Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-27

Donates and galena, north of the Graphic,
1t is currently reported that he intends
driving q tunnel, some 600 feet, to tap the
known mineral veins left years ago in the
Hardscrabble niue. This property, once
a large producer, has during the past
years Of depression, occupied the same
dormitory in the free trade hospital,
asleep with the rest.
In the more immediate vicinity OF the
town of Kelly, Colonel Eaton, who has
been climbing the mountains for the past
few days, has number of men at work
on one of his many properties getting
out ore for shipment. The colonel has
done great amount of development
work in this district, extending over many
years, and metits all the returns that a
resumption of pay shipments might
bring him.
The owners of the Woodland group, on
the summit of the mountain south of
Kelly, have advertised for bids to run an
incline from workings left some four
years ago, to ascertain the further extent
of galena vein, the opening of which
prompted the building of fine Frazier
& Chalmers modern smelling plant, dis
tant about one and half miles down the
mountain from the mines. This smelter,
after four years of idleness, retains the
appearance of newness; it never having
been "fred up" When these works were
completed, the price of lead had dropped
SC low, that ID would not paw to treat he
grade obtained at the mines. A mesnr.
cent aerial tramway from the mines to
the smelter, about 1900 feet below,
do kbo fau Ia pf
the development work, to end the stacks
protracted fast.
Away to the south, upon the crest of the
Magdalenas, almost at the summit of
their highest peak--Old Baldy, where the
monument established by government
survey registers an altitude of l1,085 feet,
and where even now, the snow has come
on its annual visit-Mr. q. I. Brown OF
Socorro, has force at work, sinking q
shaft 100 feet deep, with contemplated
cross cuts to prospect an enormous
quartz-vein outcrop, or rather quartz
bluff. He is looking for gold, and from
his recent successes in Water Canon, and
other localities on the eastern slopes of
the mountains, it would appear that he
knows where to seek it.
OF all the mining properties, which are
being worked in this district, with but
two excel ticns, there ara none which
contala sufficient water to MAINTAIN
pump. These two lonesome claims are
the Iron Mask, and the Copper King.
They lie adjoining, about mile and
half south of the town of Kelly.
The Iron Mask, besides being an excep-
tion on account of it's water, stands up
shining mark, for its record of high grade
ores extracted. The Magdalena district
is generally low grade sllver-lead camp,
where large bodies, systematically worked,
yield big returns. The Iron Mask, how
ever, is high grade gray copper, copper
glance, silver glance proposition. Some
of the richest carload lots of ore shipped
from the mines of the territory came
from this property. The last two car
loads averaged over 40 per cent in cop.
per and $4,000 per ton in silver. In this
lot there were % sacks of the "pure
stuff," native silver. cave-in in the old
working shaft, and the general bad CON
ditlon of its timbers, which made it an
safe and impracticable to continue further
work there, has decided its owner, Mr.. A.
B. Keeer, to sink a new, double COM
partment shaft SO feet farther east They
ere now down 3S feet, averaging foot a
Gay, with one shift using a steam drill.
At present the water is kept down with
au ejector, but a large sinking pump is
in readiness for an anticipated early in
crease. The old working shaft contains
at present about 120 feet of water.
Across the gulch from the Iron Mask
L. Al. ~
is that of the Copper King, where a steam
hoist and pump have been operating
during the past six months. This shaft
is 100 feet in depth, and while it is not yet
in ore, the prospects are encouraging for
finding the same vein of copper glance
encountered in the Iron Mask so short
distance away, the strike of which points
in that direction. H. s. CHURCH.