Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-16
SONORA MINES


 Greene cananea Copper company per as in times of peace. The con centrates from the Miami company are arriving steadily and are hand led in short order. At present the concentrates are arriving at the rate Of 50 tons daily. but the shelter can handle twice that amount
 Las Chisras Mine.
 Raoul c. Dufourcq, superintend- ent of the Las Chispas mine of the Pedrazzini Gold adn Silver Mining company. passed through Cananea this week on his way 10 Fl Paso on a business mission. During his ab sence his brother. Edw. L. DufourcQ. manager of the company. is at the property looking after the affairs of the company.
 Mir. Dufourcq stated that the new cyanide plant will be ready to be- gin operations on Modany, May l5 and that it was almost completed nnen he left the property.
 At the present the company is eX- periencing some difficulties on ae- count of the scarcity of labor ana the spasmodic arrival of freight and supplies. At the time he left the camp there were about 450 men em- ployed.
 The mine has been closed down but two days during the revolution ary activity in that neighborhood Good Friday and Holy Thursday. This was necessitated by the non arrival of supplies.
 At the present time the eompany is experiencing no unpleasantEess on account Of the revolution save that mentioned above. the delays m the receipt of supplies and scarcity of labor. However. with these inter- ruptions the company is producing and shipping steadily. The monthly output, with the present conditions averages about 30 tons of first class ore. 50 tons of concentrates and some bullion, the total output amounting to approximately 55,OOO pesos. The mill, five stamps, handles on an average at present of 12OO tons a month.
 Wagon Road Complete.
 The wagon road to Cumpas has been completed and is now being used by the company.
 A carload of "T" rails was reeeiV- ed this week in Cananea for the comrany and has been sent to the mine overland.
 The new cyanide plant will have A canacity of 50 tons and consists of six agitation tanks made or steei which are 3 feet high and IF rect in diameter. The solutions will pc pumped from these tanks 10 tne ' Burt filters and from there to the zinc precipitation plant, where IL will be precipitated with zinc aust Two zinc dust feeders have been i installed for this purpose The prou- net of the cyanide plant VIII ps handled by the reverberatory furnace which is now in use This has hearth of 2lsxS feet and Is built or
 A month ago silver was costing the company 32 cents Ter ounce. hut with the present additional cost of operating it is probably costing a little more than that.
 Condition Excellent. Taking everything in consldera- l tion the company is in excellent condition and the management eT- meets fo overcome the difficulties which are now interfering with oper- ations within a short time. rrhs road to Cum.pas is SS miles ] ;n length and a grade Of 10 per cent is inc steepest portion of the roau' while the maximum is mostly cor ,re5 to uer cent. The road was | ,ar,- difficult 10 construct on account ! of tbe roughnass of the eountr@' 1 ryt considering this. it took but ! cornparativelv short tine to con sfr,ct if Ii tegins at the end oi the | aerial tramway, which is about IouI i ~,iles in length. Automobile trucks have beeu ordered for use on the new road and when they arrive all | tt,e ebiDuents will be made via l Sacozari Instead of Cananea- Maria Mine.
 | The Maria mins o1 the Carmen U 1 Consolidated Copper company IS tne ] onlv other property operating Ih | ,na chispas nelghbornocd. Thls ls | neing worked by contract laeor. On ,,croTDt of the close rONimity 10 the l Iybisuas mine thIs property IS SSn Sa | .;Ierad to be of some worth ana ue- ye,onments at the property seem to no,nt towards another rieh 1i.o .o coon The Carmen recently passed lo .Sa control of Duluth int-resJs anu l,'
  new company was formed MOIs wae resumed after long perioo oi l fdieness.
 The Cananea-Boston mine IS o0,l. yarv little work at present on count Of water in the shait , tSo.e-. Eo, z. IT Smith. manager of the prope,, sn ,y has gone to Galveston, Iezas, on Snsiness connected with the prop erty. .Ffns Mex ,co rroperty, S5 miles from E nfchi is running nicely ana gslls .rtires satisfaction. The stack Nas constructed 10 aecoumodate % 'ona na s.5lv hut # can easily handle ny .o1~ About 7n rer cent of the oles i bsnSled are hieh grade and me ou.
 rs,t Inf the smel'ef is a hign gIa-oe' ,- silver.lead matte. v E. PoiheIOs -lo = | ,eritnendent O ,hc property- ' lle coneuIting engineer for the soNs csny H L. Hollis, recently f'ade a 1 visit to the property