El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-14
CANANEA SHELTER
OUTPUT INCREASED
Calumet & Sonora Company
to install Zinc Plant at
Mine.


the neighborhood of 1900 tons, or
$4,000 pounds, exceeding that OF
January by 100000 pounds. During
February five furnaces were in use.
This week there are but four in use,
and CONSIDERING the grade OF ore being
reduced the output. for this month viii
compare favorably with the outputs OF
the preceding months.
The new reverberatory furnace has
been put to work on calcines and flue
dust and is now producing matte. A
number of the new Macdougal roasteTs
are also in operation.
Officers Are Elected.
At the annual meeting of the Calumet
& Sonora Mining company OF Cananea
(Afexican coTporation) held at the offices
OF the company, the following officers
were selected:
President, A. J.. Warner; vice presi-
dent, j. n Hauser, who is superintend-
ent of the property; secretary and
treasurer, w D. Underhill; comissario,
Z. c. Propert.
70 install Zinc Plant.
An important announcement has been
made by the company. The American
company has decided TO issue bonds TO
will be used TO purchase a zinc plant
(electrostatic and electrfY the mine
and mill. This step wall, or should,
bring the company to dividend paying
basis, for as soon as these changes are
made the property should be IN posi-
ton to give good earnings.
Superintendent Strachan of the mill
has gone to Denver and Salt Lake for
the purpose of becoming familiar with
the systems in use In those localities IN
the use of an electTostatic plant.
Strike in the Guiana.
George Mclean, superintendent OF the
Guiana mine, located about so miles
south of Cananea. reports another rich
strike at the property This recent find
was made in drifts on the hundred level,
while the previous one was made IN a
Wine at a depth of $50 feet. A full
face of ore has been encountered in both
drifts and the ore averages 35 percent
copper.
The reduction plant of the Cobriza
company, whose property is located west
Of Noria station on the Sonora railroad,
has been completed and the arrival of
coke is now awaited. The plant will be
blown in in about two weeks. The plant
IS modern in every respect.
The West Mexican Oil company will
begin drilling for oil on the Mascarenas
ranch in about week. The derrick is
now being constructed and the drill is
en- route.
To Soon Enter Producing Class
The properties of the Mexican Metals
company, which are located in the neigh
borhood of Noria, Son. give promise of
soon entering the producing class. The
Amelia. which recently made shipments
TO the Cananea smelter has been active
IL worked since last june and has so far
exceeded the expectations of the engi-
neers OF the company. The old shaft
has been cleaned out and a gasoline
hoist good for 1000 feet has been in
stalled. Three hundred and sixty feet
OF sinking and over 800 feet of lateral
work have been done since that time.
Stations and loading pockets have been
cut on the 200 and 300-foot levels and
drifts have been run at both points.
The vein has been cut on the 2O0-foot
level. showing a total width OF 81 feet
of milling ore. carrying copper. gold
and silver On the hanging wall there
is a shoot of first-class ore from 4 to s
feet in width. This Is a chalcopyrite
sulUhide ore. some of which assays as
high as II percent copper. 8 pesos in
silver and IL pesos IN gold his Is The
ore of which some was shipped to the
Csnanea smelter. The shaft is being
sunk to develop the vein on the 400 and
500-foot levels in order to determine
as soon as possible the full extent and
value of the ore bodies. A wagon road
IS being improved from the mine to the
railroad The Las Animas mine Is rich
in gold and copper and is an antigua,
being worked by the Spaniards to a
depth of 200 feet 100 years ago. ChasJ
7. TTvon. of the company's engineering
staff. has completed an examination If
the mine which included 200 assays of
samples taken across the vein every ten
feet throughout the old workings. The
examination disclosed extensive mineral
izatiOn The main shaft is nearly 300
feet deep and is in first class condition
A steam hoist has been installed and
sinking is being done to develop the
zone of secondary enrichment Fl Tori
bio mine is a gold property with rich
veins of gold quartz. 1t IS at present
l5eing worked by leaseTs who are goug-
ing out the rich ore in open outs and
grinding it In aT1astras. The Red Bird
mine is near Magdalena. 1t is a por-
phyry copper property and is only half
mile from the Magdalena river. 1t is
extensively mineraliZed on the surface,
like all ore deposits of this character
The property of the Arizpe Mines
company near Cananea, which was taken
over by the Mexican Metals company,
comprise $500 pertenencias, or about
6JUU acres. Inc ArlZDo company spent
100000 on this property. There is a
good wagon road to Cananea and an
ample water supply The surface equip
ment includes an office, supply house,
mess house, boarding house. ASSAY office,
store, three four-room houses and a
number of tent houses. The mining
equipment includes two steam hoists.
boilers. tools. etc. Although there has
been no mining done below a depth of
200 feet, the veins produce silicious
'silver-l lead ores containing copper.
Smelter returns show between 80 and
1872 ounces in silver, 3 to 20 percent lead
and two ton 6 percent copper.