Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15

Attention is being drawn to the i'm
mense zinc deposits in Grant county,
New Mexico. says the Rocky Noun
tain News. The Mineral Point Zinc
company of Wisconsin has been
through its agent, William Swancoat,
operating for years ut Hanover, yet
so quietly have the affairs of the COM
pany been managed that few outside
of the charmed circle have had the
faintest idea Of the magnitude of the
operations. Many carloads of the ore
have been shipped east from the
mines and all of it was high grade
zinc ore. In the Carpenter district on
the western slope of the Black range
or Mimbres mountains, are located
some of the richest as we'll as some of
the most extensive deposits of the
mineral to be found anywhere, but
those vast fields have been worked
only in desultOry way. South of Car
penter district occur other large de-
posits of zinc which only await the
coming of some energetic men with
capital to become as profitable as gold
= mines. AS soon as roads are built to
those deposits SO soon those mines
Will pay handsomely. Across the
range east of Hanover and towards
Georgetown exists zinc ore in immeas-
urable quantities and last year $780,
600 worth of ore was shipped from Il
single one of the mines located there
y Now that the Hanover railroad is be-
ing extended up the Hanover gulch,
many of these ore deposits will be de-
velOped, especially since zinc has ad-
vanced from $50 to $50 per ton and
there is practically an unlimited de
mand for it, the zinc mines in the
country being few.
Hanover and Bland vie with each
other the honor of being the most
prosperous mining camps in New Mex
leo Mt present, although Santa Rita,
Elizabethtown and Jicarillas might
also lay claim to that distinction At
Hanover there are Mt present 1.5OO
men and very few women. The Col
orado Fuel and Iron company Mt Han
over employs only Mexican labor rs
little If any mining knowledge is re-
quired by the workmen. the entire
mountain side being Quarried from
openings innumerable along the i'm
mense vein. A considerable force of
miners is Kept at work breaking ore
and such is the ease with which the
ore Is extracted that as soon as the
railway reaches the mines trainload
of ore may be sent every day There
are many mines at Hanover that can
he purchased at ridiculously low fig
ures. considering the amount of ore in
sight. Were Hanover situated in Col
Orado. 10000 to 10000 people would be
living there. and the gulch would be
iined with big smelling plants and
iron works. About two and half
miles from Hanover are situated some
of the richest iron and manganese ore
/deposits in the southwest. They have
been worked spasmodically for many
years. but difficulty of access and cost
of transportation have thus far pre-
vented extensive development. At
Shingle canon thousands of tons of ore
are corded up on the dumps. The camp
is bountifplly supplied with timber
and water is found anywhere in the
\ gulch at depth of ten to twenty feet.
y Adjoining the mines of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company new town
called Dewey has been laid out. The
new town is on the line of the new
railroad being built and is surrounded
by immense deposits of ore. Water
works are already projected and the
owners of the townsite intend to
make the new town the model mining
camp of the southwest.
III. G. Meyers has made an import
ant gold discovery near Lordsburg,
and there has been n rush to locate
claims. The gold fever at Portales
mas not WaHeu as yer, ana over 400
claims have been staked. The natural
indications. however, are all against
gold existing in any large quantities
at Portales.
Several important copper finds were
made four miles from Santa Fe and
now the nearby hills swarm with pros
pectors. If the new discoveries are
what ]. G. Schumann and other min
Ing men interested In the find claim
them to be, Santa Fe will have n
hourishing mining camp as suburb
very soon. 1t has been known for
years that the mountains Immediately
surrounding Santa Fe contained i'm
mense bodies of copper and other ore.
but none OF 1t assays over s per cent
copper. The ore is easy to get at, and
there exists ample facilities for min
! Ing and transporting the ore. and If n
start Is soon made in developing the
surrounding ore deposits there will be
nn astonishing growth
a ten-inch streak of almost pure ga
lena was struck on the left fork of
The Red river.
The Whale mine, recently sold to
Montana parties. is shipping gold and
copper ore, and the prospectOrs are on
the ground making new locations and
starting development in that district.
Chance for Low Grade Ores,
A new process for the treatment of
low grade gold ores has Just had n