Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-10-10
Latest Assays Show Larger Copper Returns Than Ever Before
SMALL WATER FLOW IS EASILY HANDLED
developments in Shaft to
 |. Determine Method of Exploiting

8 Al the mine of the Inspiration Cop T company a force of about ninety 4 pm is at work on the Joe Bush, Scor kon and Bulldog shafts and on severa &nnels including the Mercer, Taylor Ed Columbia.
 4 In the Joe Bush shaft crosscutting 4 going on at a rapid rate and Super, &-endent Mike ShOvlin who is in karge rf the work, is more than pleas.
 with the results being attained in &e course of the development work 8ere. From the 400 foot level, four $osscuts leave the station, running krth, south, east and west. The north 4psscut is now fOrty-fve feet long and &e south crOsScut is out from the shaft Aer forty feet. The east and west 4psscuts have been extended about &enty feet each way. The assays last 1ken of the average specimens from various crOsscuts show an increase H the amount of copper. The percent, of copper in the last two assays Npde to determine an average was A2 and 3.49, respectively. The aver He is thus placed at nearly three and < half per cent. for the ground in Mich the crosscuts are now being ex- ded.
 MThe present work at the Joe Bush &ft is of the utmost importance in T relation to the future of the Insipr- Non mine as the crosscutting, in con ! ton with the work of the two churn Ills. will determine the method by < ich the Inspiration ores will be taken
 for marketing. If the extent of
 ore body is shown to be large and & eapping is proven by the drills not have too great thickness to make &pping with steam shovels practica- such shOvels will probably be in Alled. If, however, the conditions &n out to be unfavOrablc- for steam &vel work, the old methods of mining
 means of shafts and crosscuts will e to be resOrted to. So far, the de- .Opment work has indicated that hm shovel plant will be feasible.
 t present the small amount of water t flows into the workings of the Joe h shaft is being handled by a small Eheron station pump, but in the near nre, a Fairbanks-Morse Duplex pump
 be installed. This pump has already n shipped and is expected to arrive ' hin a few days. The new pump is able of handling 40 gallons of wa minute and it will be possible to
 1t in sinking to a depth of 600 he new Scorpion shaft of the In fation property, on which work was rn about a month ago, is now down
 100 feet and three shifts of men
 are working there daily. In all, l een men, including miners, carpen-
 and engineers are employed at the l
 Pion shaft, which is two-compart.
 affair.
 De material taken out of the Scor-
 shatt so far, in the course of | Ing has been copper carbonate, and i
 increasing depth, the copper stain becoming greater. It is expected
 the body of Pinal schist carrying Ter will be encountered in sinking
 depth of about 40 feet. Churn
 hole No. ,, which was put down pe present site of the Scorpion shaft
 ght up samples running as high as
 SIX per cent. in copper.
 e waste is being lifted from the
 plon shaft by means of 22-horse-
 T gasoline hoist which was former
 gated at the workings of the Black Rer group recently taken over by
 nSplration Copper company. This
 mas now been working for more
 a week. Altogether, the showings med Tn sinking the Scorpion shaft
 much better than were found in N anne stage of the work in the Joe
 the 275foOt level of the Bulldog W the south crOsscut has been ex.
 u doO feet and the west crosscut
 w out 300 feet.
 Fl two churn drills that have been ofN on the Inspiration property
 ne past few months are still work
 In all fourteen drill holes have
 put down. In each case, the samp-
 mas gwen very favorable informa-
 anticipation of increasinging its
 as soon as the development work
 cS stage that will make it nee.
 Y the Inspiration Copper company
 II" preparing to build from sixteen twenty cottages for the accommo-
 or the families of men in it's
 y; Ihese cottages will vary in me average number of rooms ueu m each one will be three, but M Vl the houses will be larger. # houses will be constructed just
 oi the new building in which the N 'u oihees of the mining company
 recently been established.
 wednesday Harry Krumb, consult. | ngineer for the Insipration Cop. 8 ompany, arrived at the mine.
 day and Friday he spent in mak-
 n inspection of conditions on the
 rty' To the Silver Belt he said
 he was well pleased with the way
 plch the Inspiration ore body is
 assuming greater proportions. The