Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-18
CHIHUAHUA IS
At FRONT WITH
MORE OUTPUT
Each Succeeding Month Since
June and July Has Shown an
Increased Production, ESpe-
csalA During October.
ikfining and scientiflc Press.l


In September l made note in these
letters Of the material improvement In
mining conditions about chihuahua,
and Of the Increased shipments OF ore
from that point during August over
and above June and July of this year.
September showed no marked differ
ence In production from that OF Aug
ust. but the October output forged
head with some 5000 tons more than
= that of August, or a total of 1880
metric tons. The greater portion OF
this Increase In production came from
Santa Euialia, some of the producers
in that camp having added to their
August tonnage by over 80 per cent,
and the grade, too, has had to be
brought up to meet the lower metal
markets The outlying districts have
also added their increased quota to
swell the whole. due largely TO i'm
proved transportation with the pass
ing of the rainy season, but also to
the good results of In telligent deyel-
opment work throughout the region
about chihuahua. 1t Is only the i'm
mense ore bodies at Santa Eulalia
and the remarkable richness of the
ore from the other districts that has
made tails possible during the contin-
uaily declining metal markets. One
of the most important of these rich
new producers is the San Francisco,
of ). s. Qualey, at Yoquivo, short
distance west of Pinos Altos; from this
mine high grade gold and silver ore
is being shipped to he American
Smelling & Refining company, netting
$500 per on for the first-class and $500
for the second class. while the milling
ore running about $50 is being stored.
AIR Qualey has an option on this prop
erty from the owner. Governor En-
rique c. Greet. At Pinos Altos notn-
ing is being done by the company, but
the lessee of the upper levels, w. p.
Dunhsm. is getting in shape to work
them in an energetic and systematic
manner, and before the end of the
year VIII be obtaining results. In
Uruachic T. A. Rfpperdan Is sinking
on a rich ore running well in gold,
silver, lead and copper in the San
Timoteo. and is now obtaining bids
for nail for the proper treatment of
ore; and the Watterson Gold Mining
company nearby is rapidly coInplet-
ing It's new mill. At Sahuayacan the
Sahuayacan Mining company. which
has been recognized as the Pennsyl
yania-Mexico Mining company, with
81, 005 Gee gold capital, still under the
management of George z. Howard, Is
preparing to resume operations, and
Pittsburg people have taken ad OPP
ton at 500, 900 on sine adjoining Santa
Teresa mine and mill, where develop
nsnt work will be resumed, also I'M
der the charge of Mr.. Howard East
Of chihuahua about forty miles, in
the Caorreros mountains, the Chihua-
flua Copper company is shipping from
two to three cars per week of high
grade concentrate to the Aguascali-
sentes plant of the American Smelling
& Refining company; the Mexican
Midland company, of d. NJ. Evans, is
opening up a splendid looking body
Of lead carbonate; work has been re-
stunned on the Mano Negra of NJ f.
Guerrero near San Sostenes; anu
New York people have had their en-
gfneer making an examination of the
las Vigas copper property of G. Z.
Voorhees,, Jr, also near San Sostenes,
which has been idle since the drop in
copper last year. In the Santa Bar
bara district, near Parral, the expert
.nents of the Minerals Separation
company, using the Sutton-Steele dry
table, seem to have proved a COM
pIete failure In the treatment of the
complex sulphide ores of the San
Francisco del Orc mine, of which
there are immense bodies, and the
company now contemplates reorgant-
zation with G375,0 900 capital to raise
funds for further investigations, while
continuing shipments of the clean
lead sufphide ore.
The threatened oil war which was
mentioned in these letters several
months ago seems to be under way In
Mexico City, the Waters-Pierce OIL
company meeting every cut made by
the new company of A. Pearson &
Son. Clay Arthur PIERCE, president
OF WatersP Pierce, Is at present In Mex
leo looking after the company's az
fairs. The gusher of A. Pearson e
Son at Dos Bocas, in the State of Vera
Cruz, which exploded and caught FIRE
on July 4, and spouted fire for three
months, continues to flow at the rate
Of about $1,000 barrels of oil per day
together with great quantities Of salt
weter, the oil being stored in inn
naense surface reservoirs, while tne
y dJ-T . uldAuCu lnOO inc SoAA Va No.
leo. The rapidly increasing produc-
ton Of OF In Mexico Is leading to its
extended use as fuel on the railroads,
and a number OF industrial enter
prises, among which is the American
Smelling & Refining company are ex-
perimentng with 1t for boiler pur-
poses
The Rio Plata Mining company has
been operating about a year and its
property has yielded net return CT
$4,000 per month for the past ten
months. The mine Is situated in the
Sierra Msdre, In southwestern Chihus-
7ua, on the Rio Stentrion, which
flows to the Pacific. 1t is reached by
an s5-rnile trail from Sanchez station
en- the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railway. The mine is developed by
$500 feet Of work on vein that has
an average width of IL feet, hay
ing a dip Of 70 degrees and cutting
through a mountain spur of diorite.
There are six aditlevels on the vein,
entering from the mountain side that
oxerfoolcs the river. There Is a YER
ticai distance Of 545 feet between the
highest and lowest of these levels.
The ore consists of quartz. carrying
SILVER as salphiGe, bromide and metal
lie, associated with icon sulpbide.