Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-28
In New Mexico, as Shown by the
Census Returns, Much Greater
Than Was Supposed.
MANY OLD CLAIMS NOW REOPENED.
The Great Tunnel That is Now Being Pro.
jected by Powerful Corporation
in Central Idaho.
EFFECT OF THE NEW SILVER STATUTE.
It Has Tendency to Stimulate the Work Of Smaller
Concerns


ESPECIAL TELEeRAh TO TIE DIsP ATcH.I
NEW YORK, July 27.-The following re-
ports have been received from leading min
ing centers of the West:
SILVER CITY-The work of collecting
statistics OF mines and mining in New
Mexico for the eleventh census is about CON-
pleted. From the reports of the amount of
ore mined, wages paid miners and other ex-
penses it appears that the cost of mining ore
per ton in this territory is considerably
greater than had been supposed. In one
county the total average cost of mining ore
per ton will be shown to be about $50. In
making this average the cost of
assessment work done on nom
producing mines is not taken into
consideration. This is probably the highest
average cost of mining ore which will be
shown by any of the counties in New Mex
leo. In most of the ore mined there is a
high grade of silver, and the total output of
the country will average higher in value
per ton than that of any other county in the
Territory. Grant county still leads the
Territory in the total amount of ore pro-
duced and variety Of output. No other
county in the Territory is now producing
gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead and iron, all
of which ores are being steadily and sue
cessfully mined in this county. The output
of the Territory will be shown to be larger
than has been shown by any previous re-
port, but some of the counties will not make
so good showing as was expected
About half the money necessary 10 COM
plete the proposed geological survey of
Grant county has been pledged, and the rest
will probably be raised in few days. A
great deal of interest has been shown by the
residents of the county in the enterprise, and
a permanent organization has been effected.
Silver City will be headquarters for the
geological survey. The resident officers are
all interested in mines, and represent more
than one-fourth of the entire output of this
section. At the meeting when permanent
officers were elected, Prof W. G. Waring, a
well-known expert, said that he be-
lieyed that the next granite mountain and
the next Anaconda would be discovered in
this county. Prof Clement L. Webster,
who is to make the survey, said that this is
the richest mineral section he has ever seen.
The editor Of the Ell Paso Bullion, thor
oughly informed mining man of long resi-
dence in New Mexico, makes the assertion
that ''even the Oldest camps of New Mexico
are prdcIlcally not prOspecGeQ. Inls lacI
has just come to be realized by practical
mining men here, and consequently they
are going to have geological survey of the
county made, and go about the work of
looking for mineral in a scientific way.
1t is said that another big reduction in
freight rates on ore shipped from this place
over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad is to be made soon. Since the last
reduction shipments have increased consid-
erably. and another reduction will make
still larger shipments possible.