El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-28
MINING NEWS
SHIPPING FROM
LIMESTONE VEIN
Superior & Boston Has IS
Men Employed; Inspira-
ton Develops Rapidly.

Globe, Ariz, Sept. 2S.-About rs men
are employed in mining and develop
ment work at the Superior & Boston
mine and shipments of ore, mostly
from the Limestone vein, are being.
made to the Old Dominion smelter.
The crosscut north on the 18th level is
in broken. ironstained schist. carrying
native silver in varying amounts. but
no copper. and the two crosscuts south
are being advanced. On the eighth
level, a cr0sscut is being driven south
into the quartzite fOOtwall, and near
the end of the east drift, drift has
been started on small vein which is
reported to be showing up well in cop
per.
At the Arizona Commercial mine, the
steel head frame has been moved from
the Eureka to the Copper Hill shaft
and is being erected. The -Wellman-
Sewer Morgan. -14x2O, double drum
geared hoist is also being moved from
the Eureka to the Copper Hill shaft
and being erected. The only under
ground work at present consists in en-
larging to three compartments and re-
timbering the latter shaft below the
fourth level About 20 men are en-
ployed. r. r. Boyd is superintendent.
Developing SEile a Month.
The Inspiration Consolidated com
pany is developing the Inspiration
mine at the rate of nearly a mile per
month and has started a new inclined
shaft which will connect with the main
tunnel and will be used for lowering
men and timberc below the tunnel
level. At the Live Oak mine, sinking
continues at No. 1 shaft, which is
about SIS fee. deep. At No. shaft
drifts are being driven east and west
on the $50 foot level. The east drift
viii connect with No. ! shaft, over
1000 feet distant The widening Of the
Sulphide tunnel has proceeded for $40
feet from the portal About 250 men
are engaged in railroad construction
under Macarthur Bros, contractors.
At the Irene silver mine near Globe,
recently leased by J. A. Fleming, enc
of the two necessary miles of road
has been built and 1000 feet of track
has been purchased for use in the
mine. Work will soon be started on
the second and third levels Of the 22s
foot shaft.
Churndrin hole No 3 at the South
Live Oak has been discontinued at a
depth of 945 feet and hole No. will
be started about 1000 feet westerly
from hole No. 3. 1t is reported that
hole No. 3 passed through IS feet of
depth of $50 feet, and at SIS feet
passed into barren ground.
Iron Cap. Drift in Ore.
At the Iron Cap mine the east drift
for the last as feet, which is now re-
ported to have an average width 4
seven feet. -Four cars have been
shipped to the Old Dominion mine and
a fifth is being loaded. stope has
just been started. The ore is esti-
mated to run about s percent copper.
The drift east on the 500 foot level is
in about % feet
At the Copper Reef mine. y miles
south of San Carlos, the ore shoot on
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up for length CT 300 feet in the drift
from the California tunnel The vein
matter is reported to average about 10
feet in width and the ore to average
five feet in width and about 4 percent
copper. SO in gold and "a silver The
22O foot raise to surface has been
holed through for ventilation and the
sinking of the Wine resumed A Il
horsepower Hendrie- Bolthoff hoist has
been ordered for use in sinking the
Wlnze- About p men are employed.
At the Southwestern Miami churn-
drill hole No 8 is go feet deep and
reported to be still in chalcocite- bear
ing schist as is also hole No. Z, which
IS now 1905 feet deep. Hole No. has
been discontinued at a depth Of eS5
feet without encounterfne ore and the
drill has been moved to No. 4 hole,
winch was discontinued some time ago
at depth of SIS feet. The drilling Of
this hole viii now be resumed.
- MAJ pay menus nave been made on
the Roman lodge. Nos. and 2 the
Jack Pot, and the Pinyon claims 10
several OF the owners and negotiations
are being conducted with the others.
Payments were not due until about
another year, but all drilling has been
done on the aforementioned claims
and developments have apparently
been satisfactory
Louis Wright, consulting engineer
Tor the Lewisohns, has returned to FL
Paso after a weeks visit to the Miami
mine
Norman Carmichael. general mana
ger Tor the Arizona Copper compaDv.
has returned to Clifton after spending
a day at the Miami and Inspiration
Consolidated mines
L. $. Gates, general manager for the
Ray consolidated Copper company, has
to Globe.