El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-07
MINING NEWS
Copper Output in Courtland
District Is Richer Than
Ever Before.
CBy H. L. Davis.)


In the Patagonia district Frank
! Powers, owner Of the Worlds Fair
/ mine, is making a shipment of high
grade, silver ore, Of which he expects
! to load 1000 sacks, which will run
/ 500 to the sack of ore, as per assays.
I This is hauled to railroad under
! guard, two armed men guarding each
1 Wagonload and q guard at the car,
] heavily armed, during each eight hour
watch. The total value OF the one
| carload shipment will be over 800, coo.
! This viii be sent under guard to the
| Seiby smelling and refining works
near San Francisco.
Morning Glory Sold.
The Morning Glory mine, west Of
| the Mowery mine, has been sold by
I Chris Wilson to Colin Cameron. Of Tue
[ son, representing the AJo Copper COM
pany. of ella Bend, for $4,000. The
purchasers will run a 500 foot tunnel
into the mountain below present work
ings to drive them. 1t has been ship
ping mine.
A rich strike Is reported made
by Lou Stevens, leaser on the Blue
Eagle mine, located near the Three
RS, and he has now on the dump so
tons Of ore averaging $74.10 per ton in
silver and copper.
COurtland-GIenson District.
The copper output in Courtland dis
trict is larger than ever before in its
history The Great Western mine is
continuously shipping to the FL Paso
Smelter about Is cars of ore a week;
the Calumet and Arizona is shipping II
cars a week TO the Douglas smelter,
and the Leadville mine is shipping five
cars week, all making a total of IS
cars OF ore a week. CORTLAND is be-
coming very lively again, and at
Gleason there is much building going
on Daily trains are now running from
Douglas.
Bisbee-WarFen District.
Ore is now for the first time being
shipped direct to the smelter from the
Briggs shaft of the c. and A company.
Heretofore its output was through the
HoatsOn shaft. This company has been
shipping 28 carloads of ore daily to
Douglas and three to FL Paso. Five
car loads OF ore a day are also ship
ped 10 its Douglas smelter from the
ShaItuck, and CORTLAND ships three
cars. The daily ore receipts at the {.
ana A smelter are 1900 tons.
A conservative estimate of the daily
ore shipments from all the mines of
the WARREN district at this time, Is
10000, 600 pounds.
The output of Phelps-Dodge during
the past ten months was lis, 922, 1872
pounds Of copper, an increase over the
production the 10 months of 1911 OF
S,697,7OI pounds. The production of
the Calumet and Arizona the past 10
months was 44,502,000 pounds of COP
per, an increase of 2.9SS,000 pounds
over the same 10 months in 1911.
One of the most wonderful ore bod
les ever found in the Warren district ,
is in the Shattuck Arizona, which is a |
solid ore body 80 feet by 60 feet. BY !
so feet of rich high grade copper estf- |
mated to be worth over 50, 100000. This |
property began last month shipping to 4
Douglas 200 tons daily. Its present !
shipments are ESQ tons daily
1t is stated that in the Uncle Sam 4
mine an ore body has been cut for a l
length Of over $50 feet of a higher /
grade COPPER than the average in fFa
district
ClfftOn-MOrenei District.
The production Of copper in the