Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-12
MINING NEWS
 IF HE WEEK
 AT TOMBSTONE
Resumption of Work at Great Western Claims = Stock holders of Three Compan- ies Hold Annual Meeting.


 TOMBSTONE. April 1.-The most important event in the mining in dustry in the central portion of the county this week is the resumption of work on the Great Western Mining Group of claims a few miles from Gleason, idle now for a number of years There has been considerable development work done on the group but it will not compare with the work that is now contemplated. During the past week the Young brothers of Ohio. who have been in the city, have taken an option on the interest owned in the property by P. B. Warnekros of this city, and the deed is now in escrow. Warnekros was the owner of one-third of the capital stock of the company. He has given the option on this to the Young brothers for the sum of $l00,000. A payment of 10 per cent has already been made
 J. ". Young. who has been in the city with his brothers for the past week, will remain at the property to look after his interests. but the work on the property will be in charge of w G. ManwarTing, who has been con nected for some time with the Cana nea Eastern, and also with the Caiu- met & Arizona Mining Company, be ing the engineer who was in charge of the work on the Leadyille property and also looking after the work that was being done by the c. & A. inter ests at Patagonia on what is known as the Three R' property.
 The old shaft that was sunk by the Great Western Company will be pumped out at once and number of miners put to work running exten- sions in the drifts and cross cuts that have already been run. On the May claim a new shaft will be started and rurshed to a depth sufficient to tap the large body of carbonate ore that runs from the Leadyille property in to the Great Western. The company will at no distant time become one of the large producers of the county and will. before the year Is out, mater ially add to the annual product of the red metal in Cochise county. A num- Der of miners left here today to go to work on the property this morn ing.
 The meeting or the stockholders to be followed by a meeting of the di- rectors of the Tombstone Consolidat- ed Mines Company to be held in this city on Monday will do much to de termine the future activity of the old camp. It is expected that nearly seven-eighths of the capital stock will be represented and that the same board of directors will again be re- elected. The officers of the company will present their annual reports for consideration, showing the amount Of work that has been accomplished during the past year. Among the matters that will come before the di- rectors will be the question of build ing or having built an extension or the railroad from the Big Shaft to the Emerald mine, the sinking of new shaft at that property to take the place of the old one that has been in use for some twenty years, which is not at present in such shape that if would stand much hard work. The question of whether or not new hoist will be erected on the Lucky Cuss property to take the place of the one that was burnt down last winter will also be determined. This property was looking up hrst rate at the time of the unfortunate accl- dent and several new bodies of ore had just been opened up when the fire occurred
 It is more than probable that some action will be taken in regard to the shipping of the sulphide copper ore at present being taken from the Elmer aid to the Southern Arizona Smeiung Company's plant at Sasco.
 A number of the eastern stockhold- CTS and directors including F. M: Murphy and Harry NJ. Robertson, Will be in attendance at the meeting ana from present appearances 1t VIII De one of the most important that mas been held in the history or the com many. Is results mean much to the future of Tombstone.
 A meeting of the stockholders or the southern Arizona Smelling Com pany, operating the new smei1er aI Sasco in connection with the Imperial Conner Company. was held in this cfty on Thursday at the office of the Tombstnpe Consolidated Company. The old board of directors were re- elected at the stockholders meeting, the directors met and reelected the same officials.
 The same action was held in the meeting of the stockholders Of the Arizona Southern Railroad Company who operate the branch of railroad running from Red Rock on the South- .ern Pacific to Sasco. and then on to Silver Bell, or the Imperial Copper Company's property. The stock in both of these concerns is virtually owned by the Imperial Copper Com pany.
 A meeting of the stockholders Of the Imperial Copper Company oper- ating at Silver Bell was also held and seyen-eighths of the stock represented by person or by proxy. The same di- rectors were reelected for the en- suing year. but no meeting Of the directors was held pending the ar rival of Frank Murphy, who is one ot the officers and directors Of the com many. The report of the officers to inc stockholders showed that the past wear had been one of prosperity for the company and that the develop ment work had shown during the past few months that there was an abund- auce of ore in sight, that the smeltsr At Sasco was more than proving a success and that the erection or ad- ditionaI furnaces was needed to handle the ore output from the mines. It Is expected that later copy Of the report of the company will be made public.
 All of the above companies with the exception of that of the Tomb