Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-28
SANTA FE'S MINES.
High Grade White and Notified Marble
Discovered Near Dolores
Another Dry Washer
Mine Notes.

Brother Amian, of st. Michael's college,
has recently returned from trip to the
southern part of the county, where he was
called to inspect some newly discovered
marble deposits. This find is situated
south of the Dolores mining district, and
is of very good white quality and fine
texture. 1t is about $50 to 200 feet thick,
lying in layers and running the fulllength
of the mountain; as to what depth it
penetrates into the same is difficult so far
to determine. Parties are at work on the
claims to ascertain if large sized blocks
can be obtained for continuous shipping,
Not far distant from the above is a de-
post which seems to lie better and is q
handsome notified white and red, and an
| other of various colors; if the colors were
in bands it would be classed as Mexican
onyx. From all appearances it seems to
be marketable material fairly soft and
of an excellent quality.
ANOTHER DRY WASHER.
A little machine of no small general in
terest arrived at Cerrillos yesterday from
Council Bluffs, consigned to Tony Neis
1t is an improved dry washer, the inven.
ton of A. A. Parsons, an old time placer
miner, now of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mr.
Parsons is the inventor of the so-called
| dry washer which Sodofosse, of San Pc.
dro, Geo. Knight and Thomas Moore OF
| Santa Fe, have from time to time made
improvements on, and which have come
nearer solving the dry placer problem in
Santa Fe county than any other machine
ever built They operate on the principle
of the oldfashioned hand-power grain
tanning mill, and the dry sand is blown
against cloth screens through which the
| fine gold passes and the refuse falls off
For twenty years Mr., Parsons has been
striving to remedy certain defects in the
practical working of the machine, and he
claims he has at last succeeded. The new
machine is sent to Mr.. Neis for the pur-
pose of making a test on the gold bear
ing sands in the gulches about Cerrillos
Its inventor claims that it will put
through 600 shovels of dirt an hour, saw
ing "all the gold" and can be operated by
a 10-year-old boy. Results of the test to
be commenced to-day will be awaited
with no little interest,
MINE NOTES.
The Cerrillos Rustler speaks as fol-
lows of mining company, in which
Las Vegas capital is interested: The
'Free Coinage" formerly "Tres Her
manos," is running night and day,
running two shifts steadily. They have
an eight-foot breast of lead and carbon
ate ore, which looks excellent The
pumps are handling the water without
difficulty, and from present prospects the
mine will be shipping ore before snow
falls.
The San Lazarus gold mine is being
worked by large force of men pounding
away with their Huntington mill on a
very good ore from their six foot vein,
which realizes from SO to $11 per ton.
Messrs. J. II, Schufelt and Steward
Drew have made very good find not far
from Dolores camp, of free milling gold
ore running $6 ON the surface, whilst some
picked specimens ran 81 per pound
They have also discovered lead of sui
phurets showing the bromide and chic
ride of silver.
Dolores miners are much interested in
the case of the U. s. vs. the Canon del
Aqua grant, which comes up for hearing
in the supreme court of the United States
early next month. The case stands sew
enth on the docket, and the question in
volved is whether or not the grants con-
firmation carried with it the mineral be-
meath its surface.