The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-26
Good News from ComaaChe.

In letCeT 10 iron. ore rclaClVe 10
the southwestern copper fields, Mr..
w. II. Hopkins has the:following to
say relative to the Comanche Min
ing & Smelling Co., in. which prop
erty- several Thousand shares OF
stock are. held by Virginians:
"We were all very agreeably sur
prised to see the extent and magni-
tude of the Comanche Mining &
Co., at Silver City, New
Mexico, smelter and mines. You
will remember they purchased no
claims in what is known as the Bur
70 Mountain district, which is locat-
ed about thirty miles: south, and
also the Hearst group of m ines
known as the Pacific group in the
Pinos Altos mountains twenty miles
north. We first visited the smelter
and saw it working nicely. They
were working but one stack when
we were there on account of the tre-
mendous rains having made the
roads most impassa Bile;
also the railroads were washed out.
They are depending upon these
roads to get their ore in.
They are smelting ore from ani1,e
aAfikals1l ,o1ais IS al 10 a k1at dedf
of custom work for local miners.
We were in their mines at Pinos AL
tos and saw substantial vein, that
will average 10 per cent in copper.
Some leasers working on this vein
guaranteed to deliver Is per cent
ore to the smelter. This ore vein is
we'll defined from the surface down.
We we're down about 800 feet on diff
ferent levels and also in slopes. Al
together it looks as though they
had an unlimited supply of ore to
draw from.
They are now building a railroad
from the smelter to Pinos Altos.
The heaviest grading all around
the mountain has already been done.
There has been no ore marketed
from their properties in the Burro
Mountain district, but we visited
four or five shafts that are in ore
and a great deal of ore on the dump
The best of these are located on the
Bohn and Comanche claims. The
klondike also shows we'll: They
are going about the matter of pro.
ductiOn in a substantia way, but
not on the same substantial plans
as the Bisbee district, for the reason
they have not the capital, but al
this time the Comanche company
is in good financial condition. You
will perhaps remember that Mr.
Lonstorf is heavily interested in the
COmanche and he contemplates
taking 100000 more worth of stock
You may say that ComanChe is Fl.
nanced by Milwaukee capital, Mr.
Phster being very substantially in.
terested. l predict that, after Mr.
Lonstorf's visit, the Comanche will
be able to get what money they may
require to go right ahead and do
development work, and purchase
such machinery as they may require
to get out the ore now in sight.
This district shows grass root in.
dications, the outcroPpings being
very substantial, and where they
have gone down in the vein they
have found the ore. They are bout
to put in two 35-ton reverbratories
They are now shipping the smelter
product as copper matte. Mr.. Laugh.
rem, who is in charge, seems to un:
derstand his business thoroughly,
and when you know what he has
done to erect this smelter from the
debris he has accomplished won.
derful feat.
The machine shop is in good con.
dltion and they have a lot of the
old pumps and other machinery
resurrected from the fire and put ia
tirst-class order. In other words,
they have a full complement 81
equipment to carry out their work"