Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-26
STATION CUTTING AT JOE BUSH SHAFT
 CONTINUES
PROSECUTING TO BEGIN SOON AS PUMP IS INSTALLED ON
 INSPIRATION
SCORPION SHAFT IN 55 FEET
FORGE OF woRKMEN UNDER sU- PERINTENDENT sHovLIN
 IS INCREASED

At the Joe Bush shaft of the Inspir- ation' mine, the cutting Of the station on the 400 level is being continued and will be completed in a few days When finished. the station will be 30 feet long. IF will extend 9 feet north and 300 feet to the south of the vertical shaft. At each end of the station crosscut will be run north and south respectively. As soon as the pump is installed, crosseutting will be begun, and in the course of a few weeks this work should prove to considerable ex tent the trend and size of the ore body around the Joe Bush shaft. The II foot stump in the Joe Bush shaft is now finished, thus making the total depth of the shaft 414 feet The ore being taken out in development work averages better than 3 per cent copper. In cutting the station in the Joe Bush shaft the narrow Assure vein en countered the last few days of sinking the shaft has been opend up con siderably, and in this vein, which is about F inches wide, much native cop per is found that would probaly assay as high as 90 per cent.
 The Scorpion shaft. on which wort. was begun about three weeks ago. is now down about 5 feet and sinking is going on steadily So far, the ma terial taken out of this new shaft, which is about 2,400 feet north of the Joe Bush shaft, has been copper car bonate. It is not expected that the Pinal schist carrying copper will be encountered at depth less than 200 feet.
 The 22 horse power gasoline hoist, which was moved to the Scorpion shaft from the old shaft on the Black Copper group, is now on the ground. but has not been put in working order yet ow- ing to the failure of the gallows frame timbers to arrive when expected.
 Two churn drills are still working on the Inspiration property and an average distance of 20 feet day is being made on the fourteenth drill hole. Of the fourteen holes pat down, all but two are on the 2,000 foot ore belt that is believed to extend across the property northwest and southeast As it is thought to run. this belt has it's begin ming not far from the present site of the Scorpion shaft and passes through the country near the Joe Bush shaft which is believed to have been sunk upon it.
 The contact vein of granite porpbyry, which cuts across the Inspiration prop erty in northeasterly and southwestern ly direction, is also source of some speculation as an ore bearing ledge. The general belief, however, is that this porphyry will carry copper and re- cent explorations of the porphyry de posits in the Miami mine bear out this belief
 That there is to be no cessation of work on the Inspiration property is shown pretty eonclusively by the fact that Superintendent Shovlin, who has brought the mine to it's present stage of development, has recently increased the force of workmen slightly. The total number of men employed is now ninety. As soon as the extent of the Inspiration ore body is determined sufficiently to enable the management to know just what kind of machinery can be used to best advantage, mod ern mine plant will probably be in stalled.