El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-31
WARREN DISTRICT
IN NEED OF MINERS
Underground Laborers Are
Scarce; New Strike
by Copper Queen.

Risbee. Ariz Aug. 31-Whlle pro-
5,,o+ion continues normal at the mines
of the Warren district, Development
work is somewhat handicapped ana
held back through the lnaDlllty OF the
companies to secure all the men re
O1,ired Each summer there arises
some such condition in the mlnes-nSre,
b1t this summer it has been more lnah
ever noticeable, probably because the
companies are DESTROYS of dong more
than the usual development VOTE WAI ne
copper prices are good 1here Is ny NJ
trouble in filling posltlons on tOp. ~
skilled underground laborers continue
in demand, with the supply inadequate;
It is expected that the drnt DacAWaIu
from the north will shortly occur,
but meantime there eA lse,
shortage of at least 200 men,
G. & a. Improves 80,
Racan+ advances in the price OF Sal9d-
NET & AriZOn stock has attrdcteN
5itionaI attention to that property. NO
sensational developments have occa-
stoned this advance. II mas dI4seLt
from a recognition of developments o.
months past and of the earning ca
pacity of the company. With copper
at 1912 cents this company was aDle
to nav 50 in dividends With copper at
Is cents it is said that earning ca
pacity has been increased to not less
than IS per share. Combined with TINS
ability to earn greater returns are the
facts that the known ore reserves OF
this company are much greater tnan
=
within a year its production capacity,
through Improvements and enlarge
ments at the Douglas smelter VIII De
increased at least so percent This
company now, produces over 50.0OO,OOO
pounds a year. Increased smelter ca
pacity will increase output to upwards
of 100000 and will further reduce
cost of production.
The Calumet & Arizona company left
the known mineral bodies in eXDlora-
ton work and going into unexplored
country put down the Cole anc the
Briggs shafts. 1t found ore bodies and
is now working back on these newly
discovered ore bodies toward the
known country Thus there has been
opened up a large area of highly min
cralized country and the known ex-
tent of the Warren district has been
vastly increased. These deposits of
! the Cole and Briggs shafts are of high
grade ore, some of them ranking with
the best ever found about Bisbee. They
are being steadily developed and their
extent determined. This work has
been highly satisfactory to the man
agement and an official informs your
correspondent that the known reserves
| OF the c. & A are many times greater
than they have ever been before and
| the life of the property not only can
J not be determined but it's limits have
been set very much farther away than
| they were a year since. Other shafts
of the company have produced AOme
| pleasing discoveries, but this was
/ largely known ground, merely extend
! ing known naturalization, and it was
| the discoveries of ore bodies further
\ to the south that took rank of first i'm
portance.
New Strike Important.
| Development of the recent strike by
the Copper Queen in its southwest
! Jacent to the property of the Shattuck
| company. Thus far exploration has
! shown the ore body to be at least 2S
/ feet in width, so feet in length and of
! unknown depth. 1t has been cut 81
\ feet within the past two or three weeks
| and the high grade values of assays
| continue to demonstrate its value to
/ the company.
| The Dallas shaft is the newest work
ing shaft of the Copper Queen COM
! pany, having reached its depth early
( this summer when drifting was start
! ed. About a week ago it was stated
| that the drifts had run into a highly
promising country, well mlneral1Zed-
/ This week the development has con-
! tinued through an equally excellent
! appearing country and there have beer
! encounters of ore that promise to make
! the Dallas shortly one of the real pro-
| ducing shafts of the big company
! Old Stag Is Shipped.
Years ago, before there was any
| Douglas or thought of Douglas, the
| smelter of the Copper Queen company
| was in Bisbee. In those days only tn
| highest grades of ore were treated ant
| methods then were crude and primitive
| as compared with the present. so tina
/ important values were lost Such los
! was not permanent, however, as an i'm
/ mense Stag dump accumulated wher
/ those values were preserved. Now
| under modern methods, values of tire
| to four percent can be treated ant
| those in the old Stag are greater thai
| this. The old Stag dcmp is now bein:
| blasted away and shipped to Dougla
! for its second treatment Daily eigh
cars are shipped and it is estimate
that it will take about two years be
fore the old dump is removed at thi
| rate. Values of the earliest deposit
run to six percent or above, Will
newer Stag will run as low as four per
cent. Railroad tracks run through tn
dump so that expense of shipment /
slight and it makes an excellent flu
at the smelter, for which purpose it
| being used.
| DEVELOPMENTS at SknftucIz.
i The ShattUck company is doing m1