Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1922-02-12
LEAD SMELLING
To Be RESUMED
Contract Signed by FL Paso
Plant For Handling Ores
of Ahumada, Erupcion

Ell. PASO, Feb. ll.-Several hun
dred men will be put back to work at
the FL Paso smelling works and five
lead furnaces will begin operations in
"a short time. This announcement
was made Thursday morning, the big
gest piece of industrial news for FL
Paso and the southwest since the an
nOuncement of resumption of the Cop
per Queen and Calumet 4 Arizona
shelters at Douglas, AriZ.
1t means the resumption OF oper-
atoms on big scale and the plant
will operate continuously, for the sup
ply of ore is close at hand, in the
Erupcion and Ahumada mines in
northern Mexico.
The starting of five lead furnaces
! at the III Paso smelter will mean the
operation of more of these furnaces
than any time since 1906.
A ere wof men is now at work max
ing repairs on the old furnaces, which
when put into operation, viii give EN-
ployment TO about 1000 men.
A contract for smelling the ore of
| the Erupcion Mining Company and
the Ahumada Lead Company mines in
/. Chihuahua, Mexico, has been signed
| between these and the A. S. & r.
companies.
Officials said it is expected when
the lead furnaces have been put in
operation, the copper department will
also have resumed. although the darc
for the opening of the first copper
furnace has not definitely been de-
cided upon
Originally the FL Paso smelter Was
! built for smelling lead. When the
American Smelling & Refining Com
pany built it's plant at Chihuahua in
1906, however, most of the lead ore
| from Mexico was handled there ana
the majority of the furnaces here
were put to smelling copper.
To Resume Lead Smelling.
Shipping of the ore from the Erup-
cion mines to Ell Paso for smelling
will bring the lead furnaces into use
again.
Greenway in FL, Paso.
General John c. Greenway was IN
Ell Paso Thursday, attending to final
details of the smelling contract and
left for the Erupcion mines Thurs
day afternoon on an inspection tr.s..
Grading of the roadbed from the
mines to Lucero station is progressing
much more rapidly than was expected,
and will be completed April /, General
Greenway said.
I'VE expect to be shipping from
200 to 400 tons a day as soon as the
railroad is compelled" he said. This
will lbe from the mines of both the
Erupcion Mining Company and the
Ahumada Lead COMPANY"
Our mines have been operating
continuously at. Ajo, Ariz., with an
output of 5000 tons a day." General
Greenway said. THE company plans
doubling its plant there in the near
future.
Operations at the IS mine at
LOrdsburg, N. NJ, have been confined
to deevlopemnt and shaft has been
sunk to depth of 700 feet Ship
ments of ore will be resumed TO e,,e
smelter at Douglas in 30 days"
General Greenway said the mines
would gradually be brought back to
normal production although he could
, not say at this time how rapidly this
would be effected.
Objects to Bridge Toll.
Before we start shipping ore from
the Erupcion Mines" he said, I'VE
hope to be able to obtain better
shipping rates from the Mexican rail-
roads in the removal of the 81 ton
bridge toll at Ell Paso.
This toll amounts to $50 on a car
of ore and Is discrimination against
Ell Paso industries Inasmuch as Ell
Paso has always been the most
/ friendly border town to Mexico ! feel
certain the Mexican government will
be readily inclined to remove this
discrimination.
! With General Greenway were H. c.
Dudley, director of the Ahumada
Lead Company, and w. B. Smith.
superintendent of construction for
the Chihuahua & Oriente railroad.
!. They left with him Thursday for the
Erupcion mines in Chihuahua.