Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-02-07

The mining outlook for this section 10
considerably brighter now than Il was a
few months ago. Assurances come from
the Mogollons that the season there
win be ono Of great activity. The Co
lonial company operating the Maud s.
mine and mill is now n Of the largest
producers Of bullion in the Territory
and the Confidence company will soon
have a mammoth mill in operation on
ore from the Confidence group Of mines.
There is a prospect that the Last
Chance property will be worked profita-
bly, and work has been commenced on
other mines in the camp. Until last
year the mines in that camp had been
worked at o disadvantage on account Of
insufficient facilities for treating ore in
the camp. The distance to railroad
transportation is 90 great that it does
not pap to ship any but the highest grade
ore TO outside points for treatment.
Both the hast Chance and the Colonial
companys mills we're completed last
year and the Confidence company will
probably have the largest mill IN the
Territory completed there this year.
The outlook a Pinos Altos is very en-.
%couraging. The Manhattan Gold Min
ing and Milling Ccmpany's tunnel is
nearing completion and when it is com
pleted the company will m to
take out ore for the mill here. On com
p%letion Of the tunnel the company will
be able to mine orc considerably cheap
err than ore has been mined by the COM
pany heretofore and it is expected that
the mines can be operated as success
fully as the Pacific Gold Company's
mine which is on the same lead and is
now producing ore enough to keep two
mills in operation.
The output OF the Mountain Key,
Bell and Stephens mines and other pro-
perties in the district is expected to be
considerably more than last year and the
new strike. made zeal the Silver Cell is
expected to become a good producer.
Some good ore is being taken out at
Black Hawk and there is considerable
development going on there which may
result in opening up large bodies OF ore,
This district always produces rich ore,
and development work seldom fails tc
open new bodied Of ore in any Of the
mines.
Dimmick Brothers, who have over
ton of very high grade silver ore out al
the Silver Cell mine, hear Pinos Altos
will bring it in here this week and have
it smolted at the Mexican smelter. The
bullion will be sent to New York I o b.
refined.
Dimmick, Laizure & Pronger have
their shaft down % feet on the Gray
Eagle mine and the vein is steadily grow
ing wider. They will take out ore
enough for a mill run when it will bt
tested. The ore looks we'll and will prob
ably run high.
If the project for getting cheap coal a
Hanover is carried out that camp will b,
the l~iveliest in the Territory before The
end Of the year. There is practically nc
limit to the orein the district and the
immediate vicinity and with reduction
works there there would be room 70.
thousands of miners and laborers in tn,
district. All the ore produced in the dis
trict is smelling ore and with cheap Goa
a larger smelling plant could be kept il
operation than there is now in New Mex
leo. The future of this camp depends
entirely upon the fuel question. II Goa
can be brought from the fields nea.
Gallup and delivered at Hanover at al
low a rate as it can be delivered from tn,
mines in the northern part of the Terri
tory to the Socorro smelter, there is n,
reason why large smelters could not b,
operated at Hanover, and it is not i'm
probable that iron works and rolling mill
will be put into operation. Much of thl
iron ore mined at Hanover runs 60 pc
cent. iron which is a much highe
grade the than the iron ore from whlcl
most Of the iron produced in this couu
try is made. The possibilities of thi
camp are greater than those of any othe
camp in the Territory at the presen
time and it is not at all improbable tina
large smelters will be in operation Their
before the end of the year.
The outlook for lead camps in thi
County is not so good as it was SOM
months since on accounted the low pric
Of lead but IL is not believed that thi
materially curtail the production.
The repairs on the custom mill at Col
Hill are about completed aud the mi
will be started up on custom ores in
few days.
Several miners who have been workin
in the surprise mine at Cooks Peak hav
fled liens for wages due. It is reporte,
that the company is several thousanI
dollars in debt.
Poe and Ashenfelter are taking GU
, about 20 tons Of ore aday at Cooks Peal
They have resumed shipments and haY
considerable ore in sight in the mines.
JaQS Rivers, a miner in the employ {
the Pyramid Company, was fatally il
jured by an explosion in the Henriett
mine last Tuesday. He put in som
shots aud climbed out Of the mine bu