Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-22
SANTA FEES RICHES.
Progress at San Pedro Camp Zig Ntriko
in Silver and Gold.

Progress at San Pedro Camp Big ~ttikr
in Silver and Gold.
Manager Raunheim, oi the Santa Fc
Copper company, came in from san Pc
dro Saturday night and brought Il hundred
pound chunk OF ore from the new find,
which is on exhibition ut the "a National
bank. lie SAYS the works are running
full blast and continuing to yield copper
for less than cents pound, With little
to fear from manipulations Of the metal
at the east or in France. IIisidCa is that
copper will settle down after the present
furry at about 70 cents, at which figure
San Pedro can yield bushels Of money.
The output of the works for the present
month will be AGO tons ot matte,
costing $4,000 to produce, which
amount will be distributed among
the mine and furnace employees next
week
Improvements are going steadily Tor
ward. A new Calcining furnace with a
capacity OF ten tons every tNentV-IOur
hours will be in operation 10y the LIST OF
May. At the mine where the hosting
works have heretofore been run by horse
power, steam hoist is being put in, which
will increase the monthly output OF ore
from the mine from $500 to 200 tons.
At present the Canon del Aqua spring
and a tubular a-inch pipe running down
800 feet furnishes the water supply lOrthe
works. This is 10 be increased 10y the
sinking of q 5-inch well 400 fe t deep. 4.
J. Swyers has the contract tOr 81, 100, and
is now down seventy ieet. Already ii has
been proven that plenty Of water can be
mad at 800 feet, but the new well will 60
100 feet deeper in hopes OF striking an
artesian flow. 1t will be completed by
July |, after which date the twenty-five
gold stamps will be set in motion. at is all
humbug about Il scarcity OF water in this
country said the manager, ''ifaman has
the nerve to go after it he finds it.
About the new strike Mr.. Raunheim said;
"We don call it anew strike. We knew
the copper was there and so we Just run
down a 23-foot shaft and opened it, The
specimens on exhibition at the Second
National bank are rich and beautiful and
90 far toward convincing people that the
mineral richness of Santa Fe county is
greater than has ever vet been dreamed
of. Mr. Raunheim is accompanied by
his son, Morris, and their business will
detain them here several days.
LEssEE's LUCK.
As the facts in the recent strike in the
Lucky mine near San Pedro leak out
it appears that there are good grounds for
the sensation the find has created among
people interested in Santa Fe coNnty
mines. The ore that comes out Of the
tunnel is iron, carrying $27 in gold to the
ton, lying near two veins of gaena, and
between these two veins is seam OF car
Donate ore very rich in silver. The ore
body is full five feet wide At present
there are thirty men employed in the
mine and large number OF teams are ell
gagged in hauling the order TO Cerrillos,
where it is loaded on the ears Tor ship
ment to the Billing smelter at sororro.
Some idea of the value of the find may
be had when it is known that
the net returns from the last ear OF ore
were 81 300. Three cars were loaded with
this ore at Cerrillos yesterday, another one
to-day. These will be sent to SOcorrO to-
night. The carbonate ore is being care
fully extracted and shipped in sacks; the
other, being great cubes Of galena, is
broken up at the mine and shoveled into
the wagon boxes like so much coal. The
cubes of galena are remarkable for their
size and the whole vein is easily mined.
Mr.. Wright, a practical man from Colo
RADIO is the lessee, and the owners are 5.
D. Baldwin, Richard Giblin, John
King and two other parties, each
owning fifth interest. The mine
was opened several years ago,
was worked for while and abandoned.
The fact that Mr. White fully understands
the practical part Of mining is largely re-
sponsibe for the reopening Of the prop
erty. Where others "lost the mineral"
he knew where to look for and find it,
Mr.. Whites lease has yet three and a
half months to run. lie has such con
tidence in the outcome of the mine that
he on Saturday offered the owners $4,000
in cash for it. Some OF them are absent
just now, and for two days past the owners
have been communicating with each other
by wire as to whether or not they will
accept the offer.