El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-25

ordered Heretofore all Bisbe8 orsm
have been sent direct 10 the furnaces.
In the same camp the shattuck-Arl-
IONA company has had a 400 ton sti-
ver-lead mill in operation for q part
OF the year
The now famous New Cornelia con-
pany ar $40 has continued during the
past year its successful handling CT
carbonate and oxide surface ores By
means OF a teaching plant and has
gone into the list OF Arlzona's largest
copper producers But beneath the
carbouates lie the supplies. a bit less
lean than the surface ores. and al
ready plans are being made for their
handling IN a great mill OF the Iota-
tion type A 500 ton experimental
mill now IS under erection The
Swansea Lease. in northern Yuma
county. IS operating a new go ton
flotation vSzut.
81 Miami and Globe there has been
general Improvement OF reduction
processes in the Inspiration. Old Do
minion and Miami properties Tbs
last has increased its mill capacity 10
5000 tons daily and has constructed
a 100 ton plant for experimenting in
the handling OF oxidized ores
Cold Camps Active.
Though gold has not deprecated.
but rather lowered. in purchasing
value there was continued activity
in the gold camps q northwestern
Arizona United Eastern and Tom
Reed az Oatman remaining the larg-
est gold producers OF the stzts Gold
Roads. in the same district. completed
q ace ton crushing plant early IN the
year. but did not operate.
In the same county. there Is re-
ne7red activity fin the base metal camp
% chloride, where the Schuylkiu Is
giving che Old Tennessee property a
new lease OF life and near which the
= III d.
the feaehiur % carbonate copper on
e relative small scale McCrackez
Sifrer-Te1d IS building a 100 ton mill.
Hackberrv s. spending 100000 on .
900 ton mill enI power plant, Arizona
ore Reduction has completed a go
ror c0ncentrator- Yucca Tungsten has
new 50 ton mill and Standard Mir
erals has 50 ton mill for testing
molybdentite flotation-
In the noted Patagonia Harshzw
districts near the southern border.
there has been q notable revival OF in
dustrv. WITH new mills started on the
Flux and worlds Fair mines Theirs
was large production OF Manganese
in this section tin demand stopped
with the declaration OF the armistlce.
TaVapai HIS Electric Plant
IN Tavanai county, outside OF Js-
rome the Consolidated Arizona SmeIt-
fuE company AZ Humbold completed a
100000 rooster plant with electric
PRECIPITATION equipment Verde n
sulratfon at Dewey built a Ectation
plant. as did the Poczhontas-Copper
Queen Octave, near Congress. IS
building a go ton reduction plant
Little production has been known
at Sunerior. outside OF the Magma.
though the old Silver King has been
equipped with a small mill for silver
ores.
with COPPER at IS cents. there was
shipment Of relatively lean ores from
many camps such as those around
Tucson and At johnson. but these gen
orally are closing now. awaiting a
more stable condition OF the metal
MARKET and better demand from the
shelters
To Await Demand
The Opening Of 1913 finds among
Arizona mining men disposition 70
till there shan have been absorption
OF the great copper stocks that have
been left al eastern seaboard points
through the unexpected early coming
OF peace Present bullion costs in the
smaller mines approximate 20 cents a
pound and even at this figure these
seems no demand. That the demand
VIII come back there IS no doubt for
the rehabilitation OF European IN
dusrry, as wen as FOR large domestic
needs. but there viii be a slack period
I'm Arizona copper camps for number
Of months TO come Already many
single men are being dropped from
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