El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-04
MINING NEWS
MINERS WAGES IN
ARE INCREASED
Raise Now in Effect and
Hundreds of Miners Are
Benefited.

Globe, Ariz., Sept. 4.-Since Sept. l.
the wages of all underground employees
in the mines of the Globe-Miami dis
trict have been increased by rs cents
per day, as the result of a recent con-
ference of the mine managers of the
district The minimum rate now is
SS.75 per day of eight hours instead of
$3.50, which has obtained. The mines
affected include Miami, Inspiration
Con, Old Dominion and others.
ChUrndriH hole No. s, at the South
western Miami is $50 feet deep and
still in chalcocite bearing schist. 1T
is being enlarged with IA inch I'M
lively COS and SS5 feet deep in schist-
Inspiration Employs 500.
About 500 men are employed In de-
velopment and construction work at
the Inspiration Consolidated mines.
Macarthur Brothers have begun the con-
struction of the spur from the Arizona
Eastern railroad to the millSite and
main shafts and are preparing to build
the extension of the main line from
Miami to the Inspiration tunnel and
Live Oak mine, a distance of about two
miles. The construction of the spur
will involve the laying of II miles
of track and the excavation of 10000
cubic yards of material, of which from
so to 20 percent is rock work, and Will
take six months to complete. Much
of the line is over very rough ground
d
one point, containing 10000 cubic
yards H Kenyon Burch and assist
ants are working on the plans for the
mill, which will cover six acres.
The concrete lining Of the two COM
partment Kingdom shaft of the Old Do
minion mine has been completed from
the collar to the bottom, a distance OF
10Y feet The shaft will be used for
ventilation and for the passage OF men,
ingress and egreSS of men in the east
ern end of the mine. The work was
done under contract by Paul Michael
son and c. H. Weidman, construction
Churndriu hole No. 5 of the South
Live Oak Development company is 2S5
feet deep in silicified schist carrying
exide, silicate anc carbonate % copper
Cleaning out Old Shaft
The White Metal Development COM
pany, of Globe, is cleaning out the 200
feet level of the old McAIorris silver
mine, eight miles northeast of Globe.
The work is slow and difficult as the
drifts are badly caved, the mine having
been closed down for about 80 years.
a shoot of good smelling ore four
feet wide has been opened up on the
$50 foot level in the Williams SMART OF
the Iron Cap mine about 125 feet east
soft hematite and is estimated to ay-
erage eight to 10 percent copper,
which occurs as oxide and carbonate
The west drift on this level is also be-
ing advanced.
The Gibson mine, nine mileS west of
Miami, continues to make steady ship
ments of chalcopyrite ore, averaging
16 percent copper, to the Old Dominion
smelter. and shipped four cars in Au-
gust The ore is virtually all coming
from the fourth level on the PaSQuale
vein, though a small amount is taken
out in the progress of drifting south
on the fifth level. which is in 10 feet,
and in which small stringers of ore
are being found. Five or six Slopes are
being worked on the fourth level, one
of which is nine feet wide and carries
several shoots of sortable shipping ore
1t is proposed to soon begin drifting on
the sixth level About 80 men are en-
ployed. Tip Henderson is superinten-
dent.