Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-23
GRANT COUNTY MINES.
Fruitful Mining and Milling Opera
tiOns at silver City and Neigh
boring Camps.

Speaking of mining and milling opera
tions at Silver City the Enterprise says:
Leopold Balbeck arrived form Morenci,
Saturday with carload of high grade
copper ore from the Micawber mine to
be reduced at the Silver City reduction
works. The ore carries gold and silver
in paying quantities aside from the value
in copper.
Crawford and Derbyshire started the
vanners at the old Pacific mill, Wednes
day, upon the immense pile of tailings
below the mill. They expect to have a
daily output of eight to ten tons of con
centrates which have been contracted for
by the Silver City reduction works.
The Silver City reduction works which
were shut down for few days, to replen-
ish the supplies of fuel and perform some
necessary repairs, started up again yes
tsrday morning with an abundance of ore
on hand for a long and successful run.
The fame of the company for fair dealing
is travelling far and wide and ore is being
received from all sections of New Mexico
and Arizona. One car of rich gold ore
from the Richmond and other claims, for
which the Sierra County bank is agent,
was received yesterday. Arthur Hughes
has also shipped carload from the
Snake group which will arrive today. |
Three carloads were received from the |
Wicks mine at the same place, Monday.
j. R. Hale, a prominent railroad con-
tractor, arrived in this city Sunday and
went to Santa Rita, Monday, to make the
preliminary arrangements for building a
branch from the Silver City & Northern
from San Jose to Santa Rita, q distance
of four miles. The building of this branch
is necessitated by reason of the great
amount of traffic in copper ore from the
mines of j. P. Whitney at Santa Rita, q
great portion of which have been trans
ported by wagons to the Silver City re-
duction works. 1t is still more neces-
slty now, to transport large amount of
iron ore with which Mr.. Whitney has
contracted to supply the smelling works
at Pueblo, Colo. The contract on iron
ore calls for 5000 tons per month, the
of which is quite a large
traffic item to the railroad.
j. B. Gilchrist is still working his leases
upon the Oxide, Chino and Guadalupe
mines and shipping the product to the
Silver City reduction works. The Dris-
coll company is working the usual force
OF 20 men concentrating and asserting
the old dumps. Both these outfits are
now shipping to Silver City by railroad,
until recently the product was shipped by
teams.
Central.
The Bayard Milling & Smelling com.
On each of the Rio Grande and Grant
mines and two shifts at work upon the
Texas. The drift southwest upon the 300
foot level of the Texas has been driven
}8 feet from the shaft and shows a streak
Of rich argentite ore in the breast with
several smaller strata of ore converging
toward the main si-e-4, with indications
of good sized ore vein at the junction.
Stopping was commenced upon the third
evel, Tuesday.
IIOgOllOn.
The rich ore chute recently encountered
On the 375 foot level of the Maud S mine
continues to hold up in both width and
value of the ore body.
The Confidence mine is showing up
better than ever before in its history.
The mill is running steadily and making
arge shipments of gold and silver bull
ion. The pipe for the new water system
s arriving in big loads as fast freight
5esms can be found to bring it from Sill
YER Oity. few more cars of pipe are
still en- route from the mandatory. The
pipe line is being pushed to completion
,s fast as men can do it.
Copper Flat.
The Simpson smelter is running steadi-
y and turning out four to six tons of
,opper matte daily says the Silver City
Enterprise. The principal ore supply is
produced by the old Hanover mine near
he head of Hanover gulch. The ore is
highly silicious clay, carrying 18 10 20
oer cent of native copper, very hard to
melt on account of the great excess of
ilioa. The ore is mixed with the rich
carbonate and oxide ores of Copper Flat
10 facilitate smelling. The management
las leased the Owens mill and will ex peri
nent upon concentration of the Hanover
ire. The Hanover mine is producing
.bout 40 tons of ore per day and Is teams
ire kept constantly employed hauling
he ore to the smelter. About so men are
I'M ployed in the mine.
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