Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-11-15
INNING MATTERS.
News About the oreat Industry OF this
section OF tic world.

last Friday, 70 sell a car OF ore to the
smelter. Mr.. Schosser was the dtst
man from the eastern part OF the
county To sell his ore in Lordsburg.
The shelter company 6red up under
the boiler yesterday, got up steam
and turned the wheels a few times,
all this as an experiment to see that
there we're no kinks 10 the machinery.
Everything a smoothly. The smelt-
or will start up for a trial run id a day
or so.
j. ID. Wardner and II. Settler came
down from Clifton Friday. Mr.. Self
ger is from New Haven, Connecticut.
He represents the people who are MAX
ing a deal for the Stevens properties
above Clifton. The gentlemen seemed
confident that the deal would be COM
pleted upon their arrival 10 New York.
The Greene consolidated copper
cOmpany's stock does not seem To be
as popular as 1t was some months ago.
IL was then selling for $40 d share.
Last week on the New York curb
market 200 shares sold for SS2, 200 for
I'll and 100 for 21i. II is reported that
this drop is not caused so much by a
lack OF confidence 10 the immense
mineral deposits as by a loss ia COZ
hdeuce Ia the management of the
company.
The Commonwealth mine at Pearce
has started up with a half force OF
miners aud not a union, mau among
them. Superintendent Brockmau ex-
poets to be running with a full
force In a short time As the product
of this mine Is only gold aud silver the
union men 10 the country will have a
hard time boycotting it. You have
got to bring very strong pressure ID
bear 10 get any man to boycott a
twenty dollar gold piece. Mr.. Brock
man has suspected that some OF tie
men working for him had been steal
log rich pieces Of ore out of the mine,
add last week discovered that two or
the men who had been working for
him for some time had shipped 585
pounds Of ore to Tucson, and were
negotiating its sale. He had the men
arrested and they are now being held
TO await the action Of the grand Jury.
There are occasionally found some
wonderfully rich Samples in the Com
monwealth, and Mr.. Brockman thinks
the company is entitled to them.
j. H. Cook OF the Aberdeen com.
pany, has got all the machinery for
the new concentration On the ground, |
and is now busy getting it put
together and a building over II. He
expects to be making concentrates by
The first OF the year. The shaft 10 the
Malachite is down ninety feet. As he
intends using this as a working shaft
it has been sunk perpendicular,
regardless Of the ledge, and is now
away from the ore. lie will make a
to the ore this week, so as to
show the ore to r. II. Bachelor, the
The general mauager Of the company,
who is expected to arrive from New
YORK. next week. as was expected
when the water was taken Out OF the
M%alachite it unwater f Orphans
Home, which is on a ledge mat con.
meets With the Malachite, This en-
ables Mr.. Cook to do work on the
Orphans Home that be has long been
wanting to do, but was unable to
on account of the water. The ore 10
the Atlantic's west drift is improving,
and is now two feet wide. Mr.. Cook
is anxious to get a pump On this shaft,
so he can sink. He is confident Of
some fne ore at a greater
j. w. Hazeu, OF Boston, treasurer
Of the Shannon copper company, aud
H. s, Anderson, OF Springfield, MasSa-
chusetts, who nave been up at Clifton
for a couple Uf weeks, returned SUN
day, en- route home. Mr.. Hazen says
the development 10 the Shannon mine
keeps %uncuvering enough ore to bal
ance the depression that has attacked
all copper stocks, so that in spite OF
this depression the stock in the Shan.
non is worth as much as II was before
Che Amalgamated and other copper
commenced To drop. In the
Harrison tunnel, which is the deepest
" working on the shannon mine proper.
there are 14O feet OF eight per cent
sulphide ore, then thirty feet Of ore
that does not run very we'll, then the
tuunel run into high grade oxides,
into which 1t has been run for thirty
1--WE feet, and still has them Ia the
face A careful sample OF this thirty.
dve feet gave an average assay of ten
and one half per cen copper. A new
tunnel has been started on the White
which will be much lower than
any other working now on the prop
erty. II is called the Wiseman tunnel.
1t is 10 $50 feet, but has not yet struck
the main body Of the sulphidos,
although ore taken from 1t ASSAYS two