Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-27
GRANT COUNTY MINES.
Regarding the Mines and Mills in the
MogOllOn, Whitewater, Lone
Mountain, IvanhOe and
White Signal Districts.

Respecting the mines in the Mogollor
district the Deming Headlight has this tt
say:
The Maud s, the old stand by, is work
ing fifty men ii. the mine and is extract
ing quantities of high grade refractory
ore from the $50 and 300 foot levels. The
fifteen stamp mill is kept running night
and day crushing the output of the mine
which is about forty tons daily.
The Little Fanny is working two shifts
and employs thirty men. The ore is
hauled in teams to the top of the tram
way from whence it is conveyed to the
Sheridan mill on Mineral creek The
mill is kept busy night and day, and is
turning out ore regularly.
A considerable force of men is kept
busy at work on the California company's
properties. Nearly all the work is being
done on the Eberle, and quantities of
good ore are being extracted and piled
here what the company proposes to do
the matter of constructing mill still be-
ing under discussion.
This company owns other valuable
claims here, several of which have not as
yet passed beyond the embryotic or pros
pect stage, but are known to possess
mineral in paying quantities.
A good deal of prospecting is being
done in the hills adjacent and tributary
to this place, and some good ore ls re-
ported ns having been found. True to
the instinct of prospectors, the locality
and grade OF ore is being kept secret, but
doubtless "there's millions in it,"
The Confidence mine at Whitewater is
being worked for all there is in it, and ore
is being sent to mill regularly. A large
force of men is being employed, and ore
is being broken in large quantities. The
ore is of good grade, as is evidenced by
the bullion output.
The Azure company is working ten or
twelve men on its turquoise claims and
is shipping some exceptionally fine gem
stones regularly. The Callaite company
is employing only two men at present.
They are extracting some good gems.
Both companies are operating in the
Burro mountains.
Mrs. Thos. W. Holson, one of the best
miners in the Lone Mountain district, if
taking out high grade ore, and has ship
ment now ready. She works single hand
ed and can WELD pick, shovel or ham
mer as we'll as any of the boys in camp
She asks no odds of any of the menfolk
and like her mine, she is True Blue; but
it's fun to see her driving a gad. AS
there is another "Richmond" in the field
Miss Kate Thompson, with her Rabbit
Foot, at White Signal, will have to look
to her laurels.
The smelter at Ivanhoe has alarge sup
ply of ore on hand from Pinos Altos,
! Lone Mountain and Santa Rita. A long
and prosperous run is anticipated. The
smelter which has been closed down for
a few days, for repairs, is again in opera.
tion. Two car loads of matte we're
shipped recently and another car load ia
now ready. The capacity Of the srnelter
is thirty tons daily. About two dozen
men are mployed about the works, says
the Deming Headlight.
The Brockman-Baringer mill, at White
Signal, Is running regularly and is eating
up about fifty tons of ore every twenty.
four hours. Parties who have seen the
mill in operation, and who claim to know
whereof they speak, say it beats the old
fashioned stamp mill, but your CORE
spondent, who is an American, contends
that no new tangled foreign invention
will ever take the place of the old time
battery process which has stood the test
of nearly half century.-Headlight