El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-04
GLOBE DISTRICT
TO 1915 PER DAY
list Of SHIPPIKG
MINES INCREASED
Lordsburg District Is Show
ing Remarkable Activity,
With Good Results.

Shakspere camp of the Lordsburg
district, New Mexico, several new ship
pers have been added to the list since
the beginning of the present year. and
more are soon to be added The camp
is rapidly forging to the front and at
tracing the attention of outside CAPT
tai, particularly Canadian capital.
The wonderful production of the
Eighty Five mine owned by million
aires of Beloit Wis, for the past IS
months, together with the known fact
of their refusal to accept an offer of
1000, 900 dollars for the group, has
attracted interest. Also the fact of
their purchase. two months ago. from
Ell Paso parties OF the Superior mines.
paying $3.50, 900 for them, and of their
putting a larger force of miners and
timbermen at work where 1t had been
left untimbered by the recent lessees,
have attracted the attention Of the
mining people all over the west and
the north to the district. In fact, the
Superior mine is said by those COM
petent to judge, to be really a bigger
mine than the Eighty Five mine. This
outside opinion is cOrroborated by the
action and expenditures by the new
purchasers; for they have increased
their force from 20 to IS men, and are
now taking out a larger tonnage of ore
than ever before in the history of the
mine.
Boaney in Gold Ore.
The Bonney mine, southwest of the
Superior mine owned by Milwaukee
company, is again in active operation
and has opened up an enormous body
of ore in the past few months, running
high in copper, gold and silver, and has
Just shipped to the Ell Paso smelter
two carloads of ore that netted the
owners a good profit
Adjoining the Bonney, on the south
west is the famous Miners Chest mine,
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Moffett, of Ell PaSo, and associates,
which is shipping regularly one carload
of ore to the Ell PasO smelter every
day. This property is developed by
main double compartment work smart:
$50 deep, showing good ore on every
level. It is said by mining men that
this mine will soon rival the Eighty
Five mine in output.
About three miles northwest of the
MiSer's Chest and about half a mile
northwest of Lees Peak, and within
half a mile from the track of the South
ern Pacific railroad is the August
group of mines, which has recently been
acquired by Jack Davis, of Goldfield,
New, and his Canadian associates, who
have already extracted a carload OF
rich ore carrying gold silver and c p
per which they are ready to ship. They
are also working half a uOZen mines
and taking out Shipping ore from the
grass-roots. Mr.. Davis left yesterday
for Ell Paso to make arrangements with
the smelter and to purchase machinery
for this mine as well as for another,
1900 feet northwest of the August
group, called the BlackhawK. recently
acquired by him and associates This
property : so has shipping ere in sight.
Another property in the ShakspeEs
camp that has just Joined the shipping
class is the Battleship mine. near the
Eighty Five mines and lying parallel
to the lode of the same, which is
controlled by Col. Henningsin and
Messrs. Oliver and Matt Hovek, of Los
Angeles. Calf. This new property is
also in the list OF shippers and managed
by Matt Hoveck. The company is
known as the Battleship Mining COM
pany. 1t ships its ore to the FL Paso
smelter.
The Atwood mine is also in the ship
ping class. Just west of this is the
Southern Pacific mine, owned and op-
Grated by MarsellaS, who was formerly
one of the lessees and operators of the
Superior This property has recently
become a regular shipper to the Doug
las, AriZ.. smelters.
Dundee a New Shipper.
The above are most of the mines that
have become regular shippers of ore
since the first of The present year. The
Dundee should also be mentioned as
new shipper. This lies Immediately
north of and on the same big vein as
the Eighty Five and the Superior is
owned by FL Paso people. At present
1t is held under lease and bond by
John Writer and associates. It lies be-
tween the Eighty Five and the South
ern Pacific mines and has been ship
ping a good grade of ore. 1t has all
the earmarks OF becoming one of the
big mines of the camp
In the same great mineral district
and about 10 miles west of Lordsburg
and four miles north of Stems station,
is the group called the FL ORC, now be-
ing developed by Jack Davis, who be-
lieves he will in time develop a gold
mine that will rival those of Goldfield
New. This whole district, which is
about 80 miles square, is strongly min
eraliZed, and when developed to reason
able depth, will prove a great pro-
Queer, for 1t is comparatively a vir-
gin mining field, the deepest mines not
being 400 feet deep, and most of the
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