Arizona republican., 1917-09-09
6be MINES of ARIZONA

W. has not been called off, 1t is no longer a factor in the industrial situa- tion in the district. Federal troops who desire to do so. The real trouble is the scarcity of American labor, other than which will not be employed in the district in future A great many Amer jeans left the district just prior to the strike and during its first few weeks. These have found employment else where and not many of them will lm- mediately return. Consequently the mines can get back but slowly ito nor nal forces of operatives.
 Making Headway Slowly
 BISBEE, Ariz., Sept. S.-Three out standing factors retard the reSaihi,iS of normal conditions of production of copper in Arizona, the states chief ln- dustry, despite which more headWay IS being made, however, than anticipated as possible a few weeks ago.
 The retarding factors are found In the federal disposition to lower the price of copper, which means reduc- tion of wages, in an actual shortage of American labor, and in the hesltancy of the government to put troops Tn strike infested districts with orders to see that all men desiring to work are afforded protection.
 In tho Salome Country
 ThI Black Giant Mines company at Salome in August made what IS thought to be a record, at least for this part of the state, in shaft sinking, considering conditions and number of ba lS eight feet, two compartment, being sunk in fairly hard compact granite schist and gneiss, and was down l50 feet August 1. Two expert drillers were employed, Jack Stewart and N. A. Mcdonald, who won the drilling contest at Prescott during the Fourth of July celebration. Only one shift was worked on account of the heat and scarcity or water and these two men did all the drilling, mucking and timbering, nak- i ing record of seventy five feet ot completed and timbered shaft for the month, with an additional round of holes dPifted and shot ready for muck ing. If it had not been for the blowing of a gasket on the enNrne and the tenn porary shut down of the hoist a record of eighty feet would easily have been made, as all they lacked in making the eighty feet was mucking cut the last i round. All the underground work was done by those two men, assisted of course by a good surface crew under the superintendence of Supt. William i WintZ. The surface equipment consists 1 of a 25 h. p. Fairbanks Morse hoist and Ingersoll-Rand compressor and Inger- sollRand jackhammers were used in l doing the work.
 1 n IInD fNT states that the work will be pushed to the 3OO-foot level. or deeper, and-after a station and ore pocket has been cut, a drift will be started back undernea tn the hill towards the immense gossan outcrop which is the prominent feature l of the property The shaft is sunk at l the foot of the hill the collar of the shaft being between seven and eight | hundred feet lower than the main out ! crop, So that a drift or crosscut on the 300-foot level will give a vertical depth ! on the ledge under the main outcrop of over a thousand feet, at which depth | the company excepts to open up some large bodies of high grade copper sul- phides The surface outcrop is the , largest in the district, being from twen- ! ty-five to over a hundred feet in width and of the same general character of spccular iron, honeycombed quartz and manganese IS that in which the nearby Critic mine on a parallel ledge has ! opened up such high grade sulphide ore, running from 20 per cent to B per cent copper and from si5 upwards in gold, in car lots
 The Black Giant property was taken over in April of this year by D. w. Hall and associates of Mobile, Ala. at which time it was raw prospect and inaccessible except by trail. Since that time several miles of road work have been completed, substantial camp buildings built machinery installed and the main two compartment working shaft sunk to a depth of 235 feet. most of the shaft having been sunk by hand ! until the machinery was installed in July.
 | W. Tovote. formerly field geologist and engineer with the Copper Queen United Verde Extension and Phelps Dodge interests, is now at Salome making examinations of Black Giant and Glory Hole Bonanza properties and as soon as his reports are completed and recommendations submitted MT | Hall expects to go east to confer with his associates regarding future work at the Black Giant and resumption of operations at the Glory Hole, which has been temporarily closed down during the past month.
 Il A Mine Census
 The Arizona State Bureau of Mines is compiling and making a census of the mineral deposits of the state of Arizona. Owing to the marine trans portation difficulties, shortage exists in many minerals formerly imported ! and urgently needed in war work al this moment This shortage will very soon develop in other minerals.
 In order to make the compilation as complete as possible and of immediate benefit to the gov ernment, the bureau asks prospectors, miners, engineers mine managers, superintendents, etc. to fill in the blank below concerning any mineral deposits known to then which is worked or not worked, pros pected or not prospected, and forward it to the Arizona State Bureau o1 Mines, Tucson, Arizona.
 Name of mineral
 Location where found .
 Name of mine, if any.
 A Mining Tour
 Charles F. Willis director of the Arizona State Bureau of Mines. i: making 6 trip covering practical, the entire state, arranging prelim. mary plans for the extension work