Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-07-26

re involve an expenditure without return
this fact alone is responsible for tn
IN comparatively poor chow the mine make
he st present, as far as immediate production
n of high grade ore is concerned.
he When low grade ore pays its own wa
re and even a margin on its cost, com
e. petent mine captain can take it in, devel
lg OPP without expenditure and find the len
t. ticular bonanzas where they are.
1t The question as to capacity and loca
9, ton of large concentration plant shoult
e lie decided only after very careful study
3 on the premises. By all that | know
70 and have seen, a large concentration
e plant near the mouth OF the mine anC
S near the present furnaces would al
ways be crippled by insuiliciency o.
n water, an opinion already expressed by
u Capt. Couch.
l. therefore have arrived at the conclu
9 sion to advise your company to set UP
, near the furnaces smaller movable
s plant for ore concentration of limited
capacity, requiring no buildings but sufti-
: cient for immediate needs, and which
may be set in operation within few
, weeks only.
THE FURNACES.
The smelling plant is we'll equipped
and allows good work to be done, and
good work has been done. Except as to
rational economizing in the use Of water,
which has to be pumped 70 the furnaces
from distance) and in almost every
part the furnace management has been
faultless.
The furnace management would be
further materially aided by the existence
of mechanical ore concentration, though
it be of limited capacity, on the premises.
Excess of silica, which in the furnaces
required fux and consequent expense,
can at less expense be discarded in the
concentration machinery, and the portion
OF the coke required for smelling both the
excess OF the silica and the flux therefore
may in consequence be saved.
1t is neither rational or economical to
ship the copper mat of a. lower percentage
than the economy in parting the fine
metals therefrom, and the market de-
mands, and with a slight improvement
on the methods followed Gin special in
calcining), higher product may be ship
ped and some expense be also saved in
this particular.
THE RESOURCES OF THE PROPERTY OF THE
SANTA FE COPPER COMPANY.
In order to do justice to the company's
properly, not only should it be infinitely
described, but detailed history OF the
almost criminal absurdities committed in
its management should be given in order
TO show that at no time has Justice been
done to the property.
In the preceding paragraph l have ex
clusively spoken of the company's mine
as now worked and of the Herewith con-
nected furnaces, being the only source
from which at present the company can
derive an income. But this does not
mean that there be not sufficient sub
stance in the company's property, for re-
peating and multiplying such business
and income. If some of the company's
title be now, or has been disputed, it
owns an undisputed title to about 80 900
acres of land, every square rod Of which
is undisputedly mineral land in so
far as it is underlaid, all of it,
with archean lime rock interstratified and
intercepted by eruptive rock and is min
eralized in consequence to such an extent
that not one serious attempt at mining
has been made on these premises but
where mineral has been discovered. 1t
is within my own knowledge, that copper
ores do exist in many other localities on
the San Pedro grant than now worked,
and although am not prepared to cor
roborate all that Mr.. Rossiter w. Ray
mond has claimed in value for the auriS
erous dluvium covering your propertyin
part, and although in consequence would
not consider the money spent on your
pipe line as nationally spent even had it
been done with the hydrostatic possibility
of bringing water to the gold bearing
grounds, nevertheless do consider your
lands as offering the possibility of large
income in sundry ways as soon as the
water question therefor be once success
fully solved. And such successful solu-
ton can only be of one sole description,
this is: "Lift the stream of clear, healthy
water, that flows under your own ground,
to the surface, using therefor the coal
which you also have under your own
ground"
l should not omit to here state that
while your pipe line is absolutely useless
for the purpose it was laid for, it consti-
tutes in its downgoing part an enormous
water power, and after examining the
sources from which its water supply can
be taken, incline to the belief that dur
ing eight to nine months i'll the year it ,
may furnish at it's lowest end sufficient {
power for all your mechanical concentra- ,
ton and smelling operations, even though
they involved production much larger
than ever attempted before in those parts.
And coal from distance Of less than
four miles would furnish at the same To-
cation power for the balance OF the year.
Such location of your works, in order
to give it railroad connection, involves the
necessity OF about six miles Of railroad on
the very line where the main line would
be located had it not been perverted from
its natural and more profitable direction
between Ortiz and Albuquerque, and
where sooner or later one or another of
the competing lines will have to pass, if
the real resources OF New Mexico are to
be tapped by the railroads leading through
it.
The company would then also have to
build and operate several miles of second
airy roads for its own account, which
would further develop its resources and
bring about the production of copper at
rate OF quantity and cost not easily rivalled
anywhere, the most prominet of copper
producers not excluded. L. M. F. GAINS.
Hobokep, N. Y, May rs, 1890.
ANOTHER EXPERTS VIEWS.
Following is the report from Capt. John
Daniel OF the Tamarack, Osceola and other
Clark Bigelow mines, who was commits
stoned to visit the Santa Fe and report
thereon. 1t reads:
OpECHEE, July 4, 1890.
A. S. Bigelow-Dear Sir: | could not
t.