The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-12-30
NEW MEXICO METAL PRODUCTION


Increased Mine Output of Gold, Silver
Copper, and Zinc--Decrease in Lead
Value of Output Sl2,ooo,ooo, an In
crease of $4,000.
The output OF New Mexico mines 10
I II months Of 1914 with an estimate TO
December, according to preliminary hg
ures by Charles w. Henderson, of thu
United States Geological Survey, indl
cate a yield of $l,l72,000 in gold, l,72o,
600 ounces OF silver. 100000 pounds Of
lead, 65,600,000 pounds OF copper, anc
100000 pounds Of zinc lin terms Of
spelter and zine in zinc oxide. These
figures show increases of $200,000 in gold
10000 ounces of silver, 100000 pounds
of copper, and 100000 pounds of zinc
and decrease of 100000 pounds OF
lead Despite lower prices for metals
the total value was Sl270,000 in 1914,
against 81 ,694 ,002 in 1913, an increase
of $4,000
The Mogollon district, which in 1913
yielded S6l9,SS6 in gold and l,306,766
ounces of silver showed small increase
for 1914. Considerable metallic gold and
silver were marketed from Pinos Altos,
in addition to ores shipped. The output
of the gold and silver bearing siliceous
and copper ores of the Lordsburg district
increased. The Whiteoaks district, Lincoln
county. continued to produce gold bull
lion. The Elizabethtown district, Col
fax county, remained the principal plac-
reproducing district. The Orc Grande
district in Otero county, and the San
Pedro district Santa Fe county, con-
tributed gold and silver in copper ores.
The new 100 ton cyanide mill in the re-
opened Bland district, Sandoval county,
continued to produce silver gold bullion
after September, and gold.silver bullion
was produced at the cyanidation plants
in the revived Red River district, Taos
county.
The greater part of the output OF cop
per comes from the operations of the
Chino Copper Co., which is mining 4
low grade deposit at Santa Rita by
steam shoyels. This ore is concentrated
1t Hurley in a Recommendation plant
Of FIVE sections, where an average of
1922 tons day was treated in 1913,
the yield of copper for that year being
53,l70,I45 pounds. In 1914 the produc-
ion of this company began to show ma
terial increases over corresponding pc
,iods in 1918, being l7,22s67s pounds for |
he first quarter and l7,032,s7l pounds |
or the second quarter, but owing to the
of product neeessitated by |
he condition of the copper market on
ccount of the war in Europe, the pro-
iuction for the third quarter was only |
,40l 100 pounds, and the estimated pro-
uction for the year 81 1922 900 pounds.
The Lordsburg district continued to pro-
uce a considerable quantity of copper,
nd the Orc Grandc and San Pedro dis
riots also contributed to the production.
n preparation for handling the copper
res developed in the Burro Mountain
istrict. the Burro Mountain Copper Co.
ompleted an experimental mill during
he year for determining the process to
Q used in the proposed cotton coneen
ration plant and made experiments with
he fotation process. Press notices in.
icate that experiments with the flota
on process are also being made at the
hino property.
The lead output of New Mexico comes
liehy from the crude ore from the
ooks Peak district. Luna county, and
ON lead ore and concentrates from the
agdalena district, Socorro county Sev
al shipments were made from the Or.
IN district, Dona Ana county, formerly .
! important producer Of lead,
The mines producing zinc in 1914 in =
CIV Mexico were in the Magdalena dis !
let, Socorro county; the Cooks Peak :
strict, Luna county; and the Hanover
ID Pinos Altos districts, Grant county,
he Magdslena district was the most
the output being zinc car
mate and zine sulphide ores and zinc !,
lphide concentrates Zinc carbonate
ID zinc sulphide ores were shipped from
,oks and zinc carbonate from Hanover
iportant development and construction
lrk was done at Magdaena, Hanover, \
d Pinos Altos. The production of zinc
e and concentrates from New Mexico
is PASS tons OF Abs per cent zinc.
impaired with 25726 tons Of 37s per
nj zinc in 1919 II