Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-06
TIL HEMATITE CAMP.
Matters Are Moving Along Nicely
and the Outlook For the Fu- d
lure IL Bright.

10 me Edst0f az tS Opr&
HENArITE, N. NJ, March 1st, 1896 -
I have been reading some Of the Trim
idad papers, Of late, and find that
they embrace, In the La Belle mining
district, Badly, Elizabethtown, Hem
attic, Red River City, and Amizett.
Now, we OF Hematite do not OBJ
ject to being mentioned by the papers
as an independent mining camp,
(Which we are), but we are not a de-
pendency Of La Belle. or any
other camp, and we can double
discount La Belle, to-day, in mining
propositions that are now producing
more and better ore than La Belle
ever has done, and doubt II 1t ever
will We don't want any such boom
as La Belle had two years ago, and
are trying awfully hard to have now,
but we are contented to let camp
stand or fall ON its merits, and we have
no fears as to the result.
So much Of a general character. Now
we will state a few facts as regards the
camp proper. Firstly, We will men,
ton the new 20 X" mine, which l
mentioned in my last as being on a
still hunt, but it has now emerged from
her silent depths. and caves OF ore
are now being sarksd preparatory for a
shipment to some p int to be smelted,
and the results are looked for with
much interest and confidence that will
not disappoint the most credulous
among US. I understand that it has
been stocked for 1000, 900, and is lot
overloaded at that.
WorA on the s.Kentucky." "Enter-
PRISE" "Yellow Wasp" ..Yelow
Jacket ..Eldore." "Morning STAR"
'.Gold Bug.'' s.Viola." &C ". Till.
man." liking, Queen and Ace OF
Clubs" "Eveline." and many others,
are being worked, or preparing to do
so, and all with good results-in fact,
there are no claims here that have been
worked to any extent, or even the as
sessment work done, but what have
found gold, and in most, If not all, in
paying quantities, and that is n thing
that recommends this camp to all
prospectors, miners and capitalists is
il uniformity.
The "Yellow Jacket" and the "Yel-
low Wasp" among the group mention
ed, are nov showing large bodies Of
good milling ore, and the more they
are worked the better the ore and
more of it. And it is a fact that the
farther down and into the mountains
I'm Cr Tho haitian Tho roouIso
Chas j. Dn,d, n Of the owners of
the &c Id Brlle," is a late arrival here
from Kansas City, he coming to stay,
too, and push development work on
that lannon's property.
Gong to Elizabethtown, the other
day, we met Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher
moving with burros up into the noun.
tains, to the new strike laiely made by
him, near the ..K-ntucky." and named
the s'Broken Dudeen I is showing
good, and Is undoubtedi, an excellent
mine in embryo-indeed, the woods
are full OF them,-and in a few weeks,
ut farthest, the IN ,untains will rsver-
brate with the sound Of the pick and
and also with the whistle vi the |
hosting works 10 be put up, at once,
On the 20 X niue.
VIZ are to have a daily line Of stages
from Springer to Hematite in
very short time, a postofice will be
he mex thing in order, and In a little
lime | expect we shall be putting on
metropolitan airs. away up mere in the
right in the presence of the
mountain lion and coyote.
FLOAT.