Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-09-01
PRES. {. $. SMITH
 0N 0LO DOMINION
BIG PROPERTY LOOKED GOOD TO
 HIM-IMPoRTANT NEW ORE
 BODY OPENED ON 14TH LEVEL REDUCING COSTS TOWARD 1Oc.

c. s. Smith, president of the Old Dominion company, upon his return to Boston after a visit to Globe, was in terviewed by the Boston News Bureau. He said:
 "The entire Old Dominion proposi- ton is looking exceedingly we'll Our surface construction is practically com pleted. Five furnaces are now in op- eration, running slowly, that is, under a reduced blast, our experiments in this direction proving that the lower the blast, the greater the economies.
 "Our high mining cost is still being kept up, by reason of the large amount of development work which is now be- ing carried on. From 2000 to 2600 feet of drifts have been run every month during the last few months. That work
 has been temporarily reduced, for the
 time being, as we are sinking three shafts. Our main working shaft, A.,
 is being sunk from the l4th to the 10th
 level; our E shaft from the l2th to
 l4th level. This latter work is re-
 quired by the development of the high
 grade ore bodies in the eastern section
 of the Old Dominion, which is running
 into the United Globe ground on the
 10th and the 18th levels, with every
 indication that this ore body will con
 tinue with depth. Then We are sinking n oh C. Al
 feet west of the most westerly workings of the Old Dominion. This shaft will
 be sunk to the l000-foot level as rap idly as possible.
 "The ore developments have been very satisfactory. The cleaning out of the old drifts from the 10th level west
 has now been practically completed, and the men are now working in prac- tically dry ground, opening the rich ore
 body on the 10th level, which was lost
 in the flood of the spring of 1905. The spare sets are in place and in as good condition as when the food took place. "An important new development has been on the l4th level, where we have found an entirely new ore body at the intersect ton of the Kirkey vein with the main vein, about 300 feet east of the large sulphide body, which was considered the best ore ever developed in the mine. In this latest ore body we are in sixty feet, with no hanging well
 in sight. The ore assays , per cent to
 per cent copper and is a good grade sulphide ore. This is apparently a new I ore body of which we had no indiea. tions on any of the levels above. On the 18th and l6th levels We have not opened up very much ore, as we cannot 10 much development work until we ,an get through the upraises for natural ventilation.
 "Our reserves of high-grade ore are being kept up, and the Old Dominion 'erve or in prospect as today. Produc. tion is being easily made. We will maintain our production at the present ate of 3,500,000 pounds per month un- til the price of copper improves. We now have a smelting capacity to treat 'asiIy o,ooo,ooo pounds or copper per month, if it is deemed advisable at my time so to increase our produe ton.
 "On September l We will start us- ing So western coke instead of eastern ,oke, which is costing us $l4.75 per
 ton. We will keep S200,000 worth of eastern coke in reserve, however. This saving in coke costs will reduce the orice of Old. Dominion copper about one
 half cent per pound. We are gradual y getting our costs down towards the
 l0-eent mark, and hope to reduce costs
 below even that figure in the face of extraordinary mining costs, which are
 bound to be high for some time to come v