Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-10
CORNE[IA OPERATIONS SATISFACTORY ,
 STATES COMPANY OFFICIAL IN BISbEE

the way of increased activities. Pata- gonia has engaged the attention of mining people for long time, but never with more excellent reason thas now The Worlds Fair, the Flux ana some other great silver mines have had one day in Patagonia, and are coming up for other days. About them are other properties which will be in line for important development as soon as the money markets of the country are easier, or the demand foI silver and copper permit the higher prices for these metals which are es- sential to their development and min ing in these days of tremendously au- vanced costs for supplies of all kinds and for labor It is true that a num- | Der of properties in Tucson territory which should now b. operating at maximum in providing for the needs of the government and its allies are closed down and that more will soon have to close; also that new develop ment undertaken at the present time | involves a heavy burden of extra ex- pense, just as does new building of any kind, and that it is justified only as the investor looks ahead to the re- turn of comparatively normal costs and greatly increased demand for the metals after the war period. That the investor. l6o-I ahead and gauge future demands is as essential in the mining business at this time as it is in the cattle business or in the ] accumulation of raw hides for the shoe market at the end of the war. The difference in favor of mining is in the fact that supplies of blocked-Out ore in the ground are being exhausted much more rapidly than the producers can afford the time and money to hunt for new ore resources on present metal prices, and that there is ac- cordingly the fair certainty, on a ocn- ! servative basis, of anticipating a tre- mendous demand for nc-a-s after the war to replace depleted stocks of all kinds, and that new producers made ready in the interim will have advan- tageS that will be very attractive. Rel alive to silver, there must be consid- cred the fact that the necessities ot the world for metal money after the war are going to be many times more than the visible supply of gold can accommodate.
 FIux Mine Bonded
 In the Patagonia district a recent inn portant development which will add to Tucson activities is represented in the taking over of the old Flux mine under bond and lease by Bisbee inter ests headed by Jack McGregor; Tom Stafford, well known mining man, and Fred KOllburg, the latter responsible for much of the scientific development which has made available for milling more than a million tons of lead-silver ore in the Shattuck mine. and prob ably twice as much in the mines of the Copper Queen in Bisbee. The Shattuck [ is now erecting a 400-ton mill which was designed consequent upon the | findings of Kollburg and his associate es in the Shattuck research in the metal ' lurgical division. At Patagonia, Koll- burg will put in practice in a l00-ton mill, the same findings worked out successfully in association with simi- lar problems in the Warren district. Ground was broken this week for the neT mill at Patagonia. Equipment has been found and ordered forward. Except for delays in transportation the plant will be running oll ore within three months Of ore, the Flux has 150,00O tons blocked out, which will earn a profit going through the mill Stafford is recognized as an expert in the conduct of modern methods of mining and will top slice the ore body, delivering the ore through lower tun- nel direct to the mill. At present their ore body stands SO feet from foot to hanging wall. It is not con sidered that the materials in sight now approximates the values of the mine and before the end of the three years | of milling now in sight it is expected that the resources of the mine will have been materially extended. The operators have a close corporation. with no stock coming on the market and ample finances 70 carry them through whatever they undertake.
 At the old French mine recent dis coveries have developed high grade On the 500 level in considerable quantity Previously the development carried or by Will Clark in behalf of Senator w. A. Clark had opened a large tonnage of lower grade ore The high grade finds of recent date make it certain that the property will come in as a profitable producer and add materially to pay rolls of both mines and plants in the district
 Other Promising Properties
 These activities, it is only fair to point out. greatly increase the possi- bilities of success for a number of others in the Patagonia district, while lending important encouragement to all of the mining industry which is giving attention to silver and lead in Increasingly greater degree in the be- lief that conditions at the end of the war will bring about price for the white metal that will enable it's mining at profit, something thai is not now common. being confined in fact to properties possessed of exceptionally high grade resources.
 In copper mining, the Three R's mine k continuing in the Patagonia district. it's high values in silver with the copper enabling it to profitable operation on even a 23l2-cent market. This mine is shipping about ten tons of concentrates daily from its mill to