El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-25
MINING NEWS
AMADO ACQUIRES
THE PiPAGO Chief
Tucson Man Will install Ad
ditional Machinery; Activ-
ity at Patagonia.

ity at Patagonia.
! The Papago Chief mine, in the Ra-
/ bOQulyari district, south Of Tucson,
I Ariz-, owned by the late S. W Gunda
! ker and his associates. has been ac-
quired by A. T. AmadO. Of Tucson,
, Ariz., who viii operate the mine and
/ install additional machinery. The mine
l is considered very rich and has been
! shipping ore to the Douglas shelters.
By the end of this month Phelps
! Dodge & Co. viii have produced during
| 1912 approximately lac, 600, 600 pounds
I of copper while in addition to this ton
/ mage it has had the marketing Of 3d.,
/ 100000 POUNDS of copper for the Calu-
met and Arizona Mining company, max
! ing total OF 199,000,000 pounds of
The Lost Hills Oil company. of
/ Tombstone, Ariz-, has arranged to
| start work on its property near Con-
/ tentiOn, in the San Pedro valley, Ari-
IONA.
In the Patagonia District.
I A l. HarrOun, OF Kansas City. No,
/ has bought the entire interests in the
| Bradford mine, located in the Patago-
MIA district near the shipping station
! OF the Three r mine, called BlOXtOn.
/ This mine has shipped this year 126
carloads of rich carbonate of copper
ore to the Queen smelter at Douglas.
: The price paid is said to be $4,000.
I Operations and shipping will begin at
! once. W. H Worthington viii be man
! ager, and three shifts of miners viii
I be put at work. Five carloads of ore
viii be shipped each week.
Col. r. r. Richardson, who sold his
Three RS mine to \. L. Amster, under
! bond and lease, is receiving more than
] $1,000 day frCm royalties from ore
! shipped from the mine. At the present
1 rate of shipment made from this mine,
1 II IS estimated that the mine is pro-
! ducing more than 1000 600 pounds OF
n III ah 1r7sa
Bonnie expects to increase to 1900, 900
pounds after the first of the new year.
The Patagonia district has obtained
new rates Of freight from the camp to
| the Douglas smelters according to no.
tice from the state corporation COM
mission. The rates viii be S1.25 per
ton on $25 ore; $3.50 on $50 ore. At
present there are 10 good shipping
property owned by miners which will
thus be enabled to begin shipments IN
der the new schedule of freight rate to
; Southern Pacific Railroad company to
enlarge the ore receiving platforms to
meet the future requirements.
Lou Stevens, Of Bisbee, and ]. E
I Eagle mine in Alum gulch, hayO
4 shipped their first carload of high
grade ore, consisting of 50 tons, to the
Pioneer smelter at COrwin. The ore is
estimated, according to asasys. to run
SS9.l2 per ton in copper, gold and sill
yer.
Many Mines Doing Assessment.
There are over AGO miners doing an
nual assessment work in the Patagonia
I district This is due to the great in
/ fluX of prOspectOrs and investors and
the necessity to protect their claims
from being relocated, and to put their
/ holdings on a legal basis.
The total development work done on
the property Of the Inspiration Con-
Sondated Copper company during last
month was: Inspiration division, 1850
Q vi
tween the Scorpion and the Joe Bush
shafts. 61S feet remain to be drifted
through One thousand three hundred
Ieet OF rock must be cut before the
Scorpion and Colorado shafts can be
connected At the Joe Bush shaft there
are over 1900 tons of ore on the dump.
The Ray Consolidated is making
rapid increase IN production. The six
sections of the mill at Hayden have no
difficulty in treating 1000 tons per
section daily, having recently treated
over 6000 tons in a day. The No. 3
shaft, on what was formerly the Ray
| Consolidated J2-Or VICE emf shr etaO
1 Central property, is now being com
pleted and this week some tonnage
will be coming from The new surface
improvements are nearly completed,
which will reduce expenses. With the
high grade ore coming soon from the
/ Ray Central station, the ore viii aver
age fully two percent copper. as COM
pared with 1 3-4 percent at the present
/ time. The mill section, No. Z, is nearly
completed and viii be put into COM
/ mission when needed. The equipment
/ for the eighth section is well in hand
and the work Of constructing it viii
begin when the eighth section is com
pleted.
Big Shipment of Bullion.
The Rio Plata Mining company, in
/ the Artega district, in western Chihua-
/ hua, Mexico, has shipped 1900 ounces
I OF silver bullion to the BancO de So
nora at Alamos, Sonora. The shipment
/ was valued at $3.50. 900 and is the
! largest single shipment made to that
point in years. The bullion was in
/ bars. loaded on pack animals, burros
mountains and through the woods for
| five days, without any molestation
I from bandits, none of whom have been
! seen for several weeks in that locali-
/ ty. The Rio Plata company followed
I this big shipment with $1,000 ounces of
gOld-silver concentrates, which they
I shipped to TorreOn, COahuila.
One of the richest strikes of the year
I in Sierra county is reported from the
/ Chips mine, about a mile from Sierra
! City A three foot vein has been IN
/ covered and a narrow seam shows ore
running $500 per pound. The quartz is
almost solid gold, and attracts great
| interest among mining men. What adds
/ to the interest is the fact that the
property, after being a notable pro-
Queer, was abandoned and lay idle for
years. About three years ago Lawrence
l Hodley and associates became inter
ested and determined to make an effort
to rehabilitate the old porducer. The
strike is declared to surpass even the
rich discoveries made in the Tightner
mine in the same camp. So far the ore
shipped is valued at $4,000. with more
quartz on the way
CONCHENO POWER PLANT