Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-13

Frank Weaver, who has been in Cliff
ton for the last five months working on
his several mining claims, has about
completed sale of one of them for $45,-
900. He is now in Ell Paso closing the
deal.
There is continued inquiry for good iron
properties in the southern half of the
Rocky mountains. With iron and coal in
abundance in south Santa Fe county there
must soon come some energetic man to get
them together and utilize them to meet this
growing demand.
A large force of miners is again en-
ploved in the American mine at Hachita,
Grant county, and regular shipments of
lead ore will be resumed Immediately.
This mine has been closed down for sew
eral weeks on account of change in
management of the Ell Paso Smelling
company, owned by the Consolidated
Kansas Smelling & Refining company, to
which the mine belongs.
The st. Helena mine will start with
quite large force of men on the 18th.
The original owners of this property,
Messrs. Lindauer, Woods and Whitehill,
stocked the st. Helena for $l50,000 and
have done considerable development
work. They opened up six large veins
of fine ore, the lowest run made from this
claim being $22 to the ton.-Pinos Altos.
The dry placer fields of New Mexico
some day will be worked to great profit
by the aid OF machinery by which gold
may be extracted from the dirt without
the use of water. There is great wealth
awaiting the inventor of such machinery.
Various dry placer washers" have been
invented, but so far nothing of great
practical merit has been produced. A
grand field awaits such machine in
Santa Fe county.
Near Socorro the Last Chance COM
pany's mill is rapidly nearing completion.
If finished according to the plans of Supt.
Kirkegard, it will he one of the best in
the territory. Work on the mine is
steadily progressing, with very satisfac-
tory results. 1t is done by contract, and
an abundance of ore will be ready for the
mill when it is completed. The ore is of
low grade, but the immense quality 80
readily available makes the enterprise
only a question of economical manage
ment.
Says the Cerrillos Rustler: Juan Nieto
of Dolores, is in receipt of a letter from
Mr.. Stark, gentleman who visited that
camp few weeks ago, saying that
a company had been formed to sink two
or three wells in the arroyo viejo, for the
purpose of getting water to wash the vast
ground beds that lie at the head of the
arroyo. Mr.. Stark is understood to be
the owner or patentee of new deep well
pump with which the wells are to be
equipped-we wish them success.
Somebody down in Grant county who
seems to be able to get his stuff published
in eastern newspapers is continuously
sending out such trash as this about New
Mexico mines: "Several good lead mines,
it is said, have been opened near Hachita
and in the other camps in the southern
part of Grant county within the past Tour
or five months, but there is very little
profit now in lead mining in New Mexico,
and but little ore has been taken from the
mines" This is an extract from the New
York Mining and Engineering Journal.
Rank rot this, and whoever is responsible
for it is doing great injustice to New |
Mexico in general and Grant county in
particular.
A Kansas City mining man, writing to
the Hillsboro Advocate, emphasizes a
point that has several times been made
in these columns as hint to the terri
torial press. He says: "In camp like
Hillsboro, at least one column should be
devoted to the milling and mining inter-
ests, 80 that references could be made to
any of the mines in operation-as to
what level or in what drift new strikes
are made or ore shipped from, etc. 1t is
the mines that draw people there, and
there is no general way of finding out
what is being done which is so thorough.
ly satisfactory as through the press.
Notes of interest regarding developments,
strikes, etc., are copied from the home
paper by the principal papers throughout
the country. Everybody is interested in
mining news, particularly if encouraging"