Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-03
(By B. E. Russell.)

NACoZARI. July ?. tSpeeia Correspondence.)-Work at the Fl Van Copper company's properties is progressing at the usual rate of about 800 feet per month. Fritz Kohlmeyer. resident manager. reports the pro posed deal with San Francisco par ties to have been called on for the present. the promoters having re- fused an extension of the option.
 The By Aguaje mine of the El Agua5e Mining company is being pumped out with view to a sale. This property covers the antigua workings on one of the smaller sil ver-copper veins south of the Pilares and under capable management 1t could probably be made a producer
 The lower tunnel on the property of the Silver Seal Development com pany has connected with the vein and about forty sacks of 600-ounce silver rock Is being taken out daily under the management of Dr. A. Sandberg.
 Mir, A. |. Godbe of Los Angeles is in personal charge of directing oper- ations at the La Caridad mine. The property is in a position to resume shipments of high grade copper ore al such time as the directors may de sire.
 A surface prospecting tunnel on the Esquina claim of Col. Morton Lindley and associates has struck a body ot copper ore. This claim is on the southeasterly extension of the Pilares ground and on the probable strike of the Pilares uplift.
 The Dawson Mining company has entirely ceased operations on the Creston de Orc group and the prop erty Is now in charge of a watchman appointed by the judge of the first in stance at Moctezuma while company affairs are under the charge of w. c West, formerly manager. Attachments for labor and other bills are now pending in the courts
 W. H. Davenport. manager of the Lampazos Consolidated Mining com. pany. operating in the LampaZos dis trict below Moctezuma, reports that pay ore in shipping quantities has been opened up in their Silver King claim.
 Operations at the coDcentrator of the Moctezuma Copper company at this place have been reduced one half since the extreme drouth- of the present spring and work at the mine has been interfered with somewhat A further continuance of the drouth will mean the close down of many of the smaller properties as well as severe hardship on the cattle men.
 Harris Hammond of New York City Is reported to have taken oven an interest in the Silver King mine under option to Gus Holmes and as. sociates of Nacozari and Los Angeles This property has been a steady pro ducer of high grade copper-silyer ore for some months past
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 The Banco de Sonora of Hermo- sillo has taken over the Lampazos group of mines of the Lopez interests under the mortgage held by them for a sum reported to be $500, 900. These proDerties have been exploited to a depth of about 500 feet and in the Los Tajos mine on that level there IS reported to be body of ore of un- known length about IS feet in width that carries from 40 to SO ounces in silver to the ton. This is one of the most promising mines of northern So. nora and under systematic develop. ment by a company financially able to do this should become heavy producer of high grade bullion. The shaft on the Monte Cristo mine of the Moctezuma-D Duluth Develop ment company has reached a depth approximating 200 feet and the ore body productive of so much high grade ore in the upper workings is being prospected at this depth. Ore taken out in development work run | ming TOO ounces in silver to the tor is being shipped to the smelters by way of Nacozari.