Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-12-18
SANTA FE'S MINES,
Unprecedented Prosperity in the Min
ing Oamps-Big Strike in the
Lincoln Lucky and Forty
Teams Needed.
Conger Sells the San Lazarus-Black
Diamonds for the Market-Good
News From the Little
Pittsburg.

Never before have such lively times
prevailed in the mining camps of Santa
Fe county as at present. The expecta'
tons of the most enthusiastic well-wishers
of Cerrillos, Dolores and San Pedro are
being realized. Everybody is busy
money is easy, labor is we'll paid and in
demand, especially teams for hauling. In
fact there is great need OF the latter.
Eugene Russell, who Is interested in large
hauling contracts at Cerrillos, is in Santa
Fe to-day hunting teams in behalf oil
Richard Green. The latter has secured q
contract from the Undoubtedly com.
pany to haul from San Pedro to the A.,
7. & S. f. at Cerrillos fifty to sixty tons
Of ore per day. Hauling began yesterday
with only five teams it requires at least
fifty to do the work, and the country is
being secured to secure them. The haul
is eighteen miles and it takes three days
to make the round trip. Teamsters are
pad ST. per ton Tor hauling the ore to
Cerrlllos and are also paid for taking to
San Pedro on the return trip coal, coke
and merchandise. A man with good
team can make about So per day.
AT THE LINCOLN LUCKY
development work which has been in
progress for nearly year, has resulted
in opening a magnificent body of ore.
The new working shaft broke through in
to the main ore body day before yester-
day, and the ore in sight iustifies the
prophesy of the Denver owners of the
mine that 100 to 200 tons daily will soon
be about the size of the output. For the
present the daily shipments will be be-
tween fifty or sixty tons or three car
loads. The ore goes from Cerrillos to
Denver, Mr.. q. w. Middleton, one OF
the owners, who was last week visitor
here, had conference with the Santa Fe
Southern road and gave them to under
stand that the LinColn-Lucky would
guarantee fifteen car loads of ore daily to
the narrow gauge line when it reaches
San Pedro. This information was at
once communicated to Mr.. Chapman in
New York, and is expected to serve as a
clincher in the pending negotiations look
ing to the extension of the road to Ger
rillos and San Pedro.
COAL SHIPMENTS.
At the Cerrillos coal pits it is impossi-
BILE to meet all demands for black
diamonds. Between forty and fifty teams
are engaged in hauling from the pits to
the railroad, and the regular shipments
now average fifteen cars per day. Ar
rangements for improved machinery and
q complete development of the coal meas
ures are progressing most satisfactorily,
and 900 miners are to be employed
there within the next year.
SETTLED AMICABLY.
The difficulties between S. P. Conger
and the San Lazarus Gold company of
Milwaukee have at last been amicably
adjusted, and the rich mine and Hunting
ton mill, idle near San Pedro for three
months, will again be in full blast next
week. Mr.. Conger went to Milwaukee
with a fair proposition to buy or sell. A
telegram to Supt. W. E. Newberry, at San
Pedro, announces that he has sold his in
terest to the company. This is happy
solution of all troubles, and the stream of
gold from this excellent property will soon
again be flowing. As poor prospector
Mr.. Conger has worked eight years to de-
velop this mine. The price he receives is
not made public, but it ranges high, with
five figures to name it, and Conger comes
back q rich man,
MILWAUKEE, HUSTLERS.
f. Simonson and j. H. Gates, of Mil
waukee, Wis, continue to display their
hustling qualities in the southern part of
the county. The former while east re-
Gently not only raised money for big
sme.ter plant, but perfected the sale of
the Lucas Wright gold properties near
San Pedro. A Huntington mill for work
Ing these ores is now on the ground and
is being set up.
Mr.. Gates, who is backing Mr.. Simon
son in the smelter project, will arrive from
Milwaukee on Saturday and perfect ar
rangements for completing this, their
latest industrial enterprise.
Then, too, at San Pedro the big copper
mines and furnaces are running on full
time the same may be said of the Cash
Entry mines and concentration near Ger
fillos while at Dolores the mines and
mills are also in it for all they are worth.
Thus the humming times of prosperity are
on in Santa FEES adjacent mining camps.
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