Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-12-20

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Of ore. The Standard %company's mines
arc producing ore enough to keep two
mills running steadily.
The concentrator at the Stephenson
Bennett mines, In the Organ mountains,
is nearly completed and It will be started
next month There are about 6,0O0 tons
Of ore out at the mines and it will be
treated at the rate OF 80 TONS a day.
Pete McDermitt shipped 80 tons Of
high grade orc from his mine near Car
Isle last week. The ore will average
about 800 per ton and has all been TAX
en- out in doing development work on
the mine. He is still working in fine
ore.
The mines In the Tres Hermanas are
producing ore in small quantities and
shipments Of good ore in small lots are
being made from the camp at regular IN
%tervals. Most of the ore from that
camp is being shipped to the Demiug
Sampling Works.
The assay Office Of the Deming Samp-
ling Works, which was burned recently.
will be rebuilt at once. The building
was insured and most Of the valuables in
the building we're saved. Il will not be
long before the works will be running
along az smoothly as ever.
Development is being pushed on the
Jim Crow mine in the Carlisle district
and the indications are good for a valua-
BILE body of ore. When the development
work, now contemplated, is completed,
the purchasers Of the mine will have a
pretty good idea of the extent and value
the ore deposit.
There is no longer any doubt but that
the deposit Of zinc in the vicinity Of
HIIlsborough is practically worthless.
The ore bore such a close resemblance
to zinc as to deceive several experts and
IL was not until the ore had been thor
oughly tested that it was found to con
tam so small a percentage Of zinc as to
be Of no commercial value.
Development work is going on at the
Mangas Mining Company's property,
but a mill will not be erected until there
is a better prospect for a higher price for
silver. The company has a large body
Of ore in sight, but there would be little
profit in taking it out and reducing it at
the present price OF silver.
w. S. Hopewell viii put up a Is ton
Huntington mill near the Homestake
mines, on the Animas River. The ma
chinery for the mill has been shipped
from Lake Valley to it's destination.
The new mill will be just what the mi
ners of the Animas Peak district have
been wanting for a long time. The ore
from the mines there can be treated in
the new mill much cheaper than it can
be shipped and treated elsewhere.
Miners at Cooks Peak are considera-
bly, concerned on account of the low
price of lead and shipments from the
!, camp are falling off. With lead at 4
cents a pound the mines there Ear be
, worked at a hand some profit, but
, with lead at $40 to 3.75 and silver at So
or lower, the ore produced from the
mines there pays little or 10 profit.
Cooks Peak is the largest lead produc-
3 ing camp in New Mexico, and il the
miners there have to close down the
3 lead miners Of New Mexico will not be Sc
loud in the praise of the Mckinley bill
! as some Of them have been this year.
Bullion is coming in on the stages
from Silver Creek regularly from the
Maud s.. mill. The Maud S. is by far
the largest producer in the Silver Creek
district and the property is being han.
( died at a handsome profit. The compa.
ny has a larger force Of men at work
than has over been employed before on
the property, and from present indica.
tions the mill can be kept running stead
lily during the coming year. The mil
D has a capacity Of about 80 tons of ore
Q daily.
The Silver City Water Company hal
. had a sufficient supply of water for sew
: eral weeks to furnish the Pacific mil
here and the mill will be started up al
soon as the vanners, which were taker
out Of the mill and taken TO Pinos Alto
last summer, can be replaced. The Pa
ci6c mill has a capacity of from 80 to g
! tons Of ore daily, and the Mountain Ke.
mill, at Pinos Altos, which has been OF
\ Grated by the Pacific company, under
: lease, for several months, has a capacit.
: Of 30 to 80 tons. Both mills will be rul
! to their full capacity as soon as the Pa
cifc mill can be put in working order.
A good deal OF excitement has beel
i. caused by the reported discovery Of ricI
: placers Of great extent in the San Juar
country. The weather is very cold Their
now and there Is a heavy snow on tn
ground 60 that it is almost impossible t
tell anything about the richness Of tn
Of country. In all probability the boon
r has been started with a design by specu
Is lators who are anxious to make a FEY
rs dollars out Of p~rospectOrs who are a
" ways ready to go to new fields as soon q
q big excitement is started. If the plaC
b. ers are what they are reported to be the
10 are the richest in the world.
THE METAL MARKET.
h The failure of the monetary oonferenc
To accomplish ANYTHING toward a soil