Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-23
Negotiations Between Tom Reed and United Eastern Still Continue but Merger of Interest is Improbable.
DEFINITE DECISION
 KNOWN IN FEW DAYS
Long-Mclver Management Is Working on Lower Levels of Their Property, Mapping Out Development.
Special to the Review.

klNGMAN. Ariz., Jan. 22-Although negotiations continue, there is reason for the belief that the scheme for the merging of the Tom Keen Gold Mines and the United Eastern Mining Com panies will fail of consummation. in which event the latter corporation will proceed at once with the plan of erect ing upon it's own grounds at Oatman a mill of the initial capacity of 200 tons per day for the treatment of the vast tonnage of ore blocked out in it's various workings. A decision in the negotiations is soon to be reached. That fact is known but beyond it all IS a mstery. insofar as official in- formation Is concerned. The manage ment of the United Eastern is at pres ent giving particular attention to operations at the bottom or 665-fOot level of the old or No. 1 shaft. where a station. ore pocket and usmp are be- ing cut. Upon their completion. cross cutting no trehtasotaC Or ringoadcmfcnr cutting northeast to the vein from the shaft, a distance of approximately no feet. will begin and the explora- tion of the ore body on the new level later inaugurated. At the new or No. ? shaft. sinking operations for the last week have been at a standstill. The shaft has been timbered to the bottom. a depth of about 40 feet. Concrete foundations have been pre- pared and the machinery. including a 150 horsepower double-drum electric hoist and 1000 cubic foot compressor. will soon be installed When all this preliminary work is finished. three shifts of miners will be employed to continue the shaft down to the soc foot point with the greatest possible despatch.
 Prosecuting operations upon an eX- tensive scale are being prosecuted on the 505-foot level of the United East ern. The south crosscut is out IFS. the southwest 150 and the north 1S0 feet from the shaft. all in a more or less faulter area. Stringers of quartz carrying small values are being cut in the southwest and onrth crOsscuts.
 The Lazy Boy has installed and placed into commission it's recently received 32-horsepower gasoline hoist and I-drir air compressor Sinking will soon be resumed at the 50-fOot point in the main shaft. which is de- signed to go tO depth of at least 900 feet before lateral work is at tempted.
 The new south crosscut on the 50O- foot or bottom level of the old or No. 1 shaft on the Telluride now mea- sures about 50 feet in length Its ob- jective point is the vein on the rhyo- lite-andesite contact As soon as it is reached and the vein thoroughly proven, it is probable that operations at this shaft will be discontinued. as the management has just started new Compartment main working shaft 1900 feet northwesterly from the. former. which go to the 5O0-foot level in the property. The new shaft will be equipped with big pumps tO handle the water flow and permit of the thorough explora- ton of the main ledge. the extension of the Tom Reed vein.
 The Oatman Syndicate has erected a 40-foot gallows frame over it's pro posed 5OO-foot shaft. which is now down 30 feet. and it preparing con crete foundations for 40-horsepower gasoline hoist and 340 cubic foot com pressor The compressor is on the ground and the hoist will arrive in the next few days.
 Charles E. Knox of Berkeley, Calif. general manager of the Montana Tonopah mine at Tonopah. Nevada. ,nd heavily interested in other mines
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