Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1915-12-30
BIG INCREASE IN
MINES OUTPUT

with an estimate for December,
as reported by the United States
Geological Survey, indicates a
yield of 81, 100000 in gold, g.
032, 900 ounces of silver, 1851,
900 pounds of lead, $4,000, 600
pounds of copper, and 24,64O, 600
pounds of zinc Tin terms of
speIter and zinc in zinc oxide),
as compared with 81, ,171,6 in
gold, 1 TIT, 445 ounces of silver,
l, 1853, GAL pounds of lead, SO, 307, :
925 pounds of copper, and 49,
403, 1892 pounds of zinc, in 1914.
These preliminary figures COM
piled by Charles W. Henderson
show an increase of 1928, 900 in
gold, 255,000 ounces of silver,
2,186,000 pounds of lead, 12,-
674,0O0 pounds of copper, and
6,237.000 pounds of zinc. With
higher values for metals. except
for silver, the total value was
$18, 8,274, 900, against $1l ,049, 932
in 1914, an increase of 81, ,226, 660.
The Mogollon district, Socorro
county, 80 miles from Silver City
I (Grant county,, continued to be
the most productive district in
New Mexico in output of gold
and silver. The production in
1915 was $512,021 in gold and
,319, 460 ounces of silver, as
compared with $629, 1O2 in gold
and 1, ,41O, 327 ounces of silver in
1914.
Another important district was
the Cochiti (Bland) district,
Sandoval county, inactive from
1901 to 1914, but with a record
from 1894 to 1904 of a production
of $685., 900 in gold and $345, 900
in silver. The reopening of the
mines and matte smelter of the
Santa Fe Gold and Copper COM
pany, at San Pedro, Santa Fe
county in May, 1915, added a
considerable quantity of gold to
the New Mexico yield. In
creased shipments of gold-cop-
per ores from the Jarilla district,
Otero county, also contributed to
the gold increase.
Copper has been an important
metal in the production of New
Mexico. The output from 1845
to 1910 was 92,323,163 pounds,
and the total output to the end of
1915 was 18,027, 1893 pounds.
Since 1910 the increased produc-
ton was due principally to the
activity of the Chino Copper Co. ,
which mines with steam shovels
a large acreage of low-grade cop
per deposits at Santa Rita and
mills the ore at Hurley in wet
Observation-Disclosures plant of
five sections. During 1914, this
plant treated $500 tons day
calculated on the actual running
time, and in 1915 a larger daily
tonnage was treated. The gross
output in 1914 was Sc, 6,841, ,977
pounds. In 1915, the gross yield
for the first three quarters was
46, 733, 648 pounds and the yield
(partly estimated) for the fourth
quarter was 2O,641, 900, a tota
for the year of about 50, ,375, ,00(
pounds. During the third quar-
ter an average of 1904 tons {
day was treated, the highest av
erage treated by the mill since
the beginning of operations. Tht
yield of copper from the Lords
burg district was nearly doubled
and Orc Grande also contributed
an increased yield. The re
sumption of operations in May
1915, of the Santa Fe Gold ant
Copper Co.'S. mines and 125 tol
mating plant at San Pedro, San
ia Fe county Operated only on
month in 1914), added larg
quantity of copper to the output
The Burro Mountain Co.'S nev
1000-to mill in the Burro Noun
tain district, was operated onl
part of the time, but develop
ment of the mines continued O.
a large scale. A large tonnag
of low grade copper ore with ca
cite gangue was shipped fror
the Apache mine, Hachita.
considerable tonnage of coppe
ore was shipped from the Orga
district, Dona Ana county.