El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-30
MINING NEWS
INSPIRATION To
BUILD ITS MILL
Has Already Engaged Work
men Miami Proper
ties to Resume

Miami, Ariz. Dec. 30-The Inspira-
tiOn Consolidated Copper company is
hiring carpenters and mill men to
commence work on January 10. 1t is
understood that the new concentrat-
ing mill will have capacity OF 5000
tons day. and will cost approximate
" 100000.
When this mill is completed it is
estimated that the annual production
Of copper viii be 75,00OO00 pounds at
q cost of about 3 cents a pound
The head men of the a. & E. rail-
road have been on the ground during
the week, and 1t is understood that
the branch to the Inspiration and Live
oak mines will be started next week.
As there is practically no grading to
be done and only about two miles Of
road to be built, il will not take over
a month 10 construct the branch.
Warrior Company Resumes.
The Warrior Copper company has
hired -s,2eE-and viii resume mining its
property on January 2. SuperintenC-
ent L. NJ White will resume the ship
ping of ore to the Ell Paso smelter as
soon as possible. The company owns
y claims, or 1l56 acres. The ore is
highly altered schist dacite tuff, dia-
base and conglomerate.
In seven years the company shipped
and mined 66,15S tons Of ore. which
averaged 9.41 percent copper which
yielded 1856, 434 pounds of fine cop
per. The equipment includes a steam
plant, burning petroleum. Buildings
are an assay office, engineers office,
carpenter shop, blacksmith nu-
merous dwellings, and a 300-tof--
ping bin.
Was q Bonded Property.
The Warrior Development company
took q bond and lease on the property
on October p, 1909, for S1,250.OOO, for
three years. The company made an
initial payment of 100000. one Of
1920 on June 80. 1911, and 1920 was
due on December 81, but on December
the Development company formally
surrendered its bond and lease and
turned the property back to the War
rior Copper company. The Develop
ment company shipped on an average
of 100 tons Of ore a day to the FL PasO
smelter. Considerable churn drilling
was done on the property in 1910 and
19l1-one hole on the property in the
vicinity of the Winnie shaft being
sunk sos feet in schist showing min
eralization, and a $50 foot-drin hole
proved the existence of chalcOpyrite
disseminated in schfst
Cost OF Production.
When shipping ore to the FL Paso
smelter the average cost. of produc-
tiop was s.744 cents a pound, of which
1924 cents. were for smelling. The
average net profit to the company on
each ton shipped is 1919. This prop
erty is considered one of the best In
the district, and is located about five
miles northwest of Globe.
Two Mines to start.
c. Clark, manager Of the Orphan
Copper company. located one mile
south Of here, has moved from Globe
to his dwelling on the company's prop
erty, and If is understood that he viii
nut 2 force of men at work developing
the property. C. ny Greer has com
pleted the assessment work.
Several wagon loads of lumber and
a new gasoline hoist were sent TO the
camp Of the ManitOu Copper company
this week. superintendent MOyle has
everything in readiness to push devel-
Opment work on a large scale and ex-
poets to make his first shipment Of
ore TO the o. D. smelter in February.