El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-24

Angeles Iessees. Their principal mines
re the Cooney and Little Charley.
Owns Big Acreage.
The Oaks company IS the owner OF
the Pacific mine and Of 1000 acres OF
1-ineral ground. W. J. Weatherby is
president and is projecting the cree
ton of a central milling plant OF a ca
pacity OF 1000 tons per DAY. Inc "a
cific mine is operated under lease
The Treasure Hill Mining and Ike
dUcticn company is the owner OF the
Confidence mine and contiguous prop
critics. Is claims altogether, and OF
the rs ton cyanide mill on WhlteWater
creek; is producing regularly anu y
delivering so tons of ore day at the
mill.
is owner of the Queen, the IWlS ana
other mines and a 10 stamp mill Whlcn
is to be remOdeled-
Besides the foregoing there are
score of rich properties in the district
being developed
The Cleveland Mine.
In the Silver City district. George
H Utter is owner of the CleTelaho
group Of claims and concentrating
mill. He is Shipping zinc concentrates
to Oklahoma shelters He is arranging
for the erection Of a larger concen-
trating plant
Burro Mountain District.
In this copper district the big COM
panies hold and operate groups Of
mines. The Savanna Copper company,
the BurrO Mountain Copper company
and the Chemung Copper COMPANY
The Savanna Copper company owns
Isl claims, or about 1000 acres, in the
Burro mountains, 10 miles west OF
Silver City n NJ The claims are de-
veloped by eight shafts averaging 500
feet deep, and over four miles of drift
ing Two Star churn drills have been
employed in prospecting and have
bored SO holes, or a total depth OF
311O4 feet. The ore is copper sulpbides
disseminated in prOphyry- Large
bodies of three percent copper ore are
determined.
Phelps-DOdge Operations.
The Burro Mountain company is one
of Phelps, Dodge & Co.'S holdings. The
Leopold shaft and the Boston shaft
are the main workings and have at
tanned 400 feet depth and with a VIM
level at 5000 feet. Large ore reserves
are developed At Leopold is a 500
ton smelter, idle at present
principal workings are shafts. One
shaft is 722 feet deep and another is
Al feet deep. The underground work
ings include eight miles of drifting,
tunnels, raises and wines There are
both veins and disseminated ore bodies.
and large reserves of L. to 3 IL
percent copper ore 1t IS Just reported
that the company has accepted an Of
fer of $1,000. 600 made by Phelps, Dodge
&, Co. for the ChemunS copper mines,
and the purchasers VIII begin opera
build a railroad from the mines at
Tyrone to Deming. n. NJ
The LOrdsburg District. -.
The mining camp of Shakespeare,
three miles south of Lordsburg, \. NJ,
is about the most active in New MeXt-
co The central property of magnitude
is the Eighty-Five Mining company
properties, in which there has been
! blocked out over 100000 during the
The Eighty-Ffve company has re-
Gently purcheS ed the Superior group
of Copper mines, paying the FL PaSO
owners $500 for it The company
has erected new buildings and done
several thousand feet of development
1t employs about us men and is
steady shipper of ores TO the Douglas
smelteTs. Last year the camp shipped
81, 200, 600 worth of ore and IL is eX-
pected that the output VIII double TINS
year. Other shippers are the Dundee,
the Miser's Chest, the Bonnie and the
Atwood companies over 500 tons OF
ore are shipped daily from camp One
month this year 1913 tons were
are soon to begin shipments
Apache BOx-TEin Peaks.
The most important discovery OF
sold made this year was at Apache
Box canyon, in Grant county. On one
wall of the canyon are immense zones
or shoots of fractured or brecc1ated
rhyolite highly silicified, carrying gold
in commercial milling values One
zone so feet wide has been prOspectCd
bv tunnels at various levels of good
gold ore, which has led he leSsees to
design the erection Of a go ton mill
iEE and cyanide plant
Two miles southwest are the group
of 60 gold claims owned by the Twin
EeakS Mining company Three miles
OF the mother lode has beer prOspected,
s!o wing milling ore in sold and sill
yer and the values have been shown
continuous to the lowest workings. 500
feet deep. The mill foundation IS
graded and the machinery is on the
ground and the erection of a 100 ton
milling and cyanide plant has begun
Modern Treatment In New MIL
The plant will be a crushing, mill
ing, fine grinding, concentrating and
cyaniding one, similar to that at Clear
Lake. only with much larger capacity
It will employ both stamps and Hunt
ington mills The ore will be crushed
in a 9 by Is crusher and then goes TO
bins, and from bins automatically fed
to the ten 1850 pound stamps, crushing
TO six mesh; stamp battery discharge
to classifier; shines from clasSlIler
across slime table to cyanide plant
sands from classifier to three Hunt
ington mills crushing so mesh; Hunt
ington discharge over slime tables TO
classifier; clasSifier sands to tube
mill; shines to cyanide plant TUBE
mill discharge returned over slime ia
ore is concentrated after each stage
of the crushing. so that most Of the
cyanides are removed and a lesser con-
sumption OF CnGHllCdAS IGSu4lS- i HIS
plant will act continuously and auto
matically and the whole cost will be
only $3.50 per ton,
Big Cyanide MIL.
Two miles southeast of the Twin
Peaks mine at, Clear Lake, is the so
ton mill and cyanide plant of the
American Exploration and Mining COM
pany, owners Of the Hinckley mines
The mines are in active operation, and
the mill has been running day and
night on gold and silver ores, ever since
its completion in March, this year Like
the Deadwood mill, it was built by J.
W. Kniffen.
New SmeIter at SOcOrrO, y. VI.
The Case Resmelting company. an
FL aPso corporation, has purchased the
old Federal smelter in FL Paso, dis
mantled it and installed il IN Socorro,
and is resmeltinS a large Stag dump
there.
The san Pedro Camp, \. VI.
The San Pedro Gold and Copper Min
ing company has started operations in