Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-24
PICK, SHOVEL AND DRILL
What the Hardy Miners of Southwest
ern New Mexico Are Doing.

The Wagner mill at Pinos Altos is run
ming on Langston ore, of which there ia a
considerable quantity out. There is some
talk of moving the mill to the mine, as
water is said to be plentiful there.
The Bell & Stevens properties in the
Plnos Altos district are closed down, and
it is reported that the sale which has been
pending for some time, is now an assured
fact. An extension has been granted un-
til the 25th inst, when it is confidently
asserted the transfer will take pee.
The Deming Headlign. re, ts that,
during the floods last week, n twenty
three pound nugget of silver, said to be
| fully 80 per cent, WAS washed down from
the Dimmock Bros Silver Cell mine at
Pinos Altos. When found it was in a
small arroyo partly imbedded in sand and
earth. It was taken to Silver City, and 1T
has been on exhibition at the Silver City
National bank for the past week.
| The Crawford mill on the Las Animas
has been given thorough trial by Preis-
ser IL Doughty. The result is most salts
| factory and the mill will now be worked
| to it's full capacity on the ore of the Frei-
burg mine.
Hillsboro Advocate: The contractors
driving the tunnel at the Caledonia mine
are following up 20-lnch vein of $95
ore, that will surely bring the property to
the front as one of our principal pro-
ducers and eventually make very wealthy
men of Hon. W. S. Hopewell and his as
sociates.
The Wicks mine is shipping about four
f,fn frnn <c
Ell Paso. The ore runs about 300 to the
ton, without sorting.
Hon. W. S. Hopewell has the machinery
purchased and Oh the way here for 10
stamp mill, with all the modern improve
ments, for the treatment of the ores of
his mines and also custom ores. A
sampling works will be run in connection.
The gentleman refuses at present to
divuge its prospective location.--Hills-
boro Advocate.
The engineers who were recently at
Hillsboro looking over the placers for
DR.. Proctor's California capitalists, place
the cost of the dam on the Animas, the
construction of the hydraulic works, the
pipe line, freights, water rights, etc, at
100000, Major Llewellyn's and Prof.
Carrera's estimate was 100000.
While IN Silver City recently W. T.
Cline hired forty Mexicans to go to work
in the Carlisle mines.
Col. Robert Millikin expects soon to
commence shipping ore from the old
American mine at Hachita.
The Lordsburg Liberal: There has
been more trouble at Pyramid. Satur-
day, N. Stuppe, the capitalist1c member
of the firm of Pilz Il Stuppe, who have
the lease on the Pyramid mine and mill,
received the money to pay off the en-
ployes and exhibited the roll of bills
freely. Sunday he got a cranky notion
into his head and concluded to throw up
the lease. He told the men that he had
nothing more to do with the lease, that
he would pay nothing and that he was
going to Ell Paso. The men thought
differently and he was stopped by the
strong hand of the law as an absconding
debtor. He Immediately proceeded to
bowl up and since then has been enjoy
ing drunk of magnificent proportions.
There is said to be enough ore ready to
mill to pay off all hands, and the lease is
a profitable one.
McDermotts Laura mine at Carlisle,
recently sold 10 French company, is
'conAHS up dS pHc VI tuS uoHdHZdb VI Uuc
southwest. The mine is opened up In
first class shape and large quantities of
ore are in sight ready for milling.
The Davenports are kept busy extract
ing phenomenally rich ore which is be-
ing sacked for shipment from Carlisle.
Second class ore in quantity is being
piled up and will be disposed of later on.
The richest of the ore, besides carrying
gold in quantity, runs way up in silver.
With the advent of tho rainy season
the canons and gulches in the vicinity of
Pinos Altos are being thoroughly pros
pected by Mexicans, who are eminently
successful in this line. Their earnings
are never definitely known, as by silence
on the matter they have managed to keep
the field entirely to themselves. 1t is
known, however, that in some instances
their labors have been abundantly
crowned with success. The largest nugget
found in recent years was washed out in
San Domingo gulch three years ago, and
it weighed sixty-eight pounds
Headlight.
Parties from Central are out on the
Black Range trying to discover the ledge
from which the rich gold specimens we're
brought in two weeks ago. The locality
is said to be somewhere near the head of
the Mimbres river, or on the divide be-