Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-05-19
MINES AND MILLS.
Unprecedented Activity In STERN
C0unty-Nich Properties aMh
New Enterprises.

KINGSTON, N. NJ, May 1s.--The Kings
ton Ore Reduction company have startet
their big sixty-ton smelter, after a shut
down of several months. During the in
terval the works received many needed
repairs and Improvements, among them ,
new water Jacket furnace. The fires vii
be kept kindled indefinitely.
The Templar mine, which has beer
lying idle for several years, is soon to bt
worked. j. H. Ridenaur, of Kansas City
Mo-, was here the past week and ma d.
final arrangements for work to begir
Immediately. In the past the Templal
was good produced of rich sulphides Of
silver and its aggregate output netted
the company large sum.
The Brush Heap mine is working stead
lily and the increase in the productions Of
ore is in no way diminishing. The ore il
sulphides, mixed with native and horn
silver, which is shipped to Denver fol
reduction.
In Carpenter district, readiness is being
made for the erection of twenty-ton
smelter for the treatment of the lead
carbonate ores that exist in that distric,
SO plentifully. The road across the
mountain from the Grand Central mine
to Lake valley is to be completed at once
and supplies hauled by wagon from the
railroad at the latter place. Mr.. D. Bau-
man, we'll known mining and smelling
man Of Denver, has the work in charge
and big things are looked for over the
range.
Activity in mining circles at Hermosa
keeps up its record very nicely and three
carloads of high grade ore from the Palo-
mas Chief mine is now in transit for Den
yer. The Embolite and Pelican mines
have a large shipment almost ready and
others in like readiness.
The gold mines at Cold Springs, six
miles north of here, are very active this
spring, and big mining operations are
looked for the ensuing summer and fall.
Besides tho many rich quartz mines being
worked, sixteen miles of pipe line are to
be laid from the head of the Rio Animas
to the heart of the district to sluice and
hydraulic the rich placer gold. The sur
vey for this enterprise is in readiness for
the pipe to be laid, and work is to COM
mence at once. The output of ore at tho
Snake and Opportunity mines is unusual
ly large and the shipments of ore are very
regular. The Bonanza mine is running q
third tunnel below the two upper ones
and will soon be on the ore body from this
point. The Huntington concentrator be-
longing to this mine is kept trunning night
and day on its own ore and the bins are
always kept full. The Happy Jack
mino has $50 tons Of high grade ore on
its dump awaiting the completion and
readiness of the Hobson Brothers roller
concentrator on the Rio Aninnas, which is
to start June l. The happy Jack ore
averages 800 to the ton in gold, besides
copper and silver, and Messrs. Lannon d
Ryan, the owners, are confident they
have not reached the largest ore body yet.
The Chance mine also has big shipment
of rich ore on the dump which was first
intended being sent to Pueblo, but will
now be treated by the Hobson Brothers.
The Golden Era mine, which was worked
under bond and lease four years ago by
a Detroit, Mich, company, is soon to re-
sumo operation on quite an extensive
scale by Chicago company. The mine
has vast quantity of ore in sight in its
drifts and tunnels, but of low grade, and
the new company will erect new con-
centrator of its own near the works. Some
of the ore is very rich in gold, in pyrites
of iron and sulphi6es of copper, but a
majority Of it is low grade, and it is
found in such great quantities that the
new company believes that it will pay
handsome dividends to work it by the
means above stated.