| Show OLD MONTE CRISTO MINES SONORA ENTERING ON NEW NF W CAREER OF ACTIVITY el paso texas aug 10 dr W S worrell formerly dean of the texas state college of mines and metallurgy in E el I 1 paso now general manager of the monte cristo mines company in the moctezuma district state of sonora mexico says in a letter to T B johnson of el paso that work is progressing on installing 6 flotation mill machinery at the mine an and d that it will be in operation soon the company which is is composed of new york and pittsburgh capitalists ita lists is erecting an 80 ton groch centrifugal mill said to be the last word an on this type of machinery the mill was built in el paso dr worrell says there is more than a million dollars worth of of low grade ore on the old dump at the mine this he adds is to be treated at the new mill returns of ore shipments from the monte cristo mine show ahat that up to the close of 1913 there was sent to douglas and ad el paso smelters shelters sm elters 1598 tons of ore which netted or an av of a ton one car of twenty five tons nettei while the ores contain silver gold g old copper and lea the principal values are in silver the entire returns of 0 or shipped amount to nearly the ore deposit lies i 0 a i manta or blanket form and the silver 0 occurs C curs in si silve IV v C sulphides sulp hides called by the natives pelanca pe tanca streaks of t th i s ore from four to twelve inches in thickness contain near r 75 per cent silver and it is so rich that it has to be chisel chiseled c out the mine is in practically virgin condition and thi th h f N deepest workings are not more than feet below the su sur 1 r face mr johnson says the property is a duplicate of the th 6 i famous el tigre mine in northern sonora the richest gol and silver mine opened up within the past twenty five year in mexico U |
