Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-07-01
AMONG THE MINES.
The Carbonate Deposits at San Pedro
and How the Miners Re
gard Them.
The Lincoln and Parnell Attracting At.
hution--Doiores GrIst-Chester
Shipments.

Mining men who came in from San
Pedro to spend Sunday in the city state
that bets OF two to one are freely offered
in the camp that the Abe Liscoln shaft
will encounter carbonate ores before their
shaft is down $50 feet. This shaft is now
~ feet deep. 1t was the judgment OF
good minels where the Lucky strike was
FIRST made that the main body OF ore laid
toward the south, and that the Lucky vein
vas spur or blowout coming from that
direction, but since the mine has been
worked it is apparent that the main body
lies toward the north, in the direction
of the Abe Lincoln and the Parne.i
claims. The miners in the Lucky are
now at work within eighty feet OF the Lin
coin boundary line, and it is believed that
they will, in following up the pay streak,
cross over into the Lincoln. This situa'
ton might have resulted in bringing up
the "apex' question, had it not been TO
the foresight OF the Lucky people in TAX
ing bond on the Lincoln. Competent
men say it can no longer he doubted that
the blanket vein exists, and it is this
faith that prompts the giving OF odds that
the same ores found in the Lucky will
soon he found in the second Shalt OF the
Lincoln, now going down so rapidly. In
the Parnell shaft it is not expected
to reach the carbonates short OF 200 feet.
The work is very tedious. 1t Was costing
TIE Lucky people $50 foot to sink their
becond shaft, but this has been reduced
by letting contract to Messrs. Mclnt,?e
& Co., who are now pushing the work
with large force OF men. In the mean
time the mine continues to ship ore and
employ great many teams in hauling to
Cerrllos, but the shipments are only one
half OF what they will be when the new
shaft is finished, affording more air for the
workmen and permitting the erection OF
steam hosting works,
Work is also being pushed on the Ana.
couda, another extension Of the Lucky,
and there every indication that it is in
the favored district for carbonates. In
this connection it may be apropos to
quote George Hook, one of the discoy-
erers Of the famous Little littsburg at
Leadville, who said in Denver inter-
view recently that II these carbonates
were struck in the rarnell or Anaconda
it would prove that San Pedro was to be
q grest carbonate camp Of the Leadville
type.
AT DOLORES
good cheer s prevalent among the min.
srs and everybody is counting on the
final clean up at the new mill to prove
the advantage OF the Wiswell process for
treating the ores that abound in that dis.
trict. When the clean up will he made
is as yet an open question, probably
within few days. TIE ON now running
through is from the Cunningham, not
sorted, and i, exy ted to yield only
about $3.50 per ton. They want this
class OF ore to fill UP the cracks" in the
new machinery before the higher grade
ore is run through. When in ull1unning
order this mill is expected TO treat the
ore for 81 per ton. There are now
on the mine dumps about the camp about
800 tons, the owners of which are watch
ing the workings of the mill with gre at
There are at Dolores hundreds
Of mines from which ore can be taken out at
a cost Of from SO cents to 81 per ton, and
If this mill does the work Of treating at
50, the ore running from 81 to $50, it may
be seen what grand future is opening
up for Dolores as we'll as for Cerrillos and
San Pedro.
AT CERRILLos.
All interest is centered upon the big
patent lands deal and upon the rich strike
in the Chester mine, Editor Anderson,
Of the Rustler, brings up word to-day that
Messrs. Gray and Richards have opened
a superb body of ore in the Chester, prob.
ably one-third Of it being extremely high !
grade, and they would now have their |
tirst car load en- route to the snelter but
for the fact that no teams can be had to |
haul the ores down to the railroad. An
effort will he made to get the first car of
Chester ore down this week, and
It will be sent to Socorro for treatment.
other mines in the vicinity OF the Chester
arc opening out most satisfactorily.
The purchasers of the Andrews and
,ther patent lands are marshaling their |
orces for extensive working Of the prop
,rty, beginning with the Central mine, on
which machinery will be erected of the
most improved pattern. 1t looks now as
the new company will have upward Of
90 men On its pay roll before the end OF
hirty DAVIS.