Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-05
MAMA COPPER
BIG FEATURE
At GLOBE NOW
Enormous Quantity of 3 Per
Cent Ore Blocked Out in
Property of New Flotation-
Old Dominion Production.
(Globe Belt)

BY far the most important news OF
the week in the Globe district has
been the announcement of the fota-
ton of the Miami Copper company and
for the first time detailed information
of the future plans of the company as
well as what development work at the
property has yielded is given TO the
public.
When little over a year ago, the
bonding of the Oates-Newman and
other groups situated near the Inspir-
alton, Keystone and Live Oak mines,
was effected, it was generally under
stood that the General Development
company, composed of Adolph Levi
sohn, ]. Parke Claiming and other
well known factors of the copper
world, was behind the deal. The work
of developing the property was center
ed in the Red Springs claim, where at
a depth Of 220 feet, low grade sui
phide ore was encountered. The Gre
remained for a depth of 40 feet,
where sinking was suspended pend
ing the installation of new hosting
equipment. In the short time which
the company was at work, 100000
tons of ore which contains an average
of 3 per cent copper, has been blocked
out. 1t is doubtful if this record has
ever been surpassed In the history of
copper mining. The General Develop
ment company has partially opened up
what promises to be one of the great
est bodies Of copper ore in the coun-
try, and the fiotation of Miami Copper
was decided upon as a means of rails
ing the large amount required for the
extraction of its ore and its reduction.
The company proposes TO erect az
soon as possible the first unit of a
concentrator which will have a daily
capacity of 1000 tons and as develop
ments advance second unit of equal
capacity will be added. The first unit
will give an annual reduction of A.
GOO, 10000 pounds of copper, which ac-
cording to the estimates of Mr.. Chan
ming can be produced at cost, sold in
New York, of 9 cents per pound.
The company resumed operations
during the past week on a larger
scale than heretofore, owing to The
fact that a new hosting plant and sd
ditional equipment have been installed
Sinking has been resumed and Will be
vigorously pushed to the 1,000-foot lev
el, with levels run at every hundred
foot stage. The pumps recently in
stalled are handling the water without
trouble.
At the 500, or more correctly, the
470-foot level, work has been resumed
in developing the ore body and three
crosscuts are being pushed, all of them
in ore, from the shaft to their present
extremes. One of these is now 400 feet
in length, another so feet and the third
60 feet. a force of seventy men is
employed at present in the mine.
The strongest feature of the new
company is the character and stand
ing of the men connected with it. The
following list of officers needs no fur
Their comment
President, Adolph Lewisohn, pTesi-
dent United Metals Selling comRany.
Treasurer, Julius Susmann, treasur-
er of the Tennessee Copper company.
Secretary. Herman Cook.
These with the following comprise
the board of directors. William H.
Nichols, president of the General
Chemistry company; Jacob Langeloth,
president OF the American Metal com
pany; Walter F. Rosen, Of the firm of
Charming, T,halmann C Co. J. Parke
Charming is also consulting engineer
OF the company.