Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-11-01
SMITH OF OLD.
DOMINION IS
WELL PLEASED
Returns To Boston From His
Trip of Inspection to Arr
IONA Properties and Reports
Conditions First Class.

BOSTON. Oct, 31.-C. S. SMITH.
president of the Old Dominion Co..
has returned from visit to the mines
which he made with Professor Doug
las OF the Phelps-D 1dge companies.
He says:
Conditions at the Old dominion
were better than 1 have ever fcund
them before. Deyelopmal- At the
mine since August nave been more
than satisfactory, ami indications for
the immediate future are for the de-
velopment of considerable bodies of
high-gTade ore.
The principal development; that has
been carried on aggressively has been
at the 10th and 18th levels in the ex-
IRENE easterly end OF the Old domia-
ioa property and the extreme west
end in the United Globe properties;
also in the 10th, 18th, 18th. 18th and
18th levels west.
Il saw this time the body of ore
that was exposed previous to the flood
in March, 1905. This ore is opened
quite extensively now and stopping has
just commenced. While / was at
Globe, the same ore body was tapped
on the 18th level. This is high-grade
oxidized ore averaging at least 16 per
cent copper. The samples which
personally took from the opening in
the breast, on the 18th level, which
was not picked sample, ran better
than "a per cent.
A drift on the 18th level, under
these. developments on the 10th and
18th levels, will soon reach the point
where the ore should be encountered.
The ore on the 14th level is an
entirely new ore body and it is not
Yet known whether it has any connec-
ton with the ore on the 10th, 18th
and 18th levels; it as been opened
for about 200 feet. The first crosscut
showed the ore body to be 60 feee
wide, running something over per
cent copper and good in sulphur and
iron. The second crosscut had pene-
trated the ore body about eight feet
when / was there, showing a higher
grade of ore than in crosscut No. L,
and the ore body had been penetrated
in crosscut No. 3, IS feet from cross
cut No. 2. The car sample taken
from the breast showed an average of
10 per cent in copper with a good
sulphur and iron values. This ore
body is 500 feet further. west than
the large suIphide ore body which was
developed something overa year ago
from the same level.
The extension of the ore body
found on the 10th and 18th levels
west, according to the formations
should be encountered about 300 feet
farther west on the 14th level than
the ore body we have already cut on
the 18th.
Surface construction at the Old
Dominion is practically complete. The
only thing remaining to be done, of
what was originally planned, is the
installation Of the power pump in C
shaft. The water there is being easily
taken care of by pumps in "A shaft,
but It can be much more economically
handed whine C. shaft is used, be-
cause the head will be reduced by
some ESQ feet.
THE dam which is being built in
Pinal Greek to divert the water from
the mine will be completed this month
and before many months we expect
that this will take care of consider
able water which now finds its way
into the mine.
THE product from four furnaces
this month will not vary very much
from previous months, being probably
between 3,400, 900 and 3,500,000
pounds. No. 6 furnace is now being
operated, and, being considerably
larger than any of the other furnaces,
it is found that a normal production
can be maintained by running four
furnaces with No. instead of five.
The older furnaces are being rebuilt
on a more improved style.
THE efficiency of the Dawson coke
is found to be better than expected
and the percentage of western coke
used in the charge is but slightly in
excess of the eastern coke. Old Do
minion copper costs this year have
been lower than in any previous year,
with all indications still further re-
duction. AS we get into the higher
grade ore bodies, it viii naturally
raise the value of the charge and re-
duce the cost of copper per pound.
Every Y of per cent increase in the
percentage of copper in the charge
adds $50, 900 per mont to the net earn
ings on the present price of copper.
During the past year we have been
making no selection of our ores what
soeyr, taking them as they came and
treating about $4,000 tons per month,
SIS per cent to 80 per cent OF our pro
duction coming from the treatmene
OF cur own material