El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-26
GREAT TOMBSTONE
MINES BEING
UNWhTERED
Douglas Gray Says Work
VIII Be Finished With
IN a Week.

Douglas Gray, manager of the Her
schell mine at Tombstone, Ariz., who
was at the Orndorff Friday morning,
speaking Of the operations that have
been going on for some months in I'M
watering the mines of the Consolidated
Tombstone Mine aid Milling company
at Tombstone says:
The company has recently installed
a new Sterling boiler of 500 horse power
capacity which. added to the ten 200
horse power marine boilers already in
operation, gives total capacity of $500
horse power. 1t IS pumping now be-
tween six and seven million gallons of
water day and has lowered the water
from the 500 foot down to within few
feet of the 1000 foot level and is now
holding the water at that point with
sinkers' while Overhauling the pump
at that level, which was imprisoned by
the submerging waters when the ac-
cident occurred a year ago. Within the
next two or three weeks, the whole mine
Will be completely unwatered, so that
very extensive mining will be carried
on
Largest Pumps in Country.
That H. says Mr.. Cray, the largest
pumping plant in the entire west and
is the Largest shaft except that of the
Calumet and Hecla, of Michigan, in this
country, if not in the world. The shaft
is four compartment shaft with steel
gallows frame
They have pumped more water out
of that shaft than has ever been
pumped from any single shaft in the
world. The vein that has been cut in
the various old workings from the 500
to the 1000 levels shows up vein and
This is on the old Contention and Grand
Central lode"
Almost superhuman obstacles have
been overcome, and the people of the
entire Tombstone district are rejoicing
over the prospect of the company re-
Stunning It's mining and milling opera
tions. We feel that the good old days
of Tombstone are about TO come soon on
vaster scale than ever before and
with far more permanency.
Mill Capacity.
The capacity Of the mill is 200 tons
a day The company has shown Won
derful. perseverance in going ahead un-
der such enormous pressure of water,
which it now has under perfect control.
I think that now all the troubles are
practically over and the whole country
is much encouraged.
Enormous Compressor.
The company has an enormous com
pressor. which is being used partially
in running some of the pumps; and
when the big pump on the 1000 foot level
is overhauaed and started, the big COM
pressors viii be used in running the
Ingersoll drills for driving the cross
cuts and levels and developing the big
ore bodies.
The big shaft and pumping plant
and hoist are on the famous old Con-
tention mine which together with the
Grand Central yielded millions in the
cid days.
THE Consolidated T NJ. & NJ COM
pany has inaugurated a system of leaS-
ing its grounds and has already let out
five different leases in the old upper
workings of the Tough Nut group and
1t is expecting to extract great deal
of ore of high grade that will be shipped
to the FL Paso smelter. Heretofore none
Of those old mines would permit of be-
ing worked that way The Tough Nut
was the old Dick CD property. sold
by him in the early eighties for $500
cash, and which has produced probably
from $4,000 to s7,oOO.e00 in the early
days The camp has the record of hav
ing produced s35.0oO,0OO up to the time
when it closed down in the early
nineties. due to the decline of the price
of silver"
other Good Properties.
Asked regarding the Herschell mine. |
Mr.. Gray stated that the Wine, which IS
95 feet below the 500 foot level is in fine /;
ore and the slopes on the 500 I,
foot level are beginning to show up very |
fine siiveT-lead ore that will be shipped !
to the FL Paso smelter.
The Royal Guard mine which adjoins I
the HeTschen is producing very fine |
shipping ore, two carloads having been T,
shipped last week to the Fl Paso smell /!
ter which gave high returns very en-
cOurag ing to the management The !
Royal Guard employs u 10 10 men.
THE water from the big Mines" said |!
Mr. Gray, lis at present being utilized !
by the people for irrigating purposes !
through the literally of the company. |
it will be used for Mullins !
ard concentrating purposes. At present |
the mill has only so stamps but with !
In two years there will be 500 stamps |
dropping and crushing ore in Tomb |
stone, and the rich concentrates will be |
sent to the Il Paso smelter, as the /
product Of the mines and mills of Tomb I
stone is what the smeiter wants"
Mr.. Gray leaves for Tombstone Friday !
evening.