Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-12
(Houghton Mining Gazette )

I J. "A. 0dlu1edT, lne l<duElum DFOhcf, who has just returned from the south western mining camps, talked wltn the Gazette yesterday for short time on some of the properties ot Bisbee and Globe, giving his impress sions of the district and saying that he considers that most of the pros poets and the big mines of Arizona have a great future before them.
 Mir. Minnear says the coming presi- dential election is attracting no in terest and causing absolutely no comment in the southwest.
 He says Arizona is only scratch ed,' as far as mining is concerned. | and that there is no way of estimat- l ing or even of guessing st the ricnes
 in copper yet to be taken out of the ground in either the Bisbee or Globe I camps
 | The system of mining at the Bisbee l camp, says Mir. Minnear, Is very ad- vanced and up-to-date in every re spect, and especially is this true of l the mines.
 Mir. M-near Wa greatly impressed 1 with the work of engiL yers in over
 coming the great difficulties in their | way in building railroads in the Bis bee camp, as many of the shafts are | located on the side of a mountain and are very hard to reach. The ! railroad to the c. & A. shafts ''tacks'' up the mountain by means of cuts, tunnels and filings through spurs of the mountain and solid rock, over valleys and Assures in the mountains side and across canyons and dead rivers
 At least tyo-thirds of the power
 used in Bisbee is generated by means
 of oil heat, which is much cheaper than other fuel Ever the railroads
 in certain sections in the southwest use oil in their locomotives. The Southern Pacific, especially, uses oil,
 while the Fl Paso & Southwestern is
 one of the few railroads in the coun- 1 try that has built it's system with out the use of watering stocks, it is said.
 The Copper Queen or Paelps-Dodge l company is one of the strongest = nanced close corporations in the world It owns or controls the Cop per Queen mine and supplementary properties. the Old Dominion, the De troit Copper company. the United Globe and the MonteZuma mine and l the Sierra de Cobre. several railroads, besides smelting plant for their
 own mines and custom work, second in size only to the mammoth Was
 nee plant.
 l The Sacramento shaft q the Cop per Queen is being built for the pur- pose of handling big proportion of the Copper Queens ores. This shaft is to be equipped with an electric plant, and the power will be used for tramming, pumping and hoisting. This shaft is in close proximity to the Junction and Hoatson shafts of
 the s. & P. This plant will not fur nish power for the Warren street railway. as was first reported, the Oliver shaft of the c. & A. is to do i this. Judging from the present pat ronage by the way, this street rail way will be a great success.
 The Hoatson shaft of the Superior & Pittsburg is to install mule sys- | tenn of tramming, and a barn for the
 animals is now being built under ground.
 Calumet & Arizona. Il "The Hope and Wagner claims of l the Calumet & Arizona are practical ly unexplored and great possibilities
 are expected of them. This has been | proven by the operations by the Shat l tuck and Superior & Pittsburg com panies. About eighteen months ago there was some trouble at the Irish
 Mag shaft of the C. & A. and the i Spray of the Copper Queen about
 their being out of line, which is mo- 1 ticeable from ksurface, because of sunkea ground. They have been i newly timbered, however. and the i system of mining has been improved to such an extent that no more trou-
 ble is expected from this source.
 The total shipments of the Calu- | 700 tons per day Superior & Pitts I burg's total shipments per day are | about 750 tons. The Hcatson shaft I is one of the finest in the district, in I regards to smoothness, as the Hoat- son. like all Bisbee shafts, is verti- i cal. and the cage drops 1900 feet
 without touching the guides 1 Practically all the Hoatson ores
 have been opened up in the last four months
 The Supplement claim. which is
 worked through the Cole shaft is one
 of the finest claims or the Superior &
 Pittsburg.
 The Irish Mag Shaft. | The main ore body is north and east of the shaft and covers seven acres of ground being developed for | the entire width of the claim. The
 best showing so far exposed is on the
 $50 and 960-foot levels. The ores are both sulphide and oxide and aver age about eight per cent However. time and time again samples nave
 been taken as high as 90 per cent and even higher while on the other hand some Of this immense ore body will run only 3 and 4 per cent So l far the ore developed is about 400 by 500 feet by 200 feet thick The $50
 and $50 are the levels that nave | earned the dividends for the C. & A.. stockholders as this was the only shaft producing up to a short time lago. However, these levels are by no means worked out and the ore,
 bodies on the 1050 and l150-foot lev els, especially. are only scratched in
 a way. At this time there is more ore blocked out than ever before in
 the history of this mine.
 South of the shaft ore was deYel- toped on the $50 and 1050foot levels
 about seven months ago. Very little