Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-06-28


building an assay furnace at Monero. The
doctor Is an expert at the business, and
doubtless will haye all he can attend to
when ready for work. Col.
Broad and DR.. Craig, while prospecting
on Gordon creek, two miles east OF
Chama, discovered three foot vein Of
lead, silver and copper ore. A mill run
| has been sent off.
Considerable life is displayed Just now
in the Rio Hondo, famous gold region
in Taos county. The location of the camp
is about eight miles west OF Elizabeth
town, just off the Maxwell grant and al.
most on the summit of the range. There
are fifty Colorado prospectors in the camp
and six from this territory. The mineral
extends for miles in every direction, one
lead being traced five miles. There are
gold, silver, copper, gaena and iron in
the camp, and all of the richest character.
A Las Vegas delegation has located five
leads and four placer claims, and al
together there have been over 100 loca-
tions made. OF all their claims, so far
they have had assays on only one, the
Little Fleece, which gives II ounces of gold
and 60 ounces of silver. This vein is ten
feet wide, and where the ore is taken out
is at the base of the mountain, which
rises perpendicularly 5000 feet, and the
vein can be seen on the face the entire
distance. The assay was from surface
rock. This alone would seem like
bonanza. The Colorado prospectors all
say that Creede and Cripple creek can
not begin to compare with this camp in
richness. AS soon as it is heard of on
the outside there will likely be big rush
to the camp. The Frazer properties in
the same district, which have been partly
developed, have been bonded for $3.50
900.
Ute Creek, in Colfax and Mora coun-
ties, is doing pretty well as a gold pro-
ducer. A Colorado Springs company
which bought out the Charlie Rand pro-
perties, Bull of the Woods, and the Stin-
son lodes, have made tests OF the ore On
these claims, and it is said on good |
authority that the ore from the upper |
tunnel gave five ounces of gold per ton,
and on the lower tunnel nine ounces per |
ton were cleared up. Cameron & Co.,
who purchased the Rebel Chief group of |
mines and mill, had six lode claims sur
veyed, but have not yet commenced
active operation of the mines. They also
purchased two placer claims on the Ute
Greek below their mill, where work is
going on. The Four Creek Mining COM
pany, Baron Van cullen, owner and
manager, are starting up this week with
abundance OF gold ore on the dump. The
Aztec company is running day and night
as usual, and seems to be favored by an
abundance of good pay ore. The Salvador
Mining company have just furnished
wire ramway from their mine to their
mill, where Mr.. Gillespy, the manager
and part owner, is running a large i'm
proved Huntington mill on their quartz.
Many new arrivals of miners and pros
pectors give the camp somewhat the ap
pearance of small sized boom. The
weather being rather cold for the time of
year, placer men are anxiously wishing
Tor warmer weather to melt the snow and
give better water.
The North Homestake mine at White
Oaks has made another big strike. The
Eagle says: "At the eighteenth
level in this mine in drifting,
after having passed through the
original body of ore from which over
5000, 900 has already been produced, the
iesei was being continued to intersect
some old workings, when at distance Of
about twelve feet from the original ore
chute, which has been demonstrated to
exist for thousand feet in depth, new
body was struck which bids fair to excel
The former exploited body Of ore. This
new body shows breast OF ore l6 feet in
width. The lower levels OF this mine are
at so foot intervals. At the next level,
No. 1S1a, the ore was tapped again and
lies apparently almost perpendicular and
parallel to the body of ore which has al
ready made the North Honestake
bonanza. At level No. 1917 this new
strike was again reached, showing the
Of the ore.chute lin sight
Tor the $50 feet between levels Nos. IS
and 1917. The strike was first
made at depth of about 665 feet, and by
with old work from the sur.
lace to level No. 81, nearly thousand
feet, will produce more ore than has ever
been taken out all told in the past
"The total product to date is over
s400,0 900, and there remains large
amount OF ore in sight on former work
lngs both above and below where the new
body has been exposed"