Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-12-21
GRANT COUNTY MINES.
Big Sold Strike In the santa Rita
District Fully Confirmed-System-
attic and Fruitful Development
work at Pinos Altos.
SILVER CITY AND VICINITY.

| SILVER CITY AND VICINITY.
Crawford & Derbyshire, who are con
centrating the old failing pile at the Pa
cific mill above town, during the month
of November handled 2,038,645 pounds of
raw teilings and produced 977,s4O pounds
or 4S3 tons of concentrates, which were
shipped to the Silver City Reduction
works, says the Enterprise.
GOLD HILL DISTRICT.
DR.. G N. Wood is erecting the Whitley
concentrating table which arrived last
week. He expects to start the mill with
in few weeks and there is no doubt the
new concentrating table will be success.
SANTA RITA DISTRICT.
The big strike of gold ore, reported in
the Enterprise week ago, has been veri-
fed by inspection of the property by
thoroughly competent and reliable min
ing men. The gold ore was found in An
old abandoned prospect hole which was
shaft was sunk Is years ago, by VIM.
Bayes, prospector, who since became
demented ana Is now restrained in the
county Jail in this city. The shaft is
about Is feet deep and contained about s
feet of water when the new locators
first saw it. One of them climbed down
the shaft to the waters edge and took a
sample of the vein. The first piece
broken was speckled with free gold. The
vein is from one to two feet in width, one
wall being granite and the other por-
phyry. The vein matter is quartz heavily
impregnated with iron. 1t has every ap-
pearanoe of bonanza.
Fifty tons of Iron ore per day are now
being shipped from the Santa Rita Cop.
per and Iron Co.'s claims.
new product is now being shipped,
being a copper-iron ore carrying IL per
cent copper, &c per cent excess iron, and
So in gold per ton. Gold Is appearing
in appreciable quantity In many of the
ores and from every indications will soon
be an important product among the va
riel resources Of this wonderful camp.
Tom Jackson and Louis Blatz have
purchased one.half interest in the Min
ME B mine from Rufus Bennett and have
leased Mr.. Benefits remaining half in
terest. They have cleaned the shaft out
to the bottom, depth of 30 feet, and are
sinking on the vein, which is two feet in
width carrying rich copper glance ore.
The mine is located about three-fourths
of mile east of Earnest's roadhouse.
pINos ALTOS DISTRICT.
Systematic development work is being
pushed, as fast as consistent with eco
nomical management, upon the Pinos
Altos Gold Mining oompany's properties.
The CLARK shaft upon the Nina Graude
mine has attained depth of $50 feet.
The Oonnors adit level upon this vein is
being driven as rapidly as possible.
There are over 300 feet of back Slopes
above this level, when completed the
level will be 5,1OO feet in length, running
through the Nina Grande, Kept Woman,
Juniper and Mogul claims. Surface
strated that the ore body is continuous
the entire distance of nearly a mile with
but few pinches in the vein and these
only for short distances.
On the Pacific vein the Gillette shaft is
being sunk as fast as possible and has
attained depth of about 600 feet. De-
velopment along the $50 foot level, or
fifth level as it called, has been consid-
erably retarded during the past month by
the necessity Of retimbering old work.
ings above this level. When connections
are made along this level the vein will be
explored for length of 1880 feet, and as
shafts have been sunk at intervals along
the vein and drifts run, good ore bodies
being found in all these openings, it is
perfectly safe to assume that this ore
body is continuous the entire distance,
making the longest continuous chute of
rich gold ore developed in the United
States, and probably in the world.
The accumulation of ore from develop
ment work com PEELED the management TO
start the B. g. s. mill, which WAS put in
successful operation last Sunday. Ten
STAN ps are running steadily crushing 20
tons of ore per day, the pulp being con-
centrated on Frua vanners. The opera
tion of this mill is but temporary and for
the purpose of relieving the glut of ore
accommodating from development work,
which now taxes she ore dumps and stor-
age bins beyond their capacity. 1t is un-
derstood to be part OF the plan of the
company to erect an extensive reduction
plant as soon ss the development of the
mines ia we'll under way, and in fact euch
a plant is peratively necessary, as the
present plant is not of sufficient capacity
to reduce the ore extracted in partial
development work, says the Enterprise.
Davidson & Bell are sinking the main
shaft of the Golden Giant mine 80 feet
below the 450-foot level. The shaft has
now attained depth of 4So feet. They
are also taking out sufficient good ore
from the 350-foot and 450-foot levels to
keep the, mill running. Thomas Holman,
who has lease on the first and second
levels of the mine, is also extracting good
pay ore.
Richardson & Burns have lease upon
the Little Mountain Key. They have
cleaned out and repaired the shaft to the
bottom, 1856 feet, at which depth they are
drifting on good ore. A shipment of 80
tons was made to the Silver City reduc-