Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-08-26
TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS
Sierra County.

| The Bonanza mill is working on ore
from the Richmond mine, large amount
being on the yard for treatment.
| Mr.. JEFF Owens, who has heen at work
on the Platna for sometime past, has
opened large vein of rich gold ore at an
entirely new point in the mine.
The output of the Hillsboro mines for
the week ending Thursday, August 10,
was 265 tons, making total since Janu-
ary l, of 6,195 tons, Of the weeks work
the Wicks mine turned out 55 tons.
Lindner & Crumrine are shipping ore
from their property to Ell Paso, and have
100 tons ready for the mill. They expect
to maintain production of $50 tons
per month, of which large proportion
will be smelling ore.
A rich strike was made recently in the
Opportunity by the leases. In the vein
about 500 feet south of the main shaft
eight inches of heavy bornite ore, which
runs $50 to the ton in gold was uncov-
cred.
Work on the Eighty-Five mine will be
resumed in few days by the owners
under the management of John Ryan.
Mdohtaory Ior tue NonlId1loH VI bue
lower workings has been shipped from
Milwaukee, and as coon as possible drift
ing will commence in the ore vein recent
ly discovered on the 400 foot level.
Mr.. @. G. Bell, former resident of
Hillsboro, but now in San Francisco, has
the Klondike lever badly, and writes to
Hon. Richard Hudson that he will
start for the land of cold weather and
gold as soon as he can get ready. Well,
goodbye, Charlie.
Bernalill0 County.
In the Cochiti district water and fuel
for mining purposes are abundant.
Work on the Allerton, near Bland, is to
be resumed at an early date. This is one
of the best properties on Gold hill.
The force employed on the Washington
at Bland has been increased, and devel-
opment work is being pushed rapidly.
Last Wednesday the last of the neces-
sary machinery for the Bland smelter was
received and has since been installed. It
is expected the plant will begin opera
tIons this week.
The Blue Jay, in Cola canon, owned by
ISobe * Aoibuiuub ID ProFAuR W Ue u
good claim The owners are sinking
shaft on four foot lead of highly min
eralized quartz and expect to strike pay
dirt in few days.
The tunnel that is being driven in on
the Albermarle to open up the rich ore
body found short time ago, ls in IS feet,
and 1t is expected that 40 feet more will
be rec uired to strike the ore body, when
it is intended to begin shipments to the
smelters.
Taos County.
Excavations for the foundations of the
Midnight mine mill are aim ost completed,
and the work on the building will begin
in a few days.
L. Boyd & Bro. of La Veta, Colo, are
sinking shaft on the claim recently To-
Gated by them on Mallette gulch, and
good results are expected from the work
in short time, as all indications point
to large bodies of mineral in the prop.
erty.
.saifr~ County.
The Moreno Mining Uompeny is busy
hauling heavy timber to the placer works
near Elizabethtown. The timbers will
be used in preparing the foundations for
one of the largest plants of placer ma
chinery in use in the world. The outfit,
when ready for use, will be used to ex-
tract gold from what now appears to be
nothing but worthless sand. When COM
pleted the machinery will have capacity
of $4,000 cubic feet of dirt an hour, and
30 days only are allowed for finishing the
works. The huge machine is of the type
of those used on the Chicago drainage
oil