Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-10-10
MINING MATTERS
About the Great Industry or this
Section OF the world.

uleu laSO Friday from an attack OF
pneumonia. For many years General
Hughes and O. M. Shannon, who is
the generals nephew, owned the
Shannon mine at Clifton, aud they
sold IL 70 the Shannon copper com.
pany.
The International smelling and re-
dining company is now 10 process OF
organization, with a capital Of s. 0OO,-
600. This company has the exclusive
rights to the patents aud methods Of
Professor Charles A. Vessels. Tests
made on a large scale have proved
that IL can treat lead ores for two
dollars a ~ less than any method of
smelling nov 10 operation, and that
on copper ores II can make a saving OF
four dollars per ton. COe Of the first
smelters the company will build will
be at Aberdeen, two carloads Of lum-
Der, a quantity OF pipe and machinery
are already ordered. This company
will have 10 connection with the
smelling trust. IL will stand on its
own feet, and do business its own way,
which probably means that it soon
will come into opposition with the
smelling trust, to which, Of course,
no person Interested In the produc.
tion Of ore can offer any objection.
T. A. Lister, president Of the North
American mining company, who has
been here for some time, looking after
the interests of his company, left Sun
day, for Albuquerque, near which
place be also has extensive mining in.
terests. While here he put men to
work on che Gladiator and Horn Sill
yer claims, and kept the men at work
on the Cobre Negra. On this property
the incline is now down seventy. three
feet, and a drift has been run ninety.
two feet, from this an uprise will be
made to the surface, for the purpose
of yentilating. Mr.. Lister will return
to Pennsylvania, and consult with the
directors OF the company about sink
ing a deep shaft. The Eagle drug
mercantile company has offered a
thousand dollars to the person who
will sink a thousand feet, in the
Virginia district, and Mr.. Lister is
considering the proposition, and will
probably go after the money. The
ore showings in all the properties Of
the North American are very fine,
this is especially true of the Corbe
Negra.
1t will be remembered by many
that some years ago when John Leech-
man of the Shakespeare mining com.
pany was running the IS aud other ad.
jacent mines in Shakespeare, he ran a
large bill with the Roberts s. Leahy
mercantile company, which he
neglected paying, w%hereupon the
company sued him, got Judgment, the
Sheriff attached the mines, and sold
them a year ago Sunday. In case of a
sheriff's sale the owner has a year 10
which to pay up aud redeem the
propertR During the past year
Leechman has been trying TO sell the
properties for enough to pay this
judgement, aud a little over, but was
not successful. 1t was reported that
Leechman had the money in the bank
at Silver City TO pay it off, but would
not do it until the last minute. If
this is so he held on ,tb the money a
little too long, for he did not repre-
seut on Monday, which was the last
day, and Tuesday morning Sheriff
Goodell made his deed to the Roberts
& Leahy mercantile company for the
mines. 1t is said there is enough ore
on the dumps to pay the judgment.
The company was held out Of the
money for a long time, but it has got
some Of the best property in the Vir-
GINA district, which will amply repay
it, and the officers OF the company
smile complacently over the deal.