Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-07
THERE'S A FASCINATION
 IN WATCHING THE WORKERS ON SAC HILL


 | the copper Queen mines, took the newspaper man up on Sacramento Hill the other day, and thereby hangs a tale, II only tnis writer could tell it. but the scope of the work Is too vast and the mining man talked to the newspaper man in a language of his own and his blueprints Of the future were mysteries to the layman's eye. But one or two things on that hill stood out so strongly that the news paper man cannot we'll help but write CT them.
 Sac hill does not look so very big from the roadway down in the canyon ! The lone point remaining upon the crest of the hill looks like a frail house of cards ready to fall at a blow but when one goes on foot to climb thls hill it is as high as a cats back. And that little point, so weak and thln rom the roadway, is, when you get up close to it, colossal mass Of apparently unassailable rock; the core of the hill, so to speak, and, like all cores, twisted and gnarled until its stratas look like the muscles Of an athletes arm.
 AhCg dlt NulNlAlB iAllO NAldl AAAA run four levels, each one sixty feet apart. Climbing to the first level over loose rocks and rubbish and dirt, one is not so impressed with the difficulty of the task as with its size But up close to the top the rock walls of that hill stand out as stubborn and unyield ing as the British armies in their present lines. Those great rocks are so hard that they actually look blue in their terrible resistance to the high explosive that had split their faces without dislodging them.
 Down at the foot of these sixty foot stone walls were little and pUny look ing drills, appearing not unlike ma chine guns set at twenty foot intervals to conquer the armies Of a mighty nation.
 Ana these little drills sting deep in to the rock, twenty feet on an aver age, and high explosive is the poison at the end of the stinger. Thus is the giant overcome, as giants have always been by small and intelligent and res olute foes since the world began.
 The newspaper man looked with an astonishment that grew to wonder at the tremendous difficulties of the task before these men who would move a mountain, piece by piece and rock by rock, from it's base He thought of the old saying in Islam, The noun tain would not come to Mohamet so Mohamet had to come to the noun tain," and he quoted it to. Mir. Sher- man and asked him if he was not fly ing in the face of Islam.
 Yes" replied the mine superin- tendent, but not in the face of the holy scriptures: Faith will move mountains" you know, it says in the bible"
 Faithl Yes, that was it. That is the weight in the scales that decided the Copper Queen men to move Sac" hlll, and that is the motive be- hind the moving and the delays and the obstacles and the accidents and the difficulties.
 They had just fired seven shots on the next level and the fumes of the high explosive fingered still in the air. Against the side of the shattered cliff lay rocks larger than the one that crushed Porthos at Belle Isle. No gi- ant could lift them, and so they were beine cut with small hand drills so they could be blown to smaller pieces and transported down the mountain by the ore trans to the dump. The men with the drills standing on these fragments of the mountain looked like ants on these massive pieces ot stone. One of these rocks had fallen on the railroad track and broken the ties and bent a steel rail as though it were a knitting needle.
 Walking around the corner of the hill the newspaper man came upon giant steam shovel. A little further on was another one; and still another. On the next level there were two or three more Scorpions nestling agalust the giants cheek. Puny and weak they looked upon that massive shelf of rock, but the power of ten thousand horses lurked in their wire ropes and steel shells and beams and furnace smoke.
 Walking around the rock spire that still surmounts the crest of Sac" hill, standing out against the onslaught ot drill and explosive and steam shovel like a machine gun battery on stricken field, the newspaper man looked down almost sheer upon the Naco road, fringed with houses, and the Fl Pdso and Southwestern rail road tracks one-third of the way up the hill. An, here was the knot and vortex and stubbOre heart of the trou- ble of tearing down "Sac" hill. Even the unpracticed eye and feeble under standing of a writer for engineering problems could see the great difficult ty.
 SAC" HILL MUST BE TORN AND CLAIMED AND BLASTED DOWN; AND YET ALL THE ROCKS AND FLYING PARTICLES MUST FALL THE OTHER WAIT
 That crest of rock must be blown off the mountain and all of it must ! fall on the one side, so that life and property and the flow of traffic up and down the canyon will not be en- dangered. Shots placed within these rock walls must be weighted and timed and balanced so that they will ! lift Co the foot and 10 the pound and no more.
 Only one rock has rolled down upon ! the danger side of the hill and that Cne smashed chicken coop. The | workmen may well be proud of this record