Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-12-06
MINING MATTERS.
News ABOUT the Great Industry OF this
Section of the World

work at Santa Rosa, In Guadaloupe
county, and at a depth Of ninety feet
struck oil.
Z. 0. Wells, metallurglst for the
shannon copper Company, was down
from Clifton the arst OF the week, to
meet a friend, and then made a trip
up to GlObe, a camp he had long want
Ell to see.
A. W. clifford, manager Of the Orion
mining compauy's business, and Il. B.
WEIGH, n Of the heavy Stockholders
OF the Orion company, came up from
Ell Paso Sunday. They were greatly
pleased at the practical results
achieved at the smelter. Mr.. Clifford
took home with him a large slab of
bullion, which be says will look almost
as good as a dividend to many of the
Orion stockholders. He has ordered a
large amount of the ore from the Dun.
dee shipped to the smplter as o 0 as
IL is ready to receive ore.
The FL Paso Herald printed a bit of
Silver City news this week, that was,
to say the least, startling. A com.
pany is being organized with 1900, 600
capital, to build electric roads, con.
Meeting the mining camps iu the Bur.
ros with silver CITY, and ultimately
the camps in Santa Rita and Hanover
country, are to be connected with the
road. The company is to huild enor.
nous concentrating works at Silver
City. The ores from the various
mines are to be brought to Silver
city, and there concentrated. The
scheme is a good one, a dne me. The
only thing lacking 10 the description
published in the Herald, is to tell
where the company can yet enough
water to run a concentrator.
On the foot wall of the Clifton cop.
per company's mine at Santa Rita the
ITO foot shaft ore asSaying 25 per cent
has been struck and at the bottom of
the deep shaft, POS feet the same class
OF ore has been encountered. These
rich stringers, from two to twelve
inches wide are trembling to the foot
wall, the same as above. The shaft
will cut the foot wall at about 275
depth and at a point towards which
all Of the rich ore chutes are treuding.
At this junction these various rich
streaks must come together aud form
a large body Of rich shipping ore, that
will add immensely to the present out
put. In the meantime the large low
grade mill ore is increasing in guam
titv and quality as depth is gained
Headlight.
superintendent Cnok, Of the Aber-
dee0, has a gang of men at work on
the new concentration, and would en-
ploy several more carpenters IL he
could get them, but carpenters are a
scarce article in this section of the
country at the present time. The
tables have arrived, and the complete
mill is now on the ground, ready T. be
assembled. If Mr.. Cook can get
enough men to work he will have the
mill crushing ore by the FIRST of the
year, it is simply a question Of work.
ing fast enough. Mr.. Cook now has so
much To attend to that he cannot give
his personal attention to watching the
men work, and see that they do not
soldier on him, so he has put a fore
man in charge of the work on the
Malachite with instructions to go
down as fast as possible. 1t is work.
ing depth he wants on this property.
IL has been found too expensive to
burn wood to make steam, and coal is
now being used, The matter Of using
oil for fuel is being Investigated, and
it is probable that this fuel of the fu-
ture will be used. A pumping plant
has been ordered for the Atlantic,
where 1t is greatly needed.
The smelter blew in last Friday, and
proved TO be a practical success. The
smelter is different from any Others in
use. The LIBERALS smelter reporter
Is not up on this kind of a smelter,
hut can describe the main difference
between it and other smelters to a
certain extent. The ordinary copper
smelter works on a continuous process.
When it is once started up it must be
kept going, ore, coke and lux are con
|tinually fed into it, and the metal and
Stag continually dra @n off. The fires
never go down, the work is never
stopped. If through accident, or de.
sign, the smelter is blown out it is a
matter of weeks, and sometimes OF
months, to get 10 started up again.
This smelter is entirely different, and
wise men say that 1t will revolutionist
the smelter business. The smeltel
can be started up, and In a couple o.
hours after starting, ii will produce
metal. 1t can be blown out, and 10 &
couple OF hours can be put to worl
again. This is no theory, nor an idlt
tale. 1t actually was shut down anC
started up again, several times be
tween Friday, and Monday. 1t pro