Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-16
AUGUST PRODUCTION AT 0ATMAN Is LOWER
 THAN IN JULY MONTH
Failure of Ball Mill of the Tom Reed Company Cuts Gold Production. Some Activity Noted in the Camp.

I
 below the record breaking month of
 July. At the Tom Reed, the new
 granulating ball mills were out of
 commissOn for about half the month
 which meant that the stamp mill had ! to be brought into service. As this
 has only half the capacity of the ball
 mill, a total reduction of about one
 fourth was the net result for the
 month, or less than 5000 tons
 against 76OO for July.
 Values are materially increasing on
 ore from the Aztec, however and with
 daily production running above 250 tons, September should establish an-
 other new high record both in ton
 mage and value for the Tom Reed. l Considerable time was also lost at
 the United Eastern during August as
 a result of accidents, one of which
 put the Tell-Smith initial crusher out | of business for about one day. Values
 are being maintained at a high aver age at the Eastern, however, and with | the new addition to the cyanide plant
 now in service. September should al
 so prove the banner month for Oat-
 mans newest gold mine.
 It is anticipated that the great Uni- l ted Eastern vein may be opened up at the lower level during September, pro- vided the vein comes into the shaft as is expected at present. So Septem- Der may be most crucial month for
 United Eastern.
 Diamond drilling will probably be commenced very shortly upon three properties, the Mohawk Central, the i Tollurido and the Sunnyside. Dia- mond drillers have been in the dis trict recently looking the ground over with a view to taking a contract up- on the work contemplated.
 On all three of these properties pre- liIninary exploration has been carried on to a certain depth and diamond drilling can be much more quickly and cheaply disclose what exists at depth and along the course of the veins all ready explored. IL is anticipated that the diamond drill will play a much more prominent part in the future de- velopment of Oatman than it has in 1, the past.
 Development work is progressing at present on the following properties: 1 At the Alcoyne near the boundary zone, the main working shaft is be- ing sunk on the footwall of the vein and a drift is opening up some very fine ore on the 50-foot level This body of ore is five to six feet wide and some sensational assays are be- ing obtained running as high as s200 per ton in gold alone have been com l pleted for the erected of a 25-ton min I on the property.
 At the United Oatman north and east of the boundary zone. the tunnel has been driven into the mountain for a distance of 500 feet and two cross cuts are now being driven, one east and one west. Each cross cut will be advanced 25O feet before the the objective of the tunnel is $50 feet further into the mountain.
 At the Sunnyside a winse has been sunk about 50 feet and a cross cut will be run across the vein to explore it at this level
 At the Telluride the vein is still to be opened up by drifting at the 5S5 foot level. Inside drilling will be very soon on this proper ty.
 At the Tom Reed practically no de- velopment work is being done at pres ent.
 The main shaft of the United East ern is now down more than 2S0 feet. It is possible that the vein may be en- countered by the shaft or within a few feet to the south of the 965 foot level provided the change of dig Ob- served on the 665 foot level is main tained.
 At the Gold Road the ore body in the Line Boad tunnel section of the prop erty is being opened up, but as the mill is leased for a year to the gold 5 ore, it is not believed that mining and milling will be undertaken until the 2 expiration of that time. However the Gold Ore will not use the entire ca pacity of the mill, so the Gold Road T Company might mill some of it's own ore at the same time.
 Work being prosecuted at the Gold Ore consists of retimbering and the shaft and exploring V the vein on the $50 foot level. Hero S