Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-24
IMPORTANT DEAL Is MADE IN THE OATMAN
 DISTRICT
Prominent Cripple Creek Capital iStS Take Over Seventy Acres of Old Pioneer Estate Property and Work Started.
WILL BECOME PRODUCER
 WITH LITTLE WORK
United Eastern Company PIan- hing to Order Extensive Ma Chinery; District Continues to Attract Attention.
By William P. De Wolf.


 OATMAN. Arizona, Oct 23-Allen e. Burris, for many years prominently identified with the mining industry of the Cripple Creek District has. with eastern associates. taken over 70 acres of the famous old Pioneer mining es- tate, one of the most valuable in the Tom Reed-GCld Road District and concurrently with the closing of the deal work was resumed in this one time bonanza under the supervision of George F. Moser The purchase in cludes. aside from the choicest sec tion of the highly mineraized Pic neer estate. the main Pioneer shaft 400 feet deep mine machinery that was purchased and installed at a cost ! in excess of Sl50.000 and a 10-stamp mill The latter is Co be revamped ! and made ready for immediate use Title Go the property is vested in the ! Oatman Pioneer Mines Inc, a corpor- |ation recently organized by Mir Bur ! |ris and associates. The main office of the company is at the mine.
 ! The Pioneer estate is located on one of the three main lode Outcrops of the district. the surface showing somewhat remarkable gold values and | carrying the outcrop of four distinct ore shoots. In the opinion Of Mir. Bur Iris this splendid surface showing was made possible by the erosion which ] has taken place in the district, leav- ing the horizon of the Pioneer out crop $50 feet below that of the Tom Reed and United Eastern mines, the two latter having been sunk to about that depth before entering their better ore In the Pioneer this will not be ] necessary as the development on the l loo and 20Ofoot levels. together with that in the tunnel on the south end of the group. which has a depth from surface of l50 feet. has exposed, 10 quote Mr. Burris. ca quarter million l dollars worth of gross bullion" The actual production of the Pioneer mine under the active management of Mir. Burris will double the width of the productive area
 Importance of Deal.
 "One of the most important geologi- cal features in all Of the mines where valuable ore is opened are the cross fractures. carrying manganese, which eyidently have had an important bear ing on the ore deposits" said Mr. Bur ris recently in an impromptu address before the members of the American
 Institute of Mining Engineers Mr..
 Burris might in all truth. have added,
 and this feature is marked in the Pioneer mine" for such is the case
 The transfer of this valuable sec ton of the Pioneer estate Co Mir Bur Iris and associates will have an im- portant bearing upon the development of the well mineralized area lying 8 .mile and half to the south and west of the camp of Oatman and about three-quarters of a mile to the south
 and west of the geographical center
 of the Tom Reed-Gold Road District, as it is their purpose to al once enter upon mining operations on an eXten-
 siye scale Under the able direction of Mir Burris. a man whose name is synonymous with mining success in the Cripple Creek District the old
 Pioneer mine will soon again be add ing its quota co the gold output from
 this district; and the degree of sue cess attaching to operations within the confines of the Pioneer estate must of netessity add to the value of , the adjacent territory.
 ' Arizona-Tom Reed
 The agreement whereby the estate , of the Arizona-Tom Reed Gold Mines 5 company is to be opened through the , medium of the 4OOfoot level of the l main Pioneer shaft is mutually bene
 dcial to that company and 10 the Oat
 man Pioneer Mines Inc as it provides ? for crosscutting Co the east side line ? of the Pioneer estate without cost to l the owning company and at the same
 (Continued on Page TwO)