Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-12-09
MINING AND MILLING.
What the Hardy Miners of Grant,
Sierra and Other Counties Are Do
ing-Encouraging Reports.

The output of the Hillsboro gold mines
for the week ended December was $50
tons.
The Santa Fe Placer Mining company,
operating at Cerrillos, N. M, under the
management of F. E. Nettleton, expects
to begin the erection of it's plant, which
will cost about $4,000, in the early
spring, or as soon as the weather will
permit of economical work.-Mining In
dustry and Review.
The Richmond will make large ship
ment and mill run this month and all the
leasers will have money to spend Christ
mas says the Hillsboro Advocate. On the
extensions south Martin & Wayland are
reported doing we'll on the Dell claim,
and Duke Bros, & Stephens are producing
$1OO ore from the Key West.
The Silver City Enterprise reports that
John Brockman, the most energetic min
ing operator in the west, has secured a
bond on the celebrated Pearce mine in
Sulphur Spring valley. Many of the
great mining princes of the Pacific coast,
Including Mackey and Hagin, have tried
to obtain control of this property.
Tressel & Co. are meeting with some
rich ore at the El Oro; the O'Kelley tun-
mel on the Black Peak Bonanza vein is
in over 100 feet; with shaft and tunnel
connected the Caledonia is now we'll
ventilated mine and in shape to make a
big output of ore in 1896; on the Animas
Peak side the Freiberg and Trippe are
being worked under lease, and nearer the
placers jeff Hirsch has struck bonanza
of ten ounce gold ore; the Bonanza mill
| is rnnning on ore from the Sherman mine
in Ready Pay gulch, the property of
Stitzell & Co. A wagon roa3 has been
constructed to the mine and regular pro-
/ duction may now be expected.-Hillsboro
Advocate.
Colfax county is to-day one of the larg-
est mineral producing counties in the
territory, and in fact, in the world. The
gold mines of Ute Creek, Badly, Eliza
bsthtown and Hematite, are wonderful
producing districts. We also have the
coal industry in the northern end of the
county, and extensive coal fields on Ponll
creek west of Springer, as we'll as in the
Sugarite canon east of Ration. In the
past two years very little development
work has been done in the gold districts,
but the season of 1896 will open with the
brightest prospects. Several large stamp
mills are to be built within our borders
and much greater quantity of ore han
died, which means of course more wealth
and more taxable property. The rush to
the Badly mining district has already be-
gun, and by spring some interesting de-
velopments may be looked for.--Springer
| Stockman.
Speaking of the mines in the Mogollon
district the Silver City Enterprise says:
The Colonial company are working
twenty-f men on the Maud s. mine and
eleven on the Greyhawk which the com
pany are working under lease and bond
The mill was started Monday and is do
ing good work. Bullion and concentrates
will soon be shipped from this mill with
the steady regularity of former days. The
Confidence mine is producing about
seventy tons of ore per day and is keep
ing the mill running steadily. 1t was
rumored in town that the mill had been
hung up to accumulate an ore reserve
but this report has since been contra
dicted. The Keno vein was intersecteo