Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-03

work having been done from the 4ta
level.
The work in this property. includ-
ing shafts, wines, upraises, drifts.
crosscuts and stations comprises 6746
feet This work has opened up
large amount of smelling and con
eentrating ores Tho irregularity of
the ore bodies renders 1t practically
impossible to accurately estimate the
tonnage but from the system of de
velopment work the amount of smelt-
ing ore which can be mined from the
800 foot level up, is estimated at 10e,.
600 to 100000 tons of ore averaging
per cent, and much larger quaint
ty averaging 4 per cent.
There are now in stock piles and
bins about $500 tons OF ore, one-third
carbonates and two-thirds suIphides.
averaging 5 per cent. AS this ore
came from all development without
sorting, it is assumed the mine will
| average about the same.
Several places which now have ex.
ceedingly fine showings of ore, not
now being worked owing TO water and
bad air, will soon be explored.
"A smelling plant of $50 tons ca.
pacity for "a hours was on the prop
erty when this company acquired pos
session. In the forepart of 1906 Il
was repaired and smelling com
menced. After intermittent runs, COW
ering nearly year, it was shut down
permanently, for the furnace was
found to be of such an obsolete pat
tern, and the whole plant so poorly
designed, that it could make no money
under most favorable conditions.
"A 30 ton oil burning reyerberatory
furnace was installed in this plant
this year, and a trial run completed
August 18th. proved ii a failure, this
cost us for the erection only, the cost
| of the furnace freight and team haul
to camp being borne by the manu-
factTers if trial run proved unsatis-
factory.
F, For the first time in the history OF
this property it has a large and per
manent supply of practically self
fluXing ores. These conditions OBJ
/ tanning, it is moot desirable that their
values should be recovered to make
the property pay its own development,
as far as possible. To that end Chas.
! F. Shelby, superintendent of the Can
anea Consolidated Copper company
has been consulted After a thorough
! examination of our old smelter plant,
our ores, general conditions, and Sc
curing offers from southwestern
shelters for our sulphide ores, he has
made an exhaustive report which
gives his opinion, that the best imme
diate results can be obtained by ship
ping the sulphides, providing we can
I ma ya cafiSfanfnrxy rF 70 ir-J,f
| ing to Vail, the nearest railroad sta
ton, Is miles distant.
! Arrangements will be made 20
I ship 100 tons or more per day for a
! period OF six months or so. The
mining Of 10000 to 10000 tons of ore
will open the property and enable US
TO better determine our future re
1 quirements for the reduction plant
Il and railroad connections. The old
smelter plant can be reconstructed at
/ an expense of approximately $4,000
| An additional $4,000 will be required
TO relay with 40 pound rails the local
road from smelter to mines and ex-
tend it to the Copper World. This
outlay will be wasted if within a
| year or thereabouts, a larger plant,
| say 400 to 500 tons is justified, which
appearances now indicate is quite
I probable. In the meantime nearly
as much profit can be realized from,
the sulphides by shipping as by treat
ing on the property. and to recon
struct the plant would require four tC
six months.
The following balance sheet is as
of August 81, 1908:
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