Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-04

And even had others secured suct ground as the old Calumet & Pitts burg development company owned we very much doubt if they wouk have remained with 1t in its devel opment as did these Bonanza circle people. Not one in a thousand would have paid the price for unwaterinf this great basin. Not all could nave commanded the money necessary fo the operation.
 Yet in the face of all these dis couragements and against very low metal price, Superior & Pittsburg is making money. It shows cost for producing its pound of copper that will compare we'll with the most favored in all the copper list. And the cost is to be brought down sub stantiaIly from it's present level, this whether there be consolidaa- ton with Caiur,et & Arizona or not.
 Consolidation of these mutual in terests would be the right thing and would assist both in producing cop per cheaper than now, and this is one of the vital points in the bus mess The basis should be best known by the officers and directors of the company who are familiar with the physical and financial conditions as backed up by disinterested out side experts of international reputa- ton. As Iron Ore has stated in former issues of this paper, men who have been trusted with all the millions of these companies and who have handled them so well may be considered competent to arrange a basis of amalgamation for these in terests.
 Superior & Pittsburg will make one of the great copper mines of the country. It is developing very fine ore bodies that are already big enough to insure the future of the organi- ration for some time to come. The Junction shaft has surprised even
 he gentlemen who are on the ground and who have been looking for some thing good at that point. The ore IS of high grade proving the error Of those who used to argue that 1t was too far to one side of the strike of the Bisbee rich ore chan. mel to develop material of this class. But it has been shown that Junction is directly in the path of the rich ore development in Bisbee. and its revalation suggests that stil further on Warren and American Saginaw will some day be mining ores of equal value to those farther un the gulch. As Junction and Denn' Arizona continue their extensions il lends stin greater value to lands further on and in line with the strike Of the ore formations.
 Superior & Pittsburg has a great acreage splendidly located and upon which nothing Las been done Tn practical exploring. There are many little test pits having a depth of nor to exceed twenty feet, which is of no value in determining what the claims upon which they have been tsunk hold. The copper deposits will be found a thousand feet be!ow sur race. These shallow pits were sunk by explorers in the earlier history oi the camp. The Copper Queen began it's mining operations on an outcrop but this was at a point many thou sand feet further up the gu1ch and occupying a much higher plane geo Logically than lands southeast Of the ICalumet & Arizona. Copper Queer has worked down the slope until a it's rich Lowell shaft, which open:
 into Hoatson shaft of Superior q
 Pittsburg ground. it finds it's fin' ore deposits at about HOO feet be
 ow surface.
 In a few. places on Superior & Pitts
 burg claims and further south an. east than the Cole shaft there wer'
 surface deposits from which consid lerabIe ore was taken twenty year! tagc. At one place in the Cole shaf iworkings there is a chute of ort
 extending upward to the 4e0-foo level and looks as if it might hoi, through to near surface. It may b ;thst there will be deposits of com
 mercial value in the upper portio, loF the limestone formation In thii
 section, but one would not look fo
 the big permanent deposits unti imore than 1000 feet had beel
 reached. The surface mineralizatiol
 is important in proving that tn
 claims are located within the miner
 alized area and will be a guide t future work when the company bt
 gins to reach out for other mines. \ It will take fifty years to eve practically prospect all the lands c : SupTior & Pittsburg in the Bisbe camp
 Fl The Superior & Pittsburg manag ment is preparing for the years , leone. It will install electrically uI ' erated pumps in it's Junction shaf , las stated in Iron Ore several weel - iaeo. It's chief mechanical enginee r Mir. W. E. Mckee. is investigatin . the subject. Is consulting all the pror
 inent electrical engineers of tn