Las Vegas optic., 1914-12-23
new MEXICO HAS
AN INCREASED
PRODUCTION
MINES SHOW GREATER ACTIVITY
IN 1914 THAN DURING PRE-
cEDING YEAR

is reared Tnau ne Will bring OfuerS 10
take the geological survey offices
from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. Mr..
Gray is supposed to have made an eff
fort to keep the offices in this city.
The geological survey has just com
piled figures for the mineral produc
tion of New Mexico during the first
IL months of 1914, with an estimate
by Charles w. Henderson for the
twelfth month, and they show yield
of $1,172.000 in gold; 100000 ounces
in silver, 100000 pounds of lead 65,-
100000 pounds of copper and 1S,SOO,-
900 pounds of zinH This is an in
crease of $290,00O in gold, 10000
ounces in silver 100000 pounds of
copper, 100000 pounds of zinc and
a decrease of $500, 900 pounds in lead.
The total production Of metals in
1914, therefore, was $12,O70,OO0, as
against $11, 1,694,OO2 in 1918, an in
crease of $4,000.
The Mogollon district in Socorro
county, which in 1918 yielded $619,SS6
in gold and 1,3O6,766 ounces of silver,
showed small increase FOR 1914. Con
siderable metallic gold and silver
bullion were shipped from Pinos Altos
tos in addition to ores shipped. The
output of the gold and silver bearing
silicious and copper ores of the Lords
burg district increased.
The White Oaks district, Lincoln
county, continued to produce gold hul-
lion. The Elizabethtown district, Col
fax county, remained the principal
placer producing district. The Orc
Grande district in Otero county, and
the san Pedro district, Santa Fe
county, contributed gold and silver in
copper ores. The new 100 ton cya-
nide mill in the reopened Bland dis
trfct. Sandoval county, continued TO
produce silver-gold bullion after Sep
tember, and gold-silver bullion was
produced at the cyandization plants in
the revived Red river district, Taos
county.
The greater part of the output of
copper comes from the operations of
the Chino Copper company. which is
mining a low grade deposit at Santa
Rita by steam shovels. This ore is
concentrated at Hun rey in a wet CON
centration plant of five sections,
where an average of 5,322 tons day
was treated in 1918, the yield Of cop
per for that year being 53,17G145
pounds. In 1914 the production of
this company began to show material
increases over corresponding periods
in 1918, being 17,2SS,678 pounds for
the first quarter and 17,O32,S71 pounds
for the second quarrer, but owing to
the curtailment of product necessi-
tated by the condition of the copper
market on account of the war in Eu-
rope, the production for the third
quarter was only 11,491, ,120 pounds
and the estimated production for the
54,S22,O0O, more than one-half of the
total metal ore production of New
Mexico coming from that one prop
erty. The Lordsburg district contin-
ued to produce considerable guam
tity of copper. and the Orc Grande
and San Pedro districts also contrib
uted to the production. In preparat
ton for handling the copper ores de-
veloped in the Burro mountain dis
trict, the Burro Mountain Copper com
pany completed an experimental mill
during the year for determining the
process to be used in the proposed
1,OOO-ton concentration plant and
made experiments with the flotation
process. The Chino property is also
making experiments with that process
The lead output Of New Mexico
comes chiefly from the crude ore
from the Cooks Peak district, Luna
county, and from lead ore and CON
centrates from the Magdalena district,
Socorro county. Several shipments
were made from the Organ district,
Dona Ana county, formerly an import
ant producer of lead.
The mines producing zinc in 1914
in New Mexico were IN lne Magda-
lena district, Socorro county; the
Cooks Peak district Luna county;
and the Hanover and Pinos Altos dis
tricts, Grant county, The Magdalena
district was the most productive, the
output being zinc carbonate and zinc
sudphide ores and zinc sulphide con-
centrates. Zinc carbonate and zinc
sulphide ores were shipped from
Cooks and zinc- carbonate from Han.
over. Important development and
construction work was done at Mag
dalena, Hanover and Pinos Altos. The