Arizona republican., 1917-02-11
The Mile Wide Camp

c. F. Wisel, formerly chief engineer Of the Mocteznma Copper company of Aacozari, Sonora. has entered the em plov of the Mile Wide Copper company of Tuscon and is now in charge as sup erintendent of the companys proper ties in the Amole district.
 MT. Visel has had .years of practical experience in the mines of Mexico and Arizona and his career as q mining man has been marked with success.
 MT. Visel takes chs. :ge of Mile Wide Copper at a most opportune time. New machinery ordered some months ago, Is now on the ground and being in stalled.
 The present force of fifty men will De increased, and the work of devel- oping the Mile Wide will be pushed figoorously in the immediate future The new machinery s.,n being installed consists of one 100 h. D. type Fair banks Morse vertical cylinder oil engine to run one sos c. fl. angle type -wo-stage sullivan air compressor This to run eight Jackhamme- drills euuiped fOi water and for column mounting.
 Recent developments at the Mile Wide camp are proving more satis- iactory every day. A cross-cut from the main drift at the 200 foot level. shows vein 16 foot wide in produc- ing good shipping ore.
 Mir. Nisel, before engaging with the Mile Wide Copper company made a personal. careful inspection of the eompany's holdings, and is not only satisfied but enthusiastic as to the future of the Mile Wide in which he sees the making of one of the really pig copper mines of the entire south west
 The Snsall Miner
 To the Mining Editor of The Repub-
 lican.
 Dear Sr:-I have been reader of ycur n.r,hGtions in aid Of the mining industry for some years and appreciate the good you have accomplished.
 In this letter Tam going to ask your help in regard to the bill now in the legislature which would prevent the ise of single man drills.
 l am q mining claim owner and in a comparatively small way have interest ed capital in the development of some of my properties. l am hoDing Lnot soon I will be able to install a single .nan-poWer drill-maybe a couple of them-and that the help they wlli giv, ne will make it possible for me to soon have pnrducinp mine for my self and associates with the limited means we have
 Now. if the single man drill is leg slated out, my hopes. and those oi many other small operators, art nocked cndways. On the other hand f we are permitted to go ahead With jingle drills, some of us at least will pring in producers which will make q ot of new employment and lot Of new wealth
 l am told that the objection to the single man drill is not because of us little fellows, but because of the big operators. who in using them cut down he number of driliers they need As miner, it seems to me that the people vho take this view are standing il their own light, for I know, and so do they if they will stop to think, that the 'ig mines have increased their opera eions and the number of their employ ecs faster and faster as they got bet ter tools to work with. The single mal drill is a better tool than the two mal iriil. The two man drill was a big gaii )Ver hand drilling. but it was and is cumbersome, expensive and hard to ge' lround with. In some work it canno oe displaced by the single drill but ir most places 1t can. Its original cost f much more, and that has to be made
 D somewhere, tor tEe big ones as we IS us little one in mining can have onl' certain amount of money to spend.