Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-20
OF BLUE BELL MINE
 UNDER PROSPECT

MAYER, Aria. Jan. 17.-Fifty thou sand dollars will be spent by the Consolidated Arizona company on the further development of the Blue Bell mine this year. The new work will consist of diamond drilling hori- zOntaliy on the lower levels, running a drift on the SO0-fOOt level to the south end of the mine to tap the ore that has recently been opened at the shallow depth of 75 feet and the open mig up in a thorough manner the new 120O-fOOt level. The next ls months will be an extremely interesting time in the life of this now famous mine. Already the new work on the ls00- level. has found the big ore body that furnished a third of the output of the mine last year on the 1000-foot level. In the drift that is being run north from the shaft on the 1900, the south end of the lenSe of ore has been struck and followed about 75 feet On the south end on the l00O-foof level this same ore body taperS down, as all lenses do. and now on the lsO0- foot level the same lense has been found and is widening out as the drift goes nCrth. So far. the ore body Is l5 to Is feet wide and the values are running about 4is per cent copper and from So to S in gold and silver, which Is a little higher in the metals than on the 10O0-feet level. It is gratifying to find that the values not only hold, but are increasing in gold and silver with depth. which is now high enough to pay all cost of mining and treat menL The output of ore from this mine for the past year was slightly over 100000 tons. The ore reserves have been kept up. and with the an ticipated ore on the 1S00level the re serve will be greatly increased within the next six months.
 At the De SOta mine. owned by the same company. an additional loo feet will be sunk right away from the 900 foot shaft While this mine is only about three miles southwest of the Blue Bell. it is found that the ore is more silieiOus and about .he same grade in values. The ore lenses are not so long. are thicker and are more numerous than in the Blue Bell The mine produced about S0.000 tons last year.
 Between these two mines there are several properties of merit which show an 0uterop indicating that the ore is to be found in the same courses as in the two big mines at each end. The Blue Bell Copper Extension com pany began sinking shaft short distance over the south line of the Blue Bell mine last week. The com pany was organized by J. GSrber. who Is president. and c. J. Murdock. who is vice president. who have been m the employ of the Consolidated Ari- zOna company at the Blue Bell mine Tor several years IL is expected that the extension of the Blue Bell ore bodies will be encountered in the shaft iR not to exceed 50 feet. The secretary Of the company is L. A Den man of Humboldt. The stockholders of the company are mostly around the two mines and the shelter at Hum bOldt. The work St the shaft is in charge of c. J. Murdock-
 Probh9ly no strike of ore in this NurdOek camp has been herSlded with so much enthusiasm as the one just made on the RinghamptOn mine. fn a drift run north -4Oo feet from the main shaft. on the l00-foot level. orc has been broken into and followed about sO feet. assays running from 10 sS per cent copper. It is in an en- tirely new ore zone. the nearest ore body being 500 feet away. The strike was made about 500 feet south of one Of the best surface outcropS on the property. and it may be that the south end Of long ore lenSe has been en- cOunteCed. On the 6O0-fOot level drift run south has struck the exten- sion Of the large ore lenSe on the +o0- foot level Face samples run from ( tO S7 per cent copper. Diamond drill ing oa this level Is blocking out the ore recently determined tO be one of the largest bodies in the mine. run niag from 90 to S0 feet in width. It Is estimated that the mine now has five years Oi ore in sight al the present capacity of the mill which is about 2Oe tons daily.
 The taking over Of the Barbara mine by the newly organized Monte de COlre Copper company was com pleted this week. The officers are; President. W. A. Tucker Of BiShce; Vice president. John Ross of Risbee; secretary. F.. M. Walker. Mayer; and treasurer J. R. Robertson. Mayer, For the past four months the development Of a large group of claims on the south end of Copper mountain has been in progress. the capital having been furnished by the BiShec people A crOSs-cut tunnel has already passed thfrOuSh about 70 feet Of lcdge mat ter nearly rich enough for commercial copper ore.