Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-07-17
NEW MEXICO MINES.

Cerrillos' Beacon seems to have flick
cred out. Leastwise, it fails to glimmer
about Santa Fe.
Mr.. McGuinn, representing a Cali
fornia syndicate, is investigating south
Santa Fe county mines.
The machinery for the stamp mill to be
erected on the Old Abe property, is at Lava,
and men and teams have been sent to
move it to White Oaks.
A New Yorker named Thompson,
whom Kim-ki Rogers brought, has pur-
chased the Maggie Jane gold claim in the
Ortiz mountains.
Dave Masters is having twenty-five
ton capacity concentration built at Pueblo.
1t will be utilized at one of the mines at
Trout lake.-Chama Northwest.
Geo. R. Lee, purchasing agent for the
Rio Grande smelling works, of Socorro,
has assumed charge OF those works pend
ing Supt. Austin's illness. The pay roll
of this institution distributes $4,000
monthly in Socorro.
Plain VIM. Nevin, shrewd Canadian
who made such fine exhibit of Baxter
mountain ores at the tertio exhibition, is
now in the City of Mexico, and the title
of "Prof." is given him by the Mexico
press.
1t is said that Messrs Waddingham &
HUM, who own the Benton mine at
Dolores, have secured control of the
Wolf stamp mill and will soon have a
large force employed there and in the
mine.
On Saturday the 4th, the Teel & Poe
Mining company declared its second
monthly dividend on its capital of $780,
900. This dividend fer June was per
cent, being p per cent increase on that
declared for May.-Deming Headlight.
DR.. Paul Johnson, a graduate of the
Royal Technical school of mines, of
Stockholm, Sweden, and who has oper-
ated extensive copper plants in Europe,
and recently was in charge of leading
gold mine and plant in the Argentine Re-
public, is now at Kelly on visit to his
cousin, Jonas Nelson.
1t is estimated that inside OF year
Monterey, Mexico, smelters will be con-
Stunning coke at the rate Of 100000 a
year. The Cerrillos coke ovens ought to
supply much of this. They will, in time,
for with Just railway rates foreign coke
can't compete with Cerrillos' product.
Hillsboro note: A 100.foot contract
was let during the present week for the
driving of a shaft on the claim adjoining
the Bonanza mine on the south, by
Nicholas GALES, general manager of the
American Mining & Smelling company,
Minneapolis company just organized.
The Alpha Gold Mining company has
been incorporated under the laws of the
territory Of New Mexico. M. Slattery,
R. G. Mcdonald, G. A. Rothgeb, incor-
porators; T. B. Everett, manager. Prin-
cipal office, Las Vegas; base of opera
tons, Santa Fe county. The above COM
pany has leased the Fiske mill at Dolo-
res and will commence work at once
Optic.
The Silver Mining company of Lake
Valley, have paid to dividends of Is per
cent each, since January l, 1891, to it's
stockholders aggregating SIS, 900. Seems
to US the new management is not very
slow either, this too is one of Sierra coun-
ties dug out mines, wish we owned three
or four such dug outs.-Kingston Shaft.
Mr.. Thomas Kelley, Of this city, is the
fortunate possessor of large interest in
two fine veins of mica located near Tres
Piedras, Rio Arriba county, N. M. He
exhibited a few samples Of sheets for stove
purposes to some of our dealers in those
articles yesterday, and they pronounced
them frat-class in every particular. He
will exhibit specimens at the Colorado
Mineral Palace. (Colorado) Chief.
tain.
Grant county note: The Colorado Coal
& Iron company, which is heavily inter-
ested in iron mines in Hanover district,
has taken contract to supply the Union
Pacific railroad with $4,000 tons of the
heaviest steel rails. The ore from which
the steel will be manufactured is to come
from the company's Hanover iron mines.
AS soon as the S. G. & N. R. r. is finished
in to Hanover large force of men will
be put to work in the company's mines
taking out ore.
Ell Paso Bullion: G. W. Fitzpatrick.
of the Manzano mountains, OF New Mex
leo, dropped into the Bullion Office Fri
day, with full line of mineral samples
from that section, which he intended for
ASSAY. The Manzano mountains have
been sadly neglected by prospectors dur
ing the past decade. At the time, how
ever, when the Spaniards occupied the
country, the Manzanos were the site of
active operations. They are situated north