further at Portland,
April Is II II was desirable to hear fur
ther evidence in Denver II would be heard
here on April %. Arguments in the case
would be finally heard at Washington,
June 3.
Tomorrow morning testimony will be
heard in the cattle raisers' cases.