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

About 200 miners are engaged in th'
Kingston district.
Prospectors from Creede have located
some promising claims Of late in northern
Rio Arriba county.
About 100000 pounds of lead and sill
yer ores reached Deming from the minti
near Dias, Mexico, last week.
Hllsboro's railroad prospects are such
as to give the miners thereabouts great
hopes. 1t is bound to be a great camp
The Financial and Mining Record oi
June IL, gives an illustrated w-ite-up ol
Silver City and some Of the mines ol
Grant county.
Down in Grant and Sierra counties
they are making $4,000. 100000 and
$4,000 mining sales right frequently Of
late.
Three mines in this district have adopt.
ed the eight-hour system OF labor, name
ly, the Caledonia, Brushheap and Gipsy.-
Kingston Shaft.
White Oaks note: "At the annual
election OF the stockholders of the Old
Abe company, Goth instant, H. B. Fer.
gusson, M. W. Hoyle and John Y. Hewitt
we're duly elected directors for the ensuing
year." Where is Hewitt?
VIM. Holmig and Fred Friedewald were
in from the Granite Gap country the first
of the week and report everything pros
porous in that camp. The boys say that
as long as they can continue to shovel
out sand carbonates and ship them to a
big profit they will stick to their present
job.-Lordsburg Liberal.
The foreman Of the Brushheap mine said
there we're between $50 and 1S0 men at
work around Kingston that call for $l5,-
750 per month in wages, and at least
50, 500 for the same time for running ev-
penses, which puts in circulation in this
district $l8,250. Can any OF the other
New Mexico camps make better show
ing g.-Klngston Shaft.
Prof. w. G. Warng has been granted a
patent on his process of refining silver
sulphides; the patent bears date June Z.
After the discovery of this new and valu-
able method of refning-by our talented
townsman-other metallurgists laid claim
to the discovery, but the patent office,
after Thorough investigation, awarded it to
Prof. Waring.-Enterprise.
Prof. J. A. Marshall, the inventor and
patentee of the electric process for the re-
duction of refractory ores, arrived in the
city with lis family yesterday and expects
to remain here permanently. Prof. Mar
shall comes for the purpose of taking the
management of the plant which has been
put up by local company here, to work
by his process, and expects to have the
establishment nearly ready to commence
Albuquerque Citizen.
What is to be found next in the line OF
mineral discovery in Grant county? The
latest comes from Gold Hill and is an ore
containing two and one.half ounces of
platinum and one-half ounce of palladium
per ton. The ore is a graphite granite
and at first glance would be discarded as
worthless, but the finder had his curiosity
aroused and had an analysis made with
the above results. 1t is an ore which
might be easily concentrated, and as plati-
mum is worth about So per ounce and
palladium $35 per ounce the concentrate
would be valuable. e.-Silver City Enter
prise.
Silver City note: The Enterprise has
positive and very reliable information
that chute Of very rich ore was broken
into on the 1S0 foot level Of the Alhambra
mine on Wednesday morning. The ore
was struck in the north drift OF the loves.
level and from the present indications
promises to be larger than any ore body
before found in the mine. The ore is OF
the usual very rich character, native sill
yer and silver glance, usually found in
this property. The flow OF discolored
water that was tapped when the chute
was struck, the enlarging in size of the
quartz body and all other indications
which miner intuitively recognizes and
yet can not always express, lead to the
belief that this is an ore body of consider.
able dimensions.
Chama notes. Oscar Merrill got home
from Creede Monday. hereports another
building craze and the mines producing