Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-06-10
FROM THE MINES.
The Future of the Camps Some Sugges
tions-Short Items Of News.

Development is all that Santa Fe Coun-
/ tvs mines require, Splendid progress is
now making toward this end, and the ease
and economy with which the work can
be DONE the finding Of pay" from the
very grass roots down, makes it more
than probable that no abatement of the
present activity will come even with the
SHOWS OF winter. Development work only
will keep up the present gratifying state
of affairs. The rush OF town lot spec
ulators and large floating population
may serve to make general business ex-
cellent and keep up the excitement for q
time, but after all, the basis of prosperity
is the toll OF the prospcCtOr. These are
the people Santa Fe county in
vites They are coming, too, and are go
ing to work with will, but the people of
the camps must remember that deep
mining is their hope, not deep mining,
either, as the term is generally accepted,
but by this is meant the thorough open
ing of those mineral leaders known to
exist at depth of from 800 to 700 feet
from the surface. Capital will not buy
prospects," usually; but an abundance
of money can be found to 90 into q
mine" Let the people OF San Pedro,
Golden, Dolores and Cerrillos bear these
timely hints in mind at this important
period their prosperity.
In speaking of the Lucky and its future,
! the Cerrilos Rustler man, who has in
spected the property says the location, to
one at all acquainted with the geology OF
this locality warrants the supposltlon
that lower contacts will show up ore
bodies larger and possibly richer than
that now being worked Near the point
where the lead carbonates were first OBJ
served shaft is being sunk, and to Il
depth OF twenty feet now reached, the
same character OF iron which capped the
carbonate ore has been met with.
Prospectors also state that much lower
down the mountain the context shows
the same favorable indications for the ex
istenCe of q continuous series OF ore
bodies as exist in the copper mine. If
as in that great mine, the working of the
Lucky should drift from rich lead carbon
ates into veins OF native silver, as die
that from copper carbonates and low
grade pyrites into native copper the
wealth thus uncovered would be sufficient
to make the world 60 wild. As it is the
mine, though not systematically worked
shows for itself and is rapidly making it,
owners rich. 4 second shaft is beins
sunk, where the miners are now knock
ing down the ore--the latter being a very
simple and easy process, as no shooting
is required, and one man with the picl
can get down an incredible amount in ;
day.
CAMP ECHOES.
Samples of silica, from which glass il
made, and a great chunk OF galena from
a mine near the Lucky, have been sent tt
Gov. Prince by parties at San Pedro.
John Gray got home yesterday nool
Cerrillos where he placed gang OF mel
at work in the Chester. He brought "
rich specimens from the bottom of hi
shaft.
The importance of organizing loca
railroad company to build road to Sal
Pedro can not be over-estimated. VIII
will move in the matter ?-Albuquerqu'
Citizen.
Water, gas, iron, lime, coal, coke, rail
road facilities from Mexico to New York
with immense ore bodies all around 1t
Cerrilos is the cheapest and best smeltin
point on earth.
There can be no question as to Sa
Pedro's future. With its great cope
mine and great silver mine, with man
others peeping through, it will becom
the wonder OF the age.
John King has been in Santa Fe sever
al days past suffering with typhoid pneu
monia. He came up from San Pedr
, quite sick, but is doing pretty well nov
at the residence of Sam Baldwin.
San Pedro continues to grow in prosper
ity and it does really seem that We are t
have a great mining camp there. Non
Of your scrub camps, but a big fellow
something after the order of l4eadville.-
Las Vegas Optic.
Cerrillos wants wholesale grocer
house; capital to build more tenemen
houses; a water works plant; bank
smelter and a plant to utilize her big de
posts of fire clay in manufacturing fir
brick, thing, piping, etc.
. San Pedro, the Leadville of New Me1
leo, is booming. The mines /
southern Santa Fe county, at San Pedro
Golden and Dolores are attracting after
= ton in eastern cities. The value of thes
mines has never been over-estimated.-
Ration Range
Henry w. kearsing, an assayer OF Ion
practice and high standing, has locate
. at Cerrillos. Mr. kearsing is gradual
' of the British College of Chemistry, {
London, and was for years employed
the government assay and metalurgy d