Arizona republican., 1917-04-05
SILVER MINES
TAKEN OVER BY
LOCAL CAPITAL
Especial to The Republican by L. r..
DAVIS;


Especial to The Republican by L. n.
Jaws;
FL PASc, april THE Alhambra
silver mine, situated in the famo/
Black Hawk camp IN the Bullarc
Peak mining district, Grant county,
New Mexico. IS to be opened mp and
operated again. c. c. Royal. a law
yer Of silver City, the owner OF the
Alhambra mine, has interested S. F.
Palentine. the we'll known mining
man from Arizona, and his associates
in tire property, and the Alhambra
Silver Mining company viii be or
ganized this week dnder the laws of
New Mexico to take over and operate
the property.
The Billiard Peak mining district,
rich IN silver, is among the old silver
camps of New Mexico that are being
reorened since the rise in the price
Of sivler. Says Albert A. Leacn,
chief geolociSt OF the Burro Noun
tain Copper company in the En-
cheering end Winning Journal, it is
one that is likely to produce interest
10 mining men because of its I'M
equalied type of deposit. 1t is the
old canlp OF Black Hawk. IT. Billiard
Peak mining district, u miles north
west of Tyrone and 20 miles west Of
Silver City. New Mexico, which is
interesting because of its deposits of
nickel and COBALT arsenides in com
mercial quantities, together with
massive native silver and arsentite-
Tie ores are identical with those OF
Cobalt, Ontario, DOMINION OF Canada,
and are. as far as known, the only
important deposits OF tins type II
the United States.
been discovered and worked in the
early S0s and internationally up to
1888, when the price of silver sue
denly fell, when the mines Were
closed ana allowed to fill with water.
During the short period of opera
tiCn, the Damp produced rather heav
lily. considering that only he high
grade silver ores We're handled The
cvaniGe process was not then in gen.
eral use. and no effor; was made to
treat tho loW-grade ores. which were
thrown onto the dumps with the
waste rock
The production of the Aihambra
Black Hawk camp is estimated by
the United States biologists at over
: / 600 600 The mine owners saw this
figure is too low. and that the camp
prodrced inward of 81 400 600 in
those DAYS of production. High
graders robbed the owners of 4
large amount of native silver Much of
the ore was massive silver which il
is stated. averaged the hign Graders
from, SSO0 70 81 0e0 y sack of ore.
ALEXANDRIA and BJackhawk Mines
The Alhamhr.s silver mine adioins
tho famous piacl,bawl- ,nine ON tho
sc,,tbeaet ,,,ea ef3,ing . oon foot he
tween Inc main worl, sbaf.s of tho
TWO rnininsf 4,ronerties ,rta Plack-
ho,,-l. nine il the deenest mine i,
ne camp having attained a deptl,
of $50 feet on the vein. It's mo-
d,lcti,n is estimated at approximately
SSe0 600 IN to the time if was closed
down in iSSS II was taken over in
E'ehrl1ary nv Ninneapolie, caDifalists
and i Leing worked Nv them again
under The ma nagemanf OF F ID Lind
stcna
TIE ola a,nn ore win he treated bv
cva nide nrnccss as will also the low
grade ores in the mine. Very rich
oliver ore & found in niaces left nv
fo1n,a, nv.ners rhe native silver in
thie ,1,in,a 80 ,,a,.I, ma esiva and VIA c
,1i,,od He'll in cheers u.eisbinq mn
/ 10 3ao ,,o.,nds Snaeimane IF The
oya resemble glabes of melted coin
land one niece that went through
! the rolls dearest approach to a mill