Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-01
GOLD, COPPER AND CONCENTRATES.
The Mining Industry Opening up in Ex-
cellent Shape in South santa
Fe County.

The hum of mining machinery has COM
menced in earnest in south Santa Fe coun-
ty, and the prospects for long and
active season of industrial prosperity
could scarcely be more cheerful. At San
Pedro all is life and hustle again. The
Santa Fe Copper company's two smelter
furnaces and the new concentration are
in full blast; the tramway is in operation,
and the newly laid pipeline supplies an
abundance of water for the company's
uses. AT the Conger mine the new Hun
tington mill has been thoroughly tested
and is now yielding revenue Of over
500 per day. This property is owned
by Milwaukee parties who have ex-
pended $4,000 in Improvements there
during the past winter. Six of the COM
pany's stock holders spent last week on
the premises and left Cerrillos on Mon
day for home, all much gratitied
with their investment. They car
ried with them the first gold brick
turned out by the new mill, the result OF
SIX days run, and the value of which is
nearly $500. The water problem has been
solved by boring; at present sufficient
water is supplied for running the mill ill
teen hours daily. Other wells will be
sunk as necessity requires.
At the Cash Entry-Central camp there
is also much life. The new concentration
is doing good work and the concentrates
are being stored away, not pound be-
ing sold, although representatives of the
Colorado smelters have repeatedly made
attempts to contract for these concen-
trates. The fact that the company de-
cines to dispose of its product leads
many to the conclusion that the COM
pany's next move will be the erection of
a smelter at Cerrillos.
MINING ITEMS.
The White Oaks Mining company has
been organized at St. Louis with a capital
stock of 100000.
Great strikes are anticipated around
San Pedro the coming summer. Much
prospecting is already going on.
Messrs. Lehmen and Bauman, mining
rlen from Colorado, are examining prop
critics at Cerrillos and San Pedro.
J. d. O'Brien and James Lucas are in
from the mining section of south Santa
Fe county to-day, and both express great
satisfaction over the outlook for the min
ing industry there this summer.
The new concentrator at the Coyote
copper mines, Mora county will be start
ed up on it's first run to-day. Hon. 7. B.
Catron, of Santa Fe, and Hon. 7. B.
Mills, of Las Vegas, are interested in this
enterprise.
Cold weather and snow in the noun
tains about Ellzabethtown have retarded
operations at the Aztec mines. AS soon
as water can be turned into the fume
the Huntington mill there will resume
work.
Nothing is being done at the Lincoln
Lucky mine, San Pedro. 1t is great
silver and lead producer and can readily
ship siA Car loads of ore daily, but it's
owners are in big rangle of some sort.
1t is too valuable property to remain
idle, however, much longer.
The Graphic group of mines, at Kelly,
is working forty men and yielding fine
grade of fluxing ores. Mr.. Patterson, the
lessee, has written the owners here,
Messrs. w. 4. Thornton and V. S. Shell
10y, that he desires to renew his lease on
the property for one year.
With the Cash Entry realizing on its
output, the San Lazarus, Big Copper and
other properties working, southern Santa
Fe county should increase its product
this summer to the extent of more than
800 900 per month over last. This
sounds large, but it is really very small
considering the range of possibilities, 80
says the Rustler.
James Gorman, the hotel keeper at San
Pedro, was here yesterday, but returned
home, via Cerrillos, to-day. He re-
ports the camp in better shape now than
at any time since his residence there,
three years ago, and he predicts good
Zines for those who have continued in
good faith for San Pedro. The smelter is
running continuously and regular ship
ments of matte are being made.-Albu-
querque Citizen.