Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-09
RICHER THAN EVER.
Big Strikes Of Copper and Lead Car
Donates Unearthed at
San Pedro.
The Camp In Hum of Excitement
Dolores In the Swim
Camp Notes.

A fresh revival OF public interest in tn
wonderful mineral riches OF Santa T
'ouaty was developed to-day by the re
'elpt of news from sources whose reliu
Mlity can not be questioned, relating t
several new and important strikes jus
opened. In concluding Il business Iette
to the editor OF the New MEXICAN, Mang
Raunheim, Of the Santa Re Copper com
pany, Writing under date OF San Pedro
the 9TH instant, sends up this bit OF goo,
news.
FACTS AS ARE FACTS.
! started to sink shaft last week Il
work four OF our copper mines, which hav,
not yet been opened, ut the same time
through one and the same shaft, situate
on the boundary OF the Monte2uma ant
Apex and NlrL mia lodes, and to-day aiteI
being down ONLY ten feet We stuck tht
richest carbonate OF copper SO lar lount
in SIM Pedro, average 81 per cent copper
containing also some gold When We
located the shalt last week, my daughter
I Matilda, Insisted to have it called tn,
Matilda shalt, it would bring us good luck
so It uid.
On the Apex lode we have run tun
mel 10 feet, and opened biz body ul
partly decomposed iron ore carrying trom
- to SIS free gold. The deposit is twelve
ieet thick and so far about thirty feel
Vide, We have not yet been able to as
certain HE full width. but We are workinl
day and night i'll this tunnel to find out
No ore Will lie taken out i'll Qualtites
before all our machinery is here, which
might take TWO months vet.
IRON the White mine We hoist at pres
ent bttNeen ninety and 100 tons Of cop.
I per ore daily.
. Our matte runs So to Is per cent cop
per with S26 to $50 in gold per ton, anu
. twenty-five ounces in silver.
Tie camp is very lively, forty-six lots
| have just been sold by the new town site
company.
bought the Greyhorse gold mine foI
tie company to day. The Lucky-Lincon
does we'll.
GREAT BODY OF CARBoNATEs.
And similar reliable news, quite as cheer
ful, as the above only relating to anolhe,
OF San Pedro's rich properties, is also a,
hand to-day. 1t relates to the now "a
NOUS CarbUna,e producers, the Luck,
and the Lincoln. For the past week
the new strike OF yaena 2nd car.
donates near the side line OF these
Clnlns, heretofore mentioned, has been
followed up by the miners with result,
That hive created Il sensation III camp a.
the facts leaked ont from dry to day. H.
one instance The miners Knocked down Il
single chunk OF gaIeHa that weighed hail
Il ton and It lnd to be broken into tire,
pieces belo il could be taken to the sur
lace. Later men encountered body Of
carbonate ore that has served to fairly set
the hundreds OIL prospect>Ts tlereabout,
Wild with excitement. Mr.. Jane,
Cheves, one Of the leading nler
{ hnnts at Pedro, and q man whom.
the people know to be careful in his state.
neilts, Is here to-day, and he gives tn,
New MEXICAN al IDEA OF hat the present
situation lis in the LurkN.Lincoln proper
ty. Il vent into the mine and person.
ally inspected the find" said lie. Mr..
Cheves states that lie Saw u solid mass OF
from ten to twelve iett Of CarbOnates it,
place, and he regards the strike rs by all
odds the most important ever made il,
santa Re county. Tie vein, he SAWS.
made L short turn downward after il
struck wall rock and tbs bein.
followed for about twenty-five feet, an
other cHMing OF iron Mas penetrated
which opened to view This rich body of
rarLonates. He thinks this ten o. tW elvt |
feet vi carbonates Will run from 500 to |
! Ito per Ton, or at any rate will easily |
average 500 per ion, or ~ U0U per car.
he iarts IL regard to this latest find !
ere not generally known in tie town
when Mr.. Cheves lett. but he predicts
hat ere this they have created something
II furOre that aill make the SAWS and
hammers at work on the new town site
:lng d merrier song than ever.
a. Il MOUNTAIN OF IS GOLD ORE.
Dolores, too, continues to keep pace
"lth the spirit OF the tin es about Santa
lie and comes up smiling with excellent
nil returns from the Hattie or Rock
quarry" prosperity. J. W. Benton came
II from Dolores this morning. He states
hat the Nis"ell mill yesterday made
lean up after running through seventy.
light tons OF Hattie, ore which WELDED
200. The mill resumed operations to-
lay on ore from the Ross mine, largely
}" ned by citizens Of Santa Fe. Mr.. Ben.
Oh says he l. perfectly well satisfied with
he results obtained from this test run of
LATHE ore. lie has now breast Of ore
II the mine that is forty feet high and
lily feet across and baeing his opinion on
he test just made, lie calculates that il
i'll average nearly IS per ton, half Of
hivh pays the expense Of mining, haul
Il and milling, leaving very handsome
yargn III the shape OF profits.
CAMP ECHOES.
The Lurkv-Lincoln company paid off ,
esterday for the month Of July.
John I. Kelly, the pioneer placer miner, I
up from Golden on business to-day. ,
lis plant is in successful operation.
The Santa Fo Copper company will
I'm $32,pyO loose in Pedro on Thursday
ext, IN payment OF its employees to date {
ON July 10.
The Bullion has fifty tons Of gaena on !
re dump and expects to he regular
ripper in Two weeks. The shaft is now =
own thirty feet. |
Despite the treachery OF one Altenburg, a
tely connected with tie Golden Nine
eekly newspaper, That spicy little sheet ,
,n,es up smiling 1t is brinl full Of adj :,
artisements.
The narrow gauge surveyors are "hoof-
"" it toward tLe,niines ut a lively rate 2
It the good work go on. Give lis direct
ilway.' onnertlon with that IL h 81, ton
nd Santa Fe's prosperity is ussured.
A gentleman just from San Pedro the b