Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-22
GLOBE DR|LLERS FURNISH BIG
 SURPRISE

COBALT, August 21.--Luke Page and Jim Pickens won the thousand dollar prize drilling contest here with 43 Is inches. The westerners had an easy victory. as the nxet team only drilled so 5-s inches and the third 26 3-s inches.
 A week ago it was easy to get bets that the Globe team would not drill 40 inches, but at the rock the bettors had grown wiser and there were o.ly few hundreddollar bets at 42 inches.
 The Globe team was entered from the Temiskaming mine here. where there are many westerners. but it was generally known that they were from the west before drilling.
 Superintendent Macvieaie Of the Temiskamng mine wanted to get some money up. He wanted to bet $500 that the Arizona team would make fl inches. but there was no takers. Nor could he get takers at 42 or 43.
 Page and Pickens were revelation 10 the Cobalt men. as this is not a hand-dril.ing camp. All other teams had too fine-guage drills and broke in the hole or Assure.
 After the Arizona team had drilled, Page came to the front of the platform and offered to drill any team in Cobalt for fifteen minutes with the steel just as it was and right on the spot for S1,0oo. the westerners to go ahead without rest. but there were no takers.
 The Globe team will remain here at the Temiskaming mine till fall. when they will drill in an exhibition at the Labor Day celebration. The Arizona team and packers took all bets at l9, fl, AZ and 43 inches and must have made many thousand dollars in bets alone.
 McPhail and H. Mcdonald, another western team tok second money, and two Swedes from the Nipissing mine were third There weer eleven entries but four of them did not come back when it leaked out that the Arizona team were backing themselves 10 make s2 inches
 The previous record in a drilling contest here was 2S inches Page and Pickens are the heroes of the hour here.
 The past records of Page and Pick ems. Globes stalwart drillers on the granite rock are a long succession 1i wonderful tests of strength and endur- ance The first championship match in which these boys drilled was in the Mad son. Square Gardens. New York during the session of the American Mining congress in the spring of 1908, when they drove hole into Maine granite, considered as hard as Gunni- son, to a depth of A. 3-S inches, win ming the worlds championship and making new record.
 In practice work in Globe native rock, prior te leaving for New York to participate in this match in March, 1909, they made a record of 52 Ii inches. which was probably never eQualed by any team at and time, and exeeede dthe previous record made by Chamberlain and Make at Bisbee in 1904. This was a hole of 45 11-32 inches in Bisbee rock. which is considered nc harder than the Globe rock in which Page and Pickins made their deepest hole
 Prior to the match in New Yofk Chamberlain and Make were cham pions of the world, 8 title which the, won in Fl Paso. in Gunnison granite in 1903, by drilling a hole of i3 l.. inches.
 The Globe champions have announc ed that they are open for wager tha they can drill a hole 45 inches in Gun nison granite, which would put on ; bae kseat, all previous records in thi: rock. which is considered the stand ard in drilling matches.