Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-09-04
SMITH THINKS
OLD DOMINION
IS DOING WELL
President of Company Tells
Boston News Bureau of His
Observations While on Visit
to Globe.
.past ] !, " Rureanl

sBast ! VS. B1reaul
G.. S. Suite. president of the Old
Dominion conn any. upon his retrrn 10
Boston after visit to Globe. was in
terviewed by the Boston News Pueeau.
He said.
"The entire Old Dominion PROPOSE
ton is looking exceedingly wen. Our
surface construction is practically com
pleted. Five furnaces are now in opeT-
alton, running slowly, that is, under a
reduced blast, our experiments 10 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 1000 10 $500 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 14th to the 10th
level; our B. shaft from the 18th to
18th level. This latter work is requir-
ed 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 18th levels, with every indi-
cation that this ore body will contin-
ne with depth Then we are sinking
D shaft west of the creek. about 1000
feet west of the most westerly work
ings Of the Old Dominion. This shaft
viii be sunk to tde 1000-foot level as
rapidly 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 ricd ore
body on the 10th level, which was lost
in the food of the spring of 1905. The
spare sets are in place and in as good
condition as when the flood took place.
@An important new development has
been on the 18th level, where we have
found an entirely new ore body at the
intersection of the Kirkey vein with
the main vein. about 500 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 wall
in sight. The ore assays 5 per cent 10
s per cent copper and is good grade
sulphide ore. This is apparently new
ore body of which we had no indica-
tons on any of the levels above. On
the 18th and 10th levels We have not
opened up very much ore, as we can
not do much development work until
we can get through the upraises for
natural ventilation.
sour reserves of high grade ore are
being kept up, and the Old Dominion
never before had as much ore in re
serve or in prospect as today. Produc-
ton is being easily made. We will
maintain our production at the present
rate of $500, 600 pounds per month IN
til the price Of copper improves. We
now have a smelling capacity to treat
easily 100000 pounds of copper pei
month. if it is deemed advisable al
any time so TO increase our production,
@On September l we will start us
ing 50 western coke instead of eastern
coke. which is costing US $14.T5 pei
ton. We will keep 100000 worth Of
eastern coke in reserve, however. This
saving in coke costs viii reduce the
price of Old Dominion copper aoou
one-half cent per pound. We are grad
uaIIy getting our costs down toward;
the 1o-cent mark, and nope to reduce
costs below even that figure in the fac
=
of extraordinary mining costs, which
are bound to be high for some time t
come"