Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-28
GRANT COUNTY MINES.
Hanover the Principal Center of Opera
tious,

| tl0nS,
The railroad company Is now running
| a double header into the new camp of
| Fierro, the output of the camp having
reached an average of fifteen car loads
per day.
The Superior Mining Company a.
Shakespeare has added Weber gasoline
engine to it's machinery. A gasoline
| holster has also been erected on the
main shaft. The engine is of fifteen
| horsepower, and enables the company
| to double it's output.
| Gilchrist & Dawson have almost COM
pleted the work Of developing and re-
| timbering the Anson at Hanover, and
will commence shipping January l. The
firm also has twenty-five men employed
on the Jim Thayer, and are daily taking
out three cars of good gradss9ber ore.
A small force is also employed on the
Union mine doing development work.
There is a fine showing of copper and
iron on the property.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
now ships $50 tons of iron ore every day
from it's Hanover mines. It's new crush
er is working satisfactorily, and is the
means of shipping the ore to Pueblo in
perfect shape for furnace use.
A gasoline hoist has been placed on
the Modoc at Hanover
A strike of rich copper ore has been
made on the Hanover No. 2. The ore
hp1
ment in the new tunnel. Shipments of
the ore are being made, averaging Is
per cent copper
Though employing only six men, the
Colorado at Hanover ships car load
Of copper-1ron ore every week to the
Silver City reduction works.
On the Dimmick, at Pinos Altos, shaft
No. has been retimbered to the depth
Of 200 feet, while on shaft No. 2 drifting
is being done in very rich ore. The boil
er has been bricked up and the hoist
placed In first-class condition. Opera
ton will be begun January l. and en-
ploymen't given to forty men.
The Gillette ait Pinos Altos will COM
mence active operations after January
/. A new hoist and double-deck cage
and other extensive improvements have
been completed. The daily output will
be seventy-f1ve tons of ore.
Henry Carter has secured two-year
lease of the Baltic at Chloride Flat,
owned by the M. w. Bremen estate. Ac-
xursiI ~,
of next month.
Since work was resumed recently on
the Johnny Bull mine at STEMS pass
$500 tons of ore have been extracted.
Furnaces will be constructed at the
mine to handle the ore, which is low
grade.
The Granite group at STEMS Pass
will again commence to ship January /.
Robert Thompson has been given the
contract for the work on the property Of
the Southwestern Copper Company at
Burros um
William Morris has resumed Work on
the old Volcano, and Robert Williams
on the Bachelor at Volcano. Samuel
Tate is putting in a concentrating mill
for the purpose Of treating the ore from
his mines at Volcano. The ore runs hioh
in silver.
Hanover copper district is steadily in
creasing in extent and in production of
ore. The deepest shaft in the camp Is
that of the old Hanover mine, which is
being sunk for the purpose Of exploiting
the character of the district, and is now
1870 feet deep ON a well-def1ned vein, and
has been in ore from surface. The Han
over has produced 5000 tons of ore, for
which 1t has been paid $3.50, 900, or more
than $50 per ton. The copper and iron
showing little decomposition, and as the
ore carries a heavy excess Of iron with
a considerable excess of sulphur, it is
desirable smelling grade and ore run.
ming as low as 21a per cent copper and
81 in gold Is disposed Of at profit.
Mining in the large bodies opened up
costs but 81 per ton, the freight to the
Silver City smelter is but $1.25 per ton,
and the smelter Is paying so cents more
per unit than Is paid in Denver, and
also for the excess iron, so that the
camp is making heavy and constantly
increasing tonnage.
The limits Of the district have not ye.
been defined, and some Of the newest
locations on the outside districts are
making the best producers. Mr. Parfet,
Colorado mining engineer with long
experience in copper districts, visited
the camp recently and says that all OF
the indications favor the presumption
that the district will be heavy and
permanent producer.
No shaft sunk on any claim has failed
to develop ore.
Gold For Europe.
New York, December, 2S.--Wall street
estimates next Saturdays gold engage
merts at 100000.
Died in . Depot.
Newton, Kan, December &C. M.
Mitchell, a student in the Topeka Med
ical College, was found dead I'M the San
ia Fe depot here this morning. He had
been to Albuquerque for tuberculosis,
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