The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-06-08

of interest to Canon City people be-
cause of local citizens who have been
active in its development.
d. C. Jackling who spent some
years in Canon City remodeling the
old zinc smelter. and is well known
TO many of our people is vice-presi-
dent and managing director of the
rapid rise in the financial world since
leaving Canon City. He made his first
big killing, so to speak, in connec-
tion with Utah Copper, at Bingham,
near Salt Lake Mr. Jackling is now
the master mind, in little group of
big financiers who control several of
the biggest copper properties in the
world. He is reputed to be many
times millionaire.
DIR. F. n. Carrier is the chief sur
geon for the Chino Copper company
and has charge of the hospital at
Santa Rita and the branch at the Hur-
ley mill. He has prospered in other
ways and is highly respected as
ouI5cOH anu d man Ol DuSlH6SS
fairs in that part of New Mexico.
In the early. days, before the Chino
Co, was formed, W. H. Burrage went
from Canon City to Santa Rita, and
spent much time and money develop
ing a copper property. which was
later absorbed by this company j.
p. Chapman and Others were attract
ed to Santa Rita, about the same
time.
In the past few years several Can
on City folks have found employment
at the mine or mill.
Santa Rita is in Grant County in the
southwest part OF New Mexico, about
100 miles north of the Mexican bor
der. The mine is located at Santa
Rita. The big concentrating mill
where the ore is shipped is at Hur-
ley, ten miles south. About 1000 peo-
pie live at Santa Rita and about as
ployes, or are supported by employees
of the Chino Copper company. Many
of the laborers are Mexicans.
The Chino Copper mine is a stupen-
dous affair. 1t is quite the largest
mining proposition | have ever look
ed over. Mining is done by steam
shovel and the ore. much of it low
grade, is hauled away by train loads.
This copper mining section has been
known for many years. 1t was first
y1l I,,rt I,d
Spanish, and later by Americans. All
these early miners were looking for
high grade ore. Much high grade ore
was found and shipped. Great sheets
of almost pure copper were found.
Many relics, instruments and utensils
beaten out of the copper sheets by In
dians and Spaniards have been found
by later operators. During the past
years, up to 1900 some lessons found
rich deposits and profited by the min
ing and others spent their money delv-
ing into the hillsides in vain. 1t is
recorded that a Frenchman who lived
at Chihuahua, Mexico, had accumulat-
ed half million dollars from these
mines which he owned, back as far
as about 1928.
The organizers OF the Chino COM
pany became interested here in 1899
Big operations began about 1910.
Wealth never dreamed of by the many
who have preceded them has been un-
covered, and as they say this great
store house of wealth has just been
touched
Steam shovel mining and the hand.
ling OF low grade copper ore is OF
modern development. believe that
Mr.. d. C. Jackling was the originator
of much of the system so successfully
used at Bingham and Santa Rita.
The Chino Copper company acquir-
ed this whole territory. Its property
includes 153 mining claims, 2,7S4
acres.
The mine work now looks more like
the pictures you have seen of the dig
ging of the Panama canal than any
thing else l can think of.
The whole hillsides have been strip
ped of earth and rock. Train after
train has pulled out thousands of car
loads of this stripping and great gull
lies have been filled with dirt and
rock. When the ore is reached the
steam shovels go on loading trains
which haul the ore to Hurley for
treatment.
During the past. five years 1S,S22.1e2
cubic yards of strippings have been
moved OFF the ore body. and S.370,627
tons of ore have been taken to the
mill or direct to smelterg.