Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-23
SURVEY OFFICES
. MAY Be REMOVED
TO ALBUQUERQUE
Glenn A, Gray to Return From
Washington Soon and May
Bring Orders to Transfer
His Department.

Santa Fe, Dec. e2.--Glenn A. Gray
Of the United states geological survey
Is expected home In few days and
II In feared that he will bring orders
10 take the geological survey offices
from Santa Fe 10 Albuquerque. Mr..
Gray Is supposed TO have made an ef-
fort 10 keep the offices in this city
The geological survey has just com
piled figures for the mineral produc-
ton Of New Mexico during the first
eleven months of 1914. with an esti-
mate by Charles w. Henderson for
the twelfth month and they show q
yield of si.f72.000 In gold. i,s30, 000
ounces In silver. 100000 pounds of
lead; $500, coo pounds OF copper and
1890. zoe pounds OF zinc. This Is an
increase OF $2s0.000 in gold. 10000
ounces OF silver. 100000 pounds OF
copper. 1900. 600 pounds of zinc and
a decrease of $4,000 pounds in lead.
The total production of metals In
1914. therefore. was sl2.0a0,000 as
against Sli,G94 zoe In 1918. an in
crease of sss6.ooo.
Gold and Silver.
The Mogollon district in Socorro
county, which In 1913 yielded S6l9,-
$50 in gold and 1895, 100 ounces OF
silver, showed small increase for
1914. Considerable metallic gold and
silver were marketed from Pinos AL
tos in addition to ores shipped. The
output of the gold and silver bearing
silicious. copper ores of the Lordsburg
district Increased. =.
The White oaks district, Lincoln
county, continued TO produce gold
bullion. The Elizabethtown district,
Colfax county. remained the principal
placer producing district. The ORC
Grande district. in Otero county, and
the San Pedro district. Santa Fe coun-
~, contributed gold and silver in cop
per ores. The new l00-ton cyanide
mill in the reopened Bland district,
Sandoval county, continued to pro-
duce silver-gold bullion after Septem-
Der, and gold-silver bullion was pro-
duced at the cyanidization plants In
the revived Red River district, Taos
county.
CHIEF Producer of Copper.
The greater part of the output of
copper comes from the operations of
the Chino Copper company, which is
mining low grade deposit at Santa
Rita by steam shovels. The ore is
at Hurley in wet con-
eentratiOn plant of five sections,
where an average of $500 tons day
was treated in 1919. the yield of cop
per for that year being 53,17O, l45
pounds. In 1914 the production OF
this company began to show material
increases over corresponding periods
in 1918, being 17.2SS,67s pounds for
the first quarter and 17,032,871
pounds for the second quarter, but
owing TO the curtailment of product
by the condition of the
copper market on account of the war
in Europe the production for the |
third quarter was only 1f,491,120 |
pounds and the estimated production !
for the year 54.s22.000, more than |
Dne-half the total metal ore produce |
ton of New Mexico coming from that |
one property.
The Lordsburg district continued |
10 produce a considerable quantity of |
copper, and the orc Grande and San |
Pedro districts also contributed TO the
In preparation for han
ling the copper ores developed in the
Burro mountain district, the Burro
Mountain Copper company completed
IN experimental mill during the year
or determining the process TO be used
n the proposed 1.000-ton concentra-
ion plant and made experiments with
he flotation process The Chino
property is also making experiments
With that process.
The lead output OF New Mexico
ONES chiefly from the crude ore from
he Cooks Peak district, Luna county,
md from lead ore and concentrates
rom the Magdalena district, Socorro
county. Several shipments were
made from the Organ district, Dona
Una county. formerly an important
PRODUCER of lead.
The mines producing zinc in 1914
n New Mexico were In the Magdalena
district, Socorro county: the Cooks
leak district Luna county. and the
hanover and Pinos Altos districts,
irant county. The Magdalena dis
rict was the most productive. the out
nut being zinc carbonate and zinc
ulphide ores and zinc sulphide con-
entrates. Zine carbonate and zinc
ulnhide ores were shipped from
ook's and zinc carbonate from Han
yer. Important development and .
obstruction work was done at Mag
alena. Hanover and Pinos Altos. The :
reduction Of zinc ore and contracts
rom New Mexico was PASS tons OF
] 95 per cent zinc. compared with
5.226 tons of 37.S per cent zinc in