Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-03-21

Aue Noiu EANi cuatam mlH - unninH
on ore from the Engineer mine. The
Engineer has been a pretty regular pro
ducer and some Of the ore produced has
been OF very high grade. .
The Headquarters Mining Company,
at Shakespeare, had a quantity oteore
treated at the Pyramid mill last week.
A shipment Of the ORC will DO Bent east
to be tested.
r. NJ Flood took about $500 worth
Of amalgam 10 FL Paso last week. It
was the result Of a run OF about a hun.
dred tons of ore at Gold Hill.
Over two tons OF fine ore specimens
we're shipped from the Clifton district
last week to Chicago for exhibition at
the Worlds fair. Some Of the copper
specimens from the mines at Clifton will
be hard to beat.
It win not DO long before the Conf
dence Company will have a big mill in
operation in the Mogollons. The road
from the mines to the mill site is icing
built and the work on the mill will be
pushed rapidly. There is plenty Of CAPT.
tai behind the enterprise.
Dimmick, Laizure aud Pronger will
make a shipment from their Grey Eagle
mine near Pinos Altos in a few days.
The walls Of the mine are getting to be
better defined aud The vein matter more
compact. They are now down below
water level and are encountering copper
pyrites in quantity.
Some large ore bodies are being open
ed in the Viola mine at Pyramid. This
mine belongs to the Pyramid Silver
Mining Company and development
work has been going on in the mine for
some time. Cross cuts from the drifts
on the second level Of the Viola have ex-
posed several feet OF good ore on both
sides Of the shaft. -l
A big mining deal is in prospect in the
Mogollons. The Little Fannie and Cham
pion mines have been bonded and the shaft
on the Little Fannie is to betput down
100 feet further in order to more thorough
ly develop the property. There has
been considerable high grade ore taken out
Of the Little Fannie aud the Champion
is regarded as n of the valuable mines
Of the camp.
The Maud s. is keeping up regular
shipments OF bullion and the mine is
looking better than ever. It is one OF
the largest gold producers 10 New Mexi-
20 and is but n forerunner of what may
be expected of other mines in that dis
trict as soon as the proper facilities can
be provided for treating tho ore. Be
cause the camp did not boom when pros
pectors were trying to develop the mines
without capital, investors were afraid tc
put money into the mines there but now
that the ice has been broken there will
be no difficulty in getting capital into
the Mogollon district.
There are three mills at Pinos Alto:
running on custom ore and they are sew.
eral hundred tons behind. Besides these
mills the Mountain Key at PInos Altos
and the Bremen mill here are being ope
rated under leases aud are running on
Pinos Altos ores, aud the Pacific mil
here and the Bell and Stephens mill al
Pinos Altos are running on Pinos Altos
ore. No other camp in New Mexico car
show such an output Of ore rs this
which requires seven mills in constant
operation to reduce the ore aud ever
these cannot prevent its accumulation.
William S~wancoat, who is shocking al
ter the interests Of the Mineral PoinI
Zinc Company, at Hanover, made a ship
!, ment of a car load Of zinc ore TO the
works ut Mineral Point, Wis, last week
This ore was taken out in doing tn,
assessment work on the mines this year
The mines will not be worked on aslarg'
scale for the present ioE the reason tina
there is very little profit in mining anC
p shipping zinc ore TO The east now. II thu
railroad company decides TO extend tn,
= Silver City and Northern to the Goa
fields, as now seems probable, the min
eral Point Zinc Company will probably
erect zinc reduction works at or neal
Hanover for the treatment Of their ores
Work has been suspended in the Mon
tana tunnel Of the Manhattan Gold Min
ing and Milling Company at Pines Altos
For several months the contractors who
took the contract Tor driving the tuRne.
at sl4 per foot have been unable TO max,
wages on recount Of the rock being 81
very hard. During a portion of the
time they we're unable 70 make NOR,
than s1O0 a day and at last decided L
abandon the work. It is supposed that
there yet remains only about fifty feel
of work TO be done in the tunnel before
striking the vein but at the rate work
has been gong on recently It will take
several weeks 70 get 10 the vein. When
the company commenced work on The
tunnel last year Il was expected that II
would he completed before this time ano
that tho mill would be at work. There
is considerable work 10 DO done yet DO.
fore the mine can be opened sufficiently
on the tuRnel level to keep the mill run
ming. Seven assessments have been
levied on the stock of the company Il
keep the work going and il ls probable
that several more will have to DO made
before the mines begin to produce any.
thing.