El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18
OUTPUT
0F FINE COPPER
BY OLD DOMINION
Miami Plant Produces Al
most 100000 Pounds
During March.

WT0r1T NTIL.- \ VII = = =
otoL u e- the month of March was
. Q-5 O0O mounds or about oV'VVV pOutlus
less than in the preceulH5 LIoIICI . l "
furnaces are being run a. pl 9SSlLe, ~
. +bird one will probably De started
IoF 60 nc en5 of the month. The basic
Converter which is handing all the
Toetfer from the furnaces, mas made
over. $4,000, 900 pounds OF COPPER Witt
out anv lining repairs DeInS LecesseIy'
ana If is still in very good CONDITION
The concentrator IS IllilIis up ~ us
full capacity each day, -
In the construction department Work
on the two big concrete slime Inlck-
ening tanks has been comp etSu dHc
The moor tbickener installed. Work is
,,oI1- ,roceeding on the necessary steel
work above the concrete tanks inside
the concentration concrete foundations
are being poured for the SAND tables
and other equipment installation work
ig beiDo done In the mine depart
ment DEVELOPMENT work and ore eX-
traction continues normal Inc big
pump station on the 1oIh 4eVel, winch
will house two new 200 gallon per
minute AldriCh QulntepIeX electric
pumps, is being cut.
During the past week fan has been
put in the Buffalo crOsseuJ 10 Improve
the ventilation in that part OF the mine.
New Chunge House in Use.
In the GRAY mine of the United Globe
mines the new change house is now in
use and the new hoist and motor are
on the foundation and will soon be in
commission. An additional tank for
storing shines has Just been completed
east of the Miami road, and one more
will soon be started on the Hamm
Homestead ground. The old roof of
the Old Dominion library has been re-
moved and a new shingled roof put on
in its place.
ConcretIuG Well Under Way.
At the Inspiration Consolidated the
cOncreting Of the main east shaft IS
now well under way the forms Tor
the first sections and the conduits for
handling the concrete being IN place.
This work is being started at the 900
foot level it being impossible TO be-
gin at the bottom as some of the de-
tails of the underground bins have
not vet been definitely decided upon.
Riveting and painting continues on the
crushing plant and headframes and the
work of placing the corrugated siding
and windows will start as soon IS this
work on the storage bin is completed.
The steel for the compressor and hoist
house is being erected as fast as re-
Ceived, so that it should be housed in
a few weeks. This will allow the cree
ton of the hosting and compressor
machinery, a large portion of which is
already on the ground.
To Test Water supply.
A Layne three stage we'll pump is
soon to be installed at the cOmpacy's
well on the Wogg ranch for the pur-
pose Of testing the available water
put down between rais well and the
Kiser pumping station, the source of
thep resent supply. The derricl1s arc
already in place and drilling probably
will be begun within a few days.
Excavations for the power plant at
the smelter site are completed and the
foundations for the buildings and stack
are to be started soon. The fOunda-
- .
all in place and several car loads Of
equipment are now on the ground and
viii be erected as soon as possible, so
as TO allow laying Of the cement floors.
Forms for the receiving bins are ready
for pouring of concrete.
Grading Wagon Road.
Upon the arrival of Messrs. Wilder
and Wight Of Kansas City, superin-
tendent Carter, Of the Barney. received
orders to begin grading q wagon road
from the present high v:sy TO u FONT
500 feet northwest of shaft No. ?, of
the Inspiration Consolidated, where the
Barney shaft will be sunk. The Bar
1ey groups owners recently won a
contest involving their right to receive
a mineral patent to their claims, the
United States land office holding that
its geological aspect was sufficient to
possibility of ore deposits.
The Barney property, which has
been drilled by the lewiston interests,
has not thus Ear been thoroughly eX-
2lored, and the fact that the ella con-
slomerate is underlaIn at considerable
iepth by mineralized schist makes the
an interesting one. It is an
bounced that the shaft VIII be sunk 10
4 depth of 1900 feet. The first hole
irilled by the Lewishons entered the
5chist at depth of HOO feet
The asbestos deposit near Ash creek,
located by the West brothers, of Globe.
md pronounced unusually fine ashes
los by United States experts. was re-
Gently visited by Pat Rose and others
II Globe. Rose describes the deposit
IS occurring in blanket vein of SER
oentine that lies almost horizontally
between the diabase beneath and q
lime Gaping. A popularity Of the min
erals occurrence noted by Rose is that
Where the diabase protrudes higher
man the general contour of the foot
wall the asbestos is freer from the SCI
3enIlne gangue and of longer fibre
Rose Shanley, Gibson and Baue~ra1J
recently performed their assessment
YORK on the claims held by thcm above
me original locations Of the West
others and opened up asbestos fibre
an inch long on the most remote no.
-loH OF the property. Rose. who bas
nad many years mining experience -
IS considered conservative. saws tbe 10
POST IS really immense and that nncb
oI the fibre is four and one-haIf incbes