Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-01
AhSTER TALKS OF ARIZONA
 CONDITIONS
Returns to Boston After Thirty
 Days Spent In Inspection of Shannon and Arizona Com mercial Properties at Clifton.

Boston. N. L. Amster, president of the Arizona Commercial and the shan non Copper Companies. has returned ts this city after months visit to the mines in which be is interested. He says:
 "Con6itions at both the properties in which I am particularly interested were very good Both, however, are affected by the general failing of the country in which they are located, and that is a lack of material with which to facilitate operations.
 At the Arizona Commercial We were forced to undergo a delay in equipping the Black Hawk shaft, for the reason that il was impossible to get delivery on a boiler with which to furnish acsuating power at that shaft.
 We also bought five carloads of rails and paid for them three months ago. but the rails were confiscated by the Southern Pacific and sent down to the Salton Sink. where they were used in the construction of some new road that was an imperative necessity to the big road
 During my presence in Globe I managed to secure the delivery of the rails and Of the ties necessary to com piete the road to our mine and this win be finished by Jan. 10
 sinking will also be resumed in the Black Hawk shaft immediately and with the completion of the road we viii be easily able to ship 200 tons oI ore day.
 '"The ore conditions in the Black Hawk and Copper Hill properties were never better. The Black Hawk has de veloped some fine ore on the fifth lev ei and it uill evidently look consider ably better when we get down to the 1 sixth level. Arizona Commercial is now deeper than many operating mines of the dis | trict. and the endeavor of the new !, management will be to extend the lat eral workings and to open up the ore beiies as much as possible. with a ! view to a constantly increasing pro | .dUcIion. -.~0fhex most important happening ]
 4. -~erty occurred while was for the prC. ~<a only two of the there. Up to Ls..~ nroperty have known big lodges of the -s l and been opened. These are ve.-- -eF 2. known rspectivelg as the Copl Hill and Black Hawk. The property has in veins and 4 one of it's best as sGls. These veins have been traced sTyEn from the Old Dominion and Tinted Globe where they are the most i,nuortaut bodies opened in those prop erties,
 Aye have started crosscut froln inc Copper Hill to open both oi lnes veins and it will have a distance oii from 300 to 4e9 feet to traverse 70 reach No. 2.
 .At the shannon plant eyerything xas in most excellent working oraer, We lost IS days by having the railroad ant cf commission, by which We were deprived of our ore suppie7.
 sWheu built the Coronado road was cexstrucfed manly with view to get tirr it through, and with very little ave ., the future We have suffered frrrn that state of affairs and do not proDose to do 50 again. Operations will be started in the immediate future an the building of a new road which win be out of the reach Of floods-
 -~Tre Shannon is now operating two furnaces 46x92 inches, but 1t has re- gently bought and will shortly install a new big furnace of the Montana type with a size of z6x186 inches. having twace the capacity of the present fur ssees and enabling doubled output. wnen this furnace is placed in com rutssion the two old-type furnaces will be fhovn into one and operated as : single stack
 The extreme depth reached in Shan noz fs 250 feet. but we have plenty oi ere in sight. and we are preparing te spea the body up to extreme deps>
 sShannon never looked better thaI it aoes now The flood did US no pnys ieaI damage whatever.
 erhe Ne~ England & Clifton Cop per Company is shipping at the rat of from 90 to 70 tons per day."
 RETURNS FROM COAST.