Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-12
SANTA ROSA IS MAKING GOOD
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SIxTY-FIVE FEET OF ORE HAS BEEN CUT IN THE DRIFT-NEw DEVELOPMENT MACHINERY IN OPERATION.

Work at the Santa Rosa mine south of Douglas in Sonora is making ex- celent progress, according to reliable reports, since it was taken over by iIe CaDuiiUHa De tsiVpIueIit vJiii ifJsliIy. This property was formerly
 by James Kirk, mine superintendent at Cananea In 1903 the property was bonded by a Douglas company wEi carried on extensive development work for a time and which denounced considerable adjoining mineral ground Finally the original property was a. lowed to revert to Mir. Kirk. Nearly a year ago Thos. H. Collins sucCeede5 in getting bond on both holdings iron AIr. Kirk and the Douglas company Besides this about two thousand per Jenencias were denounced by Attorney Hazard in the vicinity of the Santa
 Rosa and extending as far south as FrOnteras. Title to this last de nouncement has been secured from the government and this property. if included in the Cabullona COmpany's holdings, will add to at large area of promising country.
 H hen the CabullOna company took charge of the property there had been a chaft sunk Cn the property to a depth of 26O feet and a drift started at the l9S foot level. This drift had been run with an ore vein a distance of fifty feet. Considerable ore was taken from the shaft and drift and some of it was shipped by the Douglas company before they abandoned work. The work by Superintendent Ed Mo FarlaHd, who was put in charge of the property by the new company has been mostly directed to continuing the drift and straightenfhg the old sl and retimbering it. The drift was changed in course, making it more of q crosscut. It is now about one hun dred feet in length and has solid ore face and has cut siXty-five feet of ore. After changing the course of the drift progress of only a few feet had been made when the ore body was encountered which has proved continuOts up to the present time.
 A steam hoist has recently been put in operation and the shaft which had been filled with the ore from the drift is now being mucked out and the drift is also being cleared of ore which had been temporarily stored in it The hoisting plant consists of a 50-horse power boiler and engine. Be SlQeS IUe lUSIdildllOu Ul lLG uCh cup ment plant several substantial build ings have been erected, including a house of seven roms for Superintend ent Mcfarland, three or four cottages, a store house. stable, blacksmith shop and other buildings. This would indi- cate the utmost confidence on the part of MT. Collins and his associates in the future of the Santa Rosa mine and the substantial work is fully war ranted with a 65 fOt ore body already cut and its full size not yet deter mined.
 The force now at work amounts to about seventy-five men and it is eX- pected that the mucking work will be completed this week About fifty feet of timbering is yet to be done in the shaft when development will be start ed in regular order. Several hundred tons of ore have been taken out of the property since MT. Mcfarland took charge of it.
 The Santa Rosa is now believed to be practically proved as a mine and should no longer be chased as pros pect. The extent of the ore bodies of course, are yet to be demonstrated and this will require time, UuI ihe out look now is that this property will be- come an important producer in So-
 
 It's close Incation to Douglas will make the Santa Rosa camp q "e:v i'm portant factor in the future of that city.