Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-12
NEW MEXICO MINES.

Chicago capitalists have experts ex-
aiming the Chama river plaCers.
New Mexico marble has found big
demand at the east. Facts i'll few days.
Several important sales involving min
ing property in south Santa Fe county
are pending.
In the Socorro tunnel the miners have
cut the apex Of promising lead and they
are now developing the vein.
Denver capitalists were in MagdaIena
and looked over the coal fields, eight
miles from that town with a view of de-
veloping them.
The Rev. p. Lassange, of Las Cruces,
is our authority for the statement that
good coal has been discovered three miles
from Las Cruces.
All the coal mining towns in New Mex
leo are prospecting this year as never be-
fore Gallup, Blossburg and Cerrillos are
having regular black diamond boom.
The Wall Street mine, Mag dalena, I'M
der the management of John Dobbins, is
now in ore about twenty-five feet. 1t is
free milling gold, also carrying some silver.
The deposits OF lead and zinc in the
Carpenter district, are simply i'm
mense. Mr.. Bauman, Of Pueblo, Colo,
speaks in glowing terms of this new dis
trict.
Prof. Bibikov, of Albuquerque, is in
New York. We are happy to hear that
he has enlisted capital to the amount OF
$500 900 it is said to establish his Silica
Mica Paint company upon firm basis
Bullion.
F. W. Keith left San Marcial for Rose
dale mining camp. The machinery for
the mill is being haulded out and will be
in place in about two weeks. This camp
is located in the San Mateo mountains.
"The operations at Cerrillos, large tom
nage mining and milling, will also stimu-
late operations in New Mexico" says the
Demiug correspondent OF the FL Paso
Bullion, Got Cerrilos located down in
Mexico, have they? That won't do.
The Georgia Belle mine, Silver noun
tain mining district near Magdalena, is
down 240 feet on the incline with fine
vein Of mineral in sight for 140 feet.
Also fine ore in the bottom. The same
parties have struck fine ore in the from
mine.
AL. Downs, well known in New Mexico,
is now operating in Mineral Hill district
situated opposite Fl. Selden. His Iron
Queen mine has thirty foot shaft in a
twenty foot lode of iron that yields SIP in
gold per ton. The formation is borphry
and slate. AL. Culver, of Las Cruces, n
NJ, is his pard. Bullion.
A new strike of ore running over 8
ounces in gold and 7 ounces in silver was
made just below the junction OF the
Kleptomania and Aztec veins, on the
Aztec mining company's property, in the
Pinos Altos district, one day last week
The ore body is quite large, and giving
evidence of being part and parcel Of the
famous Bell & Stevens and Skillicorn and
Snyder vein, which has created SO much
interest in the courts.
About twenty men are now at work on
the new road leading to the alumina beds
on the ella, and when this is completed
shipments of alumina to eastern points
Will begin at once. The work is in
charge of Mr.. Woodruff, Of Ell Paso
Should the aluInina prove all that is ex-
pected of it an industry worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars will be secured
to this section. Silver City Sentinel.
The Consolidated Nebraska Mining &
Smelling Co. has filed its articles Of incor-
poration. The company has bought the
Little Pttsburg, Little Carbonate, San
Antonio and San Domingo mines at Pinos
Altos from B. w. Davis. The first board
OF directors consists of B. w. Davis and
Idus l.. Fielder, of Silver City; D. A.
Walden, II. A. LaSelle, Z. G. Salisbury
and A. W. Bradt, of Beatrice, Neb. The
property has been stocked for So, 100000,
divided into 600, 900 .assessable shares.
The Whipple, Tonkins & Greenman
mill at Gold Hill has just closed down
after very successful run on ore from
the following mines: The Gold Dollar
and Bob Tail, owned by j. B. Gregory Z;
the Corles mine, owned by the Grand
Tower Mining Co. the Western Belle,
owned by Fielder Bros. & Patterson, and
also the Homestead, owned by Mcknight
of Oak Grove Cattle Co. All of the ore
from the above mines has been treated
with profit by j. w. O'Connor, an ANAL
gamator that has no peer in the business.