Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-22

Yesterday evening we glanced on an
exchange and read the item, "but little
/ coal is now being shipped from CerriIlos. !"
Our eyes wandered from the paper to the
side track in front Of the Office and count
ed 10 cars, loading and loaded ready for
the days shipment. The coal trade at
! Cerrllos is good all the year around.-
Rustler.
OF the theory that placer gold emenates
from quartz lodges, Col. Harris, well
known mining man of Kingston, says :
placer gold is often found above instead
of below the quartz Lodges. Well, you
must remember, that the formation
Of this country was not always the same,
and placer gold has been subjected to
disturbances-tossed up and down for
hundreds of years"
The secretary of the Colorado Mineral
Palace company left Pueblo recently on a
tour of the leading mining camps and
cities of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah,
Arizona, Montana, Idaho, California and
the entire west, for the purpose of collect
ing mineral for this exhibition, which will
be opened to the public on July 4. New
Mexico mines should not fail to make lib
eral displays on this occasion.
Another great find has been made on
the Young America mine in the Magda-
lena mountains. A vein has been found
gong down in the mine that is fully six
feet wide. The ore runs tifty.siX ounces
in silver and is growing richer as depth is
attained. This new discovery makes the
Young America one of the greatest mines
in New Mexico. No wonder Jonah"
Nelson wanted to take out his naturaliza-
ton papers.
Albuquerque Citizen: M. Mammoth,
book-keeper at Mandell Bros. & Co., and
Pedro and Juan Sandoval, who quietly
left the city few weeks ago ostensibly to
recreate in the Jemez mountains, but in
reality to look up an old abandoned Span
ish mine in the Gallinas mountains,
about 100 miles south of the city, return
ed last night. Among the papers of the
father of the Sandoval bows, now deceas-
ed, was recently found deed to mine
in the Gallinas mountains, giving de-
scription OF it and its exact location. The
old mine was really discovered and the
gentleman did assessment work on it for
the present year.
The development on the "Confidence"
mine at Silver Creek, Grant county,
steadily progresses. Already upward of
$4,000 has been expended by Posey and
Crawford (of Denver on this important
group of mines and the ore in sight will
measure up nearly $1,000 tons. The ore
which has just been struck is worth
nearly $1,000 per ton and the vein is
about four feet in width. 1t is the big
gest strike yet made in the Silver Creek |
district and goes to prove that Silver
Greek is destined to become one OF the
leading camps in the territory.
New Leadvllle is the name of a new
town laid offin the Carpenter district, this !!
county, which gives promise of soon be- +,
coming camp ofgreat importance, thanks
to the exclusion of Mexican lead. Mr. |
O'Neal, of Kingston, recently purchased
a mine in that district for $4,000, and
now has force of men developing the
property. Roads are being built to the
Mimbres valley, which will be the outlet |
for the mines. Sheba Hearst, whom
Mark Twain celebrates in "Roughing it,
has laid off town of 2,400 lots in McGre-
gor park, which is enjoying quite boom.
a good deal OF prospecting and develop
ment work is going on in the district. |
New men are coming in every day, and
as soon as the road is completed the ship
ment of ore will be commenced. The
Carpenter district produces principally
lead carbonates running from SIS to $25
IN silver. The bodies of ore from present
development, are said to be almost mex
haustable. Enterprise.
A great mining suit is occupying the at
tention of the district court at Silver CITY. !
1t IS suit in ejectment brought by the |
owners OF the Calamity mine at King
ston, against the Illinois Mining com
pany, and was brought here on a change
OF venue from Sierra county. The suit is
to determine whether the Illinois com.
pany has been following a vein which
dips, and crosses the side line of the
Calamity mine, or whether they have
been following series of pockets. It is
claimed by the Illinois company, that
they have been following a clearly de.
lined vein, which crosses the side line
of the Calamity mine. There is large
number Of witnesses on each side, and |
the trial of the case was COM
menced on Friday morning, it is not ex-
pected that it will be finished until the
last OF this week. The amount involved
in the suit is large, and it is almost GER
tain that the case will be appealed to the
supreme court of the territory. A COM
plete plaster model of the entire workings
OF the Illinois mine has been made to as
sist the jury in understanding the testi-
mOny.