Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-18
MINING NEWS FROM
 BIG GLOBE DISTRICT
Satisfactory Is Progress Being Made In Development At
 Old Dominion.
(Globe Belt)

by reason of the sharp decline in que tations for copper on the New York Metal Exchange, there was no ma terial change in the local mining sit uation during the past week Opera tiOns continue throughout the dis trict on the same broad scale that aas prevailed for the past several months, and the larger producing
 ompanies are disposed to await further developments in the metal
 ,arket and more settled conditions before making any changes in their plans CT scope Of operations, while he development companies, which ire only directly concerned in the changes of metal prices, show no dis position whatever to curtail woFh.
 The extreme weakness in coppG. prices as quoted from day to day or
 ae New York Metal exchange. and
 1e panic'ry condition of the stock market were due to the continued de cline Of copper in London, the rum
 cd closis. down of the Amalga-
 mated companies mines at Butte which was later officially denied, anC the revival of the report that Henry H. Rogers was critically IL Lake cop. per was quoted at IS to 16 1-2 on Friday, but the large producers con tinue to quote Lake at IS cents and have refused 10 sell at a less price. As a result of this policy maintained by the large interests controlling 75 per cent of the copper output of the United States. consumers have de- clined to come into the. mari1et and copper has accumulated rapidly in he Sc estimated at I75, 100000 to 200 ,000,- GOO pounds. The situation has been clarified to some extent by the ac- ton of the United Metals Selling Company, announced in our press dis patches this morning, cutting the price of Electrolytic copper to 16 1-4 cents. at which figure it is believed large sales will be made.
 Old Dominion.
 Operations continue on the same large scale as heretofore, with five furnaces in blast and construction work under full swing. The normal output of copper is being made, aver aging well over 100000 pounds per day. Satisfactory progress Is being made in development work. The crosscut in block No. 6, on the four teenth level, encountered sulphide vein No. 2 several days ago, and the showing is very promising. The winze from the fourteenth level has reached depth of TITO feet and should be completed to the sixteenth level by h. -aIza..A- of Inc zarnsaEt- -I.aa1ath -u1hon 2 ernsscrf will he immediately started and should reach sulphide vein No, l during the latter part of October Great interest and importance attach to this work as 1t is confidently ex' pected that the sulphide ore bodies opened on the fourteenth level will | be found on the sixteenth even larger and carrying a greater percentage oi sulphur. The condition of the mine as well as of the outlying properties of the company was never better, all yielding a satisfactory quality and ! tonnage of ore. Supplies of all kinds are large; the stock of coke on hand is about 35,000 tons and is being con stantly augmented.
 i Superior G 5osson.
 Of the local development companies 1 Superior & Boston has shown by far | the greatest improvement. By ar rangement with the Arizona Commer eial Company, a drift has been started on the 500-foot lever Of the | Black Hawk mine to develop the l Great Eastern claim Of the Superior
 & Boston, which is now in Great Eastern ground and in the same char acter of ore as that developed on the l 500-foot level of the Black Hawk where the stope started near the line i of the two properties in three sets wide The Great Eastern shaft iI | a few days will reach a depth of 426 l feet. corresponding with the 800 leyei of the Black Hawk, and a crosscu; will be driven to a connection with the drift from the Black Hawk, which will give air and facilitate the devel l opment of the lode.
 1 The Limestone shaft is down 2S5 l feet and sinking continues. The drift on tue 220-foot level is still in ore which on the hanging wall assays 2 i to 8 per cent and will average for the entire width of the drift about 6 per cent. It is a fine quality of ore car rying an excess of iron.
 The finest showing is probably in ] the Black Oxide. where the southwest drift has been in 6 to per cenr car boaate ore for a long distance. There Is now more than 800 tons of ore on ] the dump. which was taken rom this drift. Another drift has been started from the winze. 100 feet below tho tunnel level. to develop the same orc bodys
 Considering the extent of the devel- opment up to the present time. the outlook for Superior & Boston could hardly be more promising.
 Arizona Commercial,
 Work is being prosecuted with a force of about 150 men. At the Cop per Hill silicions ores are being mined and shipments of about 100 made to the smelters at Douglas and Cananea. At the Black Hawk de development and some stoping is i1 progress on the 500-foot level and