El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-09
WORK GOES AHEAD
ATTHE INSPIRATION
Structural Steel for Machine
Shop and Warehouse
Is Erected.

wei under way for the power house
which the Inspiration Consolidated
Copper company is to build in Webster
alllch. Carpenters will be a work
shortly making forms for concrete
pouring on this job
The American Bridge company I'm
ished structural work on the machine
shop and warehouse at the millsite
and has started riveting on the ore
bins in Webster gulch.
Work has been started on the steel
foundation for the conveyOr belt be-
tween the coarse crushing plant and
the ore bins, and already one tower Is
IN place. Steel for the crushing plant
will arrive soon and work VIII De
started on it, in conjunction with the
head frames for the main shafts.
Grading smelter Site.
Macarthur Bros. company is grading
for the railroad up to the smelter site
and surveyors have recently been az
work surveying an aerial tramWsy
from a point in Lost gulch, where the
company has quite a deposit Of line
stone, to the smelter site.
Within a few weeks the new test
mill will be ready for operation Prac-
rricalIV all the machinery IS now N
place and the crushing plant at the
scorpion shaft is all but completed,
the conveyor belt being in place and
the crushing machinery housed WIN
corrugated iron
Work underground is moving me
recent cavein IN the west main smart
was no more than was expected by the
company, and everything was IN reaol-
ness TO care for 1t. New headings are
still being started and within short
time the company VIII start developing
ore to supply the new test mill
A H. ShOup, who recently arrived
from the east, has been appointed cnlef
clerk to the auditor Of the Inspiration
Consolidated Copper company.
Fiji Nearly Completed.
The fill near the dOrmItory IS near
ing completion. The heating plant for
the dorInitory has been removed and
within a short time this task will have
been completed, affOrding the company
much greater yardage room which has
been very badly needed IN WeDster
Iron Cap Conditions Better.
At the Iron Cap conditions are I'M
proving daily. From present shipments
IT may be predicted that NoVeInoe 5
output viii exceed that Of OCTOBER,
which was considerably larger tnan
that OF the preceding month The raise
on the 500 level has reached a height
OF IS feet The working force has been
slightly increased
At the Arizona Commercial condi-
tiOns are virtually unchanged The
company has not yet announced what
increased pumping equipment may De
On the 700 level drifting has been
discontinued and a raise has been
started. Previous work at this point
showed the vein TO carry from seam
20 five feet of sulphate ore DrlltlnS
on the 1909 continues east. On the lzUO
work has been temporarily suspended
Tinker Gets Results.
The vigorous regime Of superlntend-
ent Tinker a { the Superior < Boston IS
bearing results, last month being the
most prosperous month in the history
Of the mine, the shipments of more
than 1000 tons 70 the Ell Paso smeIIer
Welding returns well above all eX-
penses. Raising has been started from
the point on the 1000 level where the
ore was encountered IN september. AT
present two feet OF good ore (chalcO-
cite and chalcOpyrite) holding steadily !
daily, is paying for all work at that ]
point As the ore IS 10 percent cop
per, sinking at that point will be start
ed soon
started 500 feet east OF the raise con
meeting the 500 and 600, through which /
the bulk OF the mines ore is now beng /
extracted from the intermediate The /
new raise is now about . feet high |
and will be continued until it reaches /
the stope level Of the intermediate, I
where drifting and stopping viii be be-
gun. Diamond drilling to explore the /
country east OF the present workings
was begun November I.
$ W. Miami Down 117O Feet.
At the Southwestern Miami hole No. (
is 1170 feet deep. and the casing IS 1
10 the site Of hole No IS. Hole No. /
16 is $50 feet deep IN the schist and No. 1
Il Is 46S feet deep IN the conglomerate- 1
Carpenters Don't obey.
After the recent strike notice issued 4
by the Miami Industrial council. the 1
Miami Carpenters union refused to be (
governed by the action OF the council !
and withdrew from that body, advising !
the Inspiration mill giving as their
reason that the steel work there had
not been union work from the begin
ming and that there were virtually no /
union men TO aid by striking
Begins Second Tunnel.
At the Castle Dome 2 second tunnel 4
has been begun 100 feet lower on the
mountain than the tunnel in which re-
markably rich ore was recently en-
cOuntered- As in the tunnel above,
stringer Of rich ore was encountered
near the beginning of the new auit.
The entire face OF the tunnel is Gov
cred with the naturalization, which oc- /
ours as small stringers OF high grade
ore.
On the extreme west end OF the
Duquesne property Hendrich IS drlv-
ing tunnel He has already driven
Il 100 feet and IN the face the contact
shows a strong quartz lead in which
be expects to get pay ore at any time.
Examining Mineral Creek.
IN the Mineral creek district, WI
liam Woods, whose ranch is near the
Did Sixty-six. reports Gum, Thompson
engineers examining that district.
William K.nsey has just completed his
annual assessment work in the Mineral
creek country
Pattengiu and Charles Gibson left
November , for the Old Independence J
property, where they expect to do con-
siderable work They viii probably
irive a tunnel TO connect with the old
shaft. now almost closed. Mr. Cole
eft November 8 with a force Of men to
inish the tunnel Improvement work on
he Cole Goodwin property.
WAYNE & Gibson are leasing on the
I'D Limestone shaft Of the Superior q
session.
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