Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-23
NEW MEXICO MINES.
What the Miners in Prominent Terri
tOrial Gold and Silver Camps
Are Doing.
SIERRA COUNTY.

SIERRA COUNTY.
Ell Dorado mine is putting out rich ore
again.
Another good strike is reported from
the Catherine.
Slapjack mill is still grinding steadily
on ore from the Eighty-tive.
The Standard mill at Hilsboro is run
ming on Snake, Bobtail and Opportunity
ores.
Hall e. Macy have found some very
rich gold quartz float at the Bucyrus
placer.
Another large shipment of leasers' ore
from the Richmond mine will shortly be
made to Ell Paso.
Linder & Townsend have struck nine
inch streak of ore, that assays from $50
to $50 in gold, in the Morton mine.
The output of the Hillsboro gold mines
for the week ended April 1S was $50
tons; total output since January l, 3,058
tons.
The Happy Jack dump will contribute
to keep the new Charter Oak mill busy
and the mine will hereafter be worked to
it's full extent.
Falkner is just now the busiest place in
Sierra county. 1t is the center of the
placer district and also commands the
business of Dutch Gulch and the Animas
Peak mines.
The Charter Oak mill began work yes
terday on a choice lot Of screened
placer gravel. An improved No. Hunt
ington mill is used which has capacity
in that sort of material of from thirty
and forty tons day.
Feast's ore hauling teams are making
regular trips from the FL Paso Oro mine
to the Bonanza MILL The placers are
alive with gold diggers and great in
crease in the yield of gold dust is report
ed by the merchants.
The Hillsboro Advocate reports: The
partial sale and bonding of the Happy
Jack to Iowa capitalists for 100000, is re-
ported this week and as the first i'm
portant deal of the year is a notable
event. Mr.. Thomas Lannon will be the
manager Of this mine, which has long
been conspicuous for the richness of its
ore and the regularity of its output.
WATER CANON socoRRo COUNTY.
It is estimated that the Oro Fino could
alone take out fifty tons of milling ore
per day.
The Wall Street, owned by John j. A.
Dobbin shows fine body of free milling
gold ore.
The G. G. Vest, the Water Valley, the
Colleen Bawn, the two Comstocks, the
Mamouth and the Golden Wedge are all
promising prospects.
The Terry brothers have big thing,
and 1t ia getting better with every foot of
depth gained. There arastra is not
modern mill, but the ore is rich.
The easier mill is pounding away sue
cessfully on Columbus ore and recently
shipped twentyseven sacks of high grade
about ten tons into one.
The Industrial Advertiser: The own
ers of Sunrise No. have about closed
deal with western parties wherby 500 feet
of development work will be put on the
property at once, and a mill will be
erected as soon as possible. This is a
high grade property and is certain to be
heavy producer, which will give the
camp great send Off
The Oro Fino is situated at the juno
tion Water canon and Copper canon, and
the principal development work has been
done in an incline and shaft. The In
cline is 100 feet deep, with a 1O0-foot
drift to the west, all in ore, while the
east shaft is seventy feet deep and shows
a splendid free milling ore. The ore
body is nowhere less than four feet, and
from that it ranges up to number of
feet that is startling to man with an un-
derstandiug of the value of large veins of
free milling ore that will run from $12 a
ton up.
GRANT COUNTY.
An important strike has been made in
the Maud s., Mogollon district.
The smelter at Ivanhoe, which was re-
Gently closed down, will be started up
again in few days under more favora-
BILE circumstances.
Brakeman, Crawford & Co.'s mill at
White Signal is crushing from twenty
five to thirty tons Of ore per day.
Many of the miners of Pinos Altos are
making contracts with the Van Smelling
company to handle their heavy pyriteous
ores and concentrates.
The Confidence mine and mill, Mogol-
Ion district, are running successfully. At
the last general clean up, last week, thir-
teen bars of bullion were produced.
The Golden Giant mine at Pinos Altos
has been closed down for few weeks in
order that new hoisting machinery may
be put In. The shaft is now down 400
feet.
As the old Custom mill is about ready
to start up after being thorouphly re-