Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-23

stimulated development work on lesser
prospects which will soon develop into
shippers.
Interest in old and new processes for
treating the product of the various dis
tricts has picked up considerable. The
successful operation of the Hematite,
Andrews and Bland mills has made
busting prosperous districts of localities
which formerly bore the reputation of
being regions of valueless prospect
holes. The values of all mineral
bearing claims in these districts have
been enhanced an hundred fold and
general prosperity and no idle men are
reported. Plants resuming operations
were the North smelter at Cerrillos and
the Rosedale stamp mill zeal San Mar
cial. Both are working successfully. In
teresti is now centered in the Mary smelter
at Cerrillos and the Red River smelter.
In the case of the former, legal COM
plications are keeping one of the finest
plants in the territory idle. but it is
hoped that matters will soon be adjust
ed. 1t is supposed that the manage
ment knows that it a easily secure
sufficient fluXing material and ore, if
not at home, from other territorial
localities, and that no excuse like "a
dearth of ore" is tenable. Presumably,
the company has blown in enough
money to refrain from blowing in the
smelter until all matters of a legal ma
i ture are settled to their entire satistac-
ton. The personnel of directors lndl,
! Gates that an aggressive and successlul
plan will be adopted when a start is
really made. The Red River Smelter
company is also burdened with internal
complicatons that have nothing what
ever to do with the possibilities of the
district not furnishing ore, however, the
promise is extended that early opera
lions may be looked for. A @oo-ton
custom mill at the Crown Point mine,
Cochiti district, a custom cyanide mill
at La Belle and Il sulphur refinery for
the Jemez are also booked for early
work.
R. A. Stewart is erecting a plant for
oxydizing refractory ores In the Ger
rillos district. Mr.. Stewart previously
| built two small test plants at Milwaukee
| which operated successfully on ores
| shipped in from Colorado. 1t required
an hour and Is minutes to oXydize the
| charge in previous tests, and the results
were superior to those obtained in a
| Pierce turret rooster after 30 hours
treatment. The Cerrillos plant will be
completed in about so days and will
have a capacity of treating "a ions
every hnwrsnnI d ,...ii. From drawings
ana details SEM the New MEXICAN, the
inference is gained that the process will
prove a success. A description of the
treatment, as given by Mr.. Stewart, APP
pears below:
The ore is first crushed to about the
size of hickory nuts and smaller. 1t is
then fed into the ore chamber or cylin-
der which revolves at the rate of one
revolution in As minutes, or two revolu-
tions in one hour and one half. The ore
by that means is slowly moving at all
times. The heat is drawn through this
chamber at a degree sufficient to keep
the ore at a dull red heat. Supertreated
steam follows into the chamber with the
heat from the furnace. The super
heated steam is converted into gasses-
oxygen and hydrogen, and the hydrogen
being the lightest gas fills the upper part
of the chamber and very materially as
siSts in the combustion. The oxygen,
being the heaviest, is forced down in di-
rect contact with the hot ore and is read
lily absorbed, causing the ore to oXidize,
thereby freeing the gold, there being no
affinity between gold and oxygen. The
time for oXydizing occupies from n to
one and a half hours. Two revolutions
of the chamber at the most, will finish a
charge of ore. Copper ores can also be
treated. The copper, when oxidized,
can be concentrated, which is valuable
especially when the ore is of too low a
grade to ship. BY oXydizing and con-
centrating the miner is enabled to ship
high grade material, thus effecting a
saving in coke, labor and freight.
Territorial Mining Notes.
The Phi. Schneider tunnel at La Belle
is now in 100 feet.
A. M. Ewing has resumed work on his
La Belle properties.
No idle men at Hematite and genera
prosperity prevails.
Mr.. Muir is steadily working the Klon'
dixie mine at Organ.
Pat Breen has resumed work on his
Black mountain prospect
L. Osmer is taking good ore from the
Rescue mine at Hematite.
Lime rock and iron ore are being re-
ceivcd by the North smelter at Cerrillos.
The Moreno Water & Mining Co. held
a special meeting in Elizabethtown July
Is.
Professor Stone, a Colorado Springs
geologist, is investigating the Jicarilla
mineral belt.
The Ortiz mine at Dolores has cut the
wages of employees from IL to 20 per
cent.
j. C. Albright is shipping ore from
the Challenge mine to the mill at Hema-
tite.
A, l.. Hobbs, of Ration, has struck some
fine ore in his Renegade claim near
Elizabethtown.
A. j.. De Meules last week opened a
rich pocket Of gold ore in one of his JAR
lila properties.
G. Wood is taking ore from the Elado-
ra claim at Hematite for treatment at
the Hematite mill.
Ore is being shipped from the Shakes
peare property in Grant county to the
Deming sampler.
Cox & King are working on their con
tract on the property of the Ration Tun-
mel Co. at Hcmatite.
w. II. Skidmore is working a block of
ground on the Philadelphia company's
properties in the Organs.
The McGhee Mining & Milling com
pany have placed some heavy pumping
material on their Dolores property.