Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-07-19
MINING MATTERS.
News About the Great Industry OF thi
section Of the World.

Leslie Q. Mott, representing the
Federal smelter OF FL Paso. was In the
city the FIRST Of the week looking out
for the interests of his company.
John Hernstedt this week sold tc
the Lena mining company the Fort
Savage mine, located neal the Miser's
Chest, consideration $500. The
Fort Savage was located In 1896, and
is n of the finest prospects in the
camp.
j. Fl. Cook, superintendent OF the
Aberdeen company, is now putting in
place a boiler on the Malachite, which
will supply the steam necessary to run
the pump and holster that will be
erected on this property. The Allan
tic shaft, owned by the same company,
is 10 down 116 feet and there are 1--we
feet OF lne copper ore in the bottom
of the shaft. The shaft on the Ma
nilla is now down $50 feet and Mr..
Cook will have the ledge cross cut at
this point. There has been a decided
improvement in the ore body exposed
10 the Earl. 1t is now two feet wide.
1t was found necessary to timber the
shaft in the Orphans Home. The
shaft is now down sixty feet, and now
that the timberlng is completed sink
ing will be continued.
The Federal Copper company's
smelter at Ell Paso will blow in in a
day or so. The company is ready for
business and is prepared to receive,
sample and pay for ores. 1t has an
az advertisement in this issue of the
LIBERAL, announcing that it wants
to get the ores OF this section of the
country. Since the great Ell Paso
smelter was burned this gives an open
ing for the miners of this section of
the country who do not want to pay
the enormous freight charges neces-
sary to send ores to Colorado. The
new smelter will be one of the most
complete and up-to-date of its kind In
existence. Every feature Of the plant
is designed to accomplish its purpose
with the least possible friction and
the least expenditure Of human euer-
gy, and the whole plant is in every
way a model of conveniences. The
smelter will start with a capacity of
200 tons daily, and the heavy machine
ry necessary to increase the capacity
to 800 tons Is already manufactured
and will be installed as soon as the
business warrants. Five miles of
tracks are already laid in the switch
yard adjacent to the smelter, two
switches running into the smelter
house, so the cars may be unloaded
directly over the furnaces, doing away
altogether with elevators, Bins have
been built that will hold 500 tons of
coke and 1900 tons of ore, under
cover, while the storage bins 10 the
yard will accommodate 10000 tons.
The sampling is entirely automatic,
Vegin samplers being used. The
company will make it a rule to allow
shippers or their representatives to
personally inspect the sampling, and
every effort will be made to give salts
faction to the shippers.
Prof. ]. G. Carrera, superintendent
of the Lena mining and concentrating
company, left Monday for Cripple
Creek, where he will attend the
twelfth annual session Of the Trans
Mississippi commercial congress, which
met there on Tuesday, After the ad-
journment of this congress Prof. Car.
rera will go to Boise, Idaho, to attend
the fourth session of the international
mining congress, which meets on next
Tuesday. He was appointed delegate
to both these meetings by Governor
Otero. The professors main object in
attending these meetings is to urge
the adoption OF resolutions ask
ing congress to establish a
mining department in the cabi-
net, and appoint a Secretary Of Min
ing, and to extend to the mining in
dustry, in the mining states and terri
tories, the same attention and aid that
is extended that other great industry,
agriculture, in all the states and ter
ritories. In each state and territory
the government makes an annual ap-
preparation of $40, 900 for the agricul-
tural colleges and agricultural ex-
pertinent stations. If congress would
do as much for the mining industry as
it does for the agricultural, wonders
would o o be worked in the mining
states and territories, The. mining
schools would then amount to some
thing, t|hescountry would be intelli-
gently and scientifically prospected
and new processes for working the
ores and reducing minerals would be
discovered. The mining industry is
entitled to a portion Of the money
derived from the sale Of the public
lands, for it pays more for the land
than does the farmer. Agricultural
lands are practically given to the man
who will prove up on them, while If a