Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-12-16
NEW MEXICO MINES.


WHILE Ohhb'
The development of the Evening StaI
in the Jicarllas is slowly progressing.
Mike Gallagher is working it for L. l.,
and A. j. Ozanne.
The Old Abe Co. has almost completed
its excavations, and the laying Of pip
from the well to the reservoir will com
mence in few days.
Watson & Lund are prospecting the
north slope of the Hannibal mine with
encouraging results. Rich ore was taken
| out of this mine in 1888, but as break
occurred work was suspended, and the
prospect now seems higher up the noun
tain.
The Old Abe company countermanded
its order for the Huntington mills short
time ago, and NJ. W. Hoyle, who returned
from Denver week ago, ordered twenty
stamp mill, which is to be shipped before
January |. Construction on the mill
building will commence in few days.
The miners of the Jicarilla district at
meeting, decided, that the territorial
laws of New Mexico should in future
govern the amount of assessment work
to be done on claims, instead of the ole
custom. The committee on boundaries
reported that in future the boundaries Of
the Jicarilla district be as follows. Town
ship 5 south, range II east and more
generally described by the northeast cor
! ner at or near the north end of Jack
mountain: the northwest corner near the
intersection of Rico and Ancho gulches;
the southwest corner at or near Coyote
| Springs; the southeast corner near what
is known as the Negro ranch.
ORGAN MOUNTAINS.
Judge Wood and number of Denver
capitalists have taken bond and lease
on the Modoc at Organ, and have also
purchased the old smelter plant at Las
Cruces, and are putting in new CON
centrator of 100 tons capacity. The Mo
doc will furnish 40 to 60 tons of ore q
day, and the balance of the time will be
given to custom work. Judge Wood is
an old miner, and every one predicts
success for his new venture.
GRANT COUNTY.
| A dance is to be given in the 500 level
of the Mammoth mine. The level is 300
feet long by forty feet wide.
The Pyramid Silver Mining company
has bought the Henrietta for $4,000. This
! firm propose to sink the shaft of the
Viola to 1000 feet and increase their mill
capacity.
Pete McDermott has on exhibition at
Leahy's store, Lordsburg, twenty pound
lump of ore plastered with horn silver.
He says he has plenty more like it.
At Tombstone case was lately decided
| on the question of cross lodes. The de-
PENDANTS were the owners of the Big and
Little Comets and Miners Dream, and
were located on continuous lode which
crossed the Black Eagle nearly at right
angles. Defendants lode showed no crop
pings on the surface, and the Black Eagle
was the senior claim, but had never de-
veloped continuous body of ore. The
case was decided against the Black Eagle
with costs.
! SIERRA COUNTY.
The miners of Kingston have organized
the Columbian Social club.
Sierra county collected on short notice
three tons of ore for the Worlds fair min
eral cabin.
The Ore Reduction company shipped
10000 pounds of copper matte last week
from Kingston.
The Kingston smelter is to have new
water jacket furnace. The old furnace
has burned out,
Mr. j. W. collars, interested with Mr..
Norman C. Raft, in the North Percha, is
in the east perfecting the new deal on
that mine. Col. r. II. Hopper, has also
been in the camp, presumably on the
same business.
| II. A. Schmidt, on his return from Salt
Lake City, reported that the Gervase-
Brown electric process for treating ores
was in a very crude condition. The pro-
cess has several good features, which Mr.
Schmidt will experiment on in his own
laboratory at Chloride, and he hopes to
perfect the process.
The Lady Franklin group of mines
consisting of the Lady Franklin, Bullion,
Superior, Polar Star, and Evening Star,
near Kingston, is about to change owner
ship. Two gentlemen, father and son,
are negotiating for their purchase from
the English syndicate. The gentlemen
own other large interests both in this
country and Peru. Percy L Fern, of New
York, is examining the property.
The concentrator of the Hermosa Mill
company is again in operation. They
have only about 10000 gallons of water
daily, sufficient for two tons of ore. They
are now driving drift from the bottom
of their thirty foot well to tap the gravel
under the creek bed and will soon have
water anOupht tn run ten hours n daV