Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-07
HE COUNTRY TO HE WEST OF
 B|SBEE
Much Depends on Success of Operations al BiSbee Exten-
 sion and Modern Properties Which Are Being Developed,

Mining west of Bisbee, across what is commonly known as the Divide has taken on new airs since the en- trance into that section of the Bis bee Extension Co, promoted by To- cal mining men at the head of whom are Fritz Harrington and William Clute. two well known mining engin- eers. With them are Chicago capital ists, while much pf the stock is held by local parties.
 The Modern mining company is working eighteen to twenty men and development work at this company's property is under the supervision of Superintendent Harlan.
 Aside from these two properties, each employing about the same mum. Der of men, little of importance aside from the usual annual Assessment work is being done.
 At the Bisbee Extension the theory of the existence of ore is that below the heavy iron and lime capping cop per will be found in the same abund- arce as in the Bisbee Quadrangle. It is the intention of this company to sink a two compartment shaft, ,eX- pecting to find the capping for the first 1000 feet, when drifting will be commenced 10 explore the ground. The company has ample funds to car ry out its plans. the stock of the com pany having been oveT-subscribed in this city.
 4 gailoTs frame has been put in place. and a gasoline hoisting engine of the Fairbanks-Nor type, of forty horse power, is in position and work ing. Bunk house, carpenter house and blacksmith shop, together with such other buildings as are needed have been erected and the Bisbee FIX tension camp is about the busiest place west of the divide. A road has been cleared across the desert to Hereford, the nearest point on the , line Of the Fl Paso and Southwestern, | and from which point shipments to the company's property are hauled ! to the mine.
 The success at the Bisbee ExteI- 1 sion and Modern properties means 1 much 10 a section of this district l which has enjoyed but little of the | mining mans confidence. Should i Harrington and CIute and the Modern 1 people win out in their estimate of the country's possibilities, not only will feather be added to their caps but district tributary to Bisbee will
 see much capital invested in the few
 years following any strike of ore. The report of GeneTsl Manager 1 Clute to the stockholders at the end ! of the first months work is as fol | ows:
 | During the latter part of February | work was commenced on the build | ings Of the company and completed l during March There are now erect i ed and in use, a boarding house ! 20X5 feet: TWO roOming houses each 14X50 feet containing five rooms |;
 small stable; engine house and tenn 1 porary blacksmith shop. Work on | the shaft was commenced the first ot 1 March and attained a depth of Ct feet ? inches for the first 9 days. 4 9 h. D. gasoline hoist has been in stalled and the head frame was com pleted on the 31st of March so that all hoisting is now done by the en' zine The shaft is 10 feet 6 inches
 long by feet, inches wide, timber 1 ed with lGX1O timbers, making two COL-l tillELLS. tdCu f D- ] r. lStN III | the clear. The entire shaft has beer l sunk in Upper Carboniferous lime
 stone, heavily stained with iron. Con
 siderably better progress will be | made in the sinking now that the hoist is in operation. The weather 1 through the month oT March was l good, and no delays were caused in | freishting supplies and general out
 door work Now that all buildings
 are completed and machinery install
 ed, it is believed that the shaft sink
 ing to water level will continue with
 out interruption.
 l Another deal w.iioh was closed in
 the city recently takes in pi -perty
 near that of the Modern Mining Com | pany. L. C. Shattuck, Emil Marks
 and P. T. Britt taking over the oliver
 Zane holdings. Neither the extent oi
 the country embraced in the deal, nol
 the price have been given out by
 either Of the parties to the transac
 tion, both sides remaining quiet or the details of the purchase.
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