Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-15
NEW MEXICO MINES.
AN AuTHoRITY's OPINION.

Hon. W. G. Hadley, recently in Denver,
said to the Field and Farm reporter.
"New Mexico does not feel at all alarmed
over the silver depression, simply because
our best silver mines were not ina very
fourishing condition. immigration was
not large and there had been no new
prospecting, and in the ordinary course
of events people turned their attention to
gold. Our gold output last year was Sc
per cent of the entire mineral production,
and this year it will reach rs or 80 per
cent. There are several good gold
districts in the territory-White Oaks,
where the mines produced $4,000 of the
yellow metal last pear; Hillsboro, an ex-
elusive gold district, Mogollon, in which
Denver people are largely Interested
KINGSTON NEWS.
Charles Seidler, owner of the Cotton
smelter at Kingston, has leased it to a
New Jersey smelling and refining COM
pany for long term of years. Repre-
sentatives of the new company will arrive
this week to take charge and have the
works put in proper shape for immediate
work.
Charles Eckstein, a miner on North
Percha, has an extension of the once rich
Solitaire silver mine. In prospecting his
work of finding the lead last Monday he
discovered some very rich quartz, and
upon further development found ore that
was literally covered with native silver.
He believes, as do others, that this is the
long lost lead or extension of the old
Solitaire mine, for which so much search
has been made. The Solitaire was a
phenominally rich deposit, which, short
time after its discovery, was bought and
worked by e1 Senator Tabor, of Colorado,
who worked it out and realized several
hundred Thousand dollars.
The gold mines at Animas Peak con-
tinue to attract and draw great many
miners and people within its boundaries.
Monday three eight-hour shifts were
placed ON at the big tunnel through the
peak and developments very materially
increased.
THE OLD ABE.
Serious trouble has been encountered III
the Old Abe we'll because of the high
water during the past week, the drill hole
having become filled with sand and mud,
clogged the pump. The casing has been
pulled out but they haven't succeeded in
extracting the pump cylinder from the
bottom of the drill hole as yet. However,
the artesian pump belonging to Watson
has been brought over from Vera Cruz
and will be put to work on the large body
of water in the we'll shaft and tunnel,
which will keep the mill running until
the other portion of the we'll is put in
working condition.-White Oaks Eagle.
GRANT COUNTY MINES.
Con. Sullivan, w. H. Beall and j. s.
Jouett have a world of low grade gold
ore in sight.
The Deep Down company are showing
work ahead on their cyanide plant as fast
as possible.
The Maud S. mill is running night and
day on ore from the mine of that name.
The Colonial Mining company certainly
have good thing, as the Maud s furn-
ishes an abundance of ore.
Louis Gammas has been sinking on
Eberle's Britton mine and has reached
a depth of fifty feet. A crosscut has
been cut to the hanging wall and the vein
measures nine feet from wall to wall,
which Louis claims will average 800 in
gold and $38 in silver.
The Little Fanny shaft has attained a
depth of 278 feet. Drifts have been run
from the 237 foot level east and west.
The east drift is 70 feet and the west drift
about 60, and he states that in all develop
ment work he has never had single foot
of barren ground. The bin at the head of
tramway has capacity of 1000 tons. Both
are nearly filled with good paying ore.
Joe seidenspinner, famlliarly known by
the sobriquent of "Sulphide joe" the
lucky prospector of the Mogollons, has
added another to his ore finds in a good
body of sulphide ore on the north end of
the Pacific mine of the Silver creek,
which extends into the Helen company's
Alpine mine. This supplements the rich
chute of ore on the south end of the
Pacific, and establishes its value as a
great mine.