Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
SONORA MINES
(Joseph | Cohnl

CANANEA, Son, Mexico, Dec. S:-- Fire this week destroyed the shaft house and contents at the Cansnea. Duluth m,ne of the Greene-Cananes copper company yesterday completely running all of the machienry in the building besides damaging surround ing buildings to more or less extent At one time the flames threatened to enter the shaft. The mine was shut down as a result and will not be operated again for about a week. The loss is fully covered by insurance.
 The output of the Cananea company for the month of November amounted 10 approximately 5,750,COO pounds of blister copper. This includes the con centrates handled for the Ray Consol- dated Copper company. The October gross output was 6,100.000 pounds.
 Considerable work is at present be ing done by the company at Puerto cites and quite a large force of men IS at present at work at this property engaged in min ng and exploration work There is also a small force or men employed on construction and re pair work. Several tunnels are be- ing driven into the hill for the pur- pose of ascertaining the extent of the ore bodies and some high grade ore IS being extracted from some of them. There is also some work being done in mining the property OF the bench system and this property is shipping regularly to the companys shelter
 A new incline tramway is at present being installed at the property which will be placed in commission withn a few days. The incline is almost l .0O0 feet in length and will handle the ores from the No. fl tunnel tol the ore bins which are located along side the railroad tracks At the foot of the tramway is a pocket where the ores are dumped as delivered from the tunnel which is a considerable distance below the level of the rail road tracks The new equipment will be the means of handling the ore from No. IA at a greater saving than under the present system.
 An ore sorting and classifying ap- paratus is bein installed at the Neta ore bins, similar in construction as. the equipment installed during the earlier part of the year at the Sierra de Cobre bins. 4 belt conyeyor has been also installed which will convey ores from across the ra lroad tracks to the Veta bins. The new equipment will be ready for operations within week.
 No. 2 reverberatcry furnace is at. present being overhauled preparatory for another run. This is the first time that this furnace has been cold since 1t was blown in.
 Catalina Closed Down
 This week the Catalina No. ? shaft Of the Calumet & Sonora Mining company was closed down indefinite lv. The closing down Of this mine was rather a surprise as considerable are had been encountered in the shaft which had been filled with water and idle for a number of years. It seems that the reason for closing down this property is that it could not supply enough ore to pay it's own way and that the company does not intend 10 do any exploration work on this mine at present. The Catalina is regarded as a likely producer of no small ton maze and as the ore which has been mined in the last few weeks, although not large in tonnage, was fairly good grade. espec. ally that encountered on the 60 foot level, which ran S41 per ton in silver, lead and zine.
 Houser Quits C. & s.
 Superintendent J. \. HauseT Of the Calumet & Sonora company has re, signed his position to take effect on December l5. MT. Hauser has accept