Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-11-08
NEW MEXICO MINES.
Fruitful mining and Milling Opera
tiens In Grant and S0c0rr0 COun-
ties-Many Men Employed
Large Output of Pay Ore.

A. E. Dawson, superintendent of the
Santa Rita Copper q Iron company, ia
shipping iron ore to the Pueblo Colo.
smelter as fast as he can get teams to
I haul it to the railroad at San Jose. He
expects to ship two cars per day after this
week to Pueblo. The Ell Paso foundry
will probably become regular purchaser
of ore from this company. The ore is 80
pure that it is thought it can be utilized
for castings, with proper iuxing. Mr.
Dawson has force of men at work doing
the annual assessments on the company's
unpatented claims, says the Silver City
Enterprise.
j. B. Gilchrist is still taking out extra
ordinary rich copper ore from the Guada-
lupe, Chino and Oxide mines, which he
works under lease from the Santa Rita
Copper & Iron company.
COOney District.
Scheible & Bratton, lessees of the old
Cooney mine, have good body of ore in
the bottom of a 100-foot winze below the
main adit level. They have ten inches of
tirst-class ore, solid peacock copper py-
rites and about two feet of good grade
concentrating gre. They have several
tons of frst-class ore upon the dump
awaiting shipment as soon as teams can
BIZ procured.
On the Copper Queen mine few men
are employed upon development work and
large force of mechanics and laborers
are pushing work on the new mill. The
bad roads caused by floods delayed the
completion of the mill by interrupting
the transportation of material. Captain
j. N. Sawyer of Galveston, Tex one of
the principal owners of the property, is
now at the mine.
Pinos Altos District.
The Gillette shaft on the Pinos Altos
Gold company's Pacific property has at
tanned a depth of 55s feet, with good
body of rich gold ore in sight which
surpasses all previous discoveries
made in these rich gold mines, says the
Enterprise. Development work being
done by the same company upon the
Juniper mine is showing most satisfac
tory results. The Nina Grande is develop.
ing extraordinary rich gold ore in large
bodies. The Enterprise is in possession
of very cheering information about these
properties, but is not at liberty to publish
the data which it possesses. There are
larger ore bodies, but there are no better
gold mines In the world than the mines
of Pinos Altos, taking into consideration
the size and continuity of the ore bodies
and the value in gold which the ores carry.
Cooks Peak District.
J. NJ. Cox is shipping good grade of
lead ore from the Lead King mine.
s. Lindauer of Chicago, is working the
liner mine and making regular shipments
of rich lead ore.
Mcintosh & Kramer are taking out
high grade lead ore from their claim ad-
joining the Lead King mine.
Cotton & McDaniels have settled all
litigation upon the Surprise mine and
have clear title to the property. Work
was resumed few days ago and Is men
are now employed. Ore shipments will
soon be commenced.
The Kansas City Smelling company of
FL Paso is sinking two new shafts on the
Othello and Desdemons mines, to facili
tate operating the property. About 300
tons of ore per month is being shipped
Sixty men are employed.
MOgOllOn District.