Weekly journal-miner., 1909-12-15
FL TIGRE PROVING
 TO BE REAL BONANZA.

gently made in Fl Tigre have proven
 such bOnanzas that now the company
 IS planning things on big scale. Ores
 of fabulous values are being taken
 out daily and there is no stretch of
 the imagination in the prediction that
 this Lucky Tiger will within a year
 become probably one of the greatest
 mines in the whole world. Its very
 existence in the Tigre district gives
 value to all adjoining properties, and
 almost every stroke of the pick has
 made the big mine more and more
 like one of the caves of Aladdin.
 Among the big things planned for
 the immediate future is a 500 ton
 cyanide plant for the treatment of
 ores.
 The two strikes recently made have
 before been described, but they were not known to be of such wonderful richness, even to the managers of the mine, until this week. The strike made in what is known as the Sooy vein was reported on first assays as having a value of $5 a ton in gold and 200 ounces in silver: Hardly had the miners gotten fairly into the vein, however, when it was found that this Sooy vein runs on a constant average of from two and a half to three ounces in gold and 25O ounces in sil- yer, with , per cent copper. This Sooy vein was cut by a crosseut tun- nel known as No. z, which is 300 feet lower than all the other workings in the mine, and which is to be the main haulage way of the mine from all the stopes and workings to the mill.
 This No. tunnel is now driven distance of 1000 feet where it cuts into the Sooy vein, and 100 feet be- yond. It will be continued on and in three months it is calculated will cut the main Tigre vein, 2OOO feet from the mouth of the tunnel, and 1000 feet in depth from the apex of the vein. Five hundred feet further this tunnel will erosscut the Seitz vein.
 This is the vein recently discovered which showed such wonderful values also, and is named after Ben Seitz, a heavy stockholder in the company, who has been acting as general man. ager since the retirement of Mus grave. The company has been on the lookout for a high class man to take charge of the plant and the mine, and have finally obtained the services of L. R. Budrow, who was not among the numerous applicants for the posi- tiOn. MT. Budrow some time ago took charge of a big mine at Mich aOtook, employing 1900 men. The plant was in debt, and under MT. BudrOw's management it has been put upon paying basis. The stoekhold CTS of the Tigre. mine feel confident that they have gotten a good man for big project.
 Fl Tigre mine is now employing about 275 men, an increase in the working force having been made re- gently. The eompany's property ex- tends in a long narrow strip running with the lodges, two and a half miles long. The property in all consists of about GAO acres.
 Ben Seitz, to whom is due much of the success of the Lucky Tiger, is in the city, a guest at the Gadsden. He . is man that impresss one as hay ing the grit to stay with a proposi- tion as long as it promises anything good. He was one of the pioneers in the rush to the Yukon, and what Alaska denied him Sonora seems to 1 have given with a lavish hand.
 W. L. Rynerson, one of the organ izers of the South Tigre company, the Lucky Tiger on the south, is also registered at the Gads- den. This company will next week hold its first meeting and choose a board of directors. MT. RynersOn has, during the last month, made a record in tunnel driving in the South Tigre, having accomplished 235 feet of tun- mel work in the past thirty days. It is estimated that this work has block ed out $sO,OOO worth of ore, silver and gold. The work was partially done on one of the main tunnels, and partly on erosseut tunnel driven under the others. It is expected that the ledge will be cut in this tunnel 300 feet deeper than the workings above.
 FINAL COUNTRY IS