Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-11-03
pINOS ALTOS MINES.
Steady Gold Producers of Grant COun-
ty-Many Men at WOrk-G0id
Bricks shipped.

The Treasure Mining company, under
the superintendency of s. s. Murphy, has
about thirty.ive men employed in the
Atlantic mine and at the mill. The mill
is kept steadily employed crushing the
ore produced, which yields good results
in gold upon the plates aud in concen-
trates, which are shipped to the smelters.
The Childers brothers are working four
men upon copper mine located above
the Mountain Key mill. The ore carries
large percentage of copper, thirty to
forty ounces of silver and small amount
of gold. 1t is shipped to the smelters.
Spiller & Mclean are working twenty
men upon the Pacific Gold companys
claim. The mill has been com PEELED to
temporarily hang up the stamps on ac-
count of bad roads precluding the hauling
of ore from the mine to the mill which is
near Silver City and seven miles distant
from the mine. The mill will be started
as soon as the roads have dried enough
to haul over.
N. Bell, of the firm of Bell & Stevens,
came down from Pinos Altos, Tuesday,
bringing with him two gold bricks,
which weighed 1882 ounces, the product of
ores from the Nina Grande and Pacific
mines. On the Nina Grande nine men
are employed. The drift running north
from the south shaft is now in 1856 feet.
The north shaft has attained a depth of
1856 feet with eight feet more to sink to
| reach the level of the drift from the south
shaft. At 1914 feet drift will be started
to connect with that coming from the
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from twelve to sixteen inches of good
pay ore. car load of concentrates
from this mine, containing large per-
centage of lead, was shipped to the Dem
ing sampling works, Monday. The same
firm is working three eight-hour shifts
sinking shaft No. l on their Pacific mine.
This shift is now down 400 feet AS
soon as it shall have attained sufficient
depth for pump below 1876 feet, level
will be run at that depth. Work in the
slopes of this nine has been suspended,
as it requires all the hosting facilities to
keep out the increasing flow of water and
hoist the rock broken in sinking the
shaft. AS soon as the 1926 foot level is
opened pump will be put in and sink
ing as we'll as stopping resumed.
Chandler & Co. have cleaned out and
drained the Mountain Key mine down to
the 300-foot le eel. The levels and slopes
have been retimbered and ore is being
extracted from the 200-foot and 30O-foot
levels. The Gillian mill, at the mine, ia
kept in constant operation upon the rich
gold ore which the mine produces.
A. Hersberger has eight men at work
NJ thn L.,
been opened to depth of $40 feet and
has produced large amount of gold
bullion from the rich ores extracted. AT
the 340-foot level cross.cut is being
driven to intersect vein which lies about
forty feet west Of the vein explored. II
is expected to strike this vein within the
next week and rich ore may be looked for
as the vein was quite rich in upper work.
ings.
| The Golden Giant company is working
forty-five men at the mine and mill. The
mill is kept running constantly on the
product of the mine and the beautiful
gold bricks which are shipped from this
city every week are the best proof of the
success of the company. Sinking the
shaft below the 4OO-foot level progresses
at the rate Of foot per day. FS.
Frank Brennan, superintendent of the
Dorsey group of mines, has a force OF
men at work upon the Talrose mine and
upon the Quartzite mine, couple Of
miles distant from the main group. The
Quartzite has turned out some fabulously
rich ore in the past, but the vein is not
large. On the Talrose the vein is a very
large one and a very moderate production
of gold per ton would make it very
valuable property. A lot of ore from
each of these mines will be shipped to the
Stanley Martin mill at Plnos Altos and a
test mill-run made to arrive at the aver
age values contained in the ores. Silver
City Enterprise.