Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-26
LIVE OAK SOON ID ENTER LIST OF
 PRODUCERS
DAILY GETTING MORE ORE AND FAST MAKING HISTORY IN
 MIAMI DISTRICT
PROSECUTING GOES RAPIDLY
LATERAL ON TWO HUNDRED FOOT LEVEL IN FOUR PER CENT
 COPPER ORE


 The entrance of another "sure enough" " producer into the Globe dis trict list, already including the Old Dominion, Miami, Inspiration, Black Warrior, Arizona Commercial, Superior & Boston, Gibson Copper and some other smaller properties, is what the develop ment work at the Live Oak mine is daily impressiDg upon the public. The public is slow to turn their attention to that which is done without any ac compartment of tinkling cymbaI and sounding brass. They refuse to look at any industry not conducted by the light of red fire and sky rocket. But if any person looking for results twill go to the Miami district and take a short survey of the Live Oak mine, he will come back fully satisfied that there, unheralded to be sure but none the less real for all that, is property that has the ore, is daily getting more of it, and consequently is fast beeom- ing entitled to permanent place among the 'big ones' of Globe dis trict.
 At present, work at the Live Oak is being done in modest way with a force of thirty men in charge of Super. intendent Maybush. From the vertical shaft on the 300 level, the north cross cut has been extended about 251 feet and for the entire distance. has been m sulphide ore that averages 3 per cent or better in copper This erosseut is being run at the rate of about five feet day.
 The crosscut that leaves the sulphide tunnel at distance' of loo feet from the shaft on the third level is now over l75 feet long and is being extend ed about four feet day This cross. cut is in ground showing considerable chalcopyrite and also s9me chalcoeite On the 200 level, the crosscut that is being run west from the part of the old drift north of the vertical shaft is now in about 62 feet, and from the begin ming has been in copper sulphides. For twenty feet or more if passed through ore running fully per cent in copper. In the drift from which this crosscut leaves, the evidence of slip at come past time can be clearly seen. The roof of the drift is slieate. while the floor and walls are of sulphide bearing rock | From the vertical shaft of the Live Oak mine to the property line toward which the north crosseut is running, the distance is about 600 feet. At a point about loo feet out, this crosseut turns slightly to the west. however, and drawn in laying the plans for exploring the property in 900 foot squares, a lateral will be run from fl due west ia the property line, which is fully 1000 feet away. The long sulphide tunnel at the Live Oak, which was finished dur. ing the past summer, is about l250 feet long. Through it ventilation and access to the mine are afforded and all the ore is now being taken out through it in development work. From point 300 feet from the portal to the 700 foot mark, this tunnel passes through low grade sulphide ore of conner. cial value.
 To sum up, briefly, the results obtain. ed in the course of development at the Live Oak mine prove that, in addition to the body of sulphide ore opened by the long tunnel, an ore body more than 300 feet long and l20 feet deep has been proven to exist in the vicinity of the vertical shaft. This ore bedy has been opened north of the shaft by a crosscut 25I feet long, south of the shaft by the sulphide tunnel, which is in ore there for distance of 90 feet, and vertically, by the shaft itself, which struck ore at a depth of 200 feet and continued in it until sinking was stopped at the bottom of the pres ent stump, 120 feet below the 200 level.
 The facts above give some idea of the present proven ore body If the crosscuts north and west of the shaft continue in ores of good commercial value to the, property line, lying 600 and 1000 feet distant, respectively, from the shaft, the ore body at the Live Oak mine will then have acquired proportions that will make it compare favorably with that of any other prop erty in Globe district