Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-25
SILVER MINE IS LEASED OUT
 FUR s25,000
Fink Silver Greek Property Is Taken Over By Douglas Cap itaIiSts-News and Notes of Mines

The Fink silver property on Silver Creek was bonded Tuesday by the owners, Albert Fink ana Shaw broth els, to s. S. Supplee ana J. P. EwGrt of Douglas. The saHc price agreed upon is $25.000. unde- terms of bond and lease covering q period of eight cen months.
 Shipment to the Copper Queen smelter are to be made. and to this end work will be commenced the last of the present week Already min ing timbers.. lumber and other mine and camp accessories are either al the camp or on the way from the station at Rodeo, and there will be no delay in the beEnning of opera tons.
 1t Is planned to make shipments from the 100 level of an old 160 foot shaft. The shaft. long since abandon ud. will be timbered and a station cut. Dri:is will then be run in both direc- tions and ore taken out for shipment. I he vein increases from s inches in width at the surface to 1-2 feet at depth of 160 feet, it's width being I-2 feet at the 100 level from which shipments are to be made.
 Supplee and Ewart expect to make shipments at the rate of about two cars per month.
 It is not known what values are expected. but as no assays lower than SI2 a ton have been received, the icssees expect to ship at q profit as they figure that S5 or $6 per ton will cover all expenses. Returns showing from 200 to 300 ounces fin silver have been frequent and one assay report ed gave SIS ounces in silver. Ii per cent copper and q trace of gold. The principal values are always silver, and Mir. Supplee. one of the lessees, who is a practical miner of many years experience. insists that they will always be siiyer--he claims that there is no evidence tending to show copper would predominato at greater depth
 The Fink group consists of three full claims and q fraction. situated in the fOothill belt about three miles east of Paradise. Ore occurs in a quartzite gangue. in lime. Contacts (should they be reached-they do not occur at shallow depths) would be us- ually between lime and lime. or be tween lime and porphyry, the property. possessCs porphyry. also 4 prominent dike or quartzite occurs NI this property it extends from southeast to northwest and can be It'aced nearly all the way tO the Say age and the May, which are silver properties. like the Fink.
 In 1881 two profitable carload ship meuts were made from this property. lt possesses considerable develop ment work. the most extensive open inS being a shaft 225 feet deep. l. Is generally conceded to be one of the most valuable properties in the dis tTict, though only Dartially developed. Claire.
 F. W. Claire is authority for the statement that his property near Wood canyon, q well known shipper, NGIch was bonded last year to C. W. Mccoy and others of Douglas, has re- Ncrted 10 him. and he says that the property will now be developed by sinking on the ore.
 Thursday T. s. Lambertson. a well fnown and influential mining man oi Douglas. accompanied Mir. Claire to the property, from the Shelter City. on an inspection trip. They went in NIT. LambcrtSOn's auto.
 Early Bird.
 On this property, which consists oi 1 eight claims adjoining the Savage J. \. LewandOwsd. the owner, has recently done some work This in. ciudes the sinking Of a 10 foot shaft % depth of 20 feet. resulting in the disclosure of 21-2 inches of silver copper ore.
 II is proposed tO do some moro work on this group soon.
 Willie Rose.
 TWO feet Of copper glance ore was encountered recently on the Willie Rose at a depth of but five feet. Tho ore is in the lime, there being nc walls nor contact.
 This shoEing is on No. 2 claim about 250 feet north of the 5., fool pr main shaft on the same claim.
 Kerr Marble and Stone Company.
 Three carloads of machinery, in ciuding two steam hOisting engines and other apparatus, were recently received at Bowie for use at the mar ble quarry, ten miles south Of that place.
 The same company not long agS acquired marble property near White Tail creek, about ten miles northwest of Paradise, where it Is intended tI commence operations in the near fu ture. The operations of the company a: Bowie, however, will be more ex tensive than those here. owing to tho superior quality of the marble. A, the two properties are not more thar 25 miles apart, they are doubtless iI Inc sarua haIf