El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-27
MINING NEWS
MINE COMPANIES
START SAFETY WORK
Lease Ground in Warren
District Is in Heavy De
mand; Good Returns.

Bisbee Ariz., Aug 27-All the large
companies here especially the Copper
Queen. are now devoting much time to
the safety first campaign and i'm
portant results are already beginning
to be seen. The Copper Queen has re-
ceived the first supply of a large
edition of sefety booklets that were
ordered some time ago. 1t is probably
the most comprehensive mine safety
book that has ever been issued and
copies are given to every miner upon
his employment by the company.
The company has also spent large
amount of money on safety devices
and many of these have already been
installed. 1t is figured that even a
small accident is equal to a large
amount OF copper, even taking the
purely commercial view and the War
swing a campaign that will make the
workings here the safest in the
country
Shattuck's Monthly Production
Shattuck is now producing at the
rate of 1000, 900 pounds of refined
copper per month. according to figures
from the smelter. On next Monday
number of new reverberatOry furnaces
at the Calumet & Arizona smelter will
be blown in and this Will be followed
by increased Shipments by Shattuck.
On its recent new ore finds the COM
pany is making an excellent showing
and the finds continue to develop with
practically no cases of veins giving
ont The management has been hold
ing down production pending the COM
pletiOn of the smelter and with this
done Shattuck VIII rapidly develop
into one of the largest shippers in the
district.
Lease Ground In Demand
Although a number of new leases
have been let recently the demand
along this line far exceeds the supply.
Ground that was worked years ago
and much territory that has never
been scratched is now being put under
development and leasers report very
few disappOintmentS Copper Queen,
Calumet & Arizona and Shattuck all
have ground which leasers would be
glad to take over, particularly for
gold-silver values, together with the
flch copper values attending. Re
Gently the Copper Queen leased
working located almost in the heart of
the city, next to the pOStOtf1ce, which
has an interesting history. The tun-
mel was the first that was ever worked
by the Queen and showed such poor
values in those days of crude working
and low price for the metal that it
was boarded up and abandoned Now
but three men. the leasers, are work
ing and they have found it sufficiently
profitable to ship a car of ore a day
and are trying for an extension on
a. G. McGregor, of the engineering
firm Of Reppath & McGreSOr, which
has handled muchi of the large mining
construction business in the state in
the last few years, reports that the
mining industry all over the state is
Unprecedented activity.
Concentration Plans Pushed
Plans for the cOncentrator that is
to be built by the Copper Queen are
coming along well and it is probable
that they will be passed upon by the
company in short time As soon as
the plans are passed work on the big
plant will be commenced. The Cop
per Queen is now looking for suitable A.,
rock formation for the rock to be used I
IN the extensive cement Work that /
will be required The Calumet & Ari- /
IONA demonstrated that there is much /
Suita bic rock of this character in the /
district in opening up a quarry to sup /
Junction chaft- This has effected /
quite a saving.
The work on the Junction. is so far /
that the first of the month !
is set as the date that the concrete !
lining of the shaft will be brought up i
to the collar. Following this. Calumet !
& Arizona will be putting out a suf- /
ficient quantity of ore to keek its new /
smelter at Douglas running full blast, /
as the Junction viii form the main !
outlet for much of the Calumet & ]
Arizona workings which have been !
holding back production pending its 4
John Alexander. president of the /
Consolidated, is in the city, 4
Win MIN many Ilne samples ]
Of ore The Consolidated is located in /
the PilareS district and aGjoins the 1
holdings. The tunnel at /
the mine is 1900 feet in and has been |
in rich ore for the last 200 feet All I
the ore is being stored on the dump |
pending the erection of a concentration,
which VIII be installed shortly. As I
soon as this is done the concentrates |
VIII be shipped, probably to Cananea-
Fourteen men are working on the /
property, and there has been no trouble
from political disturbances. Following /
IS the assay that was returned on the
samples brought to Bisbee: 1856 ounces
silver, so cents gold. 80 percent lead,
II percent copper and percent zinc.
C. Z. Mills, manager of the Inspira-
ion at Miami is in the city for a con- !
ference with DR.. Ricketts,. He reports
good progress on the concentration that !
S being put up.
Another so days will probably see
the last of the old Stag dump which |
was formed when the smelter was run !
ming here. The Copper Queen has a
arge force of men and miniature !
'ailway system at work loading the I
Stag for the smelter- The Stag assays |
around u percent copper and the for
ner waste has proved a highly valu-
able property to the company.
l. c. Shattuck,. president of Shat
tuck, Arizona, has returned from a
rip in the east
The Commercial club has sent out |
-equests to all mines in the county for |
IRE specimens for the big specimen ex-