Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-17
New Company Proposes to Sink Working Shaft South of the Famous Bisbee West Fault.
NO DRILLING WILL BE
 DONE ON PROPERTY
Road Rapidly Nearing Com pletion and Machinery Will Be Put on Ground as Soon as Possible by Operators.

With road work now in progress, looking toward the establishment of a good grade from Don Luis to the proposed shaft site, Arizona -Bisbee Copper company is looking up very materially. According to Superintend ent Harry Jennings the road should be completed and the culverts put in within short time. As soon as pos sible, thereafter, machinery will be placed on the ground and working shaft will be started.
 i That no time will be lost in the in. ] itial work on Arizona-B Bisbee ground is indicated by the manner in which | the management is now going after its various problems. The building of road from Don Luis ro the shaf. site, a matter of about three fourths little work. The grade is very easy all the way with the exception of several arroyos which will have to be bridged. Over the balance of the distance a gang has merely burned of the undergTSwth and raked the rocks to one side.
 Arizona-B -Bisbee will do no drilling on its ground, prefering to sink an exploration shaft and crosscutting from several stations when the depth is reached. Accordingly, as soon as machinery can be put on the ground. a double compartment shaft will be started. The shaft site is near the head of a small draw. some several hundred yards northeast of the Lit tie Sacramento" prototype of the Big Sacramento of the Copper Queen. The site selected is southwest of the old Bisbee-West shaft by several hun dred yards It is also several hun dred yards south of what is known as the Bisbee-West fault, which runs northwest and southeast, intersectinS that region.
 An interesting commentary on the mining that has been done in the Southwestern part of the Bisbee quad rangle is the work of the Bisbee West company, many years ago. This shaft was sunk a matter of about 100 feet in barren schist. Though in many ! instances, in other parts of the state and country, copper makes in this ground, such it not the case in the Warren District. The shaft was sunk north of the Bisbee West Fault and all of the exploration drifts were sent north and northwest in similar if not identical ground. As consequence nothing was found by the operating company.
 1 Many Bisbee miners and not few local and national geologists consider the Bisbee-West ground and it neigh bor, Arizona-Bisbee, excellent pro spects in every way. They maintain that should the Bisbee-West shaft be continued on to greater depth and drifts be sent to the fault and across this ground, ore would be found in the Martin limestones.
 Going on this theory the Arizona Bisbee people are going to dispense, entirely. with drilling operations and with the arrival of machinery expect to send their shaft down at a rapid pace. No estimate of the necessary depth has been made. though many consider that 1000 to 1900 feet wlii be necessary to tap the ore bearing limestones in that section of the Dis trict The fault has undoubtedly low cred the horizon of the Arizona-BisDee ground. In any event the progress and development of the Arizona-Bisbee will have a stimulating effect on the entire District and should ore be found will mean great extension of mining operations in the Bisbee quadrangle.