The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-19
MINING NEWS.

White Oaks parties are paying a
good deal of attention to San Andres
property just now. Quite a number of
men are employed developing mines
there.-Lincoln Co. Leader.
The New Southwest says that the
sale of the Valverde property for 81, 600
has been consumated.
Some specimens of copper r have
been sent from the Sandia mountains
to the Hubbs smelter at Albuquerque
which the journal says are pronounced
very rich. Preliminary arrangements
have been made for working the claims
on a large scale.
Lamy Junction Is in an intense state
OF excitement over recent gold .discov-
cries in that neighborhood. A miner
brought in a piece of rock which our in
formant pronounced almost solid gold.
The ore Is supposed to be from the
same class of rock as crops out in the
old and new placers in the same gen
eral range Of mountalns.-Las Vegas
Gazette.
The Sierra Grands mine, at Lake
Valley in this territory, has produced
in bullion for the six months ending
January LIST, 1888, nearly one million
dollars. 1t averaged eleven hundred
dollars per month for each stamp, a pro-
duction which the Mining Journal OF
Philadelphia, says has never been equal
led In the annals Of mining. and not
likely to be during the present genera.
tiOn.
Messrs. Mark Mitchell and C. A
Shaw are working steadily on the Goose
Neck mine in Dead Mans gulch, nearly
one mile below Paschal. They have g
shaft 4x12 feet, $50 feet deep and a tun'
mel 113 feet in length, and two drifts
one rs and the other IS feet. The
ore is copper and mills at the Valverde
smelter from II to IS per cent, and the
indications for a large body of ore are
excellent. The Cow Boy claim, just
east of the above, owned by Mr.. Mitch
ell alone, has twenty tons of ore on the
dump, of good quality New South.
west.
A magnificent strike has just been
made on the Little Buck lead, in the
| Merrimac claim. in the Organs. Native
and horn silver have been discovered
in larger quantities than ever before,
We saw AZ the mouth of the shaft, on a
pile of ore sacks, alump almost as much
as a mar could lift of nearly pure sill
yer. Only a pocket7 Well, perhaps.
But it does not take many such peck
cts to make the mine worth q million
dollars. Mr.. Meadows. one of the own
ers, told US they had about 400 sacks OF
rich ore ready for shipment, and as
much more waiting for sacks.-Rio
Grande Republican.
In a certain mining district, not q
thousand miles from Deming or Silver
| City, there is said to be a stock com
pany operating in a very darkish kind
of a way. The capital of the corpor
alton is nominally 100000. 1t has
ground q distance of about one mile W
on the side of u steep and rugged noun
tain. It's agent has sunk two shafts
one seventy-fve and the other sixty
feet in depth sunk in gr~anite-solid
granite and in nothing but granite. Il
has one tunnel in the side of the rugged
hill aforesaid for the distance Of seven
ty-ive feet and another thirty feet. Out
of both comes some nice granite. TIL,
company employs a superintendent ant
six men, and instructions were recent
ly received from the east to sink 4 Coz
foot s~haft-again we suppose in gran
lite. Parties who have been on tn,
ground say that there is not u trace Of
metal Of any kind in any Of the shafts
tunnels. and vet the work OF sinking
in granite-gocs bravely onward
J New Southwest,