Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-01-08
HILLsBORO NUGGETS.


The Advocate reports that the total
output from the Hillsboro gold mines for
the week ending Jan. 4, 1894, was 645
tons.
Over nine ounces of gold per ton was
the return on the last carload of first
class ore shipped from the Richmond
mine.
Seventeen bids were received by the
Standard company for the contracts on
the Opportunity mine fourth level drifts.
The successful bidders were McClaron
and Gregg, and Thomas Guthrie.
The Bonanza third level tunnel, now
in over 800 feet, is expected to reach the
vein and main body of the mine this
month. Judging from the ore encoun-
tered in the Wine, this mine will prove
the richest producer in the camp.
SILVER CITY COMPLAINT.
One hundred exemption assessments
were recorded by Probate Clerk E. M.
Young duringthe closing week of 1898.
Had the law req uirlng assessment work
to be done on mining claims been en-
forced instead of suspended, $4,000
would have heen put in circulation, which
during these hard times would have
proven quite a bonanza.
DON'T BE so MYSTERIOUS.
The Albuquerque Democrat notes that
ct. B. Mills, ex-commissioner to the
Worlds fair from New Mexico, in COM
pany with mining expert, has been ex-
aiming some new mining discoveries in
the vicinity of Wallace. The exact loca-
ton of the properties is being kept a
secret, and it is the general impression
that they are valuable" The strike re-
ferred to is just beyond Cochiti and Wal
lace will be the shipping point.
COL. HARRIS ON THE APEX DECISION.
Col. A. w. Harris has prepared and will
soon publish an exhaustive review of the
late supreme court decision in the Illinois
calamity Apex case.
He will discuss the opinion as to it's
geological and legal bearings, and will
endeavor to show its misconstructio of
congressional mining law enactments and
their misapplication to the actual physi-
cal conditions of the Illinois location, as
indicated by the testimony in the court
below. In his preface he disclaims any
personal grounds for writing the review.
which will be pamphlet of seventy-five
printed pages, but says that he does it
for the benefit of the public and for min.
ing interests generally. 1t will be out Of
the hands of the printer in about week
and will no doubt be in great demand
among all people who have made bust
ness of mining.
| SOUTH SANTA FEE GOLD FIELDS.
Dolores, N. NJ, is destined to become 6
good producing camp, and many miners
and prospectors are working over there
with most encouraging results. This ii
but one of the gold fields of New Mexico
the discovery and development of which
were brought about primarily by the de
clineiof silver. Thus, by bringing to the
light much of the yellow metal that hat
lain hidden in our mountains, and BY
stimulating invention to extract it in 9
more successful manner from its basel
companionship, the cloud which has over
cast the sky of the mining regions of the
west through the act of congress in rela
ton to silver, has had its silver lining in
New Acknowledgements Citizen.
NEW MExIco's OUTPUT.
The preliminary figures in reference to
the precious metal output of the territory
for the year just closed are 81 100000
gold and 100000 silver. This is small
increase in gold over any previous year
but remarkable decrease in silver out.
put. Mr.. W. @. Hadley, who gathered the
statistics for the government, thinks that
New Mexico may take comfort, however
l Al - Al -Lzl~ 49, ~s,n
whose preliminary estimates have been
telegraphed to the bureau of the mint in
the past two or three days, show an even
greater falling off in the aggregate output
of the two metals.