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Limantour
a Man Of
Brains "and-
Capabilities
MEXICO, I. P., March 12. Jose
Yves Iimantour has been called
the "WItte of Mexico." Grant
fins: the appelation Its complimentary
value, the Mexican minister of finance
needs to borrow neither the name nor
the fame "of the great Russian financier.
The term is applicable to Limantour
only as a means of impressing those
who possibly may be "unaware of the
gigantic and striking work done by
him in rehabilitating the finances of
the nartion and elevating its credit
above that of the rest of the Latin
American countries.
A tall, slender man, with pure white
hair, mustache and sidewhlskersv Li
mantour is now in his 57th year. By
birth he is a Mexican, although French
blood predominates in his veins. There
Is a faction in Mexico which h aggres
sively antagonistic to Limantour, prin
cipally on account of his French blood.
By men who can think and :ake into
account the material needs of the
country, the mention of Limantour's
name is often coupled with the ex
pressed wish that he might become
president. But that is hardly to be an
ticipated. He has enemies, as has been
said. Personally, the suggestion has
always been extremely repugnant to
him. It Is & moot question, too, if un
der the constitution, which provides
that the president must be Mexican
born, Limantour is eligible to the office.
LlmantoKr a Genius.
Btrt, aside from all this, it is not de
tracting from the eminence or the qual
ifications of the 'minister of finance to
aey that his services may be estimated
to be of much more worth to Mexico In
his present position than if he were in
the executive chair. For finance Li
mantour h&s Innate Inclinations which
attain to the filginty of genius. For
politics he hag neither predilection nor
finesse. Next to Diaz, he is the most
potent man in Mexico today, upon the
principle that in any organization,
political or commercial, the real power
behind the throne Is the man who
handles the money. Limantour keeps
the purse-strings of Mexico tightly
-within his clasp. He is an autocrat in
bis department. He has to be.
Sternal vigilance is the price of
treasury surpluses. The head of every
ther department in the government is
fmbject to him, so fat- as money goes.
When the budget estimates are made up,
there im no tossing them to the tender
steroies of congress, as with us, to be
allowed to stand as Offered, or hacked
and pruned unsparingly, according to
the Quality sad strength of political in
fluence which the department heads can 1
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Who Enjoy the Choicest Products of
the World's Commerce.
Knowledge of What is Best Mere Important
Than Wealth Without IL
It must be apparent to every one that
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to enable the best of the products of modern
commerce to attain to universal acceptance.
However loudly heralded, they may not
hope for world-wide pre-eminence unless
they meet with the general approval, notof
individuals only, but of the many who have
the happy faculty of selecting and enjoying
the choicest products. Their commenda
tion, consequently, becomes important to
others, since to meet the requirements of
the well informed of all countries the method
of manufacture must be of the most perfect
order and the combination the most excel
lent of its kind. After thirty years of gen
eral usage, Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is every
where accepted as th best of family laxatives. Its
quality is due not only to the excellence of the
laxative and carminative principles of plants
known to act most beneficially on the system,
but also to the method of manufacture of the
California Fig Syrup Go., which ensures that uniform
ity and purity essential in a remedy intended for
family use. It cleanses and sweetens the system
effectually, when a laxative is needed, without any
unpleasant after effects. To get the beneficial
effects of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, buy
the genuine only; the full name of the Gompany
California Fig Syrup Go. Is printed on the front of
every package. Price, 50 cents per bottle.
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bring to bear. There is a budget com
mittee of the Mexican congress. But
tho budget committee Is Limantour. His
word is the committee's law.
Limantonr Cant ioHM.
In the ordinary running of the gov
ernment the principal rule which oper
ates is simple and invariable. Each de
partment Is allowed only as much
money as Limantour is sure can be ob
tained from the revenues. In other
words, the expenses are forced to fit
the nation's income. There are no
deficits, excepting upon extraordinary
occasions. Limantour will not allow
them. Therefore Mexico presents the
rare spectacle of a nation the receipts
of which, year after year, are much
more than the expenditures. There is
no borrowing to meet deficiences.
Tho Mexican government today Is one
of the few nations on earth which is in
tho position of a commercial house es
tablished and run strictly upon busi
ness principles. Mexico is in business,
in a manner of speaking, to make
money, and not to lose it.
To an investor of today who planks
down his money for Mexican bonds at
par, or better, a humorous appeal will
be made when he Is told of times when
$200,000 cash was realized on a Mexican
loan of 51,200,000. In one extremity the
old-time financiers of the nation ran
through the printing pressian Immense
number of papal bulls, which had been
sent to Mexico from Rome to be dis
pensed as indulgences to the faithful
upon payment of a price. By printing
on the blank backs of the bulls prom
ises to poy4 the government converted
them Into treasury notes and put them
Into circulation.
Mexico's Deficit Sliminated.
The deficit was eliminated from Mex
ico's flhancialjscheme" of life as far
back as the budget of 1895-6, only a
year or two after Limantour became
minister of finance. Before then finance
ministers had groaned and wailed over
the deficit, deploring it soulfully, but
admitting their inability to prevent the
nation from, to quote one minister,
"marching blindfolded to the inevitable
abyss of irremediable bankruptcy."
In the past 14 years excesses of ordin
ary revnues over ordinary expenditures
has ranged from ?SOO,000 to $29,000,000
yearly. Last year's surplus was nearly
$5,900,000. In the period mentioned the
aggregate surpluses have amounted to
more than $136,000,000, of which 361,
000,000 ha3 been devoted to public
works and the remaining $75,000,000
cdnverted into a cash reserve.
Conservative Estimates.
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income is one of Limantour's strong
points. He can sit down and figure out
'-what the country' revenue will be for
a year ahead with an accuracy that is
almost uncanny. Hebrings. the appro
priations well within the lowest pos
sible sum to which the revenues may
shrink, through causes foreseen or un
foreseen. Always the deficit is held at
bay, even though the man who sits on
the lid of the treasury happens to be
caught with an abnormally diminishing
revenue, receding below the sum of the
estimated disbursements. Here is an
example. Last year Mexico began to
feel sorel5r the widespread depression in
business, which began in 1907. Her in
come dropped off until it was nearly
$13,000,000 less than it had been in the
previous fiscal year.
T-he estimates of revenue were 103,
400,000, but the actual collections were
only $9S,775,000, or about $4,600,000 less
"Was there a deficit? There was not.
The surplus bobbed up serenely, as per
custom. When Limantour saw the
storm coming, he fell back upon that
comfortable nestegg of surpusses ac
cumulated in the fat years that had
gone before. By transferring certain
disbursements from the budget to the
reserve, as was allowable under the
law he brought the year to a close with
a surplus of ?5,S0$,000, which was the
difference between the disbursements of
$93,000,000 and the total revenues -of
$99,000,000.
Diaz on Xat Ion's Debt.
Of the dark days of Mexico's financial
chaos, president Diaz not long ago gave
a vivid description, when ha said:
"When in December, 1884, I again, by
the will of the people, took charge of
the supreme magistracy of the republic,
my administration found itself
confronted with a debt to the banks of
$11,000,000, with considerable liabilities
to the railroad companies for subven
tions and with notes -to private persons,
all secured by collateral, for $4,500,000.
The pay of tho civil employes of the
government was at that time three
months in arrears, and tlie public
revenue was tied up, the receipts of the
federal district being in their entirety
pledged to the National Bank.
While as to the proceeds of the various
custom houses not more than 12.63 per
cent of the total was available, even In
those customs houses the receipts of
which were less encumbered."
Diaz speedily contpeled the taking of
steps to handle tho country's foreign
debt In a manner ntore satisfactory to
Mexico's creditors. Between 1ES4 and
18S0 she managed to borrow enough
money to provide for her obligations,
and to take over the control of the Te
huantepec railroad. The federalization
of this line, by the way, is conceded
to be one of the best Investments the
country ever made. In another article
something of the history and the im
portance of the Tehuantepec line, and
of Its future, will be told.
The Sliver Crisis.
Banking syndicates took their final
toll of Mexico's necessities In 1S93, when
the silver crisis depreciated the value
of her mining products appallingly.
She was forced to borrow $15,000,000 to
make. ends meet. The underwriters got
the Issue of 6 percent bonds at 68 3-4.
Since then she has been able largely to
dictate .her own terms in borrowing
operations. The confidence of finan
ciers in her credit and the respect with
which she Is treated when she goes
into the money market can proceed,
manifestly, only from one cause insis-
tence of the administration that internal
peace must be preserved, and the cori
fldence of the. world that Diaz could
enforce it.
It in Interesting to compare the per
centages of the disbursements for gov
ernmental purposes for last year and
for a few years back, to show how
Mexico has increased her expenditures
for education and peaceful purposes
and reduced those for war. The figures
are from the financial statement fur
nished congress by the minister of fi
nance In December last: s
1903-4 190S-9
Public debt 1 33.85 27.82
War 19-88
Communications and public
works 11.41
17.50
14.13
6-K
Public instruction 4.14
Public health, police and
charities 2.45 .
3.82
Mexico Xot Extravagant.
Mexico has exhibited noteworthy
sanity Is refusing to plunge into the
tempting extravagances of huge army
and navy establishments. She does not
need them, and so her budgets-have not
been laden down with Immense appro
priations for their increase and up
keep. She Is not keen on Dreadnaughts
and is quite satisfied to let other na
tions rule the wave. She spent last
year on her armj which has utility
principally as a national police force, ;
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only $13,970,000, while her navy
j i-ujl ;
her less than $1,000,000. As
matter
of fact, the army is disproportionately
small for her size and the number of
the inhabitants. But labor is scarce in
Mexico. Every man taken into the
army, Diaz says, filches' a needed pair
of hands from the field or the shop.
So he has kept down the size of the
army and put forth exertions to In
crease the training and efficiency of the
officers, and co-jointly, those of the
rank and file.
Millions for Improvements.
The millions . that might have been
wasted In a vain glorious essay to pon
der 4o a zest for military glory, or in
seeking'to make Mexico a power on the
sea, have been devoted to internal im
provements. Examples of these are the
fine port works at the Atlantic and
Pacific ends of the Tehuantepec rail
way, at Veracruz and other harbors;
subsidizing railroad line's, building
highways, subsidizing lrrlgafion pro-
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jects, in order that Immense tracts of
arable land, useless .in the lack of
water, might be made to contribute to
the agricultural wealth of the country;
erecting dignified and .enduring public
buildings, providing the capital with an
adequate water supply, erecting" Schools
and institutions of higher learning, and,
last, but decidedly not least, policing
the country in such a manner as to
guarantee full protection for life and
property. This last has done as much
as anything to attract foreign capital
to Mexico.
Then there Was the abolition o the
"alcabalas" to which task IImantour
set himself early in his career. Persons
who traveled in Mexico, and proceeded
from one state into another, as recently
as 15 years ago will tell earnestly and
profanely of (their experiences with the
customs collectors who stcod at every
state line to collect toll on baggage and
merchandise. The system amounted to
an Inter-state tariff. Because of the
"alcabalas," which was a relic of the
Spanish occupancy, consumption of ar
ticles of domestic manufacture were
largely restricted to the states in which
they were produced.
Importing Goods.
It was cheaper in 'some states to im
port goods from abroad, paying freight ,
and customs, ithan to purchase similar
articles of domestic manufacture. L.1- i
mantour caused the inter-state tariff 1
BIIXIG NEWS.
Capt. P. H. Durack Buys
Machinery for Property
in El Paso.
In the Bscondida mountains, south of
the great mines of San Pedro, and two
miles south of the station of Summit,
on the Mexico-Northwestern railroad,
about 150, miles south of this city, in
the northwestern part of Chihuahua
Mex., is a group of mining claims, con
sisting of the Sierra Madre, and Anexes
No. 1 and No. 2, the Francisco. Colum
bia, and King Edward, covering an
area of over 200 acres, belonging to
Capt. Patrick H. Durack, of El Paso,
and associates, who are residents of St.
Paul, Minn., Houston, Texas, and El
Paso.
No formal incorporation has yet been
made, but the owners are vilnancially
able to do all the necessary development
work required at present. Capt. Durack,
who Is an experienced mining, man, has
done a large amount of development
work since he discovered and de
nounced trie properties, and under the
most trying circumstances and diffi
culties has accomplished what would
have discouraged most men.
These mines are lead-silver and gold
propositions, the mineral occurring In
very wide fissures cutting -the lime
stone formation.
The ores arc a fine concentrating
proposition, and are in immense bodies.
"JVork Is Under "Way.
Workhas begun under the, new or
ganization, and Michael Hennessey, of
this jetty, Is superintendent, and Capt,
Durack, general manager. A force has
j been put to work and more are being
added as needed
A large storage reservoir has been
constructed of cement on the hill above
th mine, adequate to supply al future
mecessitles for mining and milling pur
poses. The shaft, which is 220 feet
dcpt will be retimberd at once to be in
readiness for the new pumping plant to
bo installed.
A new 150 H. P. boiler has been pur
chased in El Paso for which $1356 cash
was paid. There is at present a 50 H.
P. boiler and 50 H. P. engine at the
mine. The new Soller will also furnish
power for alr compressors, electric
drills, dynamos and hoisting machinery.
Ho Is taking down to the mine a force
of masons and builders to erect 25 new
dwellings for the men who will be em-
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LOS ANGELES PEOPLE MAY'
ACQUIRE MEXICO 3IINE
Jiminez, Mex., March 12. Mining peo
ple of Los Angeles, Cal., having an op
tion from Adolf Broneman, owner of
La jJulieta mine, in Cerro de Amaloya,
have arrived in Jiminez. It 'is under
stood that this rich gold mine will
change hands at once and is to bo
worked on an extensive scale.
The gold occurs in a yellow lime for
mation and is mostly "native." Speci
mens will yield several dollars in gold
value.
The deal amounts to several hundred
thousand dollars, and If closed; as ds
expected this week, Mr. Broneman, or
"Don Adcdfo," as he Is best known In
Jirrainez, will Immediately commence
active operations on Ills x lead-silver
mine, "Las Adasgas," located 15 miles
south of Jiminez.
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We are now ready for business in
cur new home. Our store is crammed
full of bran new pianos of all the dif
ei -a Evades, ranging in prices from
$lo0 and upwards. Terms from $5 a
month and upwards. It you are in
the market for a piano, or an inner
JJkayeri piano COTae in- and look
through our large stock. Our prices
are right. Our terms are right, and
we guarantee to treat you right.
me in today and select your piano.
Pianos for rent 4 and $5 a month.
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Company
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MEXICO IHNIIG II IMS OF .
EL PASQAN liS
MINES IN MEXICO i
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walls to be torn down in 1896, by legis
lative enactment. The impetus given to
native production in manufactured ar
ticles was immediate and tremendous.
The adoption of the "gold exchange
standard" and the nationalization of the
bulk of railroad mileage of tho coun
try, are more recent examples of the
daring. progressive and profitable
strokes of Mexican national finance
which go to Limantour's credit. Mexico
brought her currency In line with that
of the other commercial nations of the
world under the promptings of similar
considerations as those which operated
in abolishing (the "alcabalas." While the
currency laws enacted four years ago
supply stability to exchange rates they
also make provision for the general use
of silver money in commercial transac
tions in Mexico.
Foreign Capital.
Foreign capital has been pouring into
Mexico unremittingly in the past de
cade. The latest estimates are that
American Investors alone have consid
erably more (than one billion invested
here. Mexico could never have traveled
so far on her own financial resources.
The money is -not in the country, and
If it were the Mexican is" apt to be
chary about risking it in enterprises of
a speculative nature. He Is losing some
of his backwardness, and today Mexican
capital is being utilized more and more
freely. Diaz ami Liimantour have been
severely criticized by some who plead
uTtra-patrlotic motives for their friend
liness to foreign capitalists. But results
seem to prove that their attitude in this
respect was based up'on solid, far-seeing
utilitarian grounds. No one can assert
with truth that Mexico has lost any
thing by affording facilities for Amerl
caiW and other investors to earn big
returns on their investments. On the
contrary, she has gained in every way.
Next article Mexican Railroads.
MINING NEWS.
Charles .Smith Cites History
of Bios Padre and Other
Old Producers of the Ee
public. Charles Smith, a prominent mining
man, ajter an absence of several years,
has returned to this city on business.
He is in charge of the properties called
Dios Padre or Trinidad mines, near
Trinidad, in the Sahuaripa district, Son
ora, Mex., which belong to the Greene
Gold and Silver Mining company. The
camp is 50 miles east of La Dura,
through which the new Cananea rail
road passes on the way to Tonichi, and
to reach ultimately Nacozarl.
Discovered by Spaniards.
"The Dios Padre mine has been
worked," says Mr. Smith, "off and on
for over 100 yearsy and has produced
perhaps $2,000,000.
"This rich mine was discovered by the
Spaniards, who had previously found
and were working the Santa Rita mine;
and while packing bullion over the
trail through the Sierras to Chihuahua,
they found some rich outcrops on the
trail and began .exploration work on the
presenDIos Padro mine.
"Building vaso smelters, 'they were so
successful that they took out a large
amount of rich ore. Subsequently, after
a long period of idleness, due to the
raids of Indians, the mine was taken up
in the seventies by Alzuah. In four
years of that time Francisco Carleton,
an American, now living in Santa Rosa,
operated it so successfully that it !
cleared over $400,000 profits.
English Company Gets Control.
"Upon the death of Alzuah, Ramon
Corral, now vice president of Mexico,
acting as administrator of the estate,
took charge of and bonded the mine to
an English company. The latter made
a bad Job of mining, spending a great
amount of money -in machinery and
surface improvemnts, building a 400
ton mill, cable trains, expensive roads
In short they were riotously extrava
gant, as evidenced by machinery scat
tered all over that locality. Mean
while they did no development nor ex
ploration work on the mine. In fact,
the main shaft is down 215 feet deep,
about 100 feet below the level of the
arroya. There had not been any work
done In the mines for 30 years and It
was the sakie,' as when I was first
ther In 1382.
CKher Owners.
"After that company gave up, Corral
went to work and 'chlorlded' it for the
Alzuah heirs and in four or five vears
took out 125,000. Then Manuel Jesus
Olea and Augustino Ainsa leased it
from Corral, paying $500 rental a month
and made money. They, however, only
gutted the old ore stopes and pillars,
doing no development work. After this
Richard Bros, took a hand and lease
and turned it over to the Greene Gold
and Silver company.
Spenks of Incompetence.
"W,hoever has had possession of the
mine and made a failure, has done so
through Incompetence. Whenever the
Dios Padre has not paid it has been due
to bad management. As far as devel
oped, it showed it is a big mine. I
speak of these failures to Illustrate a
not unusual thing In that country. The
state of Sonpra, like many other mining
countries, id strewn with old plants and
ruined machinery, monuments of the in
competence of the managers and folly
of the Investors, who spent hundreds of
thousands In those things instead of
exploiting and developing the proper
ties first to find out whether the prop
erties were worth anything. There are
plenty of the same kind of operations
going on now.
Cause of Failure.
"Idont see why this property if prop
erly managed can not be made a good
paying proposition. It does not make
much water, but the water is aciduous
and mineralized. But there is no serious
difficulty to contend with.
"I will reiterate that the cause of
most failures in mining in Mexico Is
that many American and other foreign
companies in the first place put in in
competent managers.
"It war. an old saying in Nevada that
'A mining engineer is a man with a
khaki suit, and a dinky pick.' This re
ferred to the fresh college graduates
without practical experience, who would
expend very little In development, and
who would, when (they saw a rich
streak or stringer, get excited and put
in expensive machinery.
"In the same district are La Bufa
and the Cienlga mines, famous old
producers, but now Idle. Quite a num
ber of people are down In that section
nrospectlng and working old mines and
more are coming all the time, now that
the Lew railway Is within 50 miles and
former difficulties of transportation a
thing of the past.
"The troubles with the YaquLs are
happily over, which were really very
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f serious. life is as safe there now as
anywhere in the United States.
Ia Republics.
"La Republica mine, although1 across
I the imaginery line of Chluahua, is only
40 miles southeast of Trinidad, and
geologically and mlneraloglcally should
belong to the Sahuaripa district. This
Is an A No. 1 property and Its present
manager, Webster, I believe is a very
competent man. He has had great diffi
culties to contend with, for in the last
rainy season the prior management al
lowed the mine to get flooded, which,
from all accounts, could have been
avoided, had they not stoped out the
ore to the surfaced making an opening
for the rain waters to rush in.
"The ores near the surface and the
pillars should have been left for futura
reserves. They were as good there as
money in "the bank, and could have
been taken out any time.
"The un watering is a big Job, but I
don't doubt it will be accomplished, and
the mine will become a good producer."
BEDUCTI02T WORKS
IN BLACK RANGE
New Plant to Be' Lighted
and Driven"by Elec
tricity. l
Falrview. N. M., March 12. The 100
ton custom plant of the Black Kange
Reduction works Is to be located near
the Sierra and Socorro county Hue in
the heart of the minerafized territory of
the Black Range mountains of New
This miUIng and cyanidatIon plant
win be substantial in construction and
Its equipment the mpst modern in charI
acter.
The gold-silver ores are to be con
veyed from the minesbv aerial tram-4
was and upon delivery at the mill will
be automatically weighed and dumped
into receiving bins.
"Each denartment of the reduction
works will be lighted ""by electricity, and
driven bv an lerrrlc motor.
Later if an increase in milling ca
pacity is required by an active devel
opment of the mines, a hydro-electric
power plant is conterriplated on the Gila
river that would also furnish power to
the other mining and mercantile indus
tries of this and other districts.
GOOD-SHIPSmiTTS
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Great TTestern Shipping 100
Tons Daily to El Paso
Smelter.
Court and, Ariz., March 12. The Gold
Queen mining company has a full force '
of three shifts breaking ore and will
begin shipping to' the Commonwealth
mill at Pearce March 15. Sinking will ,
be resumed as soon as a,new cable and
steam hoist can be installed,, the shaft '
being about 240 feet, the length of the
cable on the present hoist. The man
agement expects to sink at least 500
feet with the new outfit.
The Great "Western Copper company
has increased Its force and is shipping
100 tons of high grade ore to the Ei
Paso smelter dally, and the company is
greatly pleased with the showing since
beginning daily shipments, finding three
pounds of ore where one was expected.
Much of the ore being shipped from the
Mary shaft will run 30 percent and over.
The Calumet & Arizona is shipping I
100 tons of good copper ore to Its
Douglas smelter from the Germania
shaft, having stopped sinking at both
this and the April Fool shaft until the
ore now blocked out is shipped.
2VEW COMP.Cn; TAKES OVER
OLD COMMONWEALTH MIXE
Is Xott Operating at Pearce, Cochise
County, Among: Other Things,
working Over Old Tailings.
It is reported that the lessees of the
Commonwealth ilnlne and mill at Pearce,
Cochise county, Arizona, having pur
chased the majority of stock, are now
operating the- company under the name
of the Commonwealth Mining and Mill
ing company. The mine is on the branch
of the Southern Pacific railroad from
Cochise to Gleeson.
Tho mine has a record of producing
millions of dollars. It is In an andesite
hill, rising abruptly like an Island in
the level plains of Sulphur Spring val-
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ley. The vein runs east and west
through this hill, which is opened by an
inclined shaft 536 feet deep, showing a
shoot 60 feet wide and 400 feet wide.
Another incline was sunk, on a smaller
t fain OX7 0tLf- ri-A t wsA Virt fhfo
vein joined the vmaln vein. The ore 13
four feet wide, carrying 12 ounces sil
ver and $1 to $1,50 gold a ton. At the
150 foot station drifts were run 60 feet
east and 36 feet west, In this ore.
In the la3t six years the lessees cyan
ided 400,000 tons of tailings that had
accumulated as the result of previous
operations of the SO stamp pan amalga
mation mill. Part of this tailing was
eyanided after dry crushing. The mill
is now being remodeled to provide for
stamp crushing in cyanide solution and
all slime treatment. The equipment,
nearly all of which is Installed, con
sists of 20 stamps, four sets of rolls,
two Chalmers & Williams tube mills,
20 feet long by four feet diameter, four
Pachulca slime tanks, 12 by 36 feetr two
Burt revolvliig filters, each 30 feet long,
five feet diameter, which will treat 80
tons of slime per 24 hours.
With this equipment it is proposed io
handle 100 tons of ore a day from the
cnine, and 200 tons of tailings from-a-dunip
of 40,000 tons from the old mill.
It is proposed, ultimately, to retreat
the 400,000 ton dump which is supposed
xo contain three ounces of silver and 50
the cyanidecents geld a ton.
TO INSTAL MACHINERY".
Bisbee, Ariz., March 12. The old
board of directors was reeleoted at the
meeting of the Bisbee-Sonora Mining
company. The company has decided to
instal additional machinery on its prop
erty and to continue drilling by com
pressed air instead of by Hand.
At present most of the work. Is being
f dne at the Badgerclaim
TO SELL SOXORA PROPERTY.
"FttoVu Arriv Th "iff, 'Varrtfjatfrmi
are being conducted "in Bisbee for imr
sale of the Veta Grande mine, which is
located In the state of Sonora. The mine
has been developed to a certain extent
with good results and, according to ru
mors. It will be bought by a syndicate of
Bisbee people and a new company form
ed. The present owner of the mine 13
Jim Finch.
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