The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-16
FORTUNES MADE IN
 ABANDONED MINES
Rich Returns From Sup posedly Worthless Mines

How many mining properties have been abandoned by large companies and after lying idle for years were afterward taken up again by others and became great properties." said Colonel Jack ". Fleming of Silver City, N M., one of the most successful mining men in that district, as quoted in Fl Paso special to the St Louis | Globe Democrat. Just for instance the Hearst people abandoned the mines of Pinos Altos, seven miles north of Silver City. Then the Comanehe Min | ing company took the properties over ] and after working them for sometime they, too, abandoned them so far as working them was concerned" So writes l.. H. Davis in the Fl Paso Morning Times.
 | After these same mines had lain dormant for several years they were | leased to Bell & Wright, two young men who were not afraid of hard work, and they selected a place to sink q shaft on the vein and soon began talk : ing out ore and shipping to the smelt- | CTS at Fl Paso and Douglas which netted them s100 per ton in carload l lots, the richest ores being sacked and held by the lessees to be treated sepa- rately.
 Rich, High Grade Returns
 "A lot of this ore weighing 1850 pounds was shipped to San Francisco and melted down, as it should be, | which netted the boys few cents less reached depth of about POO feet and the high grade ore is being extracted every day In less than a week $10,0O0 worth of ore has been mined. These two young men deserve great credl, tor their energy and pluck.
 1 since this wonderful rich gold strike nearly every mine in the Pinos Altos district has been leased or is being operated by the owners" says Colonel Fleming. and no doubt other rich strikes will be made soon. In deed, the Pihos Altos mines are des- tined to be the great gold producers of Grant county within the next six months.
 Cyaniding in Mogollon
 "The same thing is true of the bis mines of the Mogollon district, S( miles from Silver City. which wers abs sndoned by several different parties but are now in the hands of new peo- pie. with capital and mining ability Large mills have been erected and th' ores are being treated on the ground by the cyanide process. It Is almost { daily occurrence to see one or two au tomobiles come into town loaded dow; with large gold and silver brick s weighing 100 pounds each and depos ited in the Silver City banks. Tn mines of the Mogollon district will un doubtedly produce over $2,000, 900. dur ing the year 1914 The Socorro Minin; company of that district paid two div
 dends of i per cent inside of 30 day
 on s2,000,000 capitalization, and tho company expects to pay a monthl. dividend of 1 F per cent from now on , We expect to hear of the other prop | ar all <ti sir Ios Afxri1 and , soon.
 "Another abandoned mine which am informed. was owned by the Hears people. after having yielded over $2.
 coo,o00 worth of silverlead ores. wa
 the Victoria group, near Gage Station
 IS miles west of Deming. They evi
 dently thought it exhausted am f closed down operations. Afterward
 man named Burns. good miner. go
 a lease, and in less than d year h
 took out. of the abandoned mine ore
 which netted him over s150,00O. Hi lease terminated an da new one wa refused by the owners. Finally tn , lrresent owners got hold of it. and i . has been paying big dividends eve
 since" Silver City is in the center of one o the richest silver. gold and copper dis tricts in the whole southwest. w have the great Chino copper mines
 t7 miles east of us and the Burr
 Mountain mines of Phelps Dodge com pany, only IA miles southwest, wit their railroad completed from tn
 Santa, Fe railroad at Whitewater t the mine at Tyrone The Chino com 2 pany has 1900 men on its payroll, an : inside of 12 months the Burro Mountai
 company' will be working over 100 q Tyrone All that prevented the,
 working that number of men at pres , 'ent is that the big concentration mi
 now under construction will have { T be completed first to handle the out | 'rut
 "why go to Old Mexico for ne,