Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-12
.C0L. I. B. STONE WAS
 AT JOHNSON CAMP
Citizen of Benson Gives Condi tionS As He Found Them
 Last Week,

Col T. B. Stone, of Benson, last week paid visit to OJhnsOn camp in the DragOon Mountains. He gives the following to the Benson Press re Sarding his trip and observations made:
 II was fortunate in securing as pi- ! lot q man who knows every hole in the camp and why they wasn't work ing and everything went along smoothly, and I escaped without one person knowing my object. and was really aEreeably disappointed.
 My investigation was only made where there was plenty Of ore on the dumps to show that the different com panies were in the right place. and in this l am not posing as a mining 1 engineer to even suggest that the 1 seeming dead work might be put to 1 some better advantage. for they may l be after something and that's up to them.
 The most of the big properties | are well equipped with hOists and all other ConvenienCes.
 1 T started to make my notes from 1 the Copper Chief, which has an in- 1 cline oE over 200 feet and a shaft of over 800 feet. Up the hill is the | Mammoth, with a couple of inClines, l one over 400 feet and the other over ! l5O feet This is one of the holdings ! of the Republic mining company. which also owns the old Republic claim, with its incline of over $50 feet and several other shafts. Be tween this and the Republic Exten- sion claim (which is owned by the same company, having an incline of over 15O feet, and several shafts | ranging in depth from 50 to 75 feeD is the Mayflower claim. which has a shaft over 75 feet Then Alex Ben ner has two groups with shafts lots of places, and an incline of over | 75 feet. The St. George has an in cline of over 75 feet, and several shafts. The Yankee Doodle has two
 shafts. one more than 100 feet deep and the other over 200 feet. The 1 Black Prince has two shafts. each
 more than 5 feet deep. The old Pea
 body has dumps of low grade ore to ! represent several thousand feet of work. They are working up the hill
 south of the old workings, in the di' rection of the Republic and Copper Chief, with small shafts, but tle man
 agement does not seem to have set tied on any particular point of de velopment
 The Cochisa has over 800 feet of work and the Empire over 300
 feet of shaft The Lime Mountain is
 working a tunnel and is in over 200 1afT c
 have quite a number of small shafts
 in the right place.
 Standing on the dump of the
 Mammoth which has an elevation oi
 about two hundred feet above the
 main claims, and looking in a south
 easterly direction at the prominence
 of the croppings, the situation sug gests a very unique, but illustrative
 way of describing the different pro
 perties by comparing them with 2
 tree. with the Republic, Copper Chief
 Mammoth, Mayflower and Republic
 Extension. the nearest to the trunk
 and the largest branches, leading Ou
 toward the west, taking in the Elm pire and Lime mountain; north, tax ing in the Old Peabody and the Blacl Prince: northwest, taking in the NeV
 Peabody and Cochise; southeast, talk ing in the St. George, Yankee Doodl' and Ben Williams. There are sev
 eral twigs on this branch that arr beginning to bud and will produce
 but are not of sufficient growth t
 mention. The whole product of tn tree. while abundant. is not goot
 enough to stand the wagon haul
 waich is a good comparison of tn
 ore of the camp-lots of it, but to- l low grade to stand the wagon haul. With the Johnson, Dragoon { ) Northern railway completed iron Draoons, which I understand will b l in the next few months, they shoul , be able to bring the ore to the smell CTS in Benson for about half wha l it would cost to load, haul by wago ] | to Dragoon, and unload