Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-29
WESTERN liberal.
LoRDsBURe. MARCH 20, 1901.

down TO Fl PasO the nrsL VI the week,
and expects to retuil today.
A pOstoGice has been established at
Guthrie and Mrs. John Brown has
been appointed postmaster. Service
has not yet commenced at the Office.
Two standard gauge engines for the
Arizona s. New Mexico road arrived
this week. They are Baldwin make.
Isx24 inch cylinders. supplied with
autothdtic brakes and couplers, n is
a ten wheeler with SO inch drivers and
the other OF a consolidated type With
80 ineh drivers.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. ,HaEen, NJ Bos.
ton, and John K. Erskine, IT,, Of New
Ybrk, who have been up tn Clifton,
looking at the Shannon mine and the
affairs Of the company, of which they
ia directors, returned Tuesday. Mr..
andArs. HaLen vent east, returning
t. their Boston home, aud Mr.. Erskine
went west, ~ lnnk at the Pa
York.
The Hon. G. ~. Shannon, member
Of the Arizona council from Graham
county, was 10 tHe city Sunday, re-
turning TO his hume IN Clifton from
bis duties at the capital, which duties
he performed to bis own satisfaction
and that OF his constituents. Mr..
Shsnnun said that the rumurs regard.
log his purchase of the Arizona Citi-
zen we're based on talk and not on
facts.
Hiram Fisher vent out to Antelope
Pass this week and heated what he
thinks will prove To be a One body OF
lead c~arbonates. 1t was tie last pros
pect located toy John B Malone he
fore his death. several years ago. Mr..
Fisher thinks that II Mr.. Malone had
not aied so soon after making this To-
cation the property would have been
developed into a paying proposition
long ago.
The Aberdeen copper cnmpany has
taken over the claims NJ the Royal
copper company, ia the Virginia dis
triet, south of town, and has pur-
chased a number more. IL has now
thirty-three claims. some held f1f the
great mineral showing there has been
developed on them, some for their
surface indications. and some for the
water supply. Last week the com
pany completed the purchase of claims
taking in among others ThOs. Ken
nedy's lead claims. on which consider
able water has been developed. 1t
let contracts to sink the Atlantic
shaft to 100 feet, and start a CROSS cur;
Tor Sixty feet Of sinking on the Arkan
sas, aud to sink the Manila to 100
feet. The Manila shaft wa started
to cut the ledge. at depth and last
week at SO fleet II cut a fifteen Inch
streak of copper that will run ten per
cent. The work on the Malachite will
be done by days labor, under the di
tection OF superintendent J. Il. Cook.
At the top the hslachite had four
inches urOre that assaTed 80 per cent
lead eight ounce of silver aud "a In
gold. At go feet this has widened
out TO 40 inches OF pay streak, which
looks as though IL would go fully as
high, being a grey galena, although
"a from the assaYer have not yet
been received. II is on the hanging
wall, and the ledge has not yet been
cross cut TO the foot wall. The con-
tihuation Of this pay streak from the
surface to this depth, and It's contin-
uous widening and increasing is very
favorable, and it looks as though the
Company would uncover a large BODY
Of ore. Al slxty-five feet last Satur-
day, water was encountered in the
shaft, and the indications are II will
be found in large quantities. AS the
water level Ia the shaft Is much high
or than the surrounding country, the
probabilities IRE that this Is a assure
vein. II the water Will permit with
out putting in large pumps this SHAFT
will be sunk To 100 feet where a cross
cut will be made and levels run. The
ore from all the claims taken out do
lug development work is being careful
ly sorted aud the shipping ore
Is being sent to the smelter. The
company is consulting with @. b.
Rogers Of Las Cruces 10 regard TO ar
rangements for the erection OF a cod'
e~entratOr 70 handle the low grade ores
on the company's different properties.
The concentratOr will probably he
erected on the properties purchased
from Thos. Kennedy, the site to he
selected by Mr. Rogers. The cum
pany will order the concentration inr
medlately aud expects to have ID Ia
operation by the irst Of September.
Il will put steam pumps on the shaft
on the Kennedy place and sink 1t TO
develop more water. Easy roads Gao
be built from the various mines to the
concentration, and II will be a down
hill pull, over a good road from the
ooncentrator TO the railroad. or