El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-27
BEAUTY AND WEALTH OF GREAT
APACHE BOX COLD and SILVER MINE
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being sorted UP to SO per ton. Here
the pay streak is so feet wide These
openings are supplying all the ore that
the mill can treat. 90 tons day Ten
times that amount can be mined with
out trouble. How far the ore zones
win go into the face wall is undeter-
mined If il never goes any farther, II
is q wonderful mine. The altitude OF
these zones has not been determined.
but so Tar IL exceeds 500 feet above the
bottom and Indefinitely downWards-
Up the dizzy face OF the wall are
grUlps of men taking samples and
prospecting. some 100 some zoo and
some as high as 400 feet, a most dan
gerous and thrilling task. One missrep
and they would fall to the bottom and
be crushed. We watched Mcbride climb
up a ladder. thence by a rope to an
other ladder thence 100 feet to a
cliff and far above him were a couple
of MeXicans, all gathering samples
which carry gold in pay quantity. In
deed, the higher they go the richer IS
the ore. Cold chils crept down our
spines while we watched and snapped
the kodak at them. From our view
point far below they looked like hui
man lizards. They can't go much high
er. and their samples all show gold To
ANGLE the rock above them VIII re-
QC--e ropes and ladders suspended
from the SUBMITS OF the cliffs to let
them down hundreds OF feet. Think OF
from five 10 nine Mills buildings on top
the front by rope and rope ladders, and
YOU can have a faint idea OF what Il
means to sample the Apache Box
mine
1t will take a year to do It, and I
wouldn't DO it for all the gold on earth;
the very thoughts of il are Nightmares.
Another Tunnel.
Five or SIX hundred feet north from
the mentioned tunnel IS another tunnel.
about % feet long. driven into the west
wall This also shows pay ore clear
across It. Outside OF the canyon,
on the south wall Of the mountain, is
the face of shoot 90 feet wide. OF
milling gold ore.
Mine Is a Puzzle.
And such is the Apache Box EoId
mine at first view. II Is unique and
suigeneris- 1t is a puzzle to the geolo-
gist The mining world is watching It
None is SO bold as to hazard an ex-
pert opinion as to the extent or value
Of its ore deposits. Time and work
alone can tell But the fact remains
that il is a paying proposition now,
and has sufficient ore in sight to war
rant the erection Of $50 ton mill at
once.
Personnel of the Mine.
Seventy-five men are now employed
in the Apache Box enterprise John
W. kniffen the mining engineer. has
general charge Of operations. AssOci-
ated with him IS his brother. /. n.
kniffen, mining engineer. suDerinten-
dent OF the BatOpilas mines or Mexico.
The superintendent IN charge Of the
mine and exploration work in the
Apache Box is John J. Sullivan, mining
engineer, Of E1 Paso-
All these men are college graduate
engineers John W. Kniffen, Of
Lehigh: J.. n Kniffen. Of Columbia,
and John J. Sullivan. OF Harvard.
All of them have been in charge Of
large mines in Mexico and are not only
g g a.-.e ISL 20 IN
knowledge. but have practical expert
ence that is still more valuable The
mill superintendent at the clear Lake
mill is Edmond Shaw, Of III Paso, who
was formerly at the san Ramon minep
in Durango, Mexico.
The Force OF LabOrers.
The IS men working are distributed
as follows. Thirty at work in the Box
80 on grading the road and 10 at the
mill and camp at Clear Lake Flows
and scrapers are employed on the new
wagon road This road viii be a fine
one. 1t is nearing completion Begin
ming at the saddle, near the entrance
Of the Box. il runs at light grade
two and half miles down to the Clear
Lake 10 stamp mill
Fifty mules are packing sacks OF
ore-aboUt 90 tons day-1rom the Box
canyon to the mill. This ore runs from
SIS to $50 per ton. The main ore bod
les in the Box run from So to Slz per
ton, mine run CunsOrted)-
Modern Milling Practice
J. W. Kniffen came to this district
from MOgollOn last November TO erect
the mill at Clear Lake for the Amerl-
can Exploration and Mining company,
which owns the Huxley mine, a short
elsudnce Up the canyon from GEAR
Lake He had just finished the con-
struction Of the IS ton mill and cyanide
plant at the Deadwood mine in the
Mogohon mountains, which was the
Ilrst up TO date plant Of that character
ever erected in New Mexico The new
mn AT Clear Lake is Of the same pat
tern as that at the DeadwOod mine viz;
stamp mill, concentration and cyanide
plant instead Of the antiQuated old
pan anal gamatiOn process, which was
unable to save the values Of the ores
of western New Mexico
Modern Style Valuable.
me modern style Of milling treat |
ment has revolutiOnized and revived |
this great district tt was my privilege
TO see here for the first time. the oper- l
alton of this wonderful STYLE of plant.
1T seems so Interesting that I venture 1