Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-11
NEW CLAIMS ARE ACQUIRED BY BIG RAY
 MINE
Barbarossa Group Of Gold Claims Acquired By The Pinal Development Compa- ny, Adjoining TheRenfro
BIG COMPRESSOR TO
 OPERATE VERY SOON
Gold Property At One Time Yielded Many Thousands Of Dollars In Placer Rock.
 Will Develop The Location

| PHOENIX, AriZ., June 10-Bringing
 news of the requirement of the Bor-
 barosa group of. gold claims by the
 Pinal Development company. that a
 big compressor will be in operation
 at the main P. D. tunnel by the first
 of July, that new shaft is to be
 started on another part of the proper ty, and that 200 tons of shipping ore
 are on the dumps, John C. Devine and
 c. T. Carpenter, president and secre-
 tary respectively of the Pinal Devel- icpment company, are in Phoenix. The Pinal Development group is at
 Troy and the Barbarosa claims, six
 teen in number. adjoin that property on the east. About tensye2rSt ago a cook discovered some huge gold mug gets in the gravel of little draw The discovery caused some excitement and several attempt were made to trace the nuggets to their source. but there efforts were not directed by mining men and proved fruitless. That the ledge flSm which the gold came is not far away is evinced by the fact
 that some of it was found near the top of ridge.
 Thousands of dollars worth of mug gets were washed out of the sand and gravel. One was worth SAYS and many of them were worth above S6O. Within few days the Pinal De- velopment company will have a force of men at work on the Barbaros group making a systematic, scientific search for the ledge. The overburden is to be shovled away and treated in dry washers. The washers, it is be- llieved, will recover enough fine gold to pay the cost of operation, and when the source of the nuggets is uncovered the Barbarosa may jump at once into the class of important producers.
 H. Tyrrell. who holds controlling interest in the Barbarosa group. has granted the Pinal Development com pany a 60-day option on the property. with the privilege of extending it two years.
 The compressor ordered by the Pinal Development company is of 500 cubic feet capacity and it is to be delivered by June 15. July l will see it set up at the mouth of the tunnel and then progress will be made at the rate of at least 200 feet a month.
 At present the tunnel is in 11S5 feet It is in hard diabase and is go- ing forward at the rate of less than fCot day. Owing to the lack of facilities for blowing out the powder smoke, only one shift can be worked. This tunnel is being driven to cut the nI aa.lf at l. culations show that the fault cannot be far away. When it is reached. a drift will be run eastward to the con tact. which will be between 150 and 200 feet distant.
 A small hoist has been ordered and will be used in sinking a new shaft | on another part of the property. Work l is now going forward at two different | points in addition to the tunnel. and | 200 tons of ore running well up in | gold and copper are on the dumps. | This ore is to be shipped to Hayden | or Fl Paso at an early date
 J. c. Devine. president of the Pinal | Development company. will leave for | Boston shortly to list its stock on the | curb. Permission to sell 15O.000 I SndTeS at sl mas been granted Dy the | corporation commission. Many ap- plications for reservations have been | received and indications are that the issue will be oversubscribed right in Arizona
 Announcement was recently made | that MT. Devipe had resigned the as- sistant superintendencv of the Ray Consolidated Copper Company 10 de vote all his time to the Pinal Devel- opment Now C. T. Carpenter. secre- tary of the P. D.. company. has re- signed a responsible position with the Ray Consolidated to attend to the interests of the new concern. His headquarters will be in Phoenix as the company's main office is hereafter to be in the Santa Fe building