Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-01-24
MINING MATTERS.
News About the Great Industry OF this
section ofthe world.

W. 1N NAk
copper company at Clifton, as yet 40.
completed. The picture shows an
Immense plant, and those familiar
with IL tell the LIBERAL that 10 Is Che
most complete plant 10 the territory,
and II should he able to manufacture
copper as cheap as, or cheaper, than
any plant 10 Ariznna. Superintendent
Wiseman has been greatly DELAYED in
getting the plant finished by tho de.
lays 10 all steel working establish.
ments In the east owing TO the strlkrs
OF last summer. IL he could build a
copper smelter out OF broken Promises
he would have enough stuck on hand
to build a teu thousand ton plant.
John Gleesnn has sold out his In
terest 10 the Copper Belle Company AT
Gleeson, aud resigned the superiu-
tendency OF the company. IL is re
ported that John cleans up about hall
a million dollars on the deal. which
news will delight his friends as much
as 1t does hun. john GleesOn has bad
plenty OF hard luck, and this is the
third struke Ut good Luck he has had
In the past fifteen years. The dtSt OF
his good luck WAS when he sold a mine
az Hachita for fifteen thousand dol
lars, and his secOud guod luck followed
THIS closely, IL was his marriage, and
this third one dxeS him for life, ia IL
cially, He located the Copper Bell
properties four or five years ago, de-
vcloped them enough To interest cap
ital in them, money was Invested.
more development done, and for some
time the company has been shipping
a Thousand tons OF ore a month.
When he had placed the business on a
irD foundation he felt willing to re-
tire, and so closed out his interest and
resigned the office uf superintendent.
He has some other good prospects hid
out in the hills, and probably will do a
little scientific and second hand de-
velOpment on them. Second hand
development CONSISTS in sitting on the
dump and watching the other fellow
hit the drlll.
r. II. Bachelor, uf the Aberdeen
consolidated Company, arrived from
New York Monday, to lonk after the
interests Of the company here. J.. II.
Cook, superintendent Of the company,
having resigned, and e. Mccormick
having been appointed in his place
Mr. Bachelor came down to make the
transfer. Mr.. Bachelors intentions
are to push the work on the concen
traitor to a finish as rapidly as possible,
and not TO do any mnre development
work until the concentration is ready
to receive the ore. Mr.. Mccormick,
the new superintendent, is an expert
enced concentration man, as well as a
practical mining man. He came here
from chihuahua, Mexico, whore he
had been working for the Bacus
company. Mr.. Bachelor left on the
flyer last night, for New York, but ex
poets to return in March, and spend
six weeks, or two months here, put
ting the Aberdeen properties into
actual producing order. He has not
much faith in the near future Of the
copper market, thinking that the
price of copper will % much lower be-
fore there Is an advance, hut as the
! mines Of the Aberdeen company carry
so much gold and silver they will paw
TO work, no matter what the price Of
copper may be, and if the price does
not suit the company IL has plenty Of
ground on which to store the metal,
at 10 cost for storage, until the price
does suit.
Q. w. Maxson was Ia from Stems
Pass the drst of the week, and reports
The Mineral Mountain as being all
ready and waiting for the %cnucerJra-
tor, for which Mr.. VIM, who is now
10 the east, is negotiating. He had
some twenty. dve men at work mining
and has opened the mine sn that IT
will produce enough ore u keep the
c%oncentratur going, AS mining the
ore and putting IL on the dump u
wait for the cOncentratnr Is not very
economical work, Involving as il doe:
additional handling of the ore, he
stopped mining until the concentrates
was ready TO handle the ore, although
be has a small force OF men at work.
getting in wood, keeping the Minis
clear OF water, and other jobs which
accumulate. While gone Mr.. Winr
will also make arrangements for 4
concentrates 10 put or what used q
be known as the Beck mine. Alunl
ia the eighties, when silver was higl
there were sumo sixty thousand dol
lars taken out Of the Beck, IL had
small vein Of high grade ore, the veil
being but a few inches 10 thickness
between walls Of porphyry. To ge
out the vein matter ii was necessar,
to mine considerable Of this pOrphyry
which was thrown on the dump as q
no value. Owing TO the price Of sill