Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-26

PRESNOII. May 70. - AllhOuSH work is being rushed on the United Verde Extensions new shelter it is not expected that the big plant will be blown in before the first of July. In the meantime the company is going ahead with it's other building plans m order to provide homes for it's employ ees and help relieve the. congested conditions prevailing in the district. The long extraction tunnel, it is ex- pected. will not be completed before the expiration of nine months. Until that time it will be necessary to trans port the ore over the tramway to the Verde Tunnel and Shelter Railway, thence via Clarkdale to the shelter site. A large amount of ore has al ready been shipped and now on the the ground awaiting the completion of the shelter.
 Again to Extract Ore
 After a space Of nearly six months it is planned to resume extraction of ore from the Jerome Verde. nothing having been done along this line since December at which time the agree ment Of the Jerome Verde with the U. V. Extension to hoist it's ores, ex- pired. It seems that a new agreement has been made in pursuance of which production from the Maintop claim will be resumed in June. A raise has been started to connect the new drift run north from the 140 level of the United Verde Extension into Maintop territory with the Maintop stope. That stope was started on the 900 levcT of the Jerome Verde. which corresponds to the 1900 level of the Extension so it will be necessary to raise only 200 feet. efE iHT
 Green Monster
 Conditions lately at the Green Monster have been so encouraging that it has been decided to sink the Dorothy May shaft 800 feet deeper. or in any event to go 300 feet before starting a cross-cut. Headings driven on the white intrusive in the main tunnel from the Dorothy May shaft have shown a strong quartz-porphyry carrying pyrites, chalcOpyrites and chalcocite in varying amounts. As the white intrusive and the mineraliza ton has a dip towards the shaft 1t may be possible that it will be inter
 
 ed. It is expected that the white in trusive will lead, sooner or later. to a rich ore body such as always has been the case in the United Verde Extension.
 Verde Combination
 Between April and May S the Verde Combination shaft was sunk 152 feet, this rate of progress it main tained. taking the shaft down 1000 feet by the first of next month. The formation in the shaft is still schist, showing a great naturalization in the form of chalcopyrite.
 Pittsburg-Jerome Strong hopes are entertained that the streak of chalcocite which was re- gently followed 15 feet or more in the No. g drift, west on the 800 level. at the Jerome, will again be picked up on the footwall side and that it will widen out into a real ore body.
 Jerome Superior
 It is claimed at the Jerome Superior that a new sinking record was estab- lished last week when the shaft was put down thirteen and a half feet in nineteen hours. The material is any thing but soft. It is chiefly jasper and some rock that looks like chert but may be quartz porphyry.. At pres ent the shaft is down 37O feet and steady progress is being made. All foundations are in for the new hoist but it has not arrived. The new com pressor has been in for some time.
 Verde Squaw
 It is apparent that the Bartor tunnel at the Verde Squaw is not far from real ore. The tunnel is now passing through monzonite and quartz heavily impregnated with white iron and chal- copyrite. It is easy to pick speci- mems of pay ore from the muck. The last shot fored showed not only more pyrite and chalcopyrite than had pre- viously been encountered but a great deal of moisture. It is possible that a watercourse is not far distant. and mining men declare that when a real watercourse is intersected a big ore body will be found.
 Reviving Old Bonanza IT. C. Wilmot of New York, after buying all the stock to be had locally of the famous old Tip Top silvertung sten mine. located on the southern end of the Bradshaw range. but which has not been operated for many years, has returned to New York and mining men here are waiting with expectancy an announcement of the revival of the property which in days agone made many in this section rich. It is said that a strong well-financed syndicate is back of Wilmot and that prelimina- " operations are billed to begin early next month. In addition to its rich silver content the ore runs high in tungsten.