Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-01
MINES TRIBUTARY ID DOUGLAS BEGIN
 ID RESUME AGAIN
With Better Metal Price Properties That Were
 Down Open
MOCTEZUMA DISTRICT


 Calumet and Arizona shelter in Doug las is now weyy under way, wi;E a fierce of about one hundred and .seventy-fiye men employed on con- struction. This added tO the regular operating force brings the total num- Der of men at the C and A. at this time to six hundred and seyenty-fiye Al the Copper Queen is another large force on construction, mostly steel construction men and bTicklay- CTS There has recently been a slight increase in the railroad force here and with the completion of the Tucson extension of the Southwest ern and the coming of the Rock Is- land over this road the number of railroad men employed here will be largely increased.
 The increase in the price of cop per has caused pany of the small mines in that section to be started up again with a view of shipping ore to this city and should copper remain at the present price perma- nently there would be a vast amount Of custom ore arriving constantly here The coming of ore to Doug las for custom smelting adds q most desirable trade to Douglas. In So nora there is much renewed activity reported in the mines and the coun. try is being visited by many pros pectors and engineers.
 Sacks of ore may be seen piled up at various points along the Naco- zari railroad between Nacozari and Tn--sa burro trains in operation from the hills to the railroad than have been seen for q long, long time. the hills arc full Of prCsp pectOTs. and in NacO- zari and at the outlying properties, many Cf which have now long been idle, strangers are seen, people who have come to investigate conditions and 10 examine properties which have been brought 10 their attention prospective investors and developers of the rich country that can be founr in Sonora. This Is the statement of J. B. (-Tangle'D Johnson, who has jus returned from some claims which he has about sixty miles east of Nacozari
 Lampazos Mine.
 A correspondent has written to the effect that thes Lampazos mine of the Banco de Sonora near Moe tezuma has resumed active opera tions on the first of the month, al- though more or less work has been done during the past few months, but inability to secure miners great ly interfered with operations and plans The information received is to the effect that 20 feet of ore has been encountered on the 90O-foot level which assays from 45 to 90 ounces in silver while the pay streak, eighteen to twenty-four inch es, carries 300 to 500 ounces.
 Over 150 men are at present at work under the supervision of c. M TOSier and much new work is be ing carried out and contemplated Recently a contract to sink the shaft to the l400-foot level was awarded to r. '. Borgison, who is at present operating several steam drills and running crosscuts on the 900 foot level for the company
 The Washington.
 r. O. Bostwick returned tO Doug las yesterday from the Washington mine, six miles west of the Trans vaal property in the Cumpas country where he had been with his partner. \. R. Dickson, to start work on that property which was done. Work oD a small scale has been started on the BOliyer ore body at the, second level This ore is Of good grade and MT Dickson remained al the proper ty to direct the work which is to be continued now and increased in scope in the near future. Speaking of that section of the state of So- nora, Mir. Bostwick said: Several engineers have recently been at the Washington looking, after possible tonnage that would be available for the railroad should it be completed to Cumpas. This circumstance MT Bostwick regarded as significant. Continuing he said: The compie- tioH of the Southern Pacific south from Nacozari would greatly stimu- late mining activity in the Cumpas country, as several properties would at once enter the list of producers if they were given the benefit Of rail transportation at Cgmpas."
 RcstWick says that there are nov great many mining men in So nora, some of them looking up prop erues which have been idle for years and others have been attract ei by opportunities to secure pro perlies that are on the market
 Nacozsri Consolidated.
 John Alexander, president of the NacOzari Consolidated company, was in Douglas yesterday from tEis property which has been under Ge- velOpment for five years. He brings the news of a most important strike in that property last week when a seven foot vein of rich lead-silveT- copper orc wac encountered iu a wiuze on the Gallero ledge. Also he says that at about the same time some good ore was encountered in the big Joplin tunnel A machinery plant has just been installed at this property and air drills will be in operation before the eud of this week On the dump and in the neg ore bodies IS much good shipping ore which is to be sent out next month, as ihe first shipment from the property The lead-siiVer ore will go to the El Paso smelter. The NacozaTi Consolidated property ad- joins the great Pilares mine and Mir. Alexander has the greatest faith