Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-06-29

success of the Elizabethtown placers may
be taken as an augury of what may be ex
pected from the Taos gravel beds under
proper treatment.
| The Corralitas company which is one of
the largest producers of ore in tho state
of Chihuahua, has been making regular
shipments of ore to this country, through
Deming, for number of years. The
output of the company is worth about
| $4,000 month and would 60 a long way
toward keeping smelter in operation at
Deming. The ore is of such a character
| that it cannot DO treated at Corralitas.
| 1t is stated that the Ambrosia group of
mines in Magdalena district, valuable as
lead producers, have been sold or bonded
to Colorado syndicate, and that 4
strong company is to be formed to dev-
elop them. Z. @. Billings, of Pueblo. and
j. II. Campbell, of Denver, ore in the
deal, and the latter, one of the ableSt and
fairest mining men in the west, is now
on the ground preparing to begin opera
tions.
! While the people here are working for
! free coinage in almost every way, they
have, SO far, neglected to organize free
silver club Hermosa is in the lead, in
this respect, of any of the towns in the
territory, having a free silver club Of
over 100 members. Tho example of
this silver camp could be followed with
profit by all the mining towns in New
Mexico.
Huff d Kramer, OF Silver City, are pre-
pairing for extensive placer mining on
Bear creek, about fifteen miles from there.
Mr.. Huff is introducing a new method of
saving the gold by system of rifles,
which have proved q sucuess, and can be
operated cheaply, and with small
amount of water. Grant county abounds
in rich placer lands, only awaiting a
method which will economize on the weter
question to add another great source of
wealth to this region.
The Bowmer Tunnel Mining company's
property, over in Mora county, has been
sold at masters sale to W. S. Hawkes., of
Bennington, Vermont, his bid being the
am omit of the face of the mortgage, $751;
O01.75. Other hiadors for the property
which consisted of number of mining,
claims, concentrator, steam engine,
boiler, etc, were H. u. Potter, Of this city,
and William T.. O'Leary, OF Chicago, Il
distant relative of the woman whose COW
kicked over lantern, 1871, and started
the big fire in what is now known as tho
White City.-Optic.
Col. p. Toberman, of Seymour, Texas,
has been prospecting in Lincoln county,
and he tells the Dallas press great things
about New, Mexico riches in gold and silver.
He also exhibited some yellow and black
marble found in canon 1876 miles from
Ell Paso, which, he says, is finer than any
thing of the kind on the market. The
black marble is very beautiful, and for
trimming stone building it would be
hard to discount. He estimates tho
quantity of marble in the canon at 1,OOO,-
900 cubic feet, and he says there is more
granite there than could be taken out in
200 years. "The walls of the canon are
| 700 feet high in some Places" says the
!, colonel, sand are composed Of marble for
miles and miles,"
Dimmick Brothers, owners of the Silver
Cell mine near Pinos Altos, have smelt-
er in operation in which they smelt the
very rich ore produced IN the mine. The
big smelters refuse to receive ore from
this mine on account of the fact that the
ore is of such nature that it is almost
impossible to get fair sample. The ore
which has been run through the smelter
at the mine varied from $4,000 to over
$4,000 per ton. About 800 pounds Of
very rich ore now is on hand awaiting treat
ment. No richer silver ore has ever been
mined in New Mexico than has been
taken out of the Silver Cell this year.
Much of the ore is SO rich in native silver
that it can not be broken out of tho vein
by tho ordinary methods. The ore is
holding out we'll and the mine promises
to become one of the richest in the terri
tory in production.