Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-30
ninlur aud wliilne.

There are 10 men at work in Brock
mans mine at Lone Mountain taking out
ore
The Jim Grow mine In the Steeple
Rock dictrict has been sold. Some very
fine ore has been taken out Of this mine
within The pest few montha It wall DO
thoroughly developed BY the purchaeers.
The Brockmon mill at Lone Mountain
started up last week and is now treating
from % TO 80 tons Of ore a day with 10
stamps running. There IL a large
amount Of out, all Of which can be milled
81 a good profit.
There Is a scarcity Of water at the
Mountain Key min and only a part Of
the stamps are now running. II is feared
that the Pacific Gold Company will have
10 suspend operations there IL the water
supply is not increased soon.
There lie a prospect that the affairs Of
tho Last Chance company at Silver
Creek will be Strengthened out and that
the mill will be started up again soon.
There is an immense body Of low grade
orc in the mine which can be mined and
milled az small cost. The mill is capa-
bic Of treating from 30 to 60 tona Of ore
q day.
There 10 practically nothing doing at
Hanover. The situation remains the
same as whom the Atchisoo, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad Company refused to
furnish any more cars TO the Silver City
and Northern about six weeks agoy but
proceedings have been commenced which
may result in the restoration Of the
through rates, when, in all probability,
the shipment Of ore from the camp will
be resumed
The Mimbres Consolidated mill has
beeen closed down in order to make
some needed repairs and ore is accumu.
lating st the mine. II was thought that
the ore would be worked up by the lasi
Of the month and the mill closed down
indefinitely, but the delay which Ia being
occasioned by the repairs which are
being made will put of the time Of clos.
ing down for several weeks. The camp
is reported as being euieter than evel
before.
A great deal of work will be done al
Black Hawk in the next few months. The
number OF men employed there has been
increased considerably, and there is Q
good prospect that the camp will resume
its old-time aspect before many months
The mines there have produced as rich
silver ore as was ever taken out in the
Territory, and they have not been worked
out by any means. While the low price
Of silver is Encouraging TO silver miners
such rich ore as is produced by the mines
at Black Hawk could be mined and
shipped proftsbly with silver even
lower than il is now.
The ~lixivlation plant which is now
being operated by P. B. Smith at STEMS
Pass has been doing satisfactory work
for over two months. The low grade ores
from the Volcano mine, which have beer
accommodating for several years on the
dump, will all be treated by this process
and there are other mines in the CAM
which could be worked to good advan
tage il there we're facilities for working
the ore by this process. The plant
which is now in operation is small, buI
a larger one will be put up, when it il
expected that the production Of tn,
camp viii be considerably increased.
The Maud S. mill on Silver Creek il
completed and will be started up thil
week. When the old mill was torn dow
and the new one commenced it was be
lieved that it would be completed and il
operation by the first Of July, but a delay
in the arrival Of some machinery made i
impossible to complete the mill at tb'
expected time. There is a large amour
of ore iE sight IN the mine, and if it is a
high grade as that treated in the oil
mill it will pay handsomely. The ney
mill is of much larger capacity than tn
old one, and ore can be treated in it a
less cost. 1t is expected that the neV
mill viii treat about 80 tons OF ore a day
The mines at Pinos Altos are not pro
ducing so extensively Rs they were
year ago but the output has more thai
doubled in the past three months
Until the close of last year Pinos Alto
was the largest gold producing camp il
New Mexico, and it bids fair to regal
its supremacy before the close Of thi
season. It is now producing a large
amount Of gold ore every week than an
other camp in New Mexico, but it is no
30 high grade as the ore produced i
some of the other camps. Development
} is all that is needed to bring the Pine
Altos gold mines 10 the front as tn
leading gold producers Of the Territory
+ Some very fine silver ore has been on
couDtered in the Livingston mine on tn
Mangas. The shaft is down about 240 fee
and there is a vein Of ore a foot WIDE i
the bottom Of the shaft which win ru
up into the thousands. Wire silver
distributed all through the ore and som
of the specimens which have bee
brought in from the mine are beautie
There are about 500 tons Of ore out 0
the dump and considerable OF the hig
grade ore has been sacked and brougI
in here. The shaft is being sunk b
contract and is 10 DO put down $50 fee
When this contract is completed, whic
will be in q few days, it is probable thu
another contract will be let TO sink Ii
shaft still farther. There is an exoeller