El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-25
MINING NEWS
MINE DEAL INVOLVING 100000 IS
PENDING IN THE BIsBEE DISTRICT

It being at the contact of these two
| formations that copper ore deposits
nave been generally found
Output Is Decreased-s
| Inere will be some decrease IN the
! sIneiter production at Douglas IN sep
| tember from the cutting off OF trans
( portation from Nacozori, whence come
J the concentrates This has caused the
! shutting down by the Copper queen OF
J two of the reverberatory furnaces
Cananea will produce the usual
amount of copper less that derived
from concentrates from Clifton and
| Morenci, owing to the fact that rail-
! road communication has been cut cff
/ from the north for the greater part OF
the present month to date. This will
further mean a delay in the east in
receipt of the metal from the Cananea
smelter, which is certain sooner or
later to be reflected in the copper sur
plus. There is no danger OF shut
down in mines or smelter, as there is a
plenty of fuel on hand and ultimate
" the metal will find its way to the
eastern markets.
In the local mines no developments
or new plans have been announced by
the Calumet and Arizona company,
which will ship its usual amount OF
ore to its Douglas smelter. Plans for
certain improvements have been for
mulated, but will not be announced
until next week at the earliest.
Bids for the construction of the Shat
tuck smelter are now practically all in.
They will be acted upon between now
and the 25th of next month and an
early announcement of the letting of the
contracts is expected from Duluth 1t
is now generally taken for granted
that actual work of construction on
the 400 ton plant will be begun before
the first of the year.
Copper Queen Plans.
September is a rs day month, so far
a ],
means that there will be no increase
in the ore output from the mines of
that company in this district, but it is
learned that by shipping ore of a high
er percentage it is expected to produce
an equal or greater amount Of the red
metal from a less quantity of ore than
the average monthly shipment
The Copper Queen has ordered a new
hoist for the Sacramento to handle the
men going and coming from work and
chief hosting shaft of the big com
pany. It is also planning to erect and
viii soon start work on a new change
room at the Uncle Sam, which is to be
somewhat of novelty, as it is to be
built on certain lines that have not
heretofore been used in this country
and are adopted from Germany.
In the Southwest workings of the
Copper Queen the ore body that is ad-
jacent to the Shattuck property is still
for length of 100 feet and the end is
not in sight
The workings in the new Dallas
shaft have passed out of the ore that
was encountered, and drifting from
lower levels toward these bodies is in
progress, it being believed that the
first workings topped the ore bodies
Big Mining Suit.
The most important law suit ever to
arise in Cochise county is on at Tomb
ct rG hu - ~,
Paddy Cunningham. through Emil
Marks, their guardian A half interest
in the sale OF II claims that realized I
S962,000 a number of years ago. has
been instituted against the estate OF
Martin Costello.
Both Cunningham and Costello, be-
tween whom partnership is alleged to
have existed, were old timers in Ari-
zona, the former having met his death
in a mine in Bisbee in 1893.