Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-13

 line hoist at present being used at No. 1 shalt, now down l42 feet, will be sup planted by a 25 horsepower outfit and the former equipment moved to shaft No. 2. which measures 110 feet in depth.
 Paramount.
 The Paramount Mines Company is the title of one of the latest corpora ;ions to enter the Oatman field. It has been organized under the laws of Ari- zona for 100000 shares of the par palue of ten cents each. The officers are: President and treasurer. Arthur Weber, Vice-President, J. R. Colds worthy; secretary. w. E. Taylor, direc- tors, the above named. The company owns six claims and fractional claims, embracing 6S acres and adjoining the Boundary Cone on the south. The property is traversed by three lodges, varying in width to 15 feet, and giv- ing pleasing surface assays. It is an nounced that development work on an extensive scale will be inaugurated Wllnln the next oO ud.S.
 Big Jim.
 Pending the installation of pumps for handling the flow of water recently encountered by the shaft at the 445- foot point, the management of the Big Jim is running drift west in the mamoth vein disclosed by tlfe south crosscut on the 4O0-foot level The drift has been advanced about 15 feet along the footwall of the pein and an assay recently made upon a sam pie taken across the entire face yields a return of better than 70 per ton. . Within the next few days the water will be taken care of and sinking ope- rations will be resumed with a depth of 600 feet as the objective poin {. Black Range.
 In order to cope with the large vol ume of water finding its way to the sump below the 3O0-foot level of the shaft. the Black Range management has placed an order for machinery, for immediate delivery, that will double its present pumping facilities, which : include sinking a pump and 300 GU bic foot compressor which provides air for the operation of the former : With the present equipment and a baler, the management is holding the [ water below the 300-foot level. but will ; not be able to continue work in the north crosscut on that level, now about 100 feet in length. until the additional facilities are received and placed in cut is in the footwall of the vein which it is expected will be disclosed within the next few rounds of shots set of after the resumption of work It is the intention of the management to thor oughly explore vein on the 300-foot level of the present shaft and then | sing a new three-compartment shaf; to adepth of five hundred feet.
 Merry Widow.
 The Mery Widow shaft has reached the 130 foot point in the big ledge in : which it is being sunk The bottom is yielding assays around S5 and -6 pel ton. And the SOO-foot point extensive lateral work will be inaugurated. Two shifts of miners are at present em ployed.
 For Fire Purposes.
 Under the supervision of Vice Pres ident NJ. H. Force, the recently organ ized OatmaT Chamber of commerce is installing waterworks system ir the camp solely for firefighting pur poses. Seven thousand feet of three inch pipe has been purchased and re ceived and the work of laying it from two 25,0OO gallon tanks. situated upon steep hill in the heart of the town and along the streets is now in pro gress.
 Peacock District.
 The old Blackberry mine, now known as the Sunshine, which is credited with a production in it's infancy oi 100000 worth of high grade silver ore. is soon again to enter the list oi active properties in the Peacock dis tract, 26 miles north of Kingman. Il has been taken over on lease and DOuuSu Dg IHlip NlotiudH Ol LOS All geles, a heavy stockholder in the ] United Eastern at Oatman. and L. w : Wickes, also of Los Angeles, a well known mining engineer, from w. B ! Ridenour, who located it October 10 i 1874. The mine is one of the famous old producers in the Southwest, and there is excellent ground for the be ! lief that the resumption of it's opera tion will he attended by the mosi pleasing results lp the early days ar incline shaft was sunk on the vein 50C feet, giving vertical depth of 364 feet at which depth heavy flow of water was struck that it was impossible tc continue work Prior to the suspen sion of early day operations in the mine practically all ore above the wa ter level to almost the surface was stoped out. averaging in width about , l-2 feet and in value about 200 ounces in silver in addition to lead and zin, in small proportions. A min wa serect ed on the ground but it was destroyed by fire many years ago. In recent years vertical shaft was unk to the water level, at which point work was