Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-11
PICK, SHOVEL AND DRILL
Favorable Reports Regarding Mining
and Milling Operations in
Grant County.

Cooney, Coates and Shible continue to
obtain good results from the old Cooney
mine. The mill is kept running day and
night.
The Mammoth. Golden Giant combina-
ton at Pinos Altos are hosting water
steadily night and day, and it is expected
the mine will be drained and miners at
work developing the ore bodies within
week.
Neff and Beardsley are taking out
great deal of good ore on their leased
ground, Silver Bar No. 2 at Cooney. The
ore is being extracted from the Germanla
or Bulkhead vein, which makes juno
tion with the Silver Bar No. 2, near the
north end of the claim.
A. Hersberger has eight men at work
on his eastern and western mines, Plnos
Altos, breaking ore on contract. These
claims are steady producers and good
paying properties. Better hosting facill-
ties will soon be provided and the prod
uct will then be increased.
Georgetown has been deathly quiet
since the break in the price of silver.
There are only three men employed at
actual mining of ore in the camp. About
twenty Mexicans are at work screening
the old dumps on the Pheby property,
paying the owners royalty on all ores
extracted. The frst-class ore produced
IS shipped to the Deming sampling
works and the second-class to the Han
over snelter, says the Silver City En-
terprise.
Superintendent Talbot has taken charge
of the Helen Mining company at Mogol-
Ion and everything is running smoothly.
The new bunk house at the Confidence
mine is completed and being occupied
by the miners. Eighty men are employed
at the mine in development work and
breaking ore. Thirty stamps are running
steadily at the mill crushing seventy
tons of ore per day.
Alvin F. Sortwell and G. Cooper, of
Cambridge, Mass, two of the principal
stockholders of the Colonial Mining COM
pany, Mongollon district, are now at the
mine to inspect the property and deter
mine the course to be pursued in future
development and working of the prop
erty. Eight men are employed sinking
the shaft and it is probable that this
work will be continued to sufficient depth
to open lower levels in the mine.
Capt. J. F. Sawyer, owner of the Cop
per Queen mine at Cooney, has been on
the ground examining the property and
is highly pleased with the present out
look. Before leaving for Galveston he
gave orders for the erection of ore bins
of 1000 tons capacity. These bins will
be Immediately erected on high ground
at the mill site, eighty yards from the
mine. George R. Brown superintendent
of the property, leaves Silver City to-
day to make surveys and preparation for
grading for the mill buildings. If the
weather permits, part of the grading and
foundations of the mill will be completed
this winter, at latest the early spring will
see work rushing along on this new mill,
which will be one more bullion producer
for the Mogollons. Night and day shifts
are pushing work on the shaft to connect
with the adit level. When the connection
is made, work will be resumed upon the
level and pushed as fast as possible.
The American Lead and Zinc company's
smelter was compelled to shut down last
week to make repairs on the boiler, but
is again running full blast. This smelt-
ing project is now demonstrated to be a
success beyond peradventure. The man.
ager, q. H. Curtis, and his efficient off,
cial assistants, Messrs. Bretherton and
Dawson, are entitled to much credit for
the success of the institution.
No single enterprise inaugurated in
Grant county during the past ten years
has done as much to relieve money
stringency az this smelter plant The
owners of the small mines at Lone Noun.
tain, Hanover, Ivanhoe, Central Pinos
Altos and the Burros find sale for class
of ore that would not bear the heavy cost
of transportation to foreign smelters
These sales of ore supply them with the
necessary funds to proceed with develop.
ment work in which chutes of richer ore
is found. A few more such plants as this
one and as we'll and economically man.
aged, and our miners would not know
what "hard times" meant.-Silver City
Enterprise.