Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-03-27
Mining and milling.

through here on Wednesday from that
steady producer, the old Maud s.. mino
at Mogollon.
Tho Savage brothers have taken q lease
and bond on the Scotch Lass gold claim
belonging to Henry McAllister at Cen
trail. Work on the lease was begun yes
terday.
IT is expected that a new mill will be
put up at Central shortly for tho pur-
pose Of treating custom ores exclusively.
This ought to DO a great stimulus to
the development OF the mines Of that
camp.
Hugh r. Hildreth, who has been work
ing the Little Fannie mine and Sheridan
mill at Cooney, has gone to st. Louis.
Ed Kahlbaum has taken over the charge
Of the property and has paid the men up
in full to date.
Major John w. Fleming, n Of the
most thoroughly practical and success
lul mining men in the southwest, hae
been appointed by the President as mine
inspector for New Mexico. No better
appointment could have been made.
All the old batteries OF the Sheridan
mill at Cooney are being taken out and
new mes put in. Mortars, stamps, cam
shaft and everything is to be now and
strong. Tho stamps weigh a thousand
pounds each.
The Canon City Mining Company, op-
Grating the Deep Down mine at Mogol-
lon, is changing the former cyanide
process mill on that property into a
stamp mill. The machinery is now on
the ground and is being put in place as
rapidly as possible. The new plant will
probably be ready for work about tho
first proximo.
Mr.. Collier got back on Thursday from
Ell Paso where he had gone to get the
last pieces of iron work necessary for the
completion Of the Ivanhoe smelter. The
material has been shipped and received,
and the work on the first 80 ton stack is
so nearly completed that, barring acct
dent, the furnace should be ready to
blow in this week.
The Maud S. company intends to cut
it's miners wages from So a day to $3.50
on April LIST. They have refrained from
doing this as long as possible but the
continued fall in the price of silver has
obliged them to make the cut. They
say, however, that they will restore wa
ges when silver goes. up again.
For months past the Aztec people
have been driving a tunnel on their
mine at Pinos Altos to tap the vein at a
depth OF 450 feet. Last week the vein
was struck, and on being cross-cut was
found to be 4 feet wide at that point,
carrying a good amount of pay ore.
Work has been suspended till further
orders can be received from the head
quarters Of the company at st. Louis
This adit will enable the mine to be
worked much more easily aud cheaply
than formerly besides opening up a large
quantity Of new ground.
THE best producing mine in Central
and what promise to be one OF the best
producing mines in Grant County, the
Texas, is working along steadily with q
small force Of men regularly taking out
good ore. A carload Of ore running
from 200 to30Ooz. in silver and about 1oz
in gold TO the ton will be shipped about
Apr. 9th, and some so or 60 tons OF low
er grade ore will be hauled to the
Owens 4 Porter mill the first of next
week to be concentrated. The shaft is
now down 210ft and shows the same
high grade character Of ore from the
grass roots all the way down, the quail
ty remaining the same and the quanti-
ty somewhat increasing.
The Owens & Porter mill Is doing good
work in the Central district. Besides
treating their own ore they are doing
custom work for other mines, thereby
materially aiding in the development OF
the camp. The mill proper consists Of O
crusher, a Huntington mill Of a ton ca.
pacity, plates and two vanners BY ex.
p%erience the owners have found that
they must have two more vanners to en-
able them to work the plant to it's full
capacity. These will be added before
long, when it is expected that the mil
will be able to treat twice as much ore a
day as it does now. Nearly all the gold
is amalgamated right in the mill, the
small percentage that passes out is al
caught on the plates.
One Of the favorable signs for the
equalization in values between gold anC
/, silver in the not distant future Is the
rupidly increasing output Of gold coinci
+; dent with a decreasing amount Of silver
Regarding gold the following figures WI
(, show how rapidly the available q%uantit!
= is increasing:
In 1883 the total number Of ounces
; produced by all countries was 4,859,502
, in 1893 the total production was 1921,
t 307 ounces-an increase Of nearly so pc
cent. More than this, every gold pro
ducing country has increased its outpu.
during the decade-Australia contribut'
1,675,OOO ounces in 1898, against 1,333,9ii
ounces in 1888; United States producing
1,693,111 ounces, against l,451, $50 ounces
Russia 100000 ounces, instead Of 1882,
600 ounces; and other countries 1,l60,00i