El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-02
LINING NEWS
NEW KEYSTONE IS
TO HAVE ORE TEST
Retimbering of Mine Com
pleted; Iron Cap As
pect Improves.

Miami ArIz. July AT the New
Keystone. retimbeTing of all the drifts
has been completed As there has been
performed during the past year, the
ore reserves are sui estimated at
$500, 600 tons Of 20 percent ore.
The delay in treatment of Keystone
ores is accounted for in the existence
of SO much ONydiZed ore in the prop
erty, rendering treatment of the Key
Stone reserves by the usual methods
uncertain Il. c. Candy, a veteran in
experience in low grace ore treatment,
VIII subject the keystone OrestO thor
Ough tests during the ensuing months
Ii is probable that his experiments
VIII include erection Of small eN-
perimenUal mill on one OF the extra
foundations laid down when the Miami
mill was built, especially so as the eN-
periments to be conducted by Mr.. Can
by viii be valuable to the Miami with
its considerable percentage of non
sulphlde ores that must be treated by
teaching Alr. Candy laid out a pro-
gram OF tests here in March and since
then has been investigating the most
recent development at Anaconda and
other large plants throughout the
country. He was in charge Of the old
and Douglas 20 years ago
Superior * Boston Shipping.
At the Superior & Boston the ship
men-s are remaining slightly in eN-
cess of the two so ton car loads daily,
although the ore has been shipped TO
the Old Dominion smeltery at Globe
for the past week because of the FL
FaSO plants inability to unload the
cars quickly enough to keep them en-
route. Since the repair work at the
shaft has been concluded. the Superior
& Boston continues shipping with reg
ularlty from the present The sub
level below the sixth has uncovered
about 200 feet of the vein, east and
west. to date and the ore in both faces
H-e la d.
ginning. increasing slightly in iron,
which lessons smelling costs consld-
erably.
Iron Cap is Improving.
The aspect of the Iron Cap is improv-
ing every day. The cross vein encOun-
tered recently has been cut in both
directions until the width of the ore
body at this point is 80 feet The face
of the main lead continues in rich cop
per ore and has Strengthened out again
20 its mastery course On the 500
foot level the same vein Of ore IS be-
ing followed from point about rs
feet east of the shaft. At this level
the ore is exactly beneath the vein
on the SCI foot level and is identical
in size and appearance with the lead
on the higher level, making IL pOSSlDle
that IL viii widen similarly as il IS fol-
lowed to the east In the event OF It's
maintaining its size and value at the
lower level the Iron Cap viii have
uncovered an ore body at least $50
feet in depth. its width not yet having
been escerCained-
Additions t. the ore bins are about
completed. the increased capacity Civ
ing the mine three times its former
ore storing space. a condition absolute
ly needed to keep the mines output
normal during any irregularities in
Gold Strikes Reported.
Three and One-half miles from Win
kelman seam Of gold bearing rock
averaging about $500 per ton has been
recently developed by Anton Hogral.
Carl Elder, Wiley Holman and Claude
Beaudelaire. the latter two veterans
of the Silver King days. have encOun-
tered some very high grade gold and
silver ore in their claims in Powers
gulch. about eight miles west of Mi
ami Assays show values of about
$500 gold and $3.50 silver.
McMiIlen RevivinE.
The StOneWall-IackSOn, a famous
silver producer Of the TO's, is being re-
opened at McMillen. about Is miles
northwest of Globe, by G. A Hayes,
who worked in the property in its
palmy days. Hayes is wei known in
Nevada, where he made more than a
million dollars during the recent boom
days there
Miami Mill Is Improved.
The Miami IS malnIalng an output or
5000 tons of ore daily. At the mill the
crushing equipment Is being added to
by two sets of 40 by &c TraylOr heavy
Miami type rolls, which viii be used
TO give the ore one more crushing
ing division two sets of screens With
this new equipment the product viii
so IEtO the mill crushed to a fineness
OF half inch particles. as originally
The Red Springs shaft is being re-
timbered for the first time in seven
years its rehabilitation being cOnsid-
cred necessary to render il efficient IS
an emergency outlet as well as a chan
mel of ventilation.
At the small stock pile just west
OF the concentration the grab bucket
is proving such a success in transfer
ring the ore to the mill crusher that
mining superintendent Lawton has de-
cided to use it later in cleaning up the
last of the large stock pile that is be-
ing dropped down shaft No ,, now
being utilized as an ore chute The
grab bucket cost only $500 for new
material and the old material in the
nature of cables. picked up around the
plant brought its cost altogether to
requires the services of only two men,
and IL handles more ore than the large
force of men formerly employed in
the old stock pile since its bulk was
removed by steam shOveling.
Inspiration Blocking Ore.
There is little change in the stu
alton at the Inspiration Consolidated.
While the Live Oak force has been
materially reduced during the tendency
of the KeystOne-Ins suit for
right of way through the Keystone
ground, the bulk of the Inspiration
work continues uninterrupted. Work |
preparatory to the blocking out of the
Colorado ore body is well under way.
Crews at the Scorpion and Colorado
shafts continue their work of reliev-
ing the shaft timbers during the inter-
mission between day and night shifts.
The 500 foot level at the Live Oak
continues operation with fun force
as formerly.
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