Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-28
THE C|ENGU|TA PROMISES
 MUCH
Smelling Plant Was Started on
 September 24, With Pros
 poets of Continuation-The 1. Mines Satisfactory.

The Boston Statist last week pub lished the following concerning the Cfenguita Copper company, located in the State of Sonora:
 The La Cienguita Copper company. which Is located in Sahuaripa district of the State of Sonora, Mexico, seems to be in the best shape of any prop eity in its district, which was made more or less familiar by the Notation of the Greene Gold-Silver company.
 The Cienguita Copper company has had its 3-ton day smelling plant in partial operation since March l last. The plant was then shut down and the minor defects remedied which were developed in the course of the run. The full battery was started on September 24 and it is expected that everything will run along smoothly from now on.
 The mining end of the property is looking exceedingly well. The main mining body of the company is DOT phyry dyke, with an iron cap con tained by a diorite footwall and a felsite hanging wall, which Las a width of 75 feet and which has a sur face outcrop of over a mile in length. Parallel to each other in this. the mother lode, are the veins on which | the company is now opening it's gigan- tic property. , Two of these veins, the Chipiona | aud the Colorado, extend the entire length of the mother deposit, go far | as opened, while the San Francisco | cross-vein is said to be rich in silver and to be the vein on which the prop 1 erty was opened up by the ancients. The copper, gold and silver va;ues l Tor which the company Is now min ing are in the Chipiona and the Colo rado formations.
 While 1t will be impossible to com pute with any exactness the extent | of the ore bodies until considerable more development work has been done. there is practically no doubt that all the old workings are under laid with sulphides containing -the three metals.
 | The Chipona vein is opened or a
 distance of 5000 feet. There are four
 tunnels, the most advanced of which
 are l and 2. The indications in this part of the property are to the effect
 that all the crossings and stringers feed into the main vein. The work
 ings to date show that the main vein Is from co to 70 feet wide. High values have been found in some of
 the cross-tunDels, but the average smelling and concentrating ores are
 estimated to contain from s13 10 SIG
 Der ton with the total costs of treat
 ment at from 5 to $6 per ton.
 The high grade oxidized ores lying
 near the surface, were extracted by
 the early miners, but the sulphides
 began to come in at 70 feet so thai f comparatively little ore was ex tracted.
 t The company was re-incoTporatet
 last December in Nevada. Its future has been considerably bettered for thu reason that the Cananea, Yaqui Rive x Pacific Railroad will pass within
 forty miles of the property. The company Is grading a road to connec with the idea of eventually erecunt an electric tramWay to the main line During the run of the reverberator, plant the company treated 1856 tons of ore which gave the following re
 suits: 25,341 ounces of silver, of a
 gross value of S16.471.65; 36.111
 pounds of copper of a gross value of
 $6,618.7S; gold to the value of
 $2.3S3.56; total s25.473.56. Average
 value of the ore smelted $24.12 per
 ton.
 | The company is now planning a concentrator of 1000 tons daily ca-
 pacity. The first unit with capacity
 of 5 0tons daily has a'teady been
 shipped to the company's property owns 2345 acres, or nearly four square i miles of mines