Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-04-30

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The Wood mill at Silver City is run
ming full blast.
Jap Onstott is sinking a shaft on his
claim at Cooks.
The Red River smelter has made a bid
for the Shoshone ore.
The Queen mine at Elizabethtown is
producing some fine ore.
The Hoyle lease on the Romero is
producing rich copper ore.
Chicago capitalists are after the Hope
we'll mine in Lincoln county.
The Schneider tunnel in the La Belle
district is now in 80 feet.
The White Oak mine at Cooks is being
developed by Kief & PEBBLES.
Regular shipments are being made
from the Inez and Montezuma at Cooks.
The new mill at Faulkner is working
day and night Oh the Trippe mine dump
Operations on the Columbine property
at Red River, will be resumed this week.
The Simpson smelter at Copper Flat
is running on ore from the old Hanover
mine.
lIt hcu VAN ullllC az NUNS lS piou"S
| ing some good ore. The force includes
six men.
The Bennett properties in the Black
mountain region are showing some fine
ore.
The Texas mine at Central is being
equipped with a new steam hosting
plant.
| nnn /. hnipr chin,aI from tho Emnipl
mine at Elizabethtown to the Hematite
mill.
The Ironclad placer in Placer gulch,
Red River district, has been sold to c.
Abbott.
Good copper prospects have been found
III the foothills of the mesa northwest of
Mesilla.
A revival of mining operations at
Faulkner is evidenced. The new mill Is
a success.
Wrigley & Fisher have secured a lease
and bond on the Bull of the Woods mine
at H%illsboro.
The Kingston smelter has been leased
and bonded and operations will be re-
Sumed at once.
he lldlONtI MlIC UU ILuIlONCl ID
producing so tons of ore per day with a
force of 40 men.
The Albion mill, located six miles
northeast of Elizabethtown, will start
operations May /.
Joe Hutchins is making regular ship
ments from his lease on the Teel Il Poe
property at Cooks.
n@{, L. Inpty yfpilrly n | apra vain nf
500 ore in the Bull of the Woods mine
at Hillsboro last week.
b. c. Mandell has purchased the in
terest of Pat Markham in the Mammoth
mine at Black mountain.
1t is reported that more men are
placer miAing in the region of Elizabeth
town this year than ever before.
The new Morris copper smeltcr in the
Cabillo mountains, is about completed
and will be running on ore shortly
S. w. Calvin and Neill b. Field have
purchased a 15-16ths interest in the Last
Chance No. 2 claim, in the Cochiti dis
trict.
The New Mexico Dry Ore Concentrate
ing company is making tests or the
Brush Heap and Gypsy mine ores at
Kingston.
The Santa Rita Copper & Iron CON
pany's mines are producing three cars
Of ore per day. The product is shipped
to Pueblo.
Hatton Bros. have received the con-
tract for doing 100 feet of work on the
Two Sisters tunnel at Red River. The
tunnel is now in 200 feet.
The Commodore claim at Cooks has
been bonded to Chicago capitalists.
Eight men are employed and orc
is being saved for shipment.
Sheridan & Dorsey are shipping ore TIC
the Silver City reduction works from the
Telegraph mine at Telegraph. Five men
are working on the property.
The 5O-foot shaft on the Santa Claus
t at Cooks, shows a good body of iron car
Donate ore. Sinking will be continued
until better values arc shown.
Mr., Wray shipped three tons of ore
l from his lease on Legal Tender hill,
} Silver City, to the Deming Sampline
works last week. The returns were sat
isfactory.
The Porterield-P arker-Harvey tur-
quois mines near Silver City are being
, examined by an expect representing al
| English syndicate, with the view of pur
: chasing them.
-, The Bennett-Stephenson Mining com
E pany has elected the following officers
N. Raymond, president; Phi. Freuden'
thai. Vim. Mccoy, VIM. Dessauer and M
Lehman, directors.
f The old dumps of the Carrasca mine
i, at Santa Rita are being sorted and the
, ore concentrated. The dumps were left
by the Spaniards when the mine was
worked a century ago.
The Faulkner correspondent of the
} Sierra County Advocate reports that
there are thousands of acres of placer
ground in that locality where men arr
: making from $l to $a per day washing
= The old Lake Valley mines in New
. Mexico are not ''played out" by any
: means. as so far this year they have
g shipped 1000 tons of high grade ore ant
have several thousand tons of second
. class ore on the dumps. Sierra County
; Advocate.
The Hillsboro mines have produced
G 1890 tons of ore since January 1, 1898
The weekly tonnage now shows the va
rious properties producing the following
: Wicks mine, 10 tons: X. K, 10; Rich
mond, 10; Happy Jack, S: Snake group
so; Opportunity. 10; sherman, S: Pros
/ per 5; Rex, 5.