Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-13
MINERAL RICHES. (.
important Strikes Reported this
Week from Many New Mex
leo Districts.

ga vein twelve feet wide of lead car
Donate ore assaying S86 to the ton has
been struck in hitherto unprospected
region of New Mexico. This is cheer.
full indication of what's yet to be found
in the unexplored portions of the noun
tains."
The above is the editorial comment of
the Denver Daily Sun on mineral find
that has just been reported from the new
Hondo district in Taos county. Writing
from Amizett under date of the 10th inst.
correspondent says:
"The prospects of the new Rio Hondo
mining district are very encouraging.
The snow is fast disappearing and in
few days more prospectors will be
able to travel anywhere in the district
without trouble from this source.
"The Independence people struck it on
the 5th. This mine is owned by Ira D.
Seaton, D. j. Stevens, 8. FL. Fuller and
Thomas Wiltsee, of Colorado. While
working cross-cut through cyanide the
vein, twelve feet wide between walls of
cyanide, was struck alta distance of eighty
five feet and only seventy-fve feet below
the surface. They only lack about fifty
feet of striking the lime contact. All the
way TIN ough it shows up carbonates
through the soft prophyry running $S6
to the ton.
"This mine is across the basin from
the Bijou and fine carbonates have also
been struck in the latter, though the
| workings have not yet progressed far
enough to determine the exact width of
| the vein "
FAMOUS PRODUCER.
| The Old Abe mine, near White Oaks,
whose wonderfully rich productions have,
within the past two years, snatched sew
eral citizens from out of the slough of
despond and placed them on the plane OF
independence, is ready and has COM
menced to reassert itself. At a cost of
over $4,000 twenty stamp mill has
been ompleted and it is working nicely
The company has laid something more
than mile of water pipe from the mill
to large reservoir above the works and
has supplied the line with pumps capable
of forcing over 100000 gallons of water
per twenty-four hours from well to mine
1t was only two years ago last Deem
Der since the Old Abe showed its yellow
face. Since then it has yielded, as neal
as can be calculated, $365,000.
The Old Abe has been capitalized al
$l,2OO,O0O, and is owned by eighv persons
four living in this territory and four il
Wheeling, w. Va; the latter, however
owning but $250OO each. The other foul
stockholders are Messrs. Hewitt, Watson
and Hoyle, of White Oaks, and II. B. Fer
gusson, of Albuquerque.
sIERRA's ACTIVITY.
Animas Peak mines and the whole
northern slope of the Hillsboro distric
have suddenly emerged from the appa
rently hopeless inactivity of the past fov
years and are teeming with life and in
dustry. About fifty miners have fount
, steady employment there within the pas
two months, and this number will be in
creased as fast as development permits
This accession to the business of Hills
boro will soon make itself felt in TIN
general prosperity. At Her
mosa all the miners are at work and, OF
the average, they are doing very we'll con
sidering the market value of their prod
+ uct. Collum & Taylor have q beautiful
5 showing on their Pelican lease. On Fri
day last one man extracted full ton o
ore that will average from 400 to 60
ounces silver per ton and carrying a
: least 40 per cent lead.-Advocate.
ORGAN DISTRICT.
< A. w. Puett, of Lincoln county, ha
J, been prospecting in the Organ noun
tains. He reports that on March 20, h
discovered what promises to be the rict
est strike in the Organ mining distric
a The claim is the Monarch and is locate
= about two miles east of the Norman min
y At depth of twelve feet the lead is tw
feet wide and paintings show it up yer
rich. W. W. Brazel, of White Oaks, is il
9 terested with Mr.. Puett in this propert.
f GRANT COUNTY STRIKE.
e Jake Arnett has Joined the noble arm
of millionares. The Red Rose min
about ten miles south of Pyramid, ha
run into bonanza. There is now expose
,; a ledge eight feet wide, every foot
n which runs $50 to the ton. A shaft
down n1ty IeeC ana Jno or0 - couCluuo'
;, and of the same quality.-Lordsbur
Liberal.
SAN JUAN MINES.
10 Mr.. I. G. True, who has been prospec
a ing for some months back in San Jua
IN county, is in the city and reports that
has made sixty locations on mineral bea
ing veins of cement that runs from Cane
Largo down to the Mancos and which
is certain is the source of the float 60
that now and then has caused such e
citement on that river. He certainly HI
some fine specimens of ore. If his ide
y are correct the ore will be very fir
W W milling and may be he has also forum
- He has also made thirty locations on co
es lands but as coal is as plentiful almo
- as soil in San Juan this is not startlin
~. 10 He claims his beds to be of the harde