Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23
MINING MATTERS.
News About the Great Industry OF this
section OF the World.

news ABOUT h Great Industry Of this
Section Of the World.
3. W. VIM writes from Denver
that be has ordered engine, hoist and
pump for the Mineral mountain com.
pany, having found just what he need.
ed ready made, so It was not necessary
to walt for their building. He ex.
poets to contract for the erection OF q
c%encentrator before he leaves Denver,
and will make his contract for not
only making the machinery, but for
erecting 1t all ready to run on the
property Of the company at STEMS
Pass.
The Aberdeen copper company has
received a new hoist, an air compress
sor and a Leyner drill, and Superln-
tendent Cook is busy putting this ma
chiaery In place. He has the double
compartment shaft of the Malachlte
nearly oil timbered down to the water
level, sixty. ave feet. The Orphans
Home is now down seventy-four feet,
and Superintendent Cook is figuring
on running a pipe from his boiler
house Do the Malachlte to this shaft
and installing a power drill. Both
the Arkansas aud Atlantic improve
with depth, each now exposing a two
foot'veln Of dne ore.
The Shannon mine continues to
show large and valuable ore bodies.
w. T. Thompson, financial agent Of
the company, writes as follows: "Un-
der date Of July 3lst., WI received the
following word from Clifton: That
the strike Of sulphlde ore recently
made 10 the Harrison tunnel runs ga
per cent copper, and, at that date,
had been run upon for 40 feet. The
Harrison tunnel is 10 feet under the
Shannon tunnel, heretofore the deep
est workings In our mine, and the ore
encountered is a continuation Of the
great red West ore body, which, ia
the Shannon tunnel, 10 feet above, is
an oxidized ore, aud on this level, has
changed to a sulphide ore, the per-
manent ore Of the district, and,
furthermore, realizes Mr.. Ohurch's
anticipation, as stated in his report,
10 which he says: Under the great
red body Of ore OF the Shannon, ! ex-
pect a body Of sulphide ore. y = =
Both the ore in sight and future ore
are likely to be increased 10 quantity
by unexpected discoveries, and 1 con-
slider the geological evidences to be
strongly In favor OF permanent de-
posits.' 1 feel much the same in re-
gard to this as Mr.. Wlseman, who
writes as follows: i regard this strike
as very important, as it Is a class Of
ore which is very important that we
should have IN abundance Of. Our
strikes seem to indicate that we shall
be able to handle any tonnage that we
have considered In our previous dis
c~ussions.'" Since the above was
written J. f. Wardner reports that
the Harrison tunnel has been con.
tinued for one hundred feet in this
WV dhu Jh0O q WHO ounh III tuC
Shannon tunnel at a point where the
Harrison tunnel would pass under 1t
and two hundred feet from the work.
ing In the Harrison tunnel, the same
body Of ore vas encountered. The
Wine struck the ore at a depth Of
thirty. eight feet, showing the top Of
the sulphide ore vas at least thirty
two feet above the Harrison tunnel,
The extent Of this body of ore is un-
known, but the fact that it has been
encountered in two places, which are
three hundred feet apart. aud one
thirty. two feet lower than the other,
and these two places are the only
places in the workings where the out
side Of the ore body is found, indicates
that the body Of ore is an enormous
one.