Southwest-sentinel., 1893-01-31
MInlnr and MIllInr.

Mining and Milling.
It is reported that the Silver City and
Northegn Railroad will DO extended TO
the coal fields between this place and
Gallup this year. Work will be com
menced within few weeks and as soon
as the road reaches the coal fields the
company will put large smelters at work
reducing the iron ores at Hanover II
the plan for getting cheap fuel to the
camp proves successful It is quite GER
tain that the Mineral Point Zinc Com
pahy viii erect large works at or near
Hanover for the treatment Of zinc ore.
There are large bodies Of zinc ore which
would pay for mining and treatment at
works 10 the camp but which would not
pay to ship to Wisconsin for treatment
at the company's works there. With
cheap fuel at Hanover the great copper
mines Of the Santa Rita Copper and Iron
Company could be worked on very
extensive scale. II the deposites of coal
near Gallup are as extensive as they are
reported to be and the coal can be deliv-
cred at Hanover at such rates as have
been figured on it will take but few
months to make Hanover the most i'm
portant mining and smelling center in
New Mexico. Iron, copper and zinc ores
are found in abundance at and :around
Hanover and 1t is but a few miles to i'm
portant silver and lead mines which
would become large producers if the ore
produced could be smelted near the
mines and at low rate. A large smelt-
ing plant at Hanover would have the
advantage Of having an abundant sup
ply Of lime and iron at hand, while the
smelters at FL Paso and SOcorro are
obliged 20 come to Hanover for their
iron and can get fuel no cheaper than it
could be brought to Hanover from the
Gallup fields over the proposed rail
road.
There is no longer any doubt whatever
but that the San Juan placer region
which has been so extensively doomed
in the newspapers within the past few
weeks is entirely without merit. Gold
exists there but it is in such small guam
titles and in such finely divided state
that it can Z 0t be washed out at profit.
Quite a number of residents Of this
place who intended to go the new region
in the spring have already abandoned
their plans and will look for the yellow
metal elsewhere.
The Brockman mill at Lone Mountain
is running steadily on ore from the
Brockman mine which is producing ore
in large quantities. The mill is doing
better work than it was some time
since.
There is practically nothing at all
doing ip the mines at Georgetown. Les
sees who we're operating in the Mimbres
Consolidated Company's mines have
given up their leases and the outlook for
the camp this year is anything but en-
couraging.
Dimmick Brothers have a ton OF very
high grade ore out at their Silver Cell
mine near Pinos Altos. There is a large
body Of very high grade silver ore in the
Climax mine which is also owned by
Dimmick Brothers end which is located
near the Silver Cell. These mines have
been worked only in small way on ac-
count Of the low price of silver. The
Silver Cell was discovered about two
years ago but it has not been developed
to any great extent and ore which has
been taken out has been held in the
hope that the price Of silver would i'm
prove. There are no minesin New Mex
leo producing silver ore which are more
promising than these and il the price Of
silver should advance materially there
will be a force of miners put into the
mines at once.
The gold strike which was made rear
Pinos Altos recently by Dimmick, Prom
ger and Laizure is showing up fine. The
shaft is down % feet and the vein has
widened out to six inches. An assay OF
the ore showed over Is ounces Of gold
and ounces Of silver per ton. The vein
was narrow at the surface but it is wide
enough at the bottom of the shaft to
make 1t pay handsomely. 1t may be
that this vein will turn out to be more
productive than any yet discovered in
the Pinoa Altos district.
METAL MARKET.
Heavy shipments OF coin from New
York TO Europe continue. One steamer
took out last Saturday morning $780,
900 in gold coin. Shipments of silver
have not been so heavy as they were
early in the month but the aggregate
for the month is larger than for any pre-
ceding month for more than year. The
price huctuated very little during the
week and closed at s32l.
Copper is lower in spite Of the efforts
OF the big companies 10 keep up the
price. Sales we're not large but the
price fell 10 IL where it closed.
There has been another slight advance
in the price Of lead but the amount
which changed hands was smell Prices
In London have advanced slightly and
1t was probably on this account that the
market was hrmer here. The price