Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-07-17

of the Grand Quivera where tradition
sac tn that $50, 100000 in gold and silver
bullion lie hidden. Some believe that
the mineral which furnished the bullion
was extracted in the Manzano range.
While everything else is whooping to
the front at San Pedro, the Copper com.
pany appears, according to reports by
disinterested parties, to be suffering from
its chronic disease, bad management. 1t
is said that Supt. Mclaughlin is very
competent miner, but not smelter man.
Mr.. Kemp, who has had charge OF the
smelter furnaces was discharged the other
day because he saw fit, at leisure intervals,
to make assays for the prospectors and
miners, not connected with the COM
pany. AS aresult the furnaces have now
''frozen up" and things are in bad shape.
The company has fine property, but its
management both here and in Boston
could be materially improved.
Silver City Sentinel: The freight and
express shipments of bullion, ore and con-
centrates from Silvr City during the month
of June amounted to SIS, 491 worth of gold
,1S4 worth of silver; lis, 800 pounds o.
high grade sacked gold and silver ores
442, 900 pounds of concentrates; ,00C
pounds of lead ore, and 2,800,000 pounds
of iron ore. These figures are as nearly
correct as possible, allowance having beer
made for differentiation and underesti
nation of weights. They make very
fair showing. The amount OF sacked orei
is over $50 per cent greater than las
month. The lead shipments have NOR;
than doubled those OF May, and quad
rupled those of April. There is decided
increase in the amount of iron ore, an(
there is half as much again Of concen
trates.
A new mineral wonder" is under con
sideration at the Bullion Office, Ell Psso
The Bullion says lit consists of tube of sill
yer four inches in length filled with mer
curry, the lower portion of the tube beinl
of electrum. natural alloy of silver
and gold, similar to the metal that fon
years ago was discovered In the Caladonis
mine at Kingston, N. M. In the hands
of the writer the tube, to which a deer
thong is attached, will invariably vibrate
in the direction of piece Of gold lying
upon the floor, but if silver is substituted
in place of the gold its motion will be to-
wards the white metal in preference to a
piece of copper metal or ore lying at an
angle from the silver, If now the pend
ant tube be held over either gold, silver
or piece of copper ore the longitudinal
motion of the instrument will change to a
rotary movement. 1t is not for every one
that the instrument will operate. Among
those in whose hands it manifests an
affinity for the metals above mentioned
are Mr.. Heckelman, of the Independent
assay office of this city, G. w. Emerson,
Of Ell Paso, Col. Ed Haren, OF the A., Il.
& S. F. railroad, and the editor of the
Bullion. OF those who failed to secure
any results from it are Gov. L. Bradford
Prince, Col. Sam. Ecker, and Mr.. Reck-
hart, E. M. While We are not prepared
to say that the instrument in ques-
tien possesses any intrinsic value to
determine the locality of a mineral lode,
it certainly, in some hand, displays very
perceptable affinity or attraction for gold
and silver"