The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1897-01-22
Wonderful R undyville Country
In the Apache Mining District.

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company made up of Messrs. Bishop,
Dunn and others. This lode is situat.
ed on the east side of Dry Creek and
ia opened by a shaft 250 feet deep,
showing a vein with a nortwesterly
course, dipping but a few degrees from
the perpendicular to the eastward.
The width of the vein between the
walls is four feet and upw ards, with
a pay streak of a few inches to sever
al feet, and an average width the en-
tire depth of the shaft of about II in
ches. The vein near the surface shows
considerable gray copper, but below
100 feet this mineral has disappeared
entirely, and in its stead fine copper
glance IS found. There is some ore
yet on the dump Of the property es-
timated to average somewhere rear
$4,000 per ton in silver and gold,
carrying of the latter metal but a
small quantity, say from one-tenth to
t~hree-fourths Of an ounce per ton.
The value or amount of copper con-
tanned has never been satisfactorily
tested for an average, so your reporter
is informed, but must be quite large.
Extending southwark on a similar
vein and no doubt the same vein, are
the Fast Mail, Male Line, Solid Com
fort, Ready Relief locations, all promis
ing prospects, with varying amounts
of development work, yet none sufi-
GENTLY developed to admit their CLASH
fcatiou in the list of mines. Crossing
over the ridge still further south, Min
eral Greek and the town of RoundyYille
are reached, in which evidently the
same general copper belt EXISTS, with
a seeming endless vein of quartz and
copper. The first property in this sec
ton is the Dreadnanght owned by the
J. @. Wills estate and w. II. Berry.
The vein has a north and south course
dipping to the westward seventy de-
grees from the horizon. The width of
the vein Is about five feet from wall to
wall. with an even pay-streak Of about
40 inches. The vein filing quartz, cal
rying sulphides, oxides, s~ilicate of cop
per, also some iron, Mill runs show
ten and eight-tenths Fer cent copper
and sixty-two ounces silver to the ton.
There is a large quantity Of ore on the
dumps, and your reporter was advis-
ed that an average sample recently
made by parties, gave returns of 10
ounces silver and 7 per cent copper.
An incline shaft is sunk on the vein
about Is feet showing mineral in
undiminlshing strength. enclosed in
very fine walls with porphyrltic rock
on both sides.
WONDERFUL LIME HILL.
To the south comes the Diamond
Joe and Silver Glance mines owned by
Joseph Oliver and Erasmus r'anye.
Development consists of shafts sunk
on the lead from 10 to so feet deep dis
closing a vein at least six feet and like
ly very much wider as they have never
cross-cut to discover the hanging wall.
The ore streak in the so foot shaft
shows a uniform width of about 80
inches of rich copper glance ore; about
Is tons of ore are on the dump, of
which a careful selected sample shows
60 ounces silver and 10 per cent in cop
per. Crossing this vein at almost right
angles is a strong vein running into
and across the Lime Mountain on
which are located two claims known
as the Town Site and Sixteen to One
owned by Messrs. Oliver and Payne
Still another claim crosses the Lime
Mountain in a northwest and southeast
direction the property of Mr.. Oliver
which makes a fine showing for
amount of development work done.
Large quantities of ore are exposed on
the west side Of the Lime Mountain
on work done on the Sixteen to One
claim, or the cross vein, demonstrating
beyond all doubt that this mountain
Will some day be the scene Of great
mining enterprises. These gentlemen
Messrs. Oliver aud Payne have already
driven a tunnel some 100 feet along the
cross vein at the east foot of Lime
Mountain for the purpose of tapping
the Silver Glance and Diamond Joe
vein and also of exploring the mineral
deposits OF the mountain. On the
theory that great naturalization oc.
ours where one or more mineral bear
ing veins meet and cross. then one can
reasonably look for and expect great
naturalization to occlr. This lime
mountain is capped or crowned with