Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-06-22 | Page 8 | Many Improvements at the Real Del Monte

I MANY IMPROVEMENTS AT THE REAL DEL MONTE The Mexico correspondent of tho Mining Min-ing World has an account of the Real del Monte properties of tho United States Smelting, Retlning and Mining company. This Is the group of mines oi which there arc ninety-six shafts, us recently stated by Frederick Lyon to Tho Tribune, ten of which shafts arc now In operation, others being placed in shape for production. The article referred to in the Mining World follows: Thu Pachuca & Real del Monte company, com-pany, which owns ubout one-third of the mining properties In the Pachuca and Real del Monte districts, has decided on a programme of enlargements and-Improvements, in a number of the mines and hupjendas. mills and cyanide plants, which. wll) necessitate the expenditure of something like J .500,000 pesos. Ona of the most Important works to bo carried out Is the prdjecct for centralizing the extraction of all. ores in the Real del Monte at the San Ignaeio shaft, which will he ' delivered at the mouth of the shaft. ' where connection is already made by aerial tram to the large mill and cyanide plant at Guerrero. In order to secure the success of this now departure It is necessary to move the existing 110-horse 110-horse power hoisting engine and substitute substi-tute a L'uO-horse power electric hoist. The larger t-elf-clumplng skips needed for handling han-dling the increased amount of ores tiro already on the ground and will be piU Into usq us sioon as the shaft Is completed. com-pleted. This work will take considerable timr. but other needed underground work Is being, pushed at the same time. More than two miles of the -100-meter level on the Santa Brlgida and the Inez lode has been Improved and laid with heavy rails to be used for electric traction of the ore to the. San Ignaeio shaft. Work Is also being pushed on thu deep level on the same lodes at the 520-metcr level and in both Instances in good ore. In the Pachuca division It Is proposed to double the capacity of the Loreto mill and cyanide plant, which means an output out-put daily of about 730 tons. For this change tho greater part of the machinery has been ordered for some time. The increased in-creased capacity of this mill Is made necessary to meet the additional supply of ores which will be received from the Rosarlo und Paralso mine?, which are now being reopened, und an estimated production of 300 tons of ore has to be provided for from this source. The old San Cristobal mine Is also being cleaned up for further development and will also he directly connected with the L,orcto mil) through the GIraulL tunnel, which connects tho various mines in this division.