The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-12-28
MINING
OUTPUT DISPLAYS
ENORMOUS GAIN
Increase of Production in
1915 go fer Cent; Mogollon
District Continues in Fore
of Gold Producers.

by the Ulitod States geological SUR
vcy. indicates "a yield OF Si.5OO.0O ia
gold, 2,032. 900 ounces OF silver. g.
$4,000 pounds OF lead, 72.000. 600
pounds OF copper. and 1880. 900
pounds OF zinc Gin terms Of speiter
and zinc In zinc oxidc). AS compared
with f1,l71,G96 in gold. l,177.i45
ounces OF silver. i.7Gs,6fi pounds OF
lead. 59.307. 925 pounds Of copper, and
s.fO3, 3s2 pounds Of zinc. in 1914.
These premilinary figures ompiled by
Charles W. Henderson show an in
crease OF $s2s,0 In gold. $3.50
ounces OF silver. 2.1SG.0O0 pounds OF
lead, 12.G74. 600 pounds OF copper. and
q. 231 goo pounds of zinc. With high-
er values for metals. except for sill
yer, the total value was SiS.275 900.
against $ii.04S. s32 in 1914. an in
crease Of s7.s26. SEQ.
The Mogolion district. socorro
county. eighty miles from silver city
(Grnnt county,. continued to be the
most productive district IN New Mex
leo In output Of gold and silver. The
production In 1915 was s5i2,02i in
gold and 1919. $50 ounces Of silver.
az compared with ~S629.l02 in gold
and i,41O.321 ounces OF silver IN 1914.
The Cleveland and Weatherhcad mine
and custom mill were Idle the entire
year, but the Socorro ana Ernestinc
mines and custom mills we're operat-
ed steadily on ore from each COM
pany's mine and from various prop
critics in the district. All the ore Ia
milled IN the district by concentra-
ton. shining. and agitation and per-
collation. In cyanide solution. the bulk
OF the product being cyanide proclpi-
tates, the balance being h~iRh-grado
gold-silvcr concentrates. There was
a smaller quantity OF concentrates
shipped Ia 1915 than in 1914 An inn
portunt producer o. gold was tho
Ellzabethtown district, ColfaR county,
there being "a ANAL quantity OF placer
gold and an important quantity OF
h~igh-grade metallic gold, gold bull
lion, and concentrates from the Aztec
mine at Badly.
Another important district was the
Cochiti (Bland) district. Sandoval
county. inactive from 1904 to 1914.
but with "A record from 1894 TO 1904
os a production OF 100000 In gold
and t2l5.0OO In silver. The i0O-ton
c~yanidation plant OF the Cossack COM
pany. which commenced operations
In September, 1915 was operated
nearly all the year 1915 with a very
considerable output OF silvcr-goid
cyanide precipitates. Continuous out
put Of gold bullion n made from
the a~malgamation mill on the North
and South Homestnkc mines. at
WhiteoaiSs. Lincoln county. The dis
trlct has yielded a large quantity OF
gold. While the yield OF metallic gold
in 1915 from the Pinos Altos district
was rot equal To that OF 1914, some
high-grade shipments were made
early In the year and work was act
i've In the district on the baser metals.
The Lorishurg district, Grant county.
nearly doubled its shipments Of sill
iceous gold and silver bearing copper
ana dry ores from assure veins The
yield OF this district In 1914 was $i0I.-
0SO ina gold. 232.G47 ounces of silver.
ami 2.6i4.G74 pounds OF copper. A
small yield Of gold was made from the
Gold Hill district, north OF Lords
burg. with an increased output OF
concentrates. tho small gold content
of the concentrates of the Chino Cop
per company in amounts sufficiently
large in 1914 Go be credited under
their smelling contract with all
cents per ton Of original crude ore.
or OF cent per pound Of copper pro-
duced, showed an Increase. The re-
opening of the mines and matte smell
ter of the Santa Fc Gold and Copper
company at san Pedro, Santa Fe
county In May, 1915. added "a consid-
cradle quantity Of gold To tho New
Mexico yield. Increased shipments
Of g%old-copper ores from the Jarilla
district, Otero county, also contrib
uted to the gold increase.
Copper has been an important met
al In the production OF New Mexico.
The output from 1915 To 1910 was
o2,328,l63 pounds, ana the total out
put to the end OF 1918 was 3iS.O27.-
19S pounds. since 1910 the increas-
ed production was dur principally 90
the activity of the Chiuo Copper COM
pany, which minos with steam shoyols
a large &creagc % low-grade copper
deposits as Santa Rita and mills the
ore az Hurley IN a Recommendation
notation plant OF FIVE sections. Dur
ing 1914. this plant treated $500 tons
a day. calculated on the actual rum
ming time, and In 1915 "a larger daily
tonnage was treated. Tho gross out
put In 1914 vas 5G.Sil,951 pounds.
In 1915 the gross yicld for the first
three quarters Vas "4S,733,Gis pounds
and the yield (partly estimatod) for
u fourth quarter was 2o.6il.UUO. a
total Cor The year or about 1915 900
pounds. During the third quarter an
average OF 1904 o n a day was trcat-
ed, the highest average treated by the
mill since the beginning of operations
Tho yield OF copper from d Lords
burg district was nearly doubled and
orc Grande also contributed an in
creased yield. The resumption OF OPP
erations In May, 1915. Of the Santa
Fe Gold and Copper company's mines
ana i25-ton mating plant al San
Pedro, Santa Fe county C%operated
only one month in 1910, added "a
large quantity OF copper To- the out
put, The Burro Mountain Copper
company's new i,000-ton mill In the
Burro Mountain district was operat-
ed only part of the time. but develop
ment OF the mines continued on a
large scale. a large tonnage OF low
grade copper ore with calcitc gangue
was shipped from the Apache mine.
Hachitn. A considerable tonnage OF
copper ore was shipped from the or
gan district, Dona Ana county.
The yield of lead showed an APP
precfahle increase, Lead ores were
shipped from the Cooks Peak district.
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