Bisbee daily review., 1913-01-12
FOUR C'S AGAIN
 MAKES RECORD
Output for December Passes High Figure by 300,OO0 Pounds Expect More
 During 1913
SONORA MINE NEWS

hS output or tne Cananea OOnSOliddT- ed Copper company for ;he month of December amounted to S.60O. OOO pounds of blister copper. surpassing the previous high mark Cthlt of No yemberj by 50O.00O pounds. The to:al production for the year 1912 amount ing to SO.OoO00O pounds in round numbers, The 1918 oduction of the smelter will be over IO0,00G. GOO pounds gross
 The exports Of ore and concen- tTates through the custom house al 4 gua Prieta during December totaila& .n value 2,004,s 500 pesos. being a ae- crease Of 152,100 pesos from that Of November.
 During the past week a new strike was made at Fl Pillar mine of rhe Arnold Mining company. located near Santa Cruz. tOdy of commercial ere WIS encountered on the 300 foot level which may prove to be Of con siderable importance. Already nine feet have been penetrated in a driit. Y hiIe raise, winze and crosscut have teen started and all the workings are in ore. The strike was made a short cistanqs from the shaft
 During the month of December the mine shipped three carloads of Jre 10 the Cananea smelter and the total
 O. this month will be five carloads. Twenty-Five men are being worked at present, more to be added before the end of the month. Plans for the new concentIator of 50 tons daily capaci- ty are now being prepared and work on its installation will probably te commenced before spring.
 The Joseina mine, located near Fl Pillar, owned by H. K. Chenowith and lrother of Nogales. Aria. peceFtiy shipped a carload of copper ore to the Fl Paso sH.eiter which averaged 2 per cent copper Work has been carried on but a short time. con sistng mainly of sinking and the ore shipped has been taken out during the process of development Ten men are being worked. the number to he increased as soon as practical An other shipment is being prepared at present The shaft has reached depth of 75 feet. operations Icing con fined to sinking.
 The Santa Cruz district, where the P'lar and Josefina properties are lo cated, has been idle for a number oI years, although the Pila- has done some work recently. and with two pro peTties shipping this portion of the state will undoubtedly attract con siderable attention. At one time many announcements were made in that locality. which is about 40 miles from Cananea. northwest, but during the slump in 1907 much of the land was allowed to revert. back to the government Even in the past year hundreds Of pertenencias were loT feited by nonpayment of taxes. Al ready is some activity to be seen .n that locality and seseral denounce- ments have been made recently.
 A rich strike was made during the past week al the San Geronimo mine of the Fl Tajo company, located abou. 20 miles east of Poza, in the tres district The find was made on the 4O0-foot level, where a rich vein was encountered, and which has proven to be of considerable size Already ] cons derab..s ore has been broken which will concentrate at the rate ef 800 to 500 ounces in silver. The company is planning al present to resume work with it's concentrator which has teen idle for the past six months or more. About f35 men are being worked and this number will 5e increased by about 100 within the next thirty days. Officials Of the com pany which is a close corporation have recently visited the property and are highly elated over the new strike.
 The new smelter of the Minneapolis Copper company at Cumpas will prob ably be blown in during the coming week as it was believed that it would be ready by the 18th. The company has teen shipping steadily during the past few months to the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas. Ariz-. the ore av- eraging 20 per cent copper When the smelter is in operation the pro duct will be shipped direct to the re- fineries.
 There are about 200 men being worked at present and with the op- eration of the smelter a larger force will be necessary Manager Kemp figures on an annual production of l5 900. O00 pounds.
 Through the port of Nogales there were 203 carloads of ore and concen- trates shipped 10 the United States during the year 1912 Besides this 70 carloads of graphite were exported.