Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-06-21
THE NEW sMBLTBR.

1N'Ne'N'hi wv biit hAsb VI Tue week
for El Paso. lie Intends making a
Silver City trip, and then return to
his home at Santa Rosa, California.
The Liberal is able to give more
news about this great project, which
means so much for this town.
The company ia named the Pacific
Union mining aud smelling company,
organized under the lawso California.
Capital stock 100000, divided into
6O,0OO shares with a par value OF $40
each. President S. NJ. Rohr, vice
president p. A. Meneray, secretary
and treasurer W. W. Barham. San
Francisco Office Room 40 No. Sl9 Mar
ket street. Location Of works, Lords.
burg, New Mexico.
DR.. ROhr and his associates, seeing
the large amount OF money to be made
10 the smelling business, concluded to
invest their capital in a smelter.
Various propositions were Investigate
ed, one in northern California did not
prove satisfactory. One in Mexico
was turned down because the com
pany preferred to do business in the
United States. Their attention was
drawn to Grant county and DR.. Rohr
thoroughly investigated this section.
At Silver City he found a custom
smelter all ready at work. At Dem.
ing, which formerly was 10 Grant
county, be found some advantages, but
the most serious difficulty was that it
was some distance from large bodies OF
ore that were developed and not con-
trolled by another smelter. At
Lordsburg he found an ideal location.
The place is surrounded by mining
camps that contain large bodies OF
ore that can be smelted if the smelt-
er is near enough to the mines so
that a considerable value Of the ore is
not taken up by freight charges on the
ore. At Shakespeare there are i'm.
mense lodges of low grade ore. There
are four companies working there, the
Aberdeen, the Superior, the Orion
and the'Lena, all piling second class
ore on the dumps, waiting the time
till they have a large enough reserve
to Justify the erection of reduction
works, The erection Of the smelter
changes each of these companies from
a developing proposition to a dividend
paying mine.
Then there are the great deposits at
Stems Pass, the mines at Pyramid, at
Sold Hill, and at Hachita.
Besides these are the ores that can
come in over the Arizona s. New.Mex.
leo road. From Duncan can be ship.
yed the ores from the Steeplerock
district, and from the Ash Peak dis
trlct. At Clifton there are many
miners who have valuable properties
which are not large enough to justify
the erection Of a smelter, or the own
ers have not the money to build one,
which would produce large amounts
Of ore for the Lordsburg smelter, all
the smelters at Clifton being used ex-
cluslvelY on the ores produced by the
mines owned by tho companies own
Jog the smelters, none of these com
panies caring to do custom work.
The company intends to put up a
plant that will handle a thousand tons
OF ore a day. The first stack, which
will have Il capacity of 10 tons per day,
is being made. by the Fulton Iron
Works of San Francisco, and it is ex.
pected that it will be blown ia in
September. 1t will be located on a
tract of land north Of town. DR.. Rohr
having secured 100 acres there. A
converter will be a part of the plant,
so the company will be able to make
copper ready for the market, and will
not have to ship its product to a re-
anery,
Satisfactory arrangements have been
made for coke and luxinR ores.
The company has already made con-
tracts with Shakespeare mines for six
hundred tons of ore daily, or so much
as it may be able to handle, delivery
to commence 10 September.
The people Of Lordsburg, and all
the miners in this section of the
country take a great interest in this
project, and that they may have a
pecuniary interest in the smelter the
company is Offering a limited amount
Of its itock for sale in this vicinity, a
fuller description of this offer being
given 10 an advertisement printed on
the third page.
q. W. MaXson, who has been work
Ing for the past eighteen months with
this end In view, and who furnished
DR.. Rohr with the information that
induced him to select Lordsburg as
the place for the smelter, is duly elat.
ed at the results be has achieved.
The Superior mine was shut down
Monday. Samuel Hughes, the recent,