Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-11-11
MINING IN DONA ANA.
Collection Of Interesting Mining Notes
From Several Good Districts.

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Collection Of Interesting Mining Note,
From Several Good Districts.
From the Las Cruces Democrat.
Thirteen car loads OF ore, 10 per cen,
copper. from the Torpedo, were shipped
last Thursday and Friday.
Sixteen car loads OF lumber were sent
to the Torpedo mine last week. to be used
In building bunk houses for the miners,
etc.
A heavy new lead Of copper ore was
struck at the l25 foot level in the Excel
sior last week.
Superintendent W.. b. Hayden. OF the
Modoc. returned from ri Paso. where he
has been to order drilling and other ma
chinery for the Modoc mine.
Mr., Salisbury, of Chicago. purchased
last month $4,000 worth Of stock In the
Modoc. He also purchased at the same
time q $4,000 block Of stock In the Tor.
pedo.
The Modoc. a lead property and the
Excelsior and Torpedo copper properties,
have been incorporated and capitaliz ID
at $2,0OO,000.
1t Is estimated that the group south OF
the Bennett. Stevenson. with the Modoc
ss q center. will expend not less than
$25,0 900 before the snow files. In develop
ment and improvement.
X. Y. Anderson, general superintendent
Of the Torpedo. Excelsior and Modoc
mines, came In from Organ and returned
to camp the next day.
A half dozen new houses at Organ
would lind occupants among those who
are now dwelling In tents. The rapid
increase In population Ia caused by the
great amount OF work being done In the
copper and 6alena claims OF the camp.
From Rio Grande Republican.
Three car loads OF high grade copper
ore have lately been shipped from Dons
Ana to the HI Paso smelter from the San
Andreas mountains.
The Torpedo copper mine at Organ. is
now producing ore that averages IA per
cent. The mine is producing regularly
three cars per week.
Morris Prudential and Vicente Cor
doba, OF Las Cruces, are developing a
lead prospect in Bear canyon Of the San
Andreas, aud are taking out some good
ore.
Several new finds OF rich ore. running
from 10 to % per cent copper and carry.
ing from 100 to 700 per cent silver per
ton. were made the past week In the
north end Of the Jarilla.
The Modoc Mining company Ia putting
In q $4,000 concentration and a tramwsy
down the mountain. Work on O large
we'll on the plsip, about q mile from the
Modoc, has commenced.
During the year ending July 81. sixty
four cars Of ore were shipped from Las
Cruces. and since then thirty-three cars
we're shipped from this station. About
fifteen cars were shipped from Dons Ana
station.
The Mormon mine at Black mountain,
twelve mines north Of Organ, has been
shut down pending the installment OF a
pump to keep the mine dry. The last
shipment, twenty-three tons, from this
mine. netted t73 gold, per ton.
The Jarilla plscers up to the present,
have yielded about 5000 free gold. The
practical working OF these placers
did not begin untilths drst Of this month
some thirty men operating eight dry
washers. are clearing from $500 "a
$1,000 per day.
There are now $50 men employed al
the Salado coal fields by the New Mexico
Railway Il Coal Co, under the direction
OF superintendent Wells. Shafts Nos |
and 2 are producing large quantities OF
coal. about 800 tons per day. A new
shaft was begun about a mile south Of
shaft No I which Is already producing
~splendidly.
G.. A. Bennett Is pushing work on his
Yankee group In the mouth OF Bear
canyon In the San Andreas, north OF
Organ, and has just finished running a
tunnel 400 feet, encountering q large
body OF copper glance carry lead and
silver. He Is nov arranging to begin
shipping and getting bids from the
smelters here and elsewhere for the ore,
The shipping point will be Las Cruces.
The permanent working shaft on the
Mamie Baird. In the Jarillas, Is down
l25 feet. and the incline on the ore body
Is within sixty feet OF connection, which.
when made. will enable this property q
become a heavy and permanent shipper
as the ore bodies opened up are immense
A new find wa made this week Of ship
ing copper ore on tia east side OF Mamie
Baird hill, a section heretofore considered
as valueless
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