Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-10-24
Cactus Company Is Now En- titled to Take 51 per Cent
 of Pinto Stock
PROSECUTING AT
 HAMILTON SHAFT
Gila Valley Extension May Reach Cactus Property
 in Near Future

A force of 100 men is continuing de. velopment work on the Cactus mine. The Pinto shaft on which sinking was begun at depth of twenty feet August l, reached the 800 foot point Friday. Sinking has been discontinued tempor- arily. Whether the Pinto shaft will be made deeper or not at the present time has not yet been decided, but in all probability it will be sunk to the 54l foot point, from which depth crosscut- ting to connect the Pinto with the 400 ievel of the Hamilton shaft can be done if desired, as the collar of the Pinto shaft is l4l feet higher than that of the Hamilton.
 As the Pinto shaft is now down to the depth required by the terms under which the property was bonded from the Pinto Creek Copper company, ol per cent of the Pinto stock which has been in escrow in Globe will soon be turned over to the Cactus Development company. The transfer was formally effected Friday when w. II. Hamilton, mechanical engineer for the Cactus De velOpment company, was in Globe to at tend to the details of the transaction. The Pinto stockholders have been nOti' fled that the shaft is down to the depth agreed upon ana have been invited to 20 or send representatives to the Cae' tus mine to measure up the shaft and thus make sure that all the terms of the contract have been fulfilled. AS soon as the measuring is done and the Pinto stockholders are satisfied that the provision calling for the Pinto shaft to be made 500 feet deep has been com piled with, 5l per cent of the stock will be transferrd to the Cactus Development company. This transfer will probably be made the first of this week.
 At the Hamilton shaft, the work of drifting and erosscutting on the third fourth and fifth levels is progressing steadily. Main drifts are being run east and west on these levels and at intervals of 200 feet crosseuts are being driven in accordance with the plan to explore the property in 200 foot squares. The third level is almost wholly in ore aver aging 2.4 per cent in copper. The fourth level is partially in ore, and so far. ore of commercial grade has not been disclosed in any paying quantities on the 800 level On the 400 level a crosscut is bieng run northwesteriy to- ward the Pinto shaft. This erosscut IS row cut about 20 feet. In all there arc between thirteen and fourteen hundred feet of drifts and crosseuts on the vari- ous levels of the Hamilton shaft. The depth of the shaft is 530 feet. Sink ing was discontinued there the hrst of last April The drifts and crosseuts are being run with the aid of four machine drills, for which power is furnished by an air compressor of loo horse power and of Laidlaw Dunn manufacture.
 Altogether, the developments at the Cactus mine are rapidly progressing and in the meantime, Crowley City, the mine camp, continues to grow both in number of buildings and in population The Cactus Development company has just finished the erection of eight new cabins for the use of the unmarried men employed at the mine. These cab ins contains two rooms each and each one is tenanted by two men. A handsome modern bungalow has also just been built as residence for MT. and Mrs. c. M. Thorsen. Mir. Thorsen is chief clerk at the Cactus mine.
 Another improvement recently made at Crowley City is the construction of an addition to the general merchandise store which the company conducts there for the accommodation of the employees. This addition is twenty feet long and the need of it has long been felt, as the store quarters have been too small to afford room for the stock which IS car ried.
 There seems little doubt TOW that the extension of the Gi.a Valley, Globe & Northern railroad to the Cactus mine will be built at some time not far dis taut. The construction of it is largely dependent on the developing of reason able tonnage of commercial ore at the Cactus ard other mines near it. From present indications, it seems that the blocking out of large tonnage of ore at the Cactus mine is simply matter of time, and so the building of railroad to Crowley City seems a certainty Ac- cording to all reports, the route which the railroad will follow will lead through the Live Oak gulcb, up three per cent grade to the uplands and so on over the hills to the Cactus mine. If this road is built, it is probable that from Crowley City, the Southern Pa. cific will extend its line northward through Roosevelt to Durango, Colo. This route, while little roundabout, would lead through mining country capable, in all probability, of producing immense quantities of ore in years to come.