Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-02-19

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to experience something like It's
old-time prosperity on account Of
the operating Of the smelter at
Ivanboe, between Silver City and
Georgetown by the American Zinc
Lead Co, of Canon City, ColoEa-
do. The country Immediately sur
rounding the smelter has many
good mines that can all be worked
at a profit with a smclter 80 near
at hand. The principal districts
that viii be tributary to the smelt-
err and from which ore can be OBJ
tanned in less than forty-eight
hours are the Lone Mountain dis
trict, IN which is located the Good
Luck Mine, a silver producer;
the Hanover Gulch district, in
which are the Arson s. and Willie
Mines, both copper; the Central
City district, in which are located
the Paplo, Ivanhoe, Jefferson,
Humboldt, Black Jack and many
other good mines of copper, silver
and gold. A few miles to the
northeast is located the camp Of
Georgetown, which a few years
ago was the greatest producer Of
silver in the southwest, and over
$10,000,00O have been taken out
since the discovery of the camp.
Some of the bonanzas of the
camp are the Commercial, Empo-
lite, Scottish, Carbondale, Silver
Dell, Acme, Maggie, Champion,
McGregor, Boss, Quien Sabe,
Standard, Satisfaction and others
of minor importance. Most of the
ore in this camp is silver with
some lead. Some of the galena
from the Commercial mine has
gone as high as 1900 ounces in sill
yer. Around Silver City which
will be tributary to the smelter,
are the following camps: Pinos
Altos, Blackhswk, Alpha and ON
ega mines north of Silver City;
Malone Camp and Gold Hill, are
about twenty miles west of Silver
City.
Within a radius Of a few miles
of the smelter there is a great va
riety of minerals, and all of them
necessary to the successful opera
ton of the plant. In Hanover
Gulch, just west of Ivanhoe, is
one Of the best deposits of iron on
this continent. The ore averages
81 per cent iron and only about
3 per cent silica. These deposits
of iron ore have been supplying
the smelters at El Pasofor some
years past, aud also supplied the
Rio Grande Smelt Works at So
zorro until they closed. The writ
er is an old friend Of the experts,
Messrs. Penrose and Barringer,
who came from Philadelphia to
report on these iron deposits aud
they showed him certificates from
nearly one hundred samples taken
by themselves which averaged 81
per cent iron and about 3 per cent
of silica. These gentlemen, who
have had an extensive experience
in examining mines, pronounced
the Hanover Gulch iron the best
they had ever seen in the west fol
smelling purposes. Not more
than three miles from the smeltel
3 is another source of supply il
! case they decide TO smelt it, anC
4 that is the carbonate of zinc de
i posts, These ores we're formerly
shipped to the Mineral Point Min
Q ing Company Works in Wiscon
' sin, and were much sought afte
4 on account of the absence of sui
s phur. The Zinc Valley, Thunder
bolt, Metal King and Black Vol
Q have been worked quite extensive
I ly for the zinc. The new enter
prise starts out under the mos
Aattering auspices and has tn
good will and support of all inter
ested in the prosperity Of South
ern New Mexico.
The company will make a spe
cialty of treating refractory an.
7 low-grade tonnages at both Canoi
City and Iyanhoe, aud will be pre-
) pared to treat all classes Of ore OK
cept heavy lead. The works WI.
be under the management of Nj
/ s. e. Bretherton, who was former
IS ly superintendent of the America
d Works at Leadville. The Pacif
d Coast Bullion heartily recon
IS mends this concern to it's readers
and Will follow itsprogress in thes