Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-12
ZINC ORES GAINING
 MORE ATTENTION
IN NEW MEXICO. WHERE ARE
 LARGE DEPOSITS.
Failing Supplies of Joplin District Gall the Industry to Particular Note al This Time in the Southwest.

Kingston, N. M., Aug. l1-New
 Mexico is much concerned in it's grow
 ing industry, the production of zinc
 ores which are shipped to the gas
 zinc smelters of Kansas. The indus
 try in this territory has long been over
 looked in the grab for the high grade
 pockets of the precious metals. New
 Mexico is just awakening to the inn
 pOrtance of it's ability to proudce zinc
 ores now that Joplin and other fa-
 nous Missouri and Illinois fields are
 rapidly failing.
 Sierra and Grant counties and more
 directly in the region of the Black
 range from the town of Hermosa in
 the first mentioned county to Cooks
 Peak and it's surrounding mines are
 rapidly coming to the front in zinc
 production. The great zinc sulphide
 belt from Hermosa southwest passes
 through Kingston, thence over the
 main divide into Carpenter district in
 Grant county, As is well known, the
 Black range from the Iron King mine near Kingston southward. on both the east and west slopes. contains large bodies of lead ores. carrying sulphides of lead, zinc. copper ard iron.
 In the Carpenter district. Grant county. just over the divide from King stOn and Lake valley in Sierra county. claims under option are being worked on a small scale. Capitalists who are interested in these options are expect ed soon to look into the possibility of these properties as zinc producers.
 The decline in zinc production in the great Joplin and Illinois mines has stimulated activity in zinc mining in New Mexico and Colorado, but the zinc miners are now face to face with the false construction put upon the Dingley protective tariff which has been letting in zinc ores from British Columbia and Mexico practically free These ores evade the tariff by being classed as lead ores and paying a duty upon the lead contents only, an item of 90 to 90 cents per ton or some small amount, whereas the duty on -other metals not specified" which | includes zinc, would reach s4 to $6 | per ton, escapes the duty. This mat ter has been brought to the attention l of the treasury department and a rul- | ing in accordance with the evident in | tention of the law can be expected at | any time.
 AS the matter stands now zinc is be- | ing shipped from British Columbia and the railroads are carrying it from there to the smelters in Kansas at s11 1, per ton. Mexico is now shipping in considerable quantities of ainc ore practically free. From about Monte rey there is being shipped now about 5000 tons of zinc ore free of duty and most Of it comes to the United States. From the state of Chihuahua there IS coming a considerable quantity of zinc and one mine in that state. the laiera. is capable of shipping at least 100 tons day and it is doing so by paying duty on it's lead contents alone which the owners care nothing about. | The zinc mining industry in growing -apidly in Mexico.
 The zine shelter owners principa1Iv n Kansas, are making a powerful pull 'n the treasury department for the it present. and obvious misconstruction 'f the law. They argue that the zinc Ii hines in this country are playing out md that our mines can not supply the demand. The proper tax on the zlnc 'res Of foreign countries would stimu- ate the industry in New Mexico, Colo ado and other states and there is no loubt but that there are enough zinc nines in this country to afford an am 'le supply for all the smelters and to , Ill the entire demand as heretofore. is just a question of developing new hines already known to contain great inc values.