Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-28
SANTA FE COUNTY MINES.


copper furnaces, three COnCentrators, one
Wiswell and one Huntington mill are in
operation, while two new Commentators
are being built and the machinery has
been ordered for doubling the capacity of
the Wolf stamp mill at Dolores. This
briefly tells the story as to what the mines
are doing in south Santa Fe county. The
mines are yielding splendid returns and a
great deal of prospecting is going on
Regular shipments of quartz and placer
gold, copper matte and silver, lead and
zinc concentrates are being made to the
eastern reiineres or western smelters !;
the export Of hard and soft coal from the
| CerrillOs fields is very satisfactory con-
sderng the early season the Lamy char
coal furnaces are shipping from fifteen to
twenty car loads per month, and thus, in
every branch Of mining the most encour-
aging progress is shown. That the com
ing fall and winter season will be the
liyehest in the mining history OF Santa Fe
county is not to he questioned.
THE BIG COPPER MINES.
Commenting on the test work of the
new Luhring concentration at San Pedro,
which desires to contract with the Santa
Fe company to put in 500 ton plant and
treat the ores at rs cents per ton, n
writer in the Boston Transcript says:
Everybody connected with the Santa
Fe mine readily admits that 2 per cent
ore is not susceptible of being worked at
a profit. The reason why such ore has
| been concentrated is this; Some months
ago parties in New York who controlled
the Luhring concentration asked permits
sion to put one up at the Santa Fe NINE
claiming that it could produce wonderful
results on low grade ore. The Luhring
ConCentrator was put up and the per
cent ore was selected by the Luhring peO-
pie for their experiments. The result of
its workings was satisfactory. This action
was Independent of the company, as it
works no such ore. In June the Santa
Fe ore ran little over ~ per cent and
in July the average was 9ll per cent by
the official returns OF the superintendent.
The matte averaged So per cent of fine
copper in these months, sixteen ounces
of silver and one ounce of gold to the ton.
The shipments in June were 160 900
pounds of matte, equal to 9O,750 pounds
OF refined copper. The July product was
the same, practically, although exact fly
ures have not been received. For August
much larger product and shipments are
indicated by the superintendent advices
The Santa Fe people feel well satisfied
with the results thus far obtained, and
feel that the mine is doing very well, all
things considered, with every prospect OF
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earning expenses, and enough over to
pay off old claims and to give very good
outlook for making money, especially if
the new vein, now being tested, realizes
early promises of richness
CERRlLLoS SHELTER ENTERPRISE.
1t is now more than ever probable that
Milwaukee and Chicago capitalists will
erect big smelter at Cerrillos. If smelt-
ers at other points under heavy expenses
to ship in coal, coke, lime and iron for
tluxing, can have made fortunes in the
treatment of ores, why is it that Cerrillos,
with every advantage for the cheap treat
ment of ores and the ore itselfin sight,
must so long beg for an industry of this
kind. Before a smelter could now be put
up, an amount of seventy.tive to 100 tons
OF ore and concentrates per day could be
supplied from south Santa Fe county
mines, with a prospect that this amount
would be steadily increased. Then the
Cheapness of treatment here would make
it possible for good pant to draw from
the whole territory, Mexico and Arizona.
There is really no limit to the amount OF
usin ess possible in such field
MINING NOTES.
The Cerrillos Beacon copies the New
) MEXICAN's mining notes bodily without
credit.
James Lucas is erecting improved hoist
ing machinery on one Of the Cerrillos
coal veins.
The small, dry washer machines are
getting good returns by working the Ortiz
mountain placer guches.
Supt. Everitt, of the Wiswell mill at
Dolores, is now getting IS returns out of
ore heretofore supposed to be practically
worthless.
The five years lease of the Wolf mill to
Glass & Gentry, of Denver, was signed
to-day. Dolores will profit by the entry
of these men into camp.
1t is said Dolores man has i'm ported q
common bone Crusher and is trying to
palm it off on some people as a new ore
treating machine.
Alex. Rogers shipped two car loads of
ore from his Sandia mines to New Jersey
last week and sacked samples of high
grade to New York.
When asking the other day what was
the matter with boring a 900 foot tubular
well to increase the mill water supply,
Manager HUM, of the Cash Entry, said,
"why, we are going down with our main
shaft deeper than that"
o. W. Alexander is doing the annual
assessment work on the upper PeCos
copper and zinc mines. 1t was while
experimenting with the ores of these
mines, applying the Brush electric pro-
cess at Cleveland to ascertain the best
method of treating the same, that the
CoWles Brothers first discovered their
present system Of manufacturing alumni
mum. The discovery has made them
fame and fortune.
OF the copper mines the Rustler says
Superintendent Mclaughlin has uncov-
cred some good ore bodies in the mine
and Mr.. Rogers who has charge of the
concentration has succeeded in raising the
concentrates from 10 to rs per cent, and
in rendering the product free from garnet
Mr.. Morgan, the new assayer and smell
ter man, is doing excellent work, as the
result proves, and altogether the working
condition of this important industry is in
first class condition.
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