Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-12

WORK AT TELLURIDE
 CENTER OF INTEREST
 IN 0ATMAN DISTRICT
Long and McIver, Men Who Made United Eastern, Again Establish Themselves as Leaders in Development.

OATMAN, Ariz., Aug. 11.-Interest is centering more strongly than ever on the developments at the Telluride, where the vein will be opened for the third time within the next few days. In fact, the shaft has cut into the hanging wall of the great Telluride vein and cross cut is now being run to determine the wide and character of the formation.
 Nowhere else in the entire district is the fact better illustrated that depth is essential to the making of a mine, than at the Telluride. Long Mclvor, disobverers of the United Eastern, carried the shaft down to the depth of 475 feet but encountered a large flow of water. Their aim was to reach a depth of 600 feet before cross cut ting to the great Telluride vein. Not being equipped to pump several hun dred gallons a minute they decided to cross cut to the vein. and in the mean time wait until the Aztec shaft on the Tom Reed property adjoining had reached the same level or lower one.
 On Same Vein
 If the Aztec pumps drained the Tel luride it would prove that the Tellur- idle and the Aztec are the same or con- meeting veins. Such proved to be the case, but in the meantime a cross cut and a couple hundred feet of drifting 1vnI1nv-iIr x-afr,
 The net result of this exploratory work was to disclose very we'll defin- ed vein, carrying some quartz, but no values. Inexperienced miners might have abandoned the property as worth less after having explored it at depth of nearly 500 feet.
 But Jack McIver did not lose conf dence in the Telluride. in fact his be- lief that it is destined to be one of the big properties in the district was con firmed by what he saw on the cross cut and drift, blank and barren though the vein appeared.
 Shaft Is Lowered
 As the water was drained out through the Aztec shaft the Telluride shaft was lowered to the 535-foot level and another drift run on this level. Here one of the most sensational dis coveries in the history of the district was made. High grade ore running hundreds of tons to the ton in gold was found, and the opinion of every mining engineer who visited the prop erty was that a great mine should be developed there, provided the ore body persisted in depth.
 A winze was sunk for about 20 feet on the ore, proving it to improve with depth. Then the shaft was sunk to the 500 foot level. where the vein came into the shaft and it was determined to stop sinking and explore the vein at this point.
 If exploration proves that the ore body is so wide and long as when opened above, the next contention of Jack McIver will have been establish ed and he will have the unusual honor of discovering two great gold mines. It should be remembered that wher- ever ore has been found in a we'll de- fined quartz vein in place it has all ways persisted both as to depth and width, in fact in the Oatman district i ore bodies always have the three di- menslons of euclid, depth. width and thickness.
 McIver's Rapid Rise It is only four years ago that Jack McIver came to the Oatman district to operate a drill in the Tom Reed Gold Mines company's workings. To be sure he had won fame as the cham pion driller of the world. but he had nothing but his skill in this line and a natural talent for observing geologic al conditions, developed not in the schools but in actual mining work
 He saw possibilities here that had apparently escaped the supposedly vi0- liant eye of the engineers and mine managers. Sending for his old drill | ing partner, George w. Long. the two of them went to work underground in the Tom Reed.
 While working they studied conGi' tions and the first chapter of results from this study was the United East ern, lying alongside the Tom Reed to the east
 While Jack McIvor has handled the Telluride practically alone. yet if pres ent indications do not go astray the second continuation Of their geological study will be the making of another mine just west of the Tom Reed.