Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
COPPER PRODUCT or
 GLOBE MAKES BIG RECORD

GLOBE MAKES BIG RECORD
 GLOBE, Jan. 6.-The year 1909 op. cncd auspiciously for the Globe dis trict and nothing can check the ex- pansion of mining and growth of gen eral business here except a serious dis agreement over wages between the mining companies and their employees, of which there does not appear to be any immediate likelihood. as labor in this camp is better paid, and condi. tions affecting the physical well.being of the wage worker are more favora- blc here than in most other mining camps in the west. Upwards of $250,. 000 is being expended by the mining companies and individual mine owners every month in this district and SO per cent of this large sum is paid to labor. lt is the knowledge of this fact by the more intelligent and conserva. tive class of miners here that gives reasonable assurance of industrial peace and harmony.
 The Old Dominion company closed the year 1908 with a very satisfactory record. The output from the shelter for the twelve months was 37,s6i .jj2 pounds of blister copper, about s5 per cent of which was the product of ores from the compnny's own mines. tho remainder representing custom ores, and sulpnides from outside the dis. ,rict. In addition to this production, the district should be credited with upwards of 100000 pounds of copper from ores smelted at Fl Paso, making the total copper production of Globe district approximately i0,OO0,O0O lb.
 Old Dominion will continue produc. tion at the rate of about 3.5OO,0OO pounds per month, possibly slightly ex. cecdng those figures some months While Old Dominion has the tonnage and grade of ore available to make a larger output, any material increase would he difficult of attainment until B and C shafts have been opened 10 the lith level, as the limit of hoisting capacity has been reached in shaft 4 owing to the heavy development work in proPres- on the lower levels. Of course underground conditions will gradually improve and probably in . few months the management may find it practicable to increase production to l,OOO.OO0 pounds monthly. old Do. minion is growing mine, and its ores arc unusually high grade; consequent. ly, gradually increasing production by the Old Dominion may be expect. cd, limited only by the facilities for handling and smelting the ores.
 Recent developments on the 10th level are very important, indicating that the sulphdc ore body on that level will prove to be as rich and as extensive as it Is on the lith level. The sinking of shaft \ has been tenn. pornrily suspended at the 18th level. and the efforts of the management directed chiefly to connecting the shaft with the mine workings on those lev els. On the 18th level only about 100 feet of crosscutting remains to be done Co make the connection. Al C shaft raising is in progress between the l2th and 10th levels, and between the sth and 10th tine shaft has been opened and IS now being timbcred. Good pro. gross has boen made in driving the drift on the iitl level west from A shaft; it Is now nearing the region of C shaft and m upraisc from the 14th to the l2th can soon be started.
 The orc bodies in the eastern part of the mine continue to make most favorable showing. On the 12th level | east, n stopc has been opened for 300 | feet In length in ore of unusually high 1 grade The corresponding stope on the ltoh level is also looking exceedingly | well, although not as yet opened 10 | any great extent.
 In fact, there has been Improvement on an the working levels, and the fu. ture of the Old Dominion as one of the grca;cs; copper mines in the south. west is fully assured
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