Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-23
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product of ores from the Pacific and
Ohio mines owned by the firm.
The copper smelter at Hanover has
blown in, rs also the Van Smelling COM
fpany's plant below town. These two new
reduction plants will purchase all ores of
gold, silver and copper and will furnish
home market where the miner can get his
cash when the ore is sampled without
waiting for returns from distant towns.
The Silver City Enterprise: The Sheri-
dan mill and Little Fanny mine are max
ing magnificent record under the able
management of l.. W. Tatum, the present
superintendent. The mill has run stead
lily every day since February 1st. Since
the new cable was put on the tramway
and the five new stations for support of
tie cable we're built, the tramway ard has
been doing excellent service. It now
costs about 30 cents per ton to tram the
ore from the top of the mountain to the
mill.
LA BELLE DISTRICT.
The owners of the Midnight are pre-
pairing to ship a car load of ore.
1t is estimated that about 100 strangers
arrive in La Belle every twenty-four
| hours.
Mr.. W. E. Hewlett has an ore body in
| sight nearly five feet in width assaying
over $50 per ton across the entire vein.
A correspondent says: "The, richest
deposits are found on the western slope
of the mountains and new town has
been started there named Anchor. It is
three miles from La Belle and extremely
difficult of access"
Work has already commenced on the
placer mines at E'town, twelve miles
south of La Belle. The season promises
to be the liveliest, and the output of gold
greater than that of any summer for the
past thirty years.
E. l. Jones, of Cripple Creek, has
tramped over the Costila mining district
and does not hesitate to pronounce the
La Belle camp one of the wonders of New
Mexico. He owns stamp mills and valu-
able property at Cripple Creek bat pro-
poses to take a hand in the La Belle
boom.
Gold was first discovered on the present
site of La Belle during the summer of
| 1868. AS it was found to be on the Cos
tilla grant no development work was
then done. In June, 1894, Hon. Fl. j.
Young, of Taos county, had quantity of
the ore assayed and found that it was
rich in gold. In the following August
number of miners met at the old uamil-
ton mine and decided to lay out a town
site and begin work Since then many
claims have been located and worked.
Eighty odd houses have been built at La
Belle and the town has a population of
about GOO. The ore runs from $40 to
$3.50 in gold, but is not free milling.
The cost of locating claims on the grant
ia S153 each. La Belle is seventy seven
miles west of Ration in Taos county and
has an elevation of 5000 feet.
GENERAL MINING NOTES.
The Mining Review mentions LaBelle as
the coming great camp.
| Every mine in the Cochiti district i'm
proves with depth and development.
The saw mill at Bland, in the Cochiti
mining district, has started up again.
The Ration Range predicts that Colfax
county will head the procession as gold
producer this year.
Nelson j. Hyde, the successful gold
hunter, is establishing the basis of lit
tie fortune in He'll Cannon.
! The Orc Fino easily stands at the head
of the list of mines in Water Canon,
| New Mexico, owing to its greater devel-
opment and splendid showing.
Gold, bright, shining gold; that is what
even the naked eye will disclose, and
through the glass rich composite with
gold predominant and free. This comes
from old Mount Marcy, an easy ride of
three hours southwest of Folsom.
Activity and frmness characterize the
copper market. There are no sellers at
$50, which has been offered, and for
small quantities 955s has been paid Elec-
trolytic has advanced to 9$s. Casting is
strong at 8. Expo It's are heavy and will
continue 40 for some time.
Copper is the principal metal used
these days in manufacturing, mining and
scientific interests, and conseq quently the
product of this metal has increased to
wonderful proportions. There was mined
and sent to market during 1884 over
360, ,000,O 900 pounds. OF this there was ex-
ported about 1S0,000,000 pounds, leaving
for home use about the same amount. As
the production of foreign copper did not
exceed l97,000,O00 pounds, it will be seen
that the United States actually mined and
marketed two-thirds of the worlds pro-
duction.
Speaking of the gold mines of New
Mexico writer in the Denver Mining
Record says: "They have all been found
in the archean or porphyritic formations;
and they show to-day as much perma-
nency, taking them all in all, as is found
in mines of the better class throughout
the world. There is nothing wrong with
them; better management and more ear
nestness in the methods of the miners are
the two things needed to greatly increase
the output of the gold mines of New
Mexico"