Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-05
new MEXICO MINING MATTERS
Items of Interest from Different Sec
tiOns of New Mexico as Cleaned
from Our Exchanges.
MINING OPERATIONS AT PINOS ALTOS
A Vast Amount of Work Will Be Done
This Summer on the Pacific Group
of Mines Recently Purchased
by the Hearst Estate in
Grant County.
GRANT COUNT

Ore which runs 300 ounces of silver
per ton is being shipped from Lone
Mountain to Deming by Frank Bisbee.
Very rich copper ore has been struck
in claim adjoining the old Hanover
mine by George Kreskge and VIM. Muck
ley.
The old San Jose mine is being worked
by Geo. Mcmillan under lease. The orc
from this property runs about 20 ounces
of silver per ton and 40 per cent lead.
The Copper Point mine in Lone Noun.
tain is turning ont ore that averages go
ounces of silver per ton and per cent
copper. Howard & Bonner are working
the claim.
The Driscoll Mining company has a
force of men sorting the old dumps on
its property in the Santa Rita camp.
The ore is shipped to the Silver City re-
duction works, the returns showing 72
per cent of copper.
vast amount of work will be done on
the Pacific Group in Pinos Altos this
summer, by the Hearst estate, recent pur-
chaser of these properties. Five shafts,
each 1000 feet in depth, will be sunk, fol
lowing the veins in their downward
course. Work on these shafts has already
begun.
Dimmiok Brothers are the owners of the
Silver Cell and Climax mines, located
about one mile south of Pinos Altos. These
mines are silver producers, pure crystal
lzed silver being found in veins or streaks
from one to four inches in thickness.
orio 10 Tod 70 hor lor
cupelling furnace near the mine.
J.B. Gilchrist has just erected steam
hoist on the Guadalupe mine A new
shaft is down 36 feet, and 28foot level
run on rich streak eight inches in width
which runs 40 per cent copper. Mr.. Gill
christ is also at work sinking two shafts
on the Chino mine, IA men being en-
ployed. The April product of these two
mines will be fully 200 tons of ore.
The old Ninety two mine near thedepot
in Hanover, which was abandoned after a
little work was done, now proves to be
valuable property. DR.. Welch, at a
depth of 30 feet, has struck a vein of
solid copper pyrites three feet in width
which gives an average assay value of IA
per cent copper, 18 ounces of silver and
Sc in gold per ton.
Messrs. Marcus Brunswick and Frank
A. Manzanares, of Las Vegas, are arrang-
ing to work the placer properties on the
Whitewater near Halls station. An i'm
mense suction machine which will elevate
the gravel and water together, with ca.
pacity of 1000 cubic yards per day, will
be used for handling the gravel, and the
water will be used in washing the ma
terial excavated. These placers have
been worked internationally for 20 years,
and are rich in gold.
A carload of new machinery has been
received by the Treasure Mining company
at Pinos Altos, to be used in remodeling
the mill at the Atlantic mine. Heretofore
the ore was crushed under stamps and run
over amalgamating plates where go per
cent of the gold was saved, the residue,
held in the baser metals, was saved by
on bump ping tables. When
the mill has been rebuilt the emalgamat
ing process can we'll be dispensed with and
depended upon for the
gathering and saving of the gold.