Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-03
MINE, STACK AND MILL.
LA BELLE.

Parties from Denver report over 200
wagons enroute to La Belle.
Fourteen teams loaded with men and
provisions arrived in group last Satur-
day.
The Midnight, Climax, Red Cross, Az
tee, JEFF Bowman, H. Magatell and Crys-
tai Hill gold discoveries are causing men
to 60 wild with excitement.-L Belle
Cresset.
Alfred Swanson, with E. M. Biggs, the
manager of the greatest saw mills in New
Mexico, is now visiting camp La Belle,
and has expressed himself as highly
pleased with the out look for the great
gold camp.
Several weeks ago we called attention
that twenty new hotels were needed at
once, the demand is now much greater;
even the hotels now here are short of being
able to accommodate the people already
here.
The miners of Keystone district held a
meeting last Saturday evening, and the
camp was represented by forty-four lead
ing men. Speeches we're made, and Wig
orous resolutions adopted for the good
of the camp.
Mr.. Coon mining expert, now devoting
his time to making thorough invsstiga-
ton of our camp under the leadership of
| Mr.. Thomson was a caller at the Cresset
office. He represents capitalists, such as
! D. Fl. Moffat, of Denver, ard if pleased
with the prospects money will be plenty
in La Belle in short time.
| The Cresset says that Anchor. the new
town in the La Belle country, is bound to
come to the front as a point Of much inn
portance in the Bitter Greek valley. It is
situated at about the centsr of the Key
fifteen square miles, and covers one of
the richest aggregations of gold quartz
veins in New Mexico. Assays of from
| $40 to $500 are procured from the quartz
right along. As the ore is free milling
the hope of the district lies in the erec-
tion of mills.
! BLACK RANGE.
Wicks gulch mines are showing con-
siderable activity and are producing con.
siderable ore.
Crews & Murrah have struck ore in
their winze which runs from four to five
ounces per ton.
Joe Gallagher has taken charge Of the
Slapjack mill, which is equivalent to
stating that the very best results will be
attained.
Gold bullion shipments we're made this
week from the Bonanza, Ell Gro, Snake
and from the cement mines, also smaller
lots by various leasers. The gold all
goes to the Selby Smelling company, Of
San Francisco.
Twenty tons of the upper layer Of
tailings at the Standard mill was tried
this week, but did not yield enough &c
pay actual mill expenses, which would in
dictate that pretty close work must have
been done during the past few years.
A sample of concentrates from the tale
ore streak in the Catherine mine wal
assayed by Mr.. Prisser this week, with
the result of nineteen ounces of gold ant
sixty-nine ounces silver, worth in al
1923 per ton. The concentrates show {
considerable percentage Of antimony as
sociated with the silver. The streal
from which this ore was taken is from
four to eighteen inches wide, showing NJ
and down the shaft distance of sixty
feet.-Sisrra County Advocate.
NOTES.
The Advertiser reports rich strike o
400 ounce ore in the Socorro mountains
The only receipt of gold at the Denver
mint on the 29th went from New Mexico
and consisted of eight ounces.
I Cooks Peak, Hadley, Tres Hermanos
Florida, Haehita, Victoria and a hundred
other mining camps near Deming viii
be scenes of activity within two MONTH
and Deming will share in increased bust
ness. The rise in silver and lead will b.
the cause.