Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-29
NEW MEXICO MIN ES.
The Times Easing up and Business
Resuming in all the Camps
of the Territory.

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all osaf New Mexico. The gold camps
| in particular are showing splendid &C
tivity, while in the silver districts there
is more energy apparent than for two
| months past, and lead and copper are
sin it" despite the hard times. In those
camps where silver ores combined with
gold are to be worked at a profta
happy combination just now-the miners
have all returned to work, confident that
bimetallism, as simple proposition, is
bound to win in the great contest now on
in congress.
AT DEMING.
The ore sampler so long idle will resume
operations next week and in the Cooks
Peak and other districts in the neighbor-
hood there are signs of new life.
FAMOUS GOLD REGION.
The Campo Santo is extracting ore on
contract.
A lot of ore from the Arizona is being
worked at the Wagner mill.
The Dimmick brothers are smelling
their rich ores on the ground.
Skillicorn has force of mon at work
and is running his mill night and day.
Work on Montana tunnel is progressing
favorably. The tunnel is now no feet
long.
Pinos Altos offers fine field for those
who are willing to work, either placering
or leasing on quartz.
Were the accommodations adequate at
least fifty persons would be added to the
population of the "Tall Pines"
A contract has been let on the Pacific
extension, south of shaft No. 3. The
ground included in the contract is block
1OOx1O0 feet from the surface. Lynn and
Rowe have the job.
All the mills in Pinos Altos are running
to their full capacities, and are unable to
handle all the ores offered them for reduc-
tion. Water is abundant and the outlook
is encouraging in the extreme.
The Mountain Key is employing twenty
men, and Rhen their mill is erected at the
mouth Of Rich gulch, twenty additional
men will be employed. D. G. Casey has
the contract for the erection Of the mill.
The recent rains have given an impetus
to placer n,.nfNy in and around Ptnos
Altos. The hillsides and gulches are
covered with men for distance of six or
eight miles. There is not an idle man in
camp.
Bell and Stephens of Pinos Altos have
received returns from carload of con-
centrates shipped to Pueblo, Colorado.
They were gold, silver and lead, and the
amount received per ton was IL 1900
ounces Of gold, SO ounces in silver and 40
per cent lead.
SEEKING GOLD.
number of unemployed men, taking
the advice of Gov. Stover, fitted them
selves out with camping outfits, gold
pans, picks and shovels, and left Albu-
querque for the gold diggings near Col
den.
TO QUIET TITLE.
Clinton Butterield vs.. the Maxwell
Land Grand company, and others, is the
title of suit filed in the district clerks
Office, from Colfax county. The suit is
brought to quiet title to certain inter-
est in the "Aztec" mine.
STREAK OF GOLD.
According to the Ration Reporter, Leo
pold Biddle has struck it rich in his
"Gorilla" mine in the Ute Greek mining
district, up in Colfax county. While at
work on the third crevice in the "Gorilla,"
he opened upa fine streak of free gold
which will run about twenty ounces to the
ton.
H1LLsBORo's SHOWING.
Output of Hillsboro gold mines for the
week ending Thursday, August Gath, 1898,
as reported for the Advocate:
From the Standard Gold Mining 4 Milling
Company:
Snake Mine. -. ,................... 75
Opportunity mine 100
From the Good Hope Ronanza Mining i
Milling Company:
Bonanza mine e...........,......,.. ........ 125
From the Eghty.Five and ali other mines. 20
Total. .....,........ .............-...... 515
Total output since Jan. ......,.... 1888
The Hopewell mill on the Animas, after
being fired up for several days last week
and the machinery placed in perfect form
by Superintendent Nickle, is now work
ing on fifty-ton lot of Hirsch u Roche
ore. Completing this the mill will run
on Trippe and Red Mountain mine min
eral.
At the Hillsboro gold placers, the num-
ber of men who are working for them
selves has increased to about fifty, and
the total weekly result of their labor