New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-20
NEW MEXICO MINES

Figures OF mine production for tn,
first six months of 1917 indicate
an apprccisble increase in the out.
put of lead and copper i'll New
Mexican mines but decrease 70,
gold, silver, and zinc, according e
reports received from Charles ".
Henderson. of the Denver office c!
the United States Geological Sur.
vey. Department of the Interior. The
Mogollon district, Socorro County
which annually produces large part
OF tho gold and over half the silver
of the State, has not increased its
ontput, although the district has been
the scene of considerable develop
L1ent work. The Elizabethtown
district, Colfax County, continued to
ship large quantities of gold bullion
and concentrates, but the Whiteoaks
gold district, Lincoln County, was
idle, and the silver output will be
considerably affected BY the idle
ness of the Cossak cyanidation mill
in the Cochiti (Bland) district, San
doval County. Several operators Of
the gold-copper district of Orograu.
de, Otero County, seem to have lett
that district, but other operators
seem to have taken their places.
The output of siliceous and copper
ores Carrying gold from Lordsburg
district has been larger during the
first six months of 1917 than fer
the CORES ponding period in 1916. The
Santa Fe Gold & Copper Co.'s mat
ting plant, It San Pe'li. was ope-
ated continuously.
The Burro Mountain Copper Co.'S
table concentra ton -flotation mill, in
the Burro Mountain district Grant
County, increased its output. The
Chino Copper Co., which in 1916
produced from crude ore and con-
centrates combined a total of 75,-
s5l 900 pounds of copper produced
1o,225,lll pounds of copper during
the first quarter of 1917, and IL the
company maintains this rate through
out the year it will produce nearly
ec,0O,0OO pounds of copper. Con,i-
6erably increased shipments of cop.
PEI ore were made from TIC Mag
Gaiena district, end the shiomcnts o.:
lead ore from the kagdalena have
also increased. The high prices f'r
copper are also stimulating shipments
from the Nacimiento district. San
doval County, and from the Scholle
Torrance and Valencia coun-
ties, and from other copper deposits
in the "Red Beds" of New Mexico.
Development by the Phelps Dodge
Co. of large area in the Organ
district, Dona Ana Coun-
ty, does not seem to have progress
sed as yet far enough for produc-
tion, but before the end of the year
the district may yield a considerable
output of all five metals. Shipments
Of zinc carbonate and zinc sulphide
from the Magdalena,
Hanover. Cooks Peak. Florida, Tres !
and Pinos Altos districts
we're less for the first six months
Of 1917 than for the same period
in 1916, but with the resumption in
April of concentration at the new
Graphic mill, at Magdalena, built to
replace the one burned in August
1916, the production of zinc con-
:entration during the rest of the
year may equal the record of 1916
The output of gold, silver, copper,
cad, and zinc from New Mexico
mines in 1916 was $l,380,506 in gold,
,756.512 ounces of silver, 100000
pounds of lead. 9240O,OOO pounds of
copper. and 3s90O,OO0 pounds of zinc
in spelter and in oxide), having
total value of $3O6l5,49l, as COM 4
,ared with $l,46l los in gold, 2,0O5,-
81 ounces of silver, asa, ,36l pounds
# lead, 767SS,366 pounds of copper
md 25,404064 pounds of zinc, having
total value of Slo,27o. .46S, in 1915,
IN increase in value of 50 per cent.