Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-26
Suggestion Is Made that Basin Properties Be Brought Into
 Compact Working Unit
 Under Single Head.
.LATERALS TO CONNECT
 REDUCTION PLANT
When These Conditions Come to Pass Lethargy of Once Highly Productive Camp Will Be Shaken Of.
(By William P. De Wolf)


 PRESCOTT. Nov. 25.-Some one. some time. will group the mines in that section of the Walker Mining District. known as the Basin. into a compact working unit under a single management, and will develop their bodies of base ore through the medi- um of a number of deep shafts that will be connected with each other by laterals and with a reduction plant by tramway. The juice necessary for driving mine. mill and tram ma chinery can be obtained from a near by sub-station of the local power com pany at a comparatively nominal cost for the stringing of wires, etc. as the rraximum distance to he covered IS not great. Access to railway, for the concentration will be afforded by the Poland tunnel that connects the Basin with the Santa Fe railway at Poland Station.
 When these conditions come to pass the mining camp of Walker. one of the oldest. and in past years. by all ~e~o,,r-s. one of the most productive n vc-apai County will shate nf the lethargy of decadent days and become a- irrnortant factor in the mining dis trict of this section of Arizona-a mining industry that has increased SIP 900 GOO in assessment value with in a twelvemonth. Capital and oil- fiotation process will solve the mining ard reduction problems If the Basin: and when they are available. will. with Midas-like touch. separate the oold from it's base metal affinities and give to each alike value that can be 4esigrated in dollars and cents
 New Workers Invest
 New York City capital recently be- came interested in the development of tNa -,,i-es at WaIte-. with view to ascertaining their ore-yielding pos sihiiitias at depth. and it is possible that the work now being done will result in the energizing of the camps mining industry as a whole The de velopment plans now in force are purely exploratory. and are not being carried on with a view to opening up bodies of commercial ore. That im- portant phase of the plans will come later. after the experimental work has been completed and checked up. There is little question. however. but what the result will justify the work now be'rg done. as test shipments have disclosed the presence of sul- phide ore in pay tonnage within 100 feet of the surface. This ore carries -,,i''ing valves in gold and silver in affinity with copper. lead and zinc. or1 is a product whose mineral con tents can be separated and reclaimed economically and efficiently by the modern nrocesses of reduction.
 The Consolidated Homestead Min inc Germany is the corporate name under which the New Workers are operating. The old Homestead estate .patented. and at one time highly been taken over. and Is being developed under the supervis- ion of w. H Shockley. of New York. a mining engineer who has operated successfully in Nevada and other mining sections of the west A shaft has been sunk to depth of 12o feet and drifts run north and south in the ore at depth of 100 feet. The north drift Is about % feet from the station and carrias a frli hreast Of Ore that Is heavily impregnated with lead. zinc and copper. The ore samples tron SIS to s2O ton. with the gold-silver values running from ss to slO per ton.
 Objective of Drift
 The objective of this drift is cross
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