Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-29
NEW MEXICO MINES.

Not a mining item this week in the
Lincoln County Banner.
The Silver Monument concentration at
Chloride is about completed.
Natural gas and artesan water can both
be obtained bordering Cerrillos on the
southwest, across the Galisteo river
Rustler.
S. P. Conger, of the Conger mine and
mill, San Pedro, left Cerrillos Yesterday
for Milwaukee, Wis, where he goes on
another mining deal.
Manager f. HUM is at Fort Scott,
Kas., attending to the special order of ad-
ditlonal jiggs for the Cash Entry concen-
trating machinery.-Cerrillos Rustler.
Queer note in the Las Cruces Republl-
can: ELLIS Travis, coal miner, it is
reported, while at the Peacock coal bank
at Cerrillos, found three very valuable
diamonds"
Georgetown Echo: G. D. Hamill is
putting in repair the mill owned and
operated by the M. M. & M. Co., and
wagon loads of silver brick will soon be
in order.
Both the Little Fannie and Champion
mines on Silver creek, Grant county, are
regularly shipping ore to the Mogollon
mill. &. w. Sanders has sold his one
half interest in the Red Rover mine to his
partner in interest, S. Gamblin.
According to reports from Cerrillos and
San Pedro two new concentration 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. Ration Reporter.
> The Makers outfit operate big n.y.
draulic plant in the Chama river placers
about six hours daily at this time, and
their clean-ups are said to be quite en-
completely recognizing the several Ken
lucky companies owning placer grounds
thereabouts.
Lead has jumped up in a very satisfac-
tory way, the cause being the sudden dis
covery by consumers that they were but
poorly stocked. Offerings are compare
lively limited, and demand continues
Holders do not seem anxious to sell and
the situation is generally more healthy
than it was last week.
The European Sillca-Mica Composition
company has recently been organized in
Albuquerque. The officers of the COM
pany are M. s. Otero, president; Ralph
Halloran, vice-president; DR.. G. w. Har-
rison, secretary and treasurer; J. E. Som
ers, corresponding secretary. The capt.
tai stock is 100000, all paid up.
Ell Paso Bullion: Ed. Coffee, who made
the big strike on the North Percha, near
Kingston, N. M, and also owner of the
Cumberland mine on Mineral creek, paid
the Bullion call on Saturday. He says
mining matters are livler now than for
some time past. The Brush Heap, Illinois
and the Gypsy are all shipping steadily.
The U. S. is also keeping up its record.
Among the men who have made the
mining business in this county success
from the time Of their first association
with it to the present, none are more
prominent than r. G. Troeger, of the
Bonanza, and Geo. E. Robin, of the
Garfield, and at no other period has this
proud distinction been recognized more
readily than at present, in this our hour
of business tribulation. Both practical,
demonstrative miners, they have ran and
continue to run their mines at hand
some profit.-Sierra County Advocate.
Cerrillos Rustler: Gus McGanh an, for
years prospector at Dolores, some
months ago started on trip to better
south Santa Fe county. He went to So
zorro, to the Magdalenas, to Chloride,
Kingston, Silver Creek, Cooks, and do wn
to Bisbee and other points in Arizona.
He has returned and reports that neither
ter at any of those points than here, and
that man going for this section to bet
ter himself, simply has his trip and ex-
penses for nothing.
Victoria camp is moving along in the
even tenor of it's way. The st. Louis
group of mines, under the superintend-
ency of j. Frank Wyman, is shipping two
cars of ore weekly. The lead is shipped
to Socorro, while the iron is shipped to
Ell Paso, to be used as flux. The lead
averages 80 per cent lead, Is ounces silver
and 2.l0 ounces gold. The iron is found
in large bodies and leads to carbonates.
The deposits are in lime and are pockety.
The group comprises the st. Louis, Horse
Shoe and two other properties Silver
City Sentinel.
The Miles Standish mine in Sierra
county has been purchased by Messrs.
Hamel, DeGroot and Jungk, the two lat
tor ho;po cop pootod with tho Socovro
smelter. The mine has been worked for
several months previous under bond and
lease. The consideration was $4,000.
Thus far $l4, 900 has been taken out of a
single slope ten feet in width and thirty
feet long. The ore occurs in the lower
lime, Is mixed with iron and black spar,
and averages after sorting between seven.
ty-fve and 100 ounces silver per ton.
Pinos Altos: The Mountain Key is
nearing the 700 foot level and the mine is
looking fine. The Wine to con-
meet the 275 with the $50 foot level in the
will be through in about two
weeks. The excavating in the
mill is completed and every
thing in readiness for the stamps, which
are expected any day. The
Wagner mill, after having lain idle for
some time, is undergoing necessary re-
pairs and will start up again some time
the coming week on ore from John Nc
Donald's mine, after which ore from the
Bennett mine will be worked.
The first car load of ore from the Golden
Rule mine, in Arizona, arrived this week
and will be run through the Bell & Steph-
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