Show inspiration COPPER COMPANY grading has been started on the crushing plant for the inspiration copper company in webster gulch the company will have two head frames feet apart facing each other with storage bin connecting this will have a capacity of 2000 tons and ore will be fed to the crushing plant below which will have a capacity of tons per hour two incline conveyors feet long will carry the ore to storage bins having two parallel tracks underneath the bin will be about sixty feet high and feet long the available capacity being tons the first aniual report of the company covering a period ending december 1912 has just been issued by president william B thompson a part of which follows the mining property secured from the inspiration copper and live oak companies consisted of a large number of lode claims and fractions having a total area of acres all located in the globe mining district about eight to ten miles west of globe gila county arizona the company has also secured a number of other claims and fractions of an acreage greater than that of the original property chief of which may be noted the group of claims known as the warrior group which were purchased from the warrior copper company in order to secure for your company a proper location for the building of its concentrating plant and the storage of tailings patents have been received for most of the claims 6 T Q t A buckeye N no 0 1 I photo by will 0 higgins the underground work done during 1912 preparatory to the extraction of the developed ore amounted to feet previous to december 31 1911 done had been making a total of feet the underground work of 1912 which was practically done during the last half of the year was preparatory to ore oreatt orex extrac tT tion within the ore areas developed by tte churn drills and was not designed goibe to exploratory in character therefore ft work has not resulted in any additions the estimate based on the churn churl drilli drill at the time of the consolidation which wai tons of 2 per cent ore no mining method except one of rel rela a dively high cost could be used that woul deliver this ore to the surface practically alli free from admixture with barren cappi capping and it has been calculated that more 11 ne returns will follow the use of a cheaper mining method though this method will i in evitable evit ably reduce the gr grade ade of the e ore goin to the mill below the correctly ascertain aln grade of the ore in place an attempt has been made to check ch k t th original estimates of ore tonnage ai and grad ad in that part of the mine where su cie underground work has been done to rende aenid such a procedure reasonable the regular mine samples taken unde und superintendent drummond have bee checked by a second careful and inde ent sampling of such underground wor worl and these for the section of the mine d i question confirm the figures of henr hen krumb the engineer under whose direction direct io fo the churn drill sampling and estimates we made such estimates very properly cover sulphide ores only the drill holes h hoj ever show in addition above the total ar of sulphides sulp hides approximately approximate ly to ton of oxidized and semi oxidized ore averail ave ragil 14 per cent copper and there is ably more in other adjacent areas I 1 |