Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-12
CROWLEY PROSPERS AND POPULATION
 INCREASING
CAMP OF CACTUS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY SHOWS SIGNS OF
 HEALTHY GROWTH
DEVELOPMENTS ON PROPERTY
GOOD ORE STRUCK IN HAMILTON SHAFT AT DEPTH OF
 22O FEET

Prosperity is in the air at Crowley City, the camp of the Cactus Develop ment company, situated about sixteen miles from Globe.
 This attractive little mining settle ment, in itsNsetting of large live oak trees, now has population of l5O, and of this number, fully 100 are in the employ of the Cactus Development com pany. Crowley City, so named after Con Crowley, the original locator of the first group of claims which the Cactus company took over, is made up of some fifty substantial dwellings, stores and offices painted white. In answer to q petition for school appropriation, pro vision has been made for competent in- struetion of twenty pupils, rep resenting the rising generation at Crow ley City. Miss Myrtle MacGregor has been engaged as teacher
 Superintendent T. W. Hamilton is now in Duluth, Minnesota, and in his absence the business and mining details of the management are being directed by Chief Clerk c. M. Thorsen and Me ehanical Engineer w. H. Hamilton. R. Hightower, foreman, is in immediate charge of operations at the Hamilton and Pinto shafts.
 At the Hamilton shaft, drifting and srosseutting is going on extensively, the plan of exploration being to cut the property up into 200 foot squares. So far, over 1000 feet of erosscutting has been done on the third, fourth and fifth levels. The drifts rnn east and west and the crosscuts, extending at right angles to these leave the drifts every POO feet The Hamilton shaft struck ore for the first time at depth of 220 feet and was in the ore body for 100 feet down from that point This ore average 2.5 per cent copper.
 The Pinto shaft has reached a depth of about 2s0 feet and sinking is going on at the rate of nearly 200 feet a month. So far as is known, the record made by the l5 drillers working in three shifts of five men each during the month of August is the highest ever attained in sinking two compartment shaft in North America. As was previ- ously announced in the Silver Belt, the Pinto shaft was put down l94 feet last month and the management of the Cactus mine is confident that 260 feet of drilling can be done during Septem- Der. According to the terms of the option which the Cactus Development company holds on the Pinto property, the shaft is to be sunk 800 feet, and it is estimated that this depth will be reached by October 15.
 The giving of generius bonuses to the drillers on both the Hamilton and Pinto shafts has been largely respon- sible for the fast rate of sinking at tained there. For each foot of sinking over 100 that the drillers do in a month. a bonus of $l foot is given to each man. Consequently. in August, the Cac- tus Development company paid more than Sl,40O in prize money. The same method was followed in the sinking ol tHt IldHiltOH Sndll ana the result was that the shaft of 530 feet deep, was put down between February and Ap- Til %, 1909. The Pinto shaft will be sunk at least as far as the 54l level, and at that depth, it will be connected by drift with the 300 level of the Hamilton shaft.
 The new air compressor, recently in stalled at the Hamilton shaft, will be put in operation in a few days, and with the aid of the machine drills, the crosseutting and drifting on the differ ent levels should progr.ss rapidly. The rest of the equipment at the Hamilton shaft at the present time consists of l,500 feet of ventlating pipe connected with a Number } Buffalo exhauster; double drum hoist, and three return tubular boilers of 10 horse power each. The Pinto shaft is fitted with single drum hoist.