Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-02-12
WHAT The MINES ARE DOING.
Lively Times Prevalent In the Several
Camps of South Santa Fe County.

The organization of two companies this
week with a combined capital of three
quarters of million dollars to develop
mines near San Pedro, shows bow things
are going in south Santa Fe county.
Thos L. Tremayne, of Albuquerque, is at
| the head of the Silver Belt company,
formed to open new claims in the Lincoln
| Lucky legion, and Flavel Simonson, OF
Milwaukee, whose success as a mining
man is now part of the history of Cerril-
los, is the moving spirit in the Gold
Eagle company. 1t is important to note
that the Kelly placers is under the con-
troll Of this latter company.
Hon. 0. L. Townsend, of Golden, Colo,
and G. G. Parsons, of Denver, who were
here yesterday looking up title to the
Lincoln-Lucky mine, left last night for
Las Vegas, being met at Lamy junction
by P. A. Collins, Geo. w. Middleton, A.
! W. Kellogg, Denver; L. II. Kellogg, To.
ledo, Ohio; and f G. Billings, OF Pueblo,
who spent yesterday inspecting this ia
nous San Pedro carbonate producer. At
| Las Vegas the party will to-day pay jeff
erson Reynolds the first Sal 900 on the
$S3 900 working bond which &. w. Mid
dleton and others of Denver hold on the
LinColn-Lucky
A Mr.. Rndd and five companions from
Missouri Valley, Iowa, arrived here ten
days ago and have since been quietly at
work at Dudrow's lumber yard bnilding a
patent gold saving device v hch they
claim can be worked either with or with
out water, and will save he lightest
placer gold. Last year Mr.. Rudd pros
pected the San Pedro placers thoroughly,
and he feels satisfied the dry ores of that
region can be very 'prohtably treated by
his patent. Teams left here yesterday to
convey his machinery to San Pedro, where
a test run will be made next week,
Water for town purposes is now scarce
at San Pedro. There is plenty of it n
the Tres Hermanos mine, which could be
utilized at profit to supply the people of
the town, if the Tres Hermanos company
were prosecuting work on the property
there will be considerable increase in
the population of San Pedro this summer
and water is going to be largely needed.
Owing to the illness in Florida of j. II
Gates, one of the Milwaukee directors oil
the Columbia Smeter company, some
delays in the big Cerrllos smelter enter
prise have been occasioned; but the
money is now ready and the work Of
erecting the plant will not be long de-
layed.
Little wonder is it that Colorado min.
ing men are so eager to make payment
OF that Lincoln-Lucky bond. 1t is
said the last twenty cars of this ore
shipped to Pueblo smelters gave a net
profit of $35 per ton.
The injunction suit of the Cerrillos Coal
& Iron company against Ross Griffiths
and others of the White Ash Coal com
pany comes up before Judge Seeds in
chambers tomorrow.
At Albuquerque yesterday, Jack Butler
and L. G. Hunt closed up lease of the
Longfelow mine, near Tieras, and will
undertake its development at once.
At San Pedro the big copper mine il
showing large bonanza chamber Of rich
copper ore in one Of that company's
claims.
A mining man named Clark, from Den
yer, is in the Ortiz mountains on trade
with Alex Rodgers for promising claims
there.