Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-26
NEW MEXICO MINES
What Prospectors Have Around San
ia Fe to Encourage Them to Dig
and Delve in the Earth.
TERRITORIAL INFORMATION
Ell Paso People Who Have Struck It Rich
Near Lordsburg-0tero, Taos, Sierra,
Dona Ana, Grant and Socorro Items
Relating to Mines.

There is considerable prospecting and
development work being done in the
in the vicinity of Santa Fee
for precious minerals, and it seems as
if the persistent efforts Of a few parties
are about to be crowned with success.
1t is astonishing how much mineral
wealth is indicated by the float that is
picked up from time to time near this
city. Gold, %turquois, silver, copper, iron,
mica, gypsum, limestone, clay and 9TH
err minerals exist in this vicinity in enof-
nous quantities. A well-known pros
pector in this city, who for the present
desires his name kept quiet, will to-
morrow morning start a force of men
on a claim about six miles southeast OF
the city. A shaft so feet deep has been
sunk through a silicious formation, and
quartz, with copper and pyrites of iron,
has been struck in large quantities. A
tunnel has also been drifted, and three
distinct veins on a 7-foot ledge have
been laid bare. The ore assays So in
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creases in value with development.
Several miles north of town a 17-foot
ledge of brown and yellow carbonate
of iron has been found. There are also
encouraging quantities of copper and
gold in the ore. Some of the spathic iron
| ore is the best aver brought to Santa Fe,
and it exists in large quantities. The
| same prospector also has a claim about
| five miles southeast of town, on which
he is developing a 7-foot ledge of ore
| that shows silver in considerable guam
| titles. He also found a goodly sized
| piece of %turquois only two miles from
the city. He has specimens of gold ore
| that assay in the thousands of dollars,
but he is keeping the location quiet
from which they came, as he deems the
| find too valuable to make public at
| present. He has also found large lodges
| of mica, some of it mineral bearing, and
some without other mineral constitu-
ents. The specimens compare favorably
with the mica found at Tres Piedras,
which is being mined at present by a
Colorado Springs company. Large beds
Of gypsum that look like mica lodges
also exist in the near vicinity. The
limestone northeast of town is pro-
nounced the best to be found in the
United States, and there Is a solid
mountain of it. 1t is being worked on
a small scale by penitentiary convicts
for public buildings being erected at
present.
j. e. Lacome also possesses several
valuable claims in the mountains to the
northeast that are being worked quiet
ly but systematically, and that promise
we'll. Several other parties are interest
ed in claims near here to the southeast,
the northeast and near Tesuque, and ii
seems that before long Santa Fe will
experience a mining boom.
SIERRA COUNTY.
The Gypsy mine has closed down.
Five new locations have been made in
the Cabello mountains.
A big strike of 1%,000-ounce ore has
been made in the old Illinois.
The Garfield has again commenced
shipping ore to the Porter mill.
The new cyanide mill for the Barney
Martin mines will have a capacity of
100 tons a day.
A new boarding house is being built
on the Snake to accommodate the in
creased number of leasers.
The Richmond has contracted for the
delivery of 800 tons of second-class ore
to the Percha mill during September.
Joseph Spence has bought a half in
terest in the Roadside mine, and has
put a development crew to work on it.
The Lookout mine is being patented.
Professor Jones, of the Socorro School
of Mines, inspected the Wickes mine at
Hillsboro.
The dry washers of the Hillsboro dis
trict last month produced 1885 worth
Of gold dust, which was all purchased
I by Hillsboro merchants.
John w. Dawson sold the Fifty Eight
mine at Hillsboro to Manager E. H.
Bickford. The Fifty Eight is an extern
sion of the Golden Era mine.
The last shipment of the X. X. run at
the Charter Oak mill, and which con
sisted of 1870 tons of ore, netted the min
ers $35 per ton over and above all ex-
penses.
A thirty-ton shipment of gold and sill
yer ore worth 81, 500 was made the other
week from the Lookout mine to the Ell
Paso smelter.
William Thurmond, CT the Hillsboro
district, has secured a patent on a dry
ore concentrator, and is organizing a
company to build a $500 mill to ham
die the ore sof Sierra county. The mill
will be located at Cold Springs, and will
be of 1875 tons capacity.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
The latest discovery reported in the
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