El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-31
CONSTRUCTION WORK
RUSHED AT CANANEA
Fetal ed Cobra Elects Di-
rectors- Copper Encoun-
tered In San Felipe.

Cananea, Son, Mex, Oct 9Th,
Greene-Cananea company is continuing
its smelter with six furnaces, this
number being in use the entire month
The October output is expected 10 b.
in the neighborhood of 100000
pounds.
Construction work is making rapid
Roadway and much Of it will be com
pleted before the first of the year.
The Juanita Mining company. which
is operating northwest of town, and
which is known as the Shattuck- Pat
tison property, has installed a whin
al the shaft which is being sunk neal
the Calumet & Sonora property. Sink
ing will be resumed at once.
The directors of the Cananea North
ern at recent meeting discussed the
commencing of development work in
the near furture. They also decided
to have the property monumented al
once Some good ore has been discov-
cred on the property recently on the
surface which has caused the directors
to discuss development work
Directors Are Elected.
The Metal de CObre company which
is the Mexican corporation of the Yauui
River Copper company, held its annual
stockholders meeting in Cananea this
NJ Newman, n. c. Bledsoe. Jesse Yoa-
KUN, l. A Brown and c. NJ. Henkel.
all Of Bisbee, Ariz. No other business
was transacted
The NacoZari Consolidated cornpany
Is making progress. The main tunnel
is in a distance of $50 feet. attaining a
depth of $50 feet The tunnel is being
run TO catch the Pilares vein. which
VIII be caught when the tunnel makes
depth of 700 feet There are seven
silver veins on the property of the
company, which consists of 66 perte-
nencias- Two shafts are also being
worked at present
Work Resumed on North Tigre
work has resumed at the North I'll
gre property in the Tigre district he.
20" douglas The work is being done
Dy contract and 10 men are now at
work Recently two stringers have
peen encountered in the lower tunnel
which assay 500 and $50 ounces re-
spectively
me Nuevo Promontorio mine in the
AItar district is having a shaft sunk
u VIII be sunk to the 800 level
Gcod copper ore has been encouo-
tered in the San Felipe mine of the
EIenfta company. The find was made
In tunnel and two other tunnels are
also being cut. The shaft is down $50
Feet in leached and broken ground
which is highly mineralfzed.
An English syndicate has bonded the
ElolSa mine in the La Dura distric+
Two shafts are being sunk and % men
are being employed
Plenty of Water Now.
Inc concentration of the Moctezuno
copper company at Nacozari is worlr-
ing to full capacity The water sunrIv
IS now ample During the summer
only half of the mill was operated ON
account OF the scarcity of water
Inc TransVaal company is WORKING
ioFce OF 100 men at its properties
west of Cumpas. 'i'
Inc Antigua property, in the Taba-
lacochl district is working so men and
shipping six to seven cars a month to
the smelter
I'll Tfgre improvements
me III Ilgre company has complet-
Gu an the cement work for the new
'yanldlng plant, also for the addition
20 the hunting mill The new power
mousse Will soon be erected. This will
oe SuppIed with electricity from the
copper Queen smeIter at Douglas
distance of 70 miles. The material for
the line has been ordered and the CON
tract let for the erection of the noIas
md stringfng the wire. The new Tigre
plant will be ready for use about Nav
l. 1911 About 600 men are now at
work at the mill, on construction work
md in the mines.
The directors of the Santa Rosa1ia
hInlng company are expected to arrive
n Cananea in few days They viii
90 down to the mine and look it over.
Al present about 80 men are at work
II the property.