Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-10
NEW MEXICO ORE PRODUCTION INCREASE
 LARGE
Estimate of Production For Last Year Over Previous
 Twelve Months Shows Gain
 of Approximately $376,OOO

The output of New Mexico mines
 for eleven months of 1914, with an es- | innate for December. according to pre- | liminary figures by Charles W. Hen derson, of the United States Geolog- ical Survey, indicate a yield of $l172.- 900 in gold, ,72O,O00 ounces of silver. 1,34OOOO pounds of lead, 65,6OO.OOO pounds of copper and lS,3OO,O0O pounds of zinc, and a decrease of D. 6OO,O0O pounds of lead Despite lower prices for metals. the total value was
 S12.S7OOOO in 1914 against SlOO6g4,- OO2 in 1913, an increase of S376,OOO
 The Mogollon district, which in 1913 yielded $619,SS6 in gold and 1906 765 ounces of silver, showed a small in- crease for 1914. Considerable metal. lie gold and silver were marketed from Pinos Altos. in addition to ores shipped The output of th egold and
 silver bearing silicious and copper ores of the Lordsburg district in- creased. The Whiteoaks district, in
 coin County, continude ito produce gold bullion. The Elizabethtown dis triCt, ColfaX County remained the principal placerproducing 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 1OO-ton cyanide mill in the reopened Bland district, Sandoyal County con i tinued to produce silyer-gold bullion after September, and gold silver bull l lion was produced at the cyanidation plants in the revived Red River dis trict, 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 shoyels This ore is l concentrated at Hurley in a wet-COn- | centrution plant of five sections, ! where an average of 5.222 tons a day was treated in 1913, the yield of cop per for that year being 53l70,l45 pounds. In 1914 the production of ! LllAn fhNlDallg bf buAl Ab aAlb'f iiAtAhra ttaA increases over corresponding periods
 in 1913, being l72S8,67S pounds for | the first quarter and lT032,S1 pounds | for the second quarter, but owing to | the curtailment of product necessi- tated by the condition of the copper
 market on account of the war fin
 Europe. the production for tho third | quarter was only l1,49ll2O pounds,
 and the estimated production for the year 54,S22 900 pounds. The Lordsburg district continued to produce a con
 siderable quantity of copper and the Gro Grande and San Pedro distrcts
 also contributed to the production. In preparation for handling the cop per ores developed in the BurrO Mountain district, the Burro Mountain
 Copper Co. completed an experiment.
 al mill during the year for determin- ing the process to be used in the pro posed l,OO0-ton concentration plant made experiments with the Notation
 process. Press notices indicate that I experiments with the Notation pro
 cess are also being made at the Chino property.
 l The lead output of New Mexico
 comes chiefly from the crude ore from
 the Cooks Peak district Luna coun- | ty: and from lead ore and concen-
 trates from the Magdslena district, Socorro county. Several shipments
 were made from the Oregon district,
 Dona Ana county, formerly an inn
 portant producer of lead.
 The mines producing zinc in 1914 in
 New Mexico were in the Magdalena
 district, Socorro county; the Cooks ] Peak district Luna county and the
 Hanover and Pinos Altos districts
 Grant county The Magdalena district
 was the most productive the output being zinc carbonate and zinc sul phide ores and zinc sulphide concen , trates. inZc carbonate and zine sul phide ores were shipped from Cooks
 and zinc carbonate from Hanover I'm [ portant development and construction work was done at Magdalena, Hano yer and Pinos Altos. The productio ! of zinc and concentrates from ? Mexico was 24,4S5 tons of 4l.052
 zinc compared with 25.726 tons o g 37SCt zine in 1913,
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