Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-11
MINES AND MINING
Statements Of the Production and
Development Of Various Properties
During the Past Week.
WANTS C0CHITI ORES
Mining Men Getting Down to Business in
All Territorial Localities New Com
panies Organizing.

panies Organizing.
Operations throughout the territory
during the past week indicate that the
New Mexico mining men have ''got
down to business for the season in
dead earnest and that a plentiful supply
of ''yellow boys" and "big iron dollars
will remunerate their labor. Reports
from the out-of-the-way district show
that development work is forging stead
lily ahead, while the high grade PROPOSE
lions are making regular shipments.
Elizabethtown, Hematite and the COchi-
ii show surprising activity and crafty
ing results. In the Ease of the former
place, it appears that the region has
shaken off an era of lethargy and will
again blossom out as n of the banner
gold regions of the territory. The plac-
ers there have clearly gained a record of
reducing S., 900, 900 and steady and sys-
tematic work as carried on at once will
increase the amount many millions
more. The Cochiti has little to brag of
in the matter of past production, but it
has many paying properties and machin-
cry is being introduced as fast as possible
that will place many mines on a regular
dividend paying basis. As usual, Hills
boro is plodding along in the the same
old businesslike manner, making a big
showing and doing no Dragging about
quota of wood and Cooks Peak is feed
ing the Ell Paso smelter as in the past.
That New Mexico is getting to the front
| with both feet as a mineral state is be-
yond denial. Eastern capitalists should
cut this bit of information out and paste
it in their hats.
Territorial Mining Notes.
William Terrett is placer mining in
Gold Gulch near La Belle.
A good vein was cut in the Cimarron
property near La Belle last week.
Two shifts are being worked on the
Lexington mine at Elizabethtown.
Twenty men are placering on Upper
Willow creek near Elizabethtown.
S. Matthews is working ten men in
the Urracca placers near Cimarron.
JEFF Hirsch has struck $40 free milling
ore in the Prosper mine at Hillsboro.
HI. j. Francis has finished the annual
assessment work on his Red River
placers.
Mead e. Penn are shipping ore from
the lone mine at Red River. 1t assays
$40 per ton.
Ore is being taken from the What-Is-
1t mine at La Belle for treatment at the
Hematite mill.
Bragaw & Potter are sinking a shaft
on the line of the Modoc and Abigalau
mines at Hanover.
Several miners from the Brush Heap
mine at Kingston have quit their jobs
and started leasing.
Some of the ores from Santa Rita are
being shipped to the smelter in Aguas
Calientes, Mexico, for treatment.
The Iron Bird mine on Sherman Hill
near Elizabethtown shipped ID tons of
ore to the Hematite mill last week.
The employees of the Challenge mine
at Hematite have begun an attachment
suit for wages due. The amount due is
$500.
The 5O-foot shaft of the Wildcat mine
at Santa Rita, owned by Ashton &
Roach, is in ore that assays 10 per cent
copper.
The Walsh Bros. have driven q tun-
mel in 300 feet on the Lone Five tunnel
near Elizabethtown. Several good lead
crs were cut.
The hydraulic plant of the Franklin
placers on Red River is n of the best
in the west. There is an unlimited
water supply for it.
Geo. II. Brown has run the tunnel on
the Grand Central mine at La Belle /, 100
feet. 1t will be continued until the
Arapahoe vein is cut.
The Frazier mine at Annette is re-
ported sold to the Standard OIL company
for 800, 600. The property has pro-
duced 100000 in the past.
The shaft of the Empire mine near
Elizabethtown is being sunk. 1t is now
lao feet deep. Ore is being shipped to
the Albian mill at Hematite.
Peterson, Maxey & Elwood are sink
ing the shaft on the Greenleaf claim,
near Elizabethtown, to q depth of 1OS
feet, when drifting will be started.
J. P. Whitney, of Boston, a stock
holder in the Santa Rita Copper 4 Iron
Co., is on the ground and will resume
operations on several of the properties
have been idle and are capable OF
f. c. Mott has the contract for re-
moving 1900 wards of surface dirt from