Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-15
PIONEER SHELTER IS
 READY 10 BLOW IN
Storage Bins Are Being Filled and Reduction
 Is to Start

Manager W aterS or the Pioneer smelling company has returned iron the company properties and reports
 that the smelter is practically fin ished and ready 10 receive ores, IS soon as the expert gets on the ground and starts the pig crude oil engines, which will furnish power for the Ilant About fifty tons day are now coming into the plant and are being put into the big storage bins by teit conveyoT run by d gasoline cn. sine temporarily, says tie Star
 The big Saurer motor truck. whiCt carries six and a half tons of ore at trip is making six trips every day am Las proven a most satisfactory sue cess to the management. Up tc Sat urddy morning tt had travelled 1751 miles and the solid rubber tires show. little wear. It travels g4 miles a day, using four quarts of cylinder oil and 20 gallons of gasoline. It moves about 20 tons Of ore daily over distance of seven and one-quarter miles.
 The southern Pacific mas published rates to he smelter from nearby joints, which went into effect March c. The rate from Patagonia on ores less than $15 in value is $l.J0 per t0n and from BilliJo. Van. Calabasas and nearer points, S1.
 The Plumed Knight mine IS making a splendid showing and is turning out 90 tons per day steadily, from deve.- oEment work alone. 4 new ore bod5 las been discovered on tte l6O-foot level about loo feet east Of the one opened up by Chilison, the former owner of the mine It proved to be 54 feet long. \ wing was down 27 feet yesterday The entire ore body Of undetermined width averages bet ter than per cent and the average daily assays from the Winze give from g 10 l6 per cent copper Mir. Sam Gum, for ever nine years foreman oi the bis Congress mine. is now in' charge Of the Plumed Knight.
 it is understood that the big GOu,i ] luiue, eleven miles west of Tucson, l will be started up again this month. 1 4 large block of ite stock is owned { by the Pioneer Smelling company. Manager Waters is also superintenG- . cnt of the Gould. Mir. Arch Roberts {. with twenty men is now building q . road from the mine through Apache | Pass to lanes station. a distance of Eiue and a half miles. This property Is owned largely by local people. It is well developed to a depth Of 360 rect, and has exposed all ready for eX- traction large bodies of copper ore, rich in iron, lime and sulphur It is equipped with hoist and compressor and could easily ship 50 tons per day to the new smelling works.
 Magma Extensions.
 Consulting Engineer Flint of the Magma Copper company, was at Su lerior last week Inspecting develop Ilent work and planning for a dupr- cation of the present mine equipment. It IS probable that the present Magma shaft will be continued down from tho 700 10 the 1O00-foOt level and the vein to considerable extent at that point. and if the rich ore body developed at the 500 level be found oL the 1O00-foOt level tEen a new triple compartment shaft will be sunk tJ tap the vein at the 1900 pr 14G0-foot level. One of the problems now con fronting the company is that Of trans Vortaticn. One solution Of IL is now under consideration, and that is the building Of a road over which heavy auto trucks can be operated. At pres ent it takes four days for team to make the round trip between the mines and the railroad station at Flo Cuce This entails a transportation cost of about S7 per ton. Auto trucks would reduce this by at least one-half if not more The engineer estimates that an expenditure Of about s10,000 would hake a good auto truck road.
 Dry Washer.
 Considerable interest is prevailing in placer mining circles of Walnut Grove over the test run that is being made by new type of dry washing machine, the invention of James Wis hart Of Pasadena, Cal. who Is person. ally conducting the work OH Milk creek He is a foundry man of that city and is accompanied on the trip l,y his assistants, Messrs. French and Beardsley
 The apparatus he brings to that field is the miniature of the one that will Ee placed on the market later and weighs about 3S0 pounds Tests made Of the soil at various places establish the feasibility of the invention and re- turns are said to have been very satis- factory to date Revolving screens dis integrate the soil and with the sys- tsm of blowers in use. the dust is in rifles, with various otheri saving utilities. Clay call