Bisbee daily review., 1913-02-23
MINING NEWS, BRIEFS


The shaft on the Minnesota Conner
property at Chloride. will be sunk to
the 80 foot level. The new shaft Is
being lined with steel
L. a. Dockery is in charge Of deyel
opment at the Pinkham shaft, in Mo
have county, and il is his intention
to sink below the 500-foot level
Richardson and Grepin. Of Patagon-
ia, have sold the Little Boy Copper
mine in the Silver Bell district. il is
said. to oBston interests, who viii
start a force Of men at work at once
and push Development
The Arizona Empire has made a
strike OF gold ore on its Gold Hill
claim, near Parker About eighteen
men are at work. The gold ore is
being sacked separately from the
gold-copper. which is the main re-
source OF the company.
=, From the Roberts and Evans lease
on the Mayis, near Parker, four tons
Of high grade copper ore we're recent
ly shipped. Ore extracted in sinking
the shaft which Is now down thirty
five feet. is paying practically all the
development expenses.
| Ninety-nine cars OF concentrates
we're shipped from Telluride Col sta
ton in January. a slight increase Oy-
I er the same month in 1912.
! The Tomboy mine, in ire Telluride
I district, has received a shipment OF
new tables for its mill, which is to be
| considerably enlarged.
AT the Old Dominion, the excava-
on for the crusher plant OF the new
/ -0-ton unit is finished, and the site
! for the sampling MIL and ore bins is
now being excavated. The founda-
ton for the new air hoist is in, and
the shipment OF the hoist is awaited.
The PopIin Mining and Milling
company has bten organized 10 work
the Erma group, seven miles from
iGlamia. Thomas Poplin Is president
r. A. Green, vice-president and g, I.
/ Rice, secretary-treasurer The princi-
! pal values are gold and silver. Sew
/ eral Blythe people are interested
J. II. German, with the assistance
of one man. IS taxing out about 500
pounds daily of ore running about
/ s1OO ton. in copper and gold The
property is in the Whipple mountains
about six miles moth OF Parker. Other
claims in the same section are being
actively developed and shipments
will soon be made 70 the Hum6oldt
smelteTy
p. Joseph Carney and associates
have bonded the Bulldog and thirteen
other claims. sixteen miles northeast
Z OF Mesa. Considerable work has been
done on the Bulldog. the deepest
shaft being-112 feet The ore runs
from SO TO $50 in gold. the width
varying from a few inches up 10 FIVE
I feet FsGiting has complicated past
/ development. but q large force Of
chanic and laboratory problems ana
/ to take care of the safety of the min
ers employed in these mines. II past
| experience h repeated before en-
I gress. il viii be with the greatest diff
I Guilty that members can be shown the
need for such an appropriation. n
fact it will be more difficult to obtain
+ the sz5A.OO0 for this great industry
than 20 obtain millions for agricul
ture.
I There is no industry which adds so
( much per capita wealth 10 the copn
try as the mining industry = There IS
no Industry shat, man for man pro
| duces so much value to the country
as the mining industry. II Is an in
/ dustry that must go hand In hand
with agriculture. The prosperity OF
the country depends upon the success
Of both Agriculture can not succeed
without mining