Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-02
OlD DOMINION HAS ANOTHER
 SHACK GOING
With Favorable Copper Market Further Expansion VIII Be Made And Mine Will Fro. duce Much Metal
fGiobe Silver Belts

tGlobe Silver Belts
 Last week closed with a distinctly better feeling in local mining circles than has obtained for some time, eL coLraged by the favorable reports from the var ous mines in the dis tr.ct and the aggressive development being carried on by the con panies. A contributing factor 10 the greater confidence so Plainiy apparent was the improved tone of the metal and stock markets.
 Sales of upwards of 50.O00 GOO pounds of copper were reported since Saturday. March 20. the effect of which has been to advance prices sharply both at London and New York
 Arizona has attracted wide atten- tion tn month by reason of the pub lished reports Of phenomenal strikes of cold and copper in a nImber of districts widely separated; blt among discerning people. having a knowl- edge of the mineral resources ana developments of Globe district. the opinion s firmly held that copper min ng here has ? a more substantial basis for profitable growth than in any other district in the southwest and that Globe is destined to become a mining camp of the first magnI- tude.
 Old Dominicn.
 Another stack was blown. in at the smelter Saturday and in the future four furnaces will be kept in opera tion, with a further increase of smelt- ing whenever the price of copper ad- vances sufficiently 10 justify it.
 Conditions at the Old Domin on property are very satisfactory, e1. cept for the heavy flow of water into the mine, amounting to about five and a quarter million gallons every twentyfour hours. However, the pumps are handling this excessive volume easily. the capacity being about million and a quarter gallons.
 Much Of the water that finds it's way into the Old Dominion mine is De eleVed 10 cone from Pinal creek, and with the view Of arrestng aud q Fertirg the water co1rsiDg down the channel q bed rock dam ana Hume were constructed. The Hume was only very recently finished. and wheth.r or not this system will proye erectiVe in arrestiDg the flow of wat CT into the mine is as vet uDdater- mlned, as the recent rains have in- cFesaed the flow of water in the creek Tar beVonf the capac ty of the Hume.
 Probably the most important de. velopmeHt work being carried on by the Old Dominion comraUy at pres ent is in the east territory where three drifts are being driven on the
 
 Tn United Globe ground and which WI terminate at the old uoozier mine, which in the early days Of cop- Ter mining in this district was an important producer from compara. lively shallow levels. The drifts from the Old nomfn on will pepe'rafe inc Hoozier claim at greater depths and are exrected to develop important ore bodies.
 The old Hoozier shaft is situated about a mile northeast of B shaft of the Old Dominion and connection by the twelfth level is expected to be made in another month. The tenth and twelfth level dr fits have opened extensive ore bodies, carving high values in both copper and silver. and the twelfth level drift is still in high grade ore. The fourteenth level drift. 1 started several mon'as ago, has pro gressed about GOO feet. The work of umberiDg shaft below the tenth level cont nues. and only about fifty Feet above the twelfth level remains to complete the work.
 As stated in these columns last week. the March production of copper by the Old Dominion should be near ly 5000, 900 pounds
 Arizona Commercial.
 The Arizona Commercial Conner company has made excellent progress l during the month toward the con. struction of modern surface pIant | at the Eureka shaft. \ machine shop. 52X4O feet, of pleasing des 'gn. with high roof. well liehted and substan- l italy built, has just been completed l and equipped with the finest machine l tools, including a Biondin lathe. l twenty feet long. radiator drill. Acme | bolt cutter, American drill press, D De | machine to cut sizes from two to | twelve inches. shaper. hack saw. com. biDation punch and sbears and emory | stone. Adjoining the machine sbop a warehouse is being erected of l dressed lumber. the dimensions of | which are 45x72 feet.
 Grading for the shelter has been finished and excavating for ore and I coke bins is progressing. The smelt- I CT, Of 300 tons capacity. will be of steel construction throughout and de- signed with y'ew to its enlarge. ment should 1t become necessary.
 spur has been constructed. 800 feet in length. from the Arizona Commercial railroad to serve the warehouse, machine shop and smelt- CT, and a switchback and high line spur will connect with the ore and coke bns- Three small houses for employees have also been erected.
 Underground work at present is confined to cutting the sixth level ssaiion in the Eureka shaft. at a ! depth Of 57S feet. The size of the | station will be 21x4e feet and 1t should be completed in fen days. The new station pump of 750 g>lons per minute caDac' 'ty will then be installed and drift started toward the west 10 connect with the winze at the old Black Hawk workines. With the new station pump installed. it win be an easy matter to unwater the shaft and recover the pumps on the TOO | loot level The oponfnex of fba c0o.