Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-25
THE CENTER.
Southwestern New Mexico Abounds
I'm Rich Mining Ores.

A few days ago the SENTINEL publishe,
an article headed The Coming City.
We referred to a point Of intersection o
the three railroads, the A. T. & s. F., tn
Texas Pacific and the Southern Pacific
which we placed on the Mimbres river,
few miles below Silver City, New Mexico
A correspondent writing to the New Yorl
Mining Journal takes Silver City as hi
central point from which TO write, and re
fers to the various mining districts abou
him in this wise:
About 80 miles northeast Of this place
lies the Lake Valley District. Consider
able ore has been shipped from this district
to the various reduction works, principally
to Denver, Colorado. and has yielded gen.
orally from $500 to 81 500 per ton. Several
OF the mines have bodies of this
ore. Wood and water are convenient here,
and the mines are easily accessible.
IL miles from Lake Valley lies the
Hillsborough camp. A great amount Of
gold has been taken out Of these placers
during the past few years, but there still
remains ground for many years work.
Eighty miles northwest of Silver City.
and in the southwestern corner Of Socorro
county, in the Mogollon Mountains, lies
the rich and promising Cooney Mining Dis
trict. 1t has an abundance of cool, clear
water, with timber enough to supply the
whole Of New Mexico for q great MANY
years to come. The lodes are large, 10
, some instances cropping above the ground
80 feet. and the ore is high grade, carrying
copper, silver glance, gray copper. native,
brittle and ruby silver and bromide Of sill
yer.
Eighty miles below this district is the
beautiful and productive valley of the
Frisco. This river supplies water-power
enough to run an enormous amount of ma
chinery, and, as the roads from the mines
there Is of good grade and easy of descent,
the mining and treatment of ores can be
managed to the greatest possible advan-
tage. This is destined to be the leading
high grade silver producing district of the
southwestern country.
About 10 miles north of Silver City lie
the Pinos Altos mines. This was origin
ally a placer camp, and fiourished for about
ID years, during which time a very large
amount Of gold was taken out. 1t is still
worked by Mexicans during the larger part
OF the year, who manage to get out Of the
old dirt about seventy-five cents or a dol
lar a day. The lodes in the district show
free matchmaking gold ore, and have been
worked by the rude aras.ra and made to
pay from fifteen to fifty dollars per ton.
Twenty-Five miles northeast of Silver
City lies the Georgetown District. In
point OF bullion yield this district is second
IN the Territory, Silver City coming first.
IL produces a carbonate ore carving a
heavy percentage of chiorides and sulphur
cts. The average ore of some of the mines
runs over 100 ounces in silver. A IO-stamp
mill and a smelter are working here con-
stantly with fine success.
Eight miles southwest of Georgetown
are the famous Santa Rita copper mines.
These mines were discovered about eighty
years ago, and were worked by the owners
for a great many years. The ore was a
red and black oxide and native copper.
The bullion was carried to the City OF
Mexico for coinage. Owing to the high
freight tariffs, and the want of shipping
facilities, the present owners have not
been able to work them, but with the iron
rail now near at hand, operations will be
commenced upon them.
The Cooks Peak Mountains contain
some extraordinarily large beds of carbon
ate ore.
~ 4ifs IACi AHA uibtTtCl lies dUOub
ninety miles sonthest of this place. 1t is
a new camp, and. az yet, not much devel-
oped, but shows some extraordinarily rich
ores. Some specimens assayed 500, 900 to
the ton. carrying horn and brittle silver.
The main leads lie in porphyry, and are
rather narrow but rich.
The Stonewall district lies seventy-fve
miles southeast of Silver City. and adjoins
Old Mexico. 1t is thirty miles south of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, to which it
has easy access by a splendid road of very
light grade.
The leads here in Silver City are true
assures. lying in porphyry and granite,
and can be traced several miles on the sur
face. The ore is very rich, carrying silver
glance, brittle silver and sulphurets, and
the leads are Of good width. A splendid
spring breaks out in the midst of the
mines. and gives water enough to run q
l0O-stamp mill. The mines are easy Of
access. close 10 the railroad, and give every
promise of permanent richness.
Thirty miles north Of the Stonewall dis
trict, and three miles south of the South
ern Pacific Railroad, 10 the Victoria dis
trict. This is also a new and small dis
trict, but an exceedingly promising one.
The ore is a gray carbonate, carrying horn
silver and chloride.
The Eureka district lies shout seventy
five miles south of this place. This is an
other good camp, and has been worked
successfully about two years. The ore is
generally ia argentiferous galena, mixed
with carbonate carrying brittle and native
silver.
The Shakespeare or Virginia mining dis
trict lies about ffty-dve miles southwest
Of Silver City. and three miles south Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad. This district
carries the largest number Of veins and
has the greatest amount of ore in sight in
the country. Probably there is not in ex-
istence anywhere else such enormous bod
les of mineral bearing rock. The forma-
tion is granite, and the veins true assures.
The San Simon district lies about
twenty-five miles west Of Shakespeare, and
is looked upon as a coming" camp.
There are a great many veins in this dis
trict, and generally they are of large size.
The ores are of a fair grade and good
quantity. The formation is mixed-gran-
lite. porphyry and limestone being present.
This camp, like Shakespeare, presents a
splendid opening for capital. The mines
of the Union. which have paid the largest
dividends, are those carrying low grade ore
IN large quantities.
North Of the CHA River about ten miles,
and about fifty miles west Of Silver City,
some good prospects have been discovered
lately. The ore is of gray copper and cop
per glance of a good grade. The veins are
narrow, but very rich.