Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-31
MINING PROPERTIES MAKING RAPID
 PROGRESS
SUPERIOR & BOSTON SHIPPING FIFTY TONS PER DAY OF
 HIGH GRADE ORE.
DEVELOPMENT WORK KEEPS ON
GRADING FOR THREE -coMPARr- MENT SHAFT BEGUN ON
 IRON CAP MINE.

1 At the Superior & Boston, operation,
 during March have progressed without
 interruption, and ore shipments to tn.
 Fl Paso shelter have continued at tn,
 rate of fifty tons per day. For som,
 time past the ore, which comes ex
 clusively from the Great Eastern mine
 has been of better grade, the returns
 for February averaging 9 per cent cop
 per and also higher in silver.
 Interest is now chiefly eentered at the McGaw shaft, being sunk to further develop and to operate the Great East. ern mine. This shaft is down l60 feet and the raise from the 400-foot level to meet it has advanced sixty five feet. Sinking, temporarily suspended while the main timbers of the gallows frame were being erected, has been resumed, and will proceed without further inter. ruption.
 Mine Superintendent W. E.. Carter expects to have the shaft opened to the 400-foot level before the new hoist ing plant for the McGaw shaft arrives. about the first of July. The gallows frame will be finished within a week. Ut is the largest and most substantial wooden head frame yet erected in the district, being sixty-fve feet in height and constructed of l6xl6 timbers. The McGaw shaft is a duplicate of the same company's Gardner shaft, and is not excelled by any mine shaft in Glohe district. It has two compartments each 4 feet 6 inches by feet, and one feet by feet.
 At the Gather, drifting and cross cutting are being carried on. The drift is being driven westward to open the Black Oxide ore body, which was de- vcloped in the tunnel level above. A new plant of machinery has also been ordered for the Gardner shaft.
 Ircn Cap Mine.
 The National Mining Exploration company is grading for a threecompart- ment working shaft for the develop ment of it's Iron Cap property, The To- cation for this shaft is on the Free America claim, about 5000 feet north. east of the Iron Cap shaft and 1900 feet west of the Eureka shaft of the Arizona Commercial The new, shaft | is well located for the development of | the Black Hawk vein on the Iron Cap ground. Considerable water was struck | recently in the lower workings of the Iron Cap. Teddy Fulwood, who recent. ly returned from England, has been re- empolyed as mine foreman.
 At the Fumarole mine in Graham | county, owned by the Exploration com pany, drifting and erosscutting are in progress and General Manager Wood ward states that the drift is in ore 'f very good grade, and that the mine ,n the 700-foot level is showing steady improvement.
 Arizona Colorado.
 The Arizona Colorado Copper com. 'any, whose property is situated about 'hree miles north of the town of Globe, las resumed sinking and will open the 'haft to depth of 1000 feet. On the '00-foot level the lode, where crosscut, s thirty feet wide and carries carbon ltc and sulphidc of copper, averaging 'erhaps 3 per cent. A stratum of rich r ore in the same vein was drifted on eventy-five feet and the ore shows fur her improvement, there being more halcopyrite in the vun, which has 'een crosscut at the end of the drift nd found to carry l5 feet of very good sulphide, running well in ulphur and iron. It has been pro- ounced by mining men who have in- pccted it to be one of the best pros eets in the district.
 Arizona National.
 Interest in the operations of the Cac- us Development company has been eightened by the striking of ore in he. shaft being sunk on the Arizona 'ational property, under bond to the actus. This shaft is down over 250 eet and has cut 75 feet of low grade licious ore which looks very promis- ,g. The Cactus company will soon art another shaft on the Pinto Creek roperty and will let the contract to nk 300 feet. W. A. Eaton of Duluth, and c. W. Pritchett, consult. lg engineer of the company, have been the property for several days.