Weekly journal-miner., 1918-01-16
DEVELOPMENT AT BLUE BELL ID
 CONTINUE
CONSOLIDATED ARIZONA EXPECTS TO SPEND BIG SUM IN DIAMOND DRILL ING IN LOWER LEVELS; :; WILL DRIFT ON 800.

MAYER, Ariz.. Jan. I4-Fifty thousand 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- zontallv on the lower levels, running a drift on the S00-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 opening up in a thorough manner the new 1,200-foot level The next 12 months will be an extremely inter esting time in the life of this now famous mine. Already, the new work on the 200 level, has found the big ore body that furnished third of the output of the mine last year on the l,0O0-foot level. In the drift that IS being run north from the shaft on the l,200, the south end of the Tense of orc has been struck and followed about $ feet On the south end on the l,0OO-foot level this same orc body tapers down as all lenses do, and now on the 200 level, the same lcnse has been found and is widening out as the drift goes north. So far, the orc body is Is to l6 feet wide and the values arc running about AZ per cent copper and from Sc to SS in gold and silver, which is little higher in the three metals than on the 1000 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 ment. The output of orc from this mine for the past year was slightly over 100000 tons. The orc reserves have been kept up and with the anti cipatcd ore on the 1 200 level, the reserve will be greatly increased with in the next six months.
 At the DcSota mine, owned by the same company, an additional 100 feet will be sunk right away from the 2OO- foot shaft. While this mine is only about three miles southwest of the
 Blue Bell, 1t is found that the ore is more silicious and about the same grade iu values The orc lenses arc not so long. arc thicker and arc more numerous than in the Blue Bell. The mine produced about 5000 tons last year.
 Between these two mines, there are several properties of merit which show an outcrop indicating that the orc is to be found in the same courS- es as in the two big mines at each end. The Blue Bell Extension Cop per Company begin sinking a shaft a short distance over the south line of the Blue Bell mine last week. Inc company was organized by J. l.. Gar Der, who is president and C. ]. Mur- dock, who is vicc-prcsidcnt, who have been in the employ of the Consoll- dated Arizona Company at the Blue Bell mine for several years. It IS ex- pected that the extension of the Blue Bell orc bodies will be encountered in the shaft in not to cvcccd 50 feet. The secretary of the company is l.. A. Denman, of Humboldt. The stock holders of the company arc mostly employees around the two mines and the shelter at Humboldt. The work in the shaft is in charge of C. J. Mur- dock.
 Probably no strike of orc in this Mayer camp has been hcralded with so much enthusiasm as the one just made in the Binghamton mine. I'm a drift run north 400 feet from the main shaft, on the i0O-foot level, ore has been broken into and followed about 20 feet, assays running from 4 to 2 per cent copper. It is in an en- tircly new orc zone, the nearest ore body being 800 feet away. The strike was made about 800 feet south ot one of the best surface outcrops on the property and it may be that the south end of a long orc Tense has been encountered. On the 6OO-foot level, a drift run south has struck the extension of the large orc Tense on the 400-foot level Face samples run from 6 to ? per cent copper. Diamond drilling on this level isl blocking out the orc recently deter mined 10 be one of the largest bodies in the mine, running from 30 to 50 feet in width. It is estimated that the mine now has five years of ore in sight at the present capacity of the mill, which is about 200 tons daily.
 The taking over of the Barbara mine by the newly organized Monte dc Cobrc Copper Company was con- plctcd this week. The officers arc: President. W. X. Tucker. of Bisbec; vioc-prcSidcnt, John Ross, of BiSbce: secretary, K. E. Walker, Mayer and treasurer, J. K. Robertson. Mayer. For the past four months, the dcvcl- opment of a large group of claims on the south end of Copper noun tain b.,s br,u in DrOorCSS inc capital