Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-26
HELL CANYON HAS
 NEW LEAD MINE

At last it begins to look as though the Manzano mountains win be given a chance to show what is in them. says the Albuquerque Citizen Between Coyote and Hell canyons is a new min ing camp in which eight miners are kept working double shifts seven days in the week. This is the camp of Colonel A. P. Hunter. who recently purchased the Highland Mary lead mine of L. Graham of this city. The camp has been established under its present management only six weeks and a trail half mile long has been built up the mountain side to the High land Mary mine, besides considerable work done in the diggings. A seventy foot shaft was already sunk before Colonel Hunter took hold of the prop erty, but work on this has been tenn porarily abandoned in order to pros .,e>-t leaA on the lnda at a deBth of thirty feet from the surface. A tun- nel twenty feet in length has been driven thus far and is still going in at the rate of seven or eight feet a day. From faint indications of lead ore at the surface the vein has con tinuaIly widened and at present in the breast of the tunnel, it is over two feet in width. The ore, which is crystals of lime and feldspar containing sul- phides of lead-cubes of galena, comes in streaks and pockets in the vein, but the indications are that a solid ore body will be encountered before long. The ore is 80 per cent cent lead and contains sulphur.
 Before operating on any one part of the claim on larger scale it is the intention of Colonel Hunter to thor oughly prospect the entire property in order to determine the most advantag- eOus point from which to develop the lode, which is undoubtedly one of the most promising lead veins yet dis covered in the Sandias.
 Beside the Highland Mary claim there are a number of other good
 claims located n the vicinity which will be thoroughly prospected. Or the
 same lode as the Highland Mary are located the Blue Bell and Chicago claims and near by are the Mildred and Pearl claims Half a mile dis
 tant to the east three new claims have been located which have splendid sur face showings. The outcrop, on which these three elaims-the Echo. the
 Bertha and the Engineer-was discov- cred by accident by Mrs. Charles A.
 Lacy, who is the cook of the camp and the wife of one of the miners.
 Five weeks ago while wandering about
 the vicinity she picked mp some float and upon showing it to Colonel Hunt CT was surprised 10 learn that it was fine specimen of rich lead ore. The spot where the ore was found was pointed out by Mrs. Lacy and it was not long before the lode from which the float came was located. This lode shows clearly on the surface for half
 mile and has perhaps been walked over by prospectors many times in the last few years. While nothing I Ias been done 10 develop this vein as
 vet. except the digging of few pros pect holes, still the indications are very favorable and from its location
 at the very edge of the plain, its de- yelopment will be comparatively easy.
 This ore is slightly different from that I of the other lodes and IL is thought will carry considerable values in silver besides the large percentage of lead. It is the opinion of Colonel Hunter The systematic movement of fast or preference, freight is less spectaeu- i lar than the flight of luxurious passen-
 ger trains, but nevertheless it is one
 of the significant achievements of l, modern railroading, and is really a greater monument to the ingenuity
 and far-reaching organization of the
 great transportation experts than is
 the wonderful service of the dazzling l limiteds.
 l A regular schedule; as definite and l fixed as the passenger schedule, is the perfecting step iii the rapid move ment of preference freight. A short while ago five car loads of silk were carried in a single train across the continent, from San. Francisco to New York.
 l The contents of each train were worth about one hundred thousand dol I lars, so that both speed and safety n1ars needed in moving this investment of half a million. The train went from the Pacific coast to Chicago in six days, and was pulled by the Pennsyl- vania on their regular fast freight
 schedule from Chicago to New York
 in sixty hours.
 1 As another example, train of Der
 ries leaves Richmond or Cape Charles,
 Va, at 2:30 in the morning and Is
 in New York the same evening. Cat
 tie are carried through from Pittsburg
 to the docks in Philadelphia in less than twenty-four hours.
 The pioneer fast freight organiza- tion of America is the Union Star lline, which now carries through freight trajc over the Pennsylvania system. Seventy years ago the business was
 established by Leech & Co. of Phil
 adelphia, and Clark & Co-, of Pitts
 burg, as an adjunct of their concerns. | In 1S663 it was organized as an in-