Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-16

As fast as material and workmeii can be procured Courtland is moving out of tents and into frame buildings, but it will be some time before all are thus housed. The climate is such that the tents can be employed, which is fortunate, and the hardy pioneers are used to it, and do not complain. One soons learns how to live in tent and rather enjoys it The air is pure and the shelter is easy to take with one if he does not like the place.
 At this time the population is more than the town warrants. but the inhab- itants are staying on and the number is being increased also by those who believe they see here the foundation for a successful community.
 Railroads Now Helr.
 The camp already has two rail roads completed to this point. the Phelps Dodge line and the Southern Pacific. The fact that the former has , extended a line to this location is looked upon with especial favor as the builders are developing mining claims, and the inference is that they look up on the chances for success as being good. Otherwise it is suggested. they would not go to the expense that thiT- tyfive or forty miles of railroad means. The Southern Pacific prob ably built to the camp because their competitors did. Be that as it may, Courtland now enjoys the distinction of having two competing lines. and We know of no other camp that se cured this sort of accommodation quite so rapidly The roads run through a comparatively level coun- try needing very little grading or fill. ing excepting for few miles as the mines are approached.
 Gieeson Also Benefited.
 Gleeson, 3 few miles from Court land. and passed on the way to the latter camp. is also pleased because of the railway service. For several years it has been developing a cop per-bearing hill teaming the ore thirty miles or more to reach the nearest railway line. Of the ores here mined 2 portion goes to the shannon com. pany, of Clifton, Arizona, being needed as mix for the other ores of the company. The Gleeson ores are low grade. giving about two per cent cop per. The work Of development has been kept up in the hope that better grades would be encountered for which there should be 6 chance.
 Minee of Turquoise Here.
 In the near vicinity are mines of turquoise, but they are not regularly operated, the market not needing all that can be secured. When the sup ply gets low in the market the proper ty is started up. The mineral is of very good quality, there being consid- erable of the unfadable class. Just now fashion is calling for turquoise with portion of the matrix showing in the setting. this brown veining lend ing very pretty effect.
 courtiand Has Ideal Location. If Courtland proves what its many friends expect it will be one of the most attractive mining towns in the southwest. it being very prettily To. cated in the foothills Of the Little { Dragoon mountains, 8 portion of the Turquoise range Sulphur Springs valley is fertile one. water being abundant. being lifted to the surface by wiGdmills. It is in this valley that Douglas is located. there being plenty ot water for the smelters of that city. it being found at q very short distance below the surface.
 i The copper bearing formation Of Courtland is Q lime-porphyry zone, the | mineral being thus far found near the ! contact of these formations. the trend 1, is nearly east and west. the dip .hus l far rather flat, about 25 degrees to the ' horizon. On the surface there are many outcroppinss of iron, very heavy and looking well for mineral below. Al some of these crop3ings surface pits are showing, these generally being Of small proportions, the most of them having been sunk for the purpose of finding gold and silver. It was these croppings that attracted the attention of the men who came later looking for cUppe..
 Calumet q Arizona Showing
 Of the surface indications the Calu met & Arizona company, has very attractive location, the ground for g long distance in front of it's Germanis shaft being prolific in iron gosser which always means something in ths Cochise district Its shaft is beinf sunk and drifts extended to get int this country. The Germania shaft i. now down BIO feet and is being pushed speedily for greater depths. the alut of the property depending largely upon the making of the ore at depth
 Upon the levels run in the upper DOT ton of the shaft the showing of ore
 is excellent, and the ore is of fine quality, being made up of carbonates oxides, chrysocolla, and numerous
 places showing native copper in pleas ing quantity. No property we have ever visited shows 80 much good ort for the amount of opening done, and il
 Is probably safe to say that Calumei & Arizona has already developed enough copper ground to return to | lall the money it has paid for claim. as well as for that expended in devel
 opments.s In the openings made ul
 to the time of our visit Mir Talbot
 having the task in charge. had fol
 lowed the ore very consistently s6
 that one could get a very fair idea o
 its quality and its extent for the deptl
 reached. What the company now seek
 10 learn is how far the mineral make.
 downward.
 Look For Permanent Mine.
 There are indications in the bottom
 level that the dip of the formation i,
 changing to more abrupt angie, ant
 should the present course continue i looks very well for the mines future
 The shaft will be sunk geo or 600 fee
 and levels run from the bottom tc thu
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