Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-26
NEW MEXICO MINES.

mas just shipped an lUU pound DflcF
valued at 500, 900.
Work on the Corona, neal Bland, con
tinues to show remarkably fine develop
ment.
Bland mining men guarantee 500 ton!
of ore daily If the proposed railroad /:
built, and it looks now as though the
road would be built.
The Snake mine at Hillsboro is sack
ing 60 tons of high grade ore for ship
ment to different smelters.
Work has begun in Alamo canyon
near Alamogordo, on a number Of cop
per properties, and immense strata OF
fine onyx are also being worked.
The Iron Duke mine in Taos county
shows a solid body of ore 80 feet thick
between the walls.
The Senate and Bobtail mines in Col
fax county, are yielding ore worth SIS
to the ton.
Prospecting for coal is going on sin
miles from Pennington, where prime
indications have been known for a long
time. Good coal is expected to be found
pan out as hoped for, the d. & r. G.
may find it for it's interest to build dowr
into the new coal fields from Durango
and thus save hauling coal from the
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Constant activity is reported in Water
canyon mines nea Socorro, especially
in the line of assessment work.
A 500 gold nugget was found the
other day on the Gillen placers on Ute
creek, OLD Badly mountain. In the
early days, a mar named Maxwell took
$4,000 off a bench near there above
what is now known as the Jackson
place.
The placer mining property on the
South Ponil, known as the Wallace
placers near Elizabethtown, has been
sold to Colonel Matthews, of Hutchin-
son, Kas. The diggings will be worked
to their full capacity.
The Aztec 40 stamp mill at Badly has
started up with a strong force of men.
The Montezuma Mining and Milling
Company nea Elizabethtown, have
their shaft down so feet on the Blue
Bandana, and the outlook is encourage
ing.
The Old Abe's shaft at White Oaks
has reached a depth of LOO feet, and
very wall dafpa5 Hands Of ,,;ob o,o have
been uncovered at every level. Tho
company is putting in an extensive
plant to catch the gold that has been esq
Gaping the batteries as it passed
through the mill.
Colonel Henderson, of the Bennett
mine in Dona Ana county, has shipped
several cars of ore to the Ell Paso
smelter.
The output of Hillsboro gold mines
for the week ending Thursday. Nov.
II, 1898, was: Wicks, IS tons; X. K,
30 tons; Richmond, 55 tons; Snake
Group, so tons; Opportunity, 80 tons;
Sherman, 5 tons; Cincinnati, 25 tons;
Trippe, S. tons; Rex (silver-lead) Is
tons; total $50 tons; total output since
January l, 1898, S,49O tons.
Messrs. Mcpherson, Hopewell and
Bentley have located a vein of copper
ore eight feet wide in the Cabello noun
tains of Sierra county. 1t assays 25 per
cent copper and some silver
The reason why so few accidents oc-
u in the Hillsboro district is because
the prevalence of tunnel mining.
Mining operations at Hanover are on
the increase, and good work is being
done.
The Opportunity mine leasers shipp-
ed from Sierra county last week, 121
sacks of ore which Melted them $640.
The COMMENTATORS in the Organ
mountains are communicating the va
ter supply, ana there have been numer-
u cases of fatal poisoning to stock in
consequence.
The shaft of the Emma mine at Han
owe has been sunk to a depth Of 80 it.,
showing copper-iron ore for the entire
distance. A drift was run so feet front
the bottom of the shaft under the Han
over hill and at the end of the drift the
ore became richer in copper with an ex-
cess of iron.
M. d. Harrington, of the Katarine
claim, at Golden, is sinking a 100 foot
shaft on his claim.
The Monte Cristo Mining Company at
Golden, has shut down the big dredge
and dry washer for several days to put
in a pump with which to save the water
and use it over again in order to keep
the machinery going day and night.
Bertha Crum & Co. have put in a
horse whim at the Highland Mary
claim at Golden, and will now go down
200 feet into the ground. Several tons
of rich ore have been taken out on the
rs foot din.