Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-23
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GRANT COUNTY MINES.

All the Gold Hill mines are showing
well as work proceeds.
The Bragaw 5stamp mill, Gold Hill, ia
running on custom ore.
Charles Poe has twelve men at work on
the Summit group at Cooks Peak.
Rider & Parker have made new rich
discovery gold bearing copper ore, near
Copper Flat
William Eff has struck rich pocket
in the Monte Carlo, Cooks Peak, and is
making regular shipments.
A fine lot of copper orc, running we'll
in gold, was recently shipped from the
Smith mine at White Signal to the Van
smelter at Silver City.
Stanley and Martin are getting along
nicely in improving the old Skillicorn
mill at Pinos Altos. When in operation,
the mill will have more ore to work than
it can conveniently manage.
Galloway & Alexander still continue to
develope rich ore in their claim. Some of
the ore will run from $50 at White Signal,
to 500 per ton in gold, but the great
value of the mine is in the large body OF
average grade ore, of which they have
five feet in width, which will average
$1,000 per ton.
The Copper Queen owners, Mogollon
district, are driving a tunnel into the
ledge from the creek and are heading to-
ward the magnetic center. The tunnel is
now triAe more than 800 feet and is
making headway at the rate of forty feet
per month with two shifts. 1t is hardly
necessary to state that timbers are dis
pensed with.
The Hanover smelter is running stead
lily and turning out copper matte. Work
is being pushed upon the Ivanhoe and
other copper claims near the works from
which ore supplies are taken. The Texas
mine at Central is shipping ore to the
Ivanhoe smelter and ore and tailings are
being brought from Pinos Altos gold
miners.
j. Il. Sheridan ia working small force
of men cleaning ont the old works of the
Hanover mine. This mine has one of
the best records of the mines of Grant
county as copper producer. The ruins
of five adobe smelling furnaces and large
piles of Stag close by indicate that there
has been extensive workings in the mine
in the long ago The old workings are
caved in and it will require time and
money to reopen the mine in proper
shape.
Bell d Stephens are working the
Pacific at Pinos Altos from shaft No. l.
At depth of 1876 feet a large station has
been cut out. A sump is being made
below this level to hoist water from. On
Monday new and important strike of
exceedingly rich gold ore was made in the
shaft at 325 feet. The ore body is four
feet in width and is the richest body of
gold ore ever developed in the history of
the camp. level has BEEN rnn- from
the south end OF the claim about $50 and
tacks eighty five feet to connect with
shaft No. l. In the level there is devel-
oped large body of ore throughout the
entire length. Over 500 feet of level is
in virgin ground from which pound of
ore has never been stopped. Connection
will soon be made between this level and
shaft No. l, when all ore mined will be
hoisted through the shaft to the top of the
hill, doing away with the heavy haul to
the mill on the other slope. One of the
best indications of the value of this great
gold mine, and of the value of the other
mines of the camp, is that in the deepest
workings of the mine in shafts No. and
No. 3, the richest gold ore ever found in
the camp has been developed. The mill
is running full time and has plenty of
water to continue running day and night
steadily.