Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-03-30
TERRITORIAL MINING NOTES
News from the Different Mining
Camps Of New Mexico CulIed and
Condensed from Exchanges.
GRANT COUNTY.

W. H. Newcomb is shipping iron ore
from the Legal Tender, near Silver City,
to the smelter in Pueblo.
Silver City, have gone to Old Mexico to
locate some rich silver mines recently
discovered by Rutherford on the Guerrero
river.
M. 7. Cleveland recently made strike
about one mile west of Gold Hill camp,
which almost frightened him. The ore
taken from the Sandstone, ss the claim is
called, assays 1876 ounces of gold to the
ton. Work on the Sandstone is being
pushed, and at depth of eight feet the
vein shows two feet of the richest kind Of
ore.
Hank Krames and James Brent have
made rich strike in silver on the west
of the Plnos Altos mountains. 1t is
thought that this find is recovery of a
mine located by Judge John D. Bail in
1867, Who shortlr efter removed to Dona
Ana county and lost all trace Of it. Judge
Bail had some of the ore assayed years
after, and 1t gave returns of 600 ounces
of silver to the ton. If the supposition
Bent have found fortune.
SIERRA COUNTY.
The smelter at Chloride is expected to
begin work at an early date.
The Brush Heap mine, at Kingston, be-
gan operations last week with force of
Is men.
The Wing stampmill, on Mineral creek,
is being put in shape to treat the low
grade ores in that vicinity. There are
enormous quantities of good ore within
freighting distance of the mill which do
not contain sufficient value to ship long
distances, but will prove profitable to the
owners if they could be treated near the
mines, and the Wing mill will hereafter
supply this need.
cOLFAx AND TAOS COUNTIES.
The Legal Tender, Legal Tender No.
2, Dead Horse, Eta M. and Todd Lode
mines, In the old Baldy district, have
passed into the possession of the Legal
Tender company.
The La Belle Cresset says, that in the
past few days letters have been received
from persons in Colorado, Texas, Louis
lana and Maryland, inquiring about the
prospects for the La Belle mining dis
trict.
The Huntington mill just erected in
Grouse gulch has been tested on ore from
the Legal Tender mine, with satisfactory
results. Mr.. W. P. Mcdonald, of Wichita,
Kas., secretary Of the Legal Tender Min
ing company and of the Kansas City,
Milling & Mining company, is IN charge
of the plant, and will give his personal
attention to the affairs of the two COM
panies.
In answer to letter of inquiry con
cerning the northern New Mexico gold
belt the Elizabethtown Miner says: "By
looking at your geography you will see
that the same unbroken chain of mineral
bearing mountains extends from Colo
RADIO into northern New Mexico. And by
looking over the United States mint re-
ports you can see that the central districts
of the Northern New Mexico gold belt (Old
Baldy and Elizabethtown) have been
shipping gold for the past thirty years.
Don't imagine, however, that all the gold
of northern New Mexico is to come from
these two districts. The reason that all
the gold that has been shipped from
northern New Mexico came from these
two districts is because it has been found
in abundance in placer diggings, and was,
with the crude methods then employed
in mining, easier produced. Now, how.
ever, the impetus recently given to gold
mining by the demand for gold, and the
improved and ehespened modes Of min
ing and milling have brought on a new
era--that of lode mining-and last years
prospecting developed the fact that one
Of the richest gold districts the world has
ever known exists right here in northern
New Mexico"
BEHNALILLO COUNTY.
The Cochiti district is full of activity at
this time, and much work is being done
on the many claims. The Washington
mine is shipping valuable ore to the
Pueblo smelters. Work has been re.
sumed on the second level of the Lone
Star to connect with the upper level,
while in the lower level, at a depth Of 500
feet, the richest body of ore yet discov'
cred il the mine has been uncovered.
Ten men are now employed IN sinking
the main shaft Of the Albemarle mine,
and the improvement in the value of the
ore % the work progresses has increased
the value of the property far beyond the
original bond of 100000 now on the
! mine 10 Mr.. Hines, of San Francisco.