Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-08-26
BIG ORE STRIKE
 IN H0ATsON MINE
BODY OF ORE FORTY FEET WIDE
 OPENED ON 1soo-FooT LEVEL c. & A. MAKING AVERAGE SHIP
 MENTs-coPPER QUEEN DoINGs

An important news item of the War
 rem district IS the announcement made
 by General Manager Powell to a Bis
 bee Miner representative of the biggest finds yet made by the Superior & Pitts
 burg. A body of ore forty feet in
 width has been opened up on the 1900
 level of the Hoatson mine on the Del
 Norte claim and although no report of assays has been made public, it is un- derstood that the ore is of excellent
 grade and the outlook for very heavy tonnage from this body is said to be very good. Rich ore has been struck recently in the Hoatson along the side lines of the Galena claim owned by the
 Copper Queen company and on that side the ground will be explored from the Lowell shaft. Further information re- garding the new strike in the Hoatson will be made public in the near future. The Junction is rapidly approaching the stage where it will be classed among Bisbee's great mines. The 1300-foot
 level is showing up extremely well, all
 workings being in ore. The last sam pies from erosscut No. 23 on this level
 averaged 19 per cent, the best average
 cut is the richest working in the mine.
 In almost every instance the formation in the diffeernt workings on this level
 consist of porphyry and lime and py-
 ritic limestone.
 This week work was resumed on the
 l400-foot level in drifts l and 2, after
 week $ delay on account of the heavy
 flow of water. A streak of sulphide
 has appeared in the breast of No. ?
 drift with good indications of large
 quantities of ore. The face of No. is in leaehed material.
 The 1500-foot station has been begun and the work is progressing nicely. When the station is completed pumps will be installed, including crank and 1ywheel Prescott of the same size as the two recently installed on the 1000 level, where the main pumping plant is located.
 The Superior & Pittsburg properties are at present shipping about 100 ears O ore to the C.. & A. smelter at Doug las weekly, and the shipments will be increased as soon as the smelter is en- larged to accommodate the ore.
 The Calumet & Arizona company continues operating along the same lines as for some time in the past. Shop ments continue to be twenty and twen tyfve carloads daily. No great amount of new work is being done.
 The Copper Queen company is busily engaged in preparing for the use of the
 new ore handling system. In almost
 every mine work is being done towards
 widening the drifts to permit of the op- eration of cleo tric trains to haul ore to the Sacramento shaft, where it is raised
 by the skip system and loaded in the
 cars by conveyor belt system. The
 new ore handling device is being used at present, but only one of the two skips is used to raise the ore on account
 of only one ore bin being completed on the 1900 station from where the ore
 is raised This ore is being shipped to
 Douglas daily. The ore handling sys-
 tenn is being used for short time every
 day until every thing is finally ar
 ranged to run perfectly. About eight
 cars are loaded daily and shipped. There have been no new develop
 ments at the Shattuck, Denn or Vol
 verine properties this week.