Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-16
Doratea
Grand toti

The total for the above claims amounts to 2124 pertenencias. or ap- proximately 5310 acres. In addition to this the company owns one third interest in the Esmeralda claim, which Is located in the Fortuna group.
 The Forest and Fortuna group of claims are located about twenty-five miles south of Cananea in the Sierra Azul mountains. and the Cananea Eastern and the Dorotea claims are located about 20 miles from Cananea. These claims all lie near well travelled wagon roads.
 The Duluth claim is located in the Manzanill Mountains within six miles of the city of Cananea.
 Development.
 I, accompanied by the secretary, treasurer and assistant manager, and Louis Loranger, superintendent of the mines, have during the past six weeks, carefully examined all the company's properties and we found the condi tions at the various properties to be as follows:
 The Steach shaft on the Steach claim, is down 205 feet. Two drifts have been driven a short distance in opposite directions, but neither drift reached the formation that it was in- tended to crosscut, so nothing has been proven on the Steach. This work was suspended on account of the great decline in the price of metal.
 The Azurite vein has been cut and followed for 50 or 50 feet at a depth of about 100 feet below the outcrop. This work showed ore of a medium grade in punches only. The rest of the vein having the appearance of be- ing very dry, leached material, and the managers. concluding that to get ore here we would have to sink to a much greater depth, and owing to re- cent developments on the Sulphate. all work on the Azurite has also been suspended.
 On the Sulphate, a two. compart- ment shaft has been sunk to a depth of 175 feet and a drift driven in a northerly direction, for 225 feet. This drift cut small vein, which Is an off, shoot from the main sulphide ledge The appearance of the vein at this point proves that if it carries ore, it Is at a greater depth. Work has been suspended here and the sinking of shaft from the tunnel level commenc- ed. This shaft was sunk SO feet be- low the tunnel and the main ledge cut by drifting, proves to be a true Assure Is feet wide and running straight ayI tinuous form, the average assay of which gives IS ounces silver per ton and better than 12 per cent copper. It is evident that there is ore enough above this level to warrant shipping as soon as the price of metal reaches a point that would justify us in doing so. Until that time arrives, the fur ther development of this ore body will be continued and the blocking out of the ore will be pushed as rapidly as possible With this aim in view the shaft is being sunk at a rapid rate and is now down about 30 feet below the s0-foot level. At the 120-foot level, the ore body will be cut again and at each 50 feet as the shaft goes down, this erosscutting Of the vein will be repeated.
 Cananea Eastern.
 At our Cananea Eastern, a large amount of development work had been done previous to the purchase of the property by us. This work open ed up a large body of concentrating ore. that will run on an average per ( FOf o4I Punches of high grade copper ore are found here and there in the ore body. The Cananea Eastern shipped about II cars of tbs ore. The previous holders of this property drove tun- nel in the side of the mountain sew eral hundred feet. After this tunnel had crossed the ore body. several drifts and crosscuts were driven at random and all in ore. From the tunnel level just south of the ore body, a shaft has been sunk 100 feet in country rock. We are now drifting from the bottom of this shaft to cross cut the ore zone. which at this point is 90 feet wide The north well, which seems to be the foot wall, is well de- fined and regular. and runs straight down. Getting ore at this level. we will have proven that 8 very large body of ore exists here.
 Dorotea Claims.
 The cocospera No. 2 of the Dorotea group on which we are now sinking a two-compartment shaft, is a medium sized mountain with two peaks, both of which comprise one solid mass of porphry and iron. one peak Is bIussh white and the other red. Sew eraI openings in these formations show 1t 10 be united mass of med iuu grade copper ore. with no over lying burden. A careful estimate proves that from this property s00.- coo tons of ore can be mined that will assay not less than per cent copper. and may run as hign as and 1-2 per cent copper. This estimate only cov- CTS the top 20 feet. A eoncentrating test of this ore is now being made as there is some doubt as to whether or not the values can be extracted from the porphry by concentrating. Just below this outcrop, our new shaft Is down 40 feet. This shaft passed through 90 feet of decomposed gran