Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-15
COCHISE CAMPS
GET NEW MINES
EXTE,ISlVE DEVELOPMENTS
ENRICH COUNTY
WORK PUTS PROSPECTS ON LIST
OF PRODUCERS
Dos cabezos, Tombstone, Gleeson,
johnson and Paradise Are Active
camps-old Mines In
crease Efficiency


tinue to do so until this position Is
threatened by the big porphyry copper
mines of Gila and Pnal counties that
are not yet in full operation. During
the past year important developments
have taken place in the Bisbee mines
which have given these a renewed lease
of life, owing to the opening of large
bodies of high-grade ore on the lowest
levels Another important development
in this section has been the de1nonstra-
tion of the fact that the porphyfy de-
posits carry payable copper ore large
body of oxide ore having been opened
on the 400-foot level of the copper
Queen mine. This discovery is likely
to lead to important new developments
in the district, ais hitherto the mining
of ore has been confined to replacement
bodies in the lime, and it was not be-
lieved that the porphyry carried any
commercial ore. This opinion, how
ever, will probably be proved erroneous
by the discovery already mentioned.
The Copper Queen mine in the last
year has made many improvements
for the more economical mining of its
ore A modern electrical power plant
has been installed and all the deep
shafts have now been connected with
the 1600-foot level of the Sacramento
shaft, through which all ore will be
hoisted and to which it will be
.
trolley system. Both on the 1400 and
1900 levels immense bodies of high
grade ore are being mined and the out
put of high-grade ore for years to
come Is now assured.
Hiuh Grade at C. & A.
At the Calumet and Arizona high
grade ore is being mined on the 1900
foot level and immense ore bodies are
being worked on the 1900 and 1400
levels, all of which are high grade.
This property is now in splendid
financial condition. and with copper
selling at its present price dividends
of $3.50 a share will certainly be paid
in the future.
The Superior and Pittsburg is also
mining high-grade sulphide ore on the
1500-foot level, which Is a continuation
of the ore body found on the 1900, 1900
and 1400-foot levels. The mine now
has enough tonnage blocked out to IN
sure large profits for years to come
and is rapidly paying off the Calumet
and Arizona, advanced for develop
ment purposes, and this year should
enter the dividend-paying class
All these properties are now in splen-
did condition to make q largely In
creased output of copper at less cost
of production than in the past. AL
though the output for 1909 will show
the smelters have not in the past year
been run to their full capacity, and
with better demand for copper the
present year should witness a largely
Increased production from the Bisbee
camp.
The Shattuck is another mine which
has made strides during the year A
recent report estimated that the mine
showed 100000 tons of ore blocked out,
averaging from IA to II per cent cop
per, and regular shipments are now
being made at the rate of 100 tons a
day to the Douglas smelters
Wolverine Ships Weekly
The Wolverine and Arizona has also
opened a new ore body and is now
shipping to the Douglas smelters $50
tons of ore weekly.
At the Denn-Arizona a new body of
sulphide ore has been opened on the
1250-foot level and this ore, assayirg
as high as 20 per cent copper, is now
being shipped to Douglas.
About nine miles west of Bisbee, in
what was heretofore regarded as out
side the mineral zone, the Empire
State Mining company has opened a
large body of low grade ore, which
has caused the initiation of consider
able amount of work on other prop
critics in that section.
umet and Arizona and Great Western
Mining companies are doing an inn.
mense amount of exploration and de-
velopment work in large bodies of
medium grade oxide ore, and the most
favorable development in this section
is the recent discovery Of sulphide ore
IN the Great Western mine.
About mile and a half from this
camp an important discovery of gold
ore has been made by the Gold Queen
Mining company, where shaft has
been sunk to a depth of 100 feet, with
considerable prosecuting and drifting
opening up nearly twelve feet of ore,
averaging $25 a ton in free milling
gold.
Important as Gold Camp
Just north of this, on what is be-
lieved to be continuation of the same
vein, ore running as high as $1700 a
ton has been opened up on the Eagle
group, and developments in this sec
tion indicate that an important gold
producing camp will be opened up.
At the Gleeson camp ore from the
Blue Bell mine is now being shipped
to both the Shannon smelter at Clifton
and the Arizona Commercial smelter
at Globe. This property is controlled
by the Shannon Copper company.
The Mascot Copper company of Dos
Cabezos, eighteen miles south of Will
cox, is opening immense bodies of cop
per ore and this property is assuming
such large proportions that the South
ern Pacific railroad is considering the
advisability of extending its road to
that camp.
At the old Tombstone camp opera
tions at the Tombstone mine have been
retarded by an immense influx of wa
ter on the 1000-foot level, and a pump
ing plant having a capacity of 10000
900 gallons day is now being installed
and will shortly be in operation. In
the meantime the mill has been, oper-
ated upon ore from the S00-foot level,
where a high-grade shoot was recently
uncovered.
The Herschel mine in this district
has also opened a body of high-grade
ore on the 500Lfoot level and is now
making daily shipments to the Ell Paso
smelter.
Paradise Is Active
In the Chiricahua mountains, at the
camp of Paradise there has recently