Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-02-23


Urique and or the Batopilas river and
over in Sinaloa located by John Paul
and NJ. w. Matteson,
The Rosario Mining and Smelling
Co. of New York, Clinton R. Peterkin,
president, and John Abel, secretary, is
preparing for and beginning extensive
development work, and is to begin a
concentrating plant and a custom
smelter at Urique. II mas capital sui
ficient for all purposes. George B. ia
cobs. E. NJ, is general manager and
L. r. Skeels, E. NJ, assistant Both
are from Chihuahua.
This company owns the Rosario
mine, a famous old property which has
produced at least S5,000,000 and was
bonanza for many years. 1t consists
of 6 peFtenecias and it and the FL Sal
to We're bought from the Becerra es-
tate New announcements were made
around to give the company 100 per-
tenencias or $50 acres Of mineral
ground. The ores are silver, lead
and copper, with from . to . of an
ounce gold.
The Rosario was one of the three
famous bonanza mines CT Urique and
with the Patrona and Providentia was
worked for the silver alone. 1t was
once owned by two Americans who
operated, it with great success in the
primitive Mexican way. Then it pass
ed into the hands of the Becerra Bros,
who took out millions and today there
are two great dumps at the mouths
1000 tons of ore which will run 10
ounces in silver and when treated in
the projected concentrator and smell
ter will net more than the company is
to pay for the property. There are
already two cross-cut tunnels on the
Rosario. The upper one cuts the vein
at 600 feet in and the lower one at
1900 feet. The latter is 500 feet above
the river and there are no workings
below the lower levels.
OF the several bonanzas for which
the Rosario is famous the old records
show that much of the ore ran two
ounces silver to the pound, or 1900
ounces 30 the ton.
The Rosario company is planning to
build 100-ton concentrating plant and
a wood-burning reverberatoTy smelt-
err Both will be also for custom work
as well as to treat the company's own
ores. The smelling plant is to be
built in Is or 20 ten units. a water
jacket furnace will be put in later.
The fire brick are now being made at
Urique for the first furnace. The sill
ca brick are also to be made there.
The ores here are chalcopyTite,
with gray copper, rich in silver and
often galena and chalcopyrite in
quartz gangue, which carries some
zinc, probably ten per cent. AS it is
not practicable, by concentration, to
separate the rich ores containing gray
copper, and gaiena, as the former is
so friable that it goes off in shines,
the company proposes smelling the
high grade ores and forming high
grade ccpper-lead matte of from 20
to so per cent copper, 30 10 10 per cent
lead and carrying from 200 to 500 oun-
ces of silver per ton.
A further and later plan of the
company will probably be to partially
roast and smelt the first matte with
dry ores in a water jacket furnace
with a view tG producing lead bullion
and high grade copper matte. The
lead bullion will probably be refined
by the Parks process, which desil-
yerizes the lead by means of metallic
zinc. of which about two per cent is
needed, leaving it sufficiently pure to
be run into marketable Mead direct
from the furnace, while the zinc
skimmings carrying the gold and silver
furnace producing Dore (gold-silver)
bars.
The aim of the Rosario Mining and