Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-29
The HOPEWELL MINING CAMP
The New Mexican Receives Basket
of Specimens from This Prosper
Ous Mineral Section.
ORE FROM FAMOUS HIDDEN TREASURE
More Mills Needed to Treat Ores, and
the Prospects Seem Excellent for
Facilities of This Character in
the Near Future.

The New MEXICAN is in receipt of a
basket of ores from Hopewell, N. NJ
20 specimens in all.
Daniel O'Leary sends beautiful speci-
men of quartz, jasper and iron to the
| New MEXICAN. 1t shows free gold and is
rich ore from his Hidden Treasure mine.
Dan is the same big hearted, clever fell
low that he was when the editor knew him
years ago. 1t is said that he has given
away tons of free gold specimens to visi-
tors in Hopewell. He has every prospec:
of getting rich from his Hidden Treas
ure and other mines, and, deserves to be-
come wealthy if any man does.
j. P. Rinker sends large specimen of
porphyry, quartz and iron. This also
shows much free gold and is very rich in
gold. Mr.. Rinker has made several very
good sales there and still has valuable
property.
The other ores are from the Sidney,
Buckman, Red jacket, Freeport, CHINA
bar and other claims. They show great
variety of ores characteristic of the camp.
Within radious of two miles, fixing the
town as the central point, they find a
schistic ore in the central portion, jasper
and quartz in the southern portion and
porphyry ores in all other parts Of
the district There are forms of iron in
all the ores and all ores carrying iron
contain gold. All the cube iron carries
free gold. Copper is also found In sew
eral parts of the district and several
beautiful specimens were semitic this office.
The Cyanide mill at Hopewell has
proven grand success. 1t has demon
strated the fact that nearly all the free
gold and 81 per cent of the refractory ore
can be saved. The mill runs night and
day and is on the broad road to pros
perity. The ores of the camp run from
25 to 80 per cent free milling and the
other refractory.
A mining man from Hopewell said to-
day when speaking of the future outlook
of the camp: "Hopewell is destined to
become another Cripple Creek. It has
greater variety of ore than that camp;
it's leads are we'll defined, wide, and the
mineral increases in value with depth.
The Freeport Cinnabar shaft is down $50
feet. The vein grows wider and the ore
richer. The Buckham mine by develop.
ment now shows 5000 ore. A short time
ago it ran only one-tenth of that. Why,
can 60 on the Hidden Treasure ground
and pick up wagon load of free gold
specimens from the float there in short
time. Heretofore all the work in develop
ment has been done in one place where
the ore is rs per cent free milling, They
tried to work the refractory ore by free
milling processes. OF course they failed
and mans failure was charged up to the
camp. There has been more practical
development done there this year than
at all times in the past. A good class of
prospectors are coming into camp and
many men will get rich there. 1t is not
the desire of Hopewellites to boom the
camp. The people want to get hold OF
mines for permanent Investment and rich
returns. But we are always glad to make
strangers Welcome. We don't hog all the
territory. On the contrary we help every
person TO get slice. If an industrious,
decent fellow comes into camp, he will
be treated as we'll there as in any camp on
earth. We need more capital there in
the shape of mills to treat our ores.
think there is good prospect of getting
several this summer"