Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-15
OLD DOMINION
NOW RUNNING
-FOUR FURNACES
P. & B. and Miami Companies
Make Payments to Original
Owners on Clalms-Globe
Cons. Reaching Vein.

mace at the Old Dominion smelter, the
striking of the Future Copper vein by
the Globe Consolidated, the breaking
of ground for q new three-compart
ment shaft by the Superior & Boston
company. and the payment OK 100000
by that company to local claim own
ers. are the most interesting items of
news of the week in the Globe mining
district. says the Globe Belt. In ad-
dition, the Old Dominion has entered
the Buffalo vein on the 18th level in
United Globe ground with splendid
ere showing thus far and has also
struck the faulted west country, with
indications Of soon being in the west
ore body:
With four furnaces in operation. IL
is anticipated that the output of Bills
ter copper for this month will double
that OK March, which was approx
mately 1000, 600 pounds. being very
light because of the fact that for the
greater part of that month, but two
furnaces were in operation. The op
Grafton of the fourth furnace was
made possible by the receipt of ore
shipments from the Copper Queen
mines at Bisbee. The Old Dominion
has contracted for two cars or about
100 tons Of Copper Queen sulphides
daily, but at present the shipments
are averaging about car daily.
Several weeks ago when the Buffa-
10 vein was struck on the 18th Lever
of the Ola Dominion on Gray ground,
a vace-in resulted and because of the
softness of the ground two crosscuts
oh IN, he in,
crosscut in hard rock and driven dag
onally~ to the vein. The west cross
cut has just tapped the vein, disclos-
ing an excellent grade Of sulphide
ore II is very similar to that of the
Maggie vein, running to 10 per cent
copper and % to 80 per cent copper
and 25 to 80 per cent sulphur. 1t is
hard and is considered an excellent
smelling ore. The vein has not yet
been penetrated and may not be for
some time, as on the 10th level where
it was thoroughly leached, the vein
was almost eighty feet wide. The
Maggie vein, also on the United Globe
ground, which was struck on rle IUtn
level, is showing up well ia the two
drifts. The ore assays between to
10 per cent with enough sulphur to
make it self-fluxing. In the old tun-
mel in which a winze is being sunk in
the Maggie vein, hoist to be oper-
ated by electricity will be i1staIred.
On the west end of the 18th level a
heavy flow of water was recently
struck and II is believed that the west
ore body will soon be broken into.
The breast of the erosscut is now di-
rectly below the point where the ore
body was struck on the 10th level,
but owing to the pitch of the ore it
will not be cut on the 18th for about
100 feet. Judging from the flow on
the 12ta, it is very probable that the
10th level west will be drained from
the 18th.
Considerable difficulty has been ex.
perienced in the footwall drift on the
18th level because of water and soft
ground and for over a week no head
way was made in extending the drift.
The ore there is pulyerized and some
days the water would push it out il
an oozing mass for fifteen or twenty
feet into the drift There is about
four feet of this soft sulphide ore in
the drift of the consistency of con-
centrates, but cleaner, according to
the mine officials, than any concen-
trates that ever came from a mill 1t
runs about per cent copper and 80
per cent sulphur. Because of the
dampness, however, it was decided to
abandon the drift and a new one is
being started twelve or fifteen feet
further over in the hanging wall side,
where the ore is more solid.
ho e.
began sinking new tnree-compart-
Of the Black Oxide tunnel Two of
the compartments will be 4x5Aand
the other SKI feet. The shaft is in
tended TO develop at depth the Black
Oxide, Iron King and other claims in
the vicinity and will be large enough
to permit of mining operations on
heavy scale when the ground is thor
oughly explored. The spur of the
Commercial railroad to the
dump OF the Great Eastern shaft has
been completed and it is expected to
begin shipments from this shaft as
well as from the Limestone and Black
Oxide at once. Shipments have been
IN progress for some time from the
later two.
The Superior & Boston yesterday
through the ella Valley Bank & Trust
company. anticipated by thirty days
the payment of 100000 due the orig
mai owners of the properties acquired
by the company something over a
year ago. Forty-six residents of
Globe will share in the distribution
of the money, tae largest portion OF
It going to Pat Rose, j. B. Newman
and Harry Sultan During the week
previous, the Miami Copper company
made it's final payment of approx
mately $125.000 Cd the properties &C
quired at Red Springs. ]. b. Newman
and Philip Oates were the iaa sest
beneficiaries.
The Future Copper vein has been
struck in the north crosscut on the
18th level Of the Gem shaft of the
Globe Consolidated. The .porphyry
was struck Friday, but as yet the min
eral has not been reached, owing 70
the delay to operations caused by
water. This is oae of the big veins
on Globe Consolidated ground and the
future success of the company de
pepds to a great extent upon what ore
is contained in the vein. General
Manager Mccarthy is confident that
IL viii contain as good sulphide ore
a. taat struck in the Gem vein. The
Future Conner vein was about twenty