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

Good ore il being taken from the Lead
King mine at Cooks Peak by Grover Il
Savage.
James McGreary and Sam Leads have
leased the Silver Cave mine at Cooks
Peak of Jap Onstat.
The Carmichael Placer company, OPP
Grating neal Red River, made its first
cleanup last week.
w. N. Lindsay has encountered a good
body Of ore in his property on Bitter
Creek zeal Red River.
A boarding house is being built for
the Taos G. M. & M. Co., at the Black
Copper mine, near Red river.
M. C. Weaver is making regular ship
ments of high grade ore from the Con
tention mine at Tres Hsrmanas.
Judge Field is saving ore from the
1t was high in lead and silver.
J. Bender is working a force of men
on the Gladys mine at Cooks Peak and
is shipping some good galena ore.
John A. Deemer, lessee, is working
eight men on the Teel & Poe properties
at Cooks Peak and shipping ore.
Operations have been suspended on
the Brown and Weaver properties at
Tres Hermanas pending the arrival
of new machinery.
q. B. Hatch has shipped 500 pounds
of ore from the New Eldorado mine near
| Red River. to the Albian mill at Hema-
| tite for a test run.
A big body of magnetic iron, carrying
good gold values, has been opened by
VIM. Deutcher in his Mallette canon,
Red River property.
The Standard Old company failed to
close it's deal for the Frazier mine near
Amizett, last week, and the property
will probably be thrown on the market
again.
Having made a fortune from Cooks
Peak pl operties, William kietf will sus-
pend operations on his remaining mines
for a short time and take a vacation in
California.
The Italia mine on Black mountain,
near Red River, is working a big force
of men and has any quantity of $50 ore.
A reduction plant win be placed on the
property.
A tunnel is being driven on the Blue
Bell mine at Tres Hermanas. Samples
from the lead run 40 ounces in silver
and 70 per cen lead.
The Confidence mill Thirty stamps,
at Graham, which was recently shut
down pending repairs, has resumed OPP
erations. The Confidence mine work.
so employees.
The FL Paso Smelling & Refining Co
have taken up the bond on the William
Kieff claim at Cooks Peak, which ad
Joins the Othello and Desdemona prop
critics on the southwest.
Fl. C. GALLAGHER is running a 100-foo
tunnel on the Cinnamon mine in Fore
man gulch, near La Belle. Ore assay
ing $3.50 per ton was taken from TIN
property some time ago.
The litigation affecting the Inez min
at Cooks Peak has been settled. Selig
man Lindauer retains possession of TIN
property. He is working ten men ant
i, making regular shipments.
Arthur Winslow, a Kansas City min
ing expert, examined some propertie
near Las Cruces for r. G. Hatton las
week. A Kansas City syndicate vii
purchase and operate them.
In the Ell Paso Smelling Il Refinin;
Co.'S. properties at Cooks Peak, tn
Othello and Desdemona mines, Supcrin
tendent John Mitchell last week un
covered a large body of ore runnin
: over 10 per cent copper. The compan
now ships 70 tons of ore per day an
= employs 100 men.
The North smclter at Cerrillos ha
! fired its furnaces and is working sue
cessfully. This means much for tina
section, for it creates a home market TO
I the copper pres of the region and vii
give employment to a number of men
( besides opening a number of new an
valuable mines. The smelter is Il priv
ate enterprise and is owned by j. l.
3 North.
t Patrick Lynch has a small vial full o
the richest looking specimens of wir
, gold that n could see anywhere. Thi
gold, about an ounce and a half, wa
pounded out of a piece of Red Bandan'
, ore smaller than a mans fist. by Nh
! Lynch himself. The pieces of gold, II
= size, look like coarse shavings of plu;
tobacco. The ore from which this COL
} was taken was found in one of the i'd
Z chambers OF the working tunnel. TIL
Red Bandana mine, of which so m ucI
$ has been written, was discovered in 1885
: the year Thurman was a candidate TO
the wee presidency, and was given tn
. name of the ''Old Romans p%olitica
{ emblem-'.The Red Bandana." TIL
discovery was made by Thos. Richey
still living here, while working the ric
: placer ground which discovered the or
tire mine at that time. Years of litigs
tion retarded the development of tn
property. In time, however, (abou
: three years ago. a mill was erected 0
the property, and almost c%ontinuousl
, since then the Red Bandana has ranke
: as a rich producer. The mine is yet |
its infancy and, though having produce
over 5000, 900 in gold, the workings al
all on the surface. Elizabethtow
Miner,