The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-03-19
EDIsoN's NEW SCHEME.
win Undertake the Reduction of New
Mexico Gold Ore.


Mexico Gold Ore.
At Dolores, as already announced.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventive gem
lus, proposes to erect a plant that win
reyolutionize the milling of low grade
gold ores in New Mexico, IL not. In
deed, throughout the whole country.
he hopes to accomplish for the gold
industry equally as much as he has
done for iron mining in New Jersey.
and New MeXicans are rather proud of
the fact that he has selected this terri
tory as the field for his operations. For
more than year Mr. Edison has been
experimenting in his laboratory with
the gold ores of South Santa Fe county
and word is now at hand that he has
so far succeeded as to Justify him in
building a mill of 200 tons daily ca
pacity, which is to be planted at Do
lores, near the center of the Ortiz mine
grant.
And in doing this Edison has not
overloaded his personal business in
terests, for he has wisely got in on the
ground floor of a big mining deal
which promises to add largely to his
zeal in constructing the most COM
plete gold mill of the times. 1t is said
that Edison, in company with S. G.
Burn, an English mining engineer.
James w. Perry of New York city, and
others have organized a syndicate and
taken two years lease and bond on
the Ortiz mine grant. There are $1,000
acres in this tract and the price is ST.
0OO,OOO. The lease, which is made to
Perry by NJ. L. Lawson of New York
and the New Mexico Mining Company,
was recently placed on record here,
and its wording is such as amounts
practically to sale of the grant prop
erty, though the bulk of the money in
volved will not be paid until a few
squatters who now hold claims on the
grant are Ousted or settled with and
this may require two years time. I'm
der the lease Perry binds himself to
diligently explore and develop the
property, and one of his first enter
priseS will be the erection of EdisOn's
mill. The A. L. & Santa Fe railroad is
also to be extended through the grant
! from Madrid to Dolores, a distance of
! six miles.
AS for exploration, that is not at all
necessary to begin with, for there is
scarcely an acre of the entire $4,000
acre tract that does not carry gold. Elk.
pert Burn has been over the ground
time and again and made exhaustive
tests. The gulches are filled with
| placer gravel and the mountains reveal
great bikes, hundreds of feet wide
that yield 81 and upwards in gold to
the ton. The Ortiz mine workings are
/ taken as a test of the gOld-bearing
rock so far as depth is concerned. Its
main shaft is now down 300 feet, to
the water level. Contracts have just
been let for sinking 300 feet lower
| Two twenty-tOn Huntington mills are
now treating the ore from this mine
and Superintendent Earle has ordered
third mill
Near the Ortiz mine, which enjoys
the distinction of being the oldest gold
| producer on American soil, the new
Edison plant is to be established this
summer, and it is safe to assert that
it's blowing in" will be heralded with
! joy from all over the mining world
since Edison is not the man to go fan
in such enterprises before he has
! thoroughly mastered his subject