Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-16
NEW MEXICO MINES.
San Pedro is prospecting.


Excellent reports from the Mora county
copper mines are heard these days.
The concentrator at the Cavern mines,
Socorro county, is about completed.
Good sales of mining property are
frequently reported from Grant county.
The Mcdonald mill on the Tuerto is
being overhauled and will soon be again
pounding out ore.
w. H. Patterson, of the Graphic mines,
has leased the Fisher stamp mill and will
remove it to the Graphic.
The work of putting up the big con-
centrator on the Stephenson-Bennett
mines will begin next month.
The Denver lessees of the Lincoln
Lucky mine are well pleased with the
showing in the two new shafts.
Regular shipments Of ornamental stone
from the ricolite quarries Of Grant county
are now going forward to Chicago and
st Louis.
Shipping meerschaum by the carload
This will soon be Silver City's boast. In
this the Gem city, of Grant county, is q
veritable world beater.
Hermosa note: On his way home
from the territorial fair 7. D. Foster will
stop off at Socorro to attend the treatment
five car loads Of Pelican ore.
The freighters hauling ore from the
Kingston camps to the railroad are now
taxed to their utmost capacity to keep up
with the increased output.
The Chandler mill is being supplied
with additional new machinery, by which
the capacity will be increased twenty-five
ton per day.-Kingston Shaft. a,
At San Pedro, one of Mr.. Mayo's mines
is doing we'll, a true fissure vein going
seven and half ounces of gold, and free
milling, per ton, having been struck.
1t is said that more work is now being
done by the individual miner, in the
mines of Socorro county, than ever before
in the history of the camp, and this ls
not merely assessment work but develop.
ment of prospects.
What's the matter With the famous
Kelly mine? The Mine and Lariet says
'The Kelly mine is working number Of
men pushing development with the pros
poets that it will again become a rich pro
ducer."
Burns and Kleiner are now working
thirteen men upon their Brush Heap lease
and have their main tunnel in over 800
feet, car track has just been completed
from the dump to the face of the tunnel
SHAFT.
VIM. Watson, B. H. Dye, John Y. Hew
lit, w. W. Fitzpatrick, E. w. Parker
j. P. G. Langston and L. w. Stewart
have been designated by the citizens o.
White Oaks to gather an exhibit of ores
for the Worlds fair.
The Hardscrabble mines, operated by
Jonas Nelson, are working full force o.
men and are now shipping ore that runs
As in silver with considerable lead. On
newly discovered ore bodies are streaks
that assay as high as 5000 in silver to the
ton. This has for long time been the
most steadily paying producer in the
Magdalena district.
The shipments Of iron ore from Silver
City for the past eight months ending Au
gust 80, were in round numbers 1885,.
95l pounds, or trife in excess of 34t
carloads of twenty tons each. From
| JanudIy w huRuet oU, p6IlOu VI clsns
months, Wells Fargo & Co., have shipped
from this city $l3l ,055 in gold and $9,s76
in silver bullion. A considerable amount
has been disposed of through the banks
and other sources, roughly estimated at
33 per cent of the above amount, which
added gives fair idea of what our mines
have produced. Enterprise.
The mineral display is now fully thrown
open to the public gaze, and really sur
passes what has been claimed for it.
There are fifty tons of ore, mostly fresh
from the mines, which could not be pur-
chased for as many thousand dollars.
Huge chunks of ruby and brittle silver,
massive specimens of rich carbonates,
galena and copper ores, and dazzling
pieces of gold quartz meet the eye where
ever it turns in the spacious hall. Arizo.
ma and New Mexico have reason to be
proud, for no other two mining regions in
the union could get together such q
unique collection in 80 short time. The
opinion is generally expressed by visitors
that the exhibit should be secured by the
Worlds fair commissioners az the nucleus
of the mineral display to be made at Chica
go.-Albuquerqu Citizen.