Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-01

o. Berlow, OF Colorado, is working i've
claims at Tres Hermanas, Grant county,
under a bond to purchase. There are
some of the largest deposits of carbonates
of lead ores in the Tres Hermanas to be
found anywhere in the territory.
The outlook for the Organ mines gets
better as time passes on. There is not
the shadow of "boom," but steady
perceptible growth. John R. DeMier,
w. j. Joblin and other Las Cruces citi-
zens are actively developing their claims
thereabouts.
According to reports from Cerrillos and
San Pedro two new concentrator plants
and Mammoth Huntington mill have
been ordered for various mines in those
localities, and northern capitalists are
now on the ground to consider big
smelter project.
M. w. Neff has taken bond on thir-
teen claims in the Hanover district, car
rying iron and copper. Geo. r. Brown
will make surveys of them at once and
extensive work will soon be undertaken.
Mr.. Nef reports that his smelter is run
ming steadily and turing out copper matte
| from the Arson S. mine.
/ The price of lead looks rather encour-
aging. Trade has been dull beyond all
precedent, and yet prices have not recent
ly declined but continue firm in the neigh
borhood of $4.121a New York and $500
St. Louis, in way which savors strongly
of rock bottom proximity. Consumers,
however, having their convictions backed
up by dull trade, are in nowise alive to
the situation, and decline to buy freely.
Some very rich specimens of copper
and free gold ores have been discovered
from time to time in the Rocky spur just
east of Santa Fe. No practical prospec-
tor, however, has ever undertaken to
carefully explore this region. 1t is be-
lieved by many that It was long ago pros
pected by the early Spanish miners, but
this is erroneous. There's copper and
gold to be found in the Santa Fe noun
tains.
Tom Farley has left at this Office two
specimens of alum and aluminium taken
from the aluminium mines situated near
the ella Hot Springs in western Socorro
county. One specimen is pure alum,
strong and pure as the article placed on
the market for sale, the other is mixture
of aluminium, the metallic base of alumina,
which is eagerly sought for by the manu-
featuring world.-Black Range.
In recent issue Of the Santa Fe New
MEXICAN Herman G. Joy, Of the Pueblo
Sampling works, is quoted as saying that !:
"There is small smelter at Socorro and
one at Ell Paso, but there being no COM
petition from bidders the miners naturally
prefer Pueblo" This is certainly news to
the people of the southwest, and not of
the most reliable kind either. Perhaps
the enlarged views of the gentleman re-
ferred to are of such magnificent proper
tons that the two smelters at FL Paso
and the one at Socorro were only family
visible to his minds eye. Such JOY
full utterance as these it is that give spice
and variety to life.-El Paso Bullion.
At last it seems that the proper class Of
machinery for handling the variety Of
ores Astounding in south Santa Fe county
has been secured, and, capital having
tested this fact very thoroughly, is nc
longer timid. This fact is shown by the
number of mining deals made lately in
the Cerrillos and San Pedro districts, and
the promptness with which the new in
vestors get down to actual business. The
success which has attended the treatment
of the silver, lead and zinc ores of the
Cash Entry camp; that has followed the
putting in of a Fort Scott concentration
running in connection with the smeltel
furnaces, by the Santa Fe Copper com
pany, and the splendid results obtained
at the Conger gold mine and mill show
very conclusively that what south Santa
Fe county has long wanted it has obtained
The splendid prosperity now on seems to
have come to stay.