Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-21
OLD DOMINION
OPERATIONS
ON BIG SCALE
At the Smelter Five Furnaces
Have Been Running This.
Month - Development at
Warrior Is Progressing.

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Operations at TIE Old Dominion at
Globe continue on a large scale and
with occasional additions to the force
as the starting of new work requires
There is a large amount of mine
development work under way, and OF
especial importance on the lower lev
els where the sulpride veins are be-
ing opened. The 10th level drift is in
some of the finest ore ever found II,
the mine-bornite and copper glance
carrying very high values in copper
and several ounces of silver to the
ton, and some gold. One sample OF
the ore assayed Sc per cent copper.
and carload sample gave return
of seven ounces of silver. Drifting
was resumed last week on the Kirks
su'phiGe vein, on the 10th level, Ia
United Globe ground and very good
ore is being stopped there.
The hosting capacity of 4. Shaft,
the main working shaft of five com
partmJ nts, has been greatly increaseL
by equiping two compartments with
three-deck cages and another cCfl
partment not heretofore used for
hosting, with a two-deck cage.
At the smelttr five furnaces have
been running steadily this month IN
til yesterday when one was shut
down for repairs, which will be
quickly made and the stack blown il
again The daily output has been
maintained at high average and i
continued the production for June
should reach close TO 100000
pounds.
The bullion dump was full of cop
per bars last week, an accumulation
Of several days, ESTIMATED at more
than $50 tons.
Development work at the Warrior
Copper company's Montgomery mine
is progressing with satisfactory re
suits. New ore is being opened uI
continually, and the promise for fu
ture developments are unusually re
| assuring at present. Daily shipment
have been made during. the past sew
eral months and will be continued
| for the development work in hant
makes the removal of shipping orr
necessary. The weekly tonnage is
approximately eighty tons.
| Tie work of eXcavating for TN
! dam in Pinal creek was given impG
tus yesterday afternoon when tn
steam shovel displaced most of tn
| hand labor and scrapers. On the cas-
side of the channel bedrock has beti
re cached and tie forms for the frs
section of the dam, forty-four fee
| in length, were being put in. The con
1 crete work will be started tomorrow
| and not many days will be requires
to complete this first section. Tn,
| dam will be from six to ten feet thicl
at the base. being thickest in tho mid
die, and will taper to four feet o.
top. Another electric pump has bee
| Installed, more as a precautiol
against accident to the one iI use
which is handling the water easily
raising about $50 gallons a minute
The capacity of both pumps is 100
gallons.
/ F. A. Woodward, general manage
/ of the National Mining Exploratio
company, returned Friday from tn
Fumarole, the company's mine stu
ated on the north side OF the Gil
river, ten miles from Stafford. Al
the name indicates, the Fumarole
/ of volcanic origin, the formation bt
ing disintegrated quartz mixed wit
mud thrown up by hydrothermai az
/ ton, the values in gold and siiye
/ being disseminated through the mas
1t is similar TO the formation OF tn
Cripple Creek district. Tie deposi
is of oval shape, being about 16Oxl5
feet. Around one-half OF this mass
| a deposit OF copper exposed in
number OF open cuts, the work c
former owners. The company ma
sunk a accompaniment shaft so
L feet. near the center of the quart
mass and has run levels at zoo fee
/ and 500 feet. About go feet of drift
and crosscuts have been opened o
! the 500 foot level and In tae east drif
for 100 feet in length, ore is expose
that goes from IS to Sc in gold an
silver. Running at a slight ans
with this drift is, a well defined III
sure passing through the ore dePoi
ite. and the management expects
/ encounter the best ore when the drij
reaches the contact.
At the National Exploration con
pany's mine, the Iron Cap, adJoiniE
Il the Arizona Commercial and Super
or & Boston in this district, work
being prosecuted in the east an
west drifts on the 450-foot level an
bot headings are in ore which show
some Improvement. A winze sunk
the, west drift on the same level
down I01 feet and is just coming i
20 ore carrying some sulphide an
carbonate OF copper with oxluiAs
iron and iron pyrites.
The regular development work
being carried on at the Iron Mn
and Great Eastern, and daily shil
ments OF forty tons OF ore from q
latter mine are made 70 the Old ID
minion smelter. which more ina
meet the cost Of development ~
big slope on the 420-foot level OF u