Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-31
SANTA BARBARA FOREST RESERVE.
1t is 0verrun by a Combine of Capitalists
and Prospectors,

n fr0SpectOrS.
The mining camps of northern New
Mexico have made great progress this
summer. Many mines hat six months
ago We're classed as prospects are now
producers and shippers. Three new cus-
tom mills are now in successful opera
ton and two others contracted for. The
new shippers are chiefly in the vicinity
of Elizabethtown, Red river and Bit
ter creek. However, the changed condi-
tons are not confined to the above To-
c~alities, as substantial progress has
been made in other sections.
The Frazer deal is reported closed by
the owners, the payments having been
made and a contract let for the con
struction of a fifty-ton concentrating
plant. 1t is stated that the company
owning the Frazer mine will have over
100 men on it's pay roll this winter. 1t is
estimated that it has owe 500, 900 IONS of
ore on the dump ready for milling.
The Gusdorf brothers resumed opera
tons on the Shoshone this week, and
1t is presumed they will continue to ship
their high-grade ore to the carbonate
shelters.
The Gold Queen, owned by Colonel
Grove, Judge Galligan and other Pueblo
parties, is taking out some high-grade
ore running from 5000 to $500 a ton.
Captain Davis and son of Washing
ton, D. c., and DR.. c. L. Davis, of Can
ton, O., with Weymer and
Stanley in the Gold hill tunnel, are here
arranging for a vigorous prosecution of
the work. The tunnel is now In over 500
feet, and has u some rich leads.
S. Kahn opened up 5 feet Of good ore
in the Gold Wave this week. The strike
was made at the 50-foot level, and as
says show an average value of over
$50 per ton.
McFarlane & Stewart have opened up
a large vein Of galena ore carrying sill
yer and gold. 1t is one of the richest
strikes ever made in this district.
A new road is being built to the Iron
Dyke and new buildings constructed
preparatory to increasing the force on
that property. Mr.. E. l.. Ish, superin-
tendent, states that they will extend
the main tunnel 500 feet, cross-cutting
the ore body every 100 feet. This will
make over 1000 feet of development and
increase the ore reserve to at least 200,-
900 tons. When this is accomplished the
management state they will begin the
onpctr11ofino of n 0poant,,a IL, m o1o NJ n
treat the ore.
The Copper Hill company is working
a large force of men building a forty
ton mill, constructing reservoirs, etc. 1t
is putting up a plant to treat it's low
grade ore, of which it has large bodies,
and will continue to ship its high-grade
ore to Colorado smelling points.
The latest candidate for popular IA
vor is the new mining camp at the head
of the Santa Barbara river, on the
United States forest reserve. The new
camp has been named u. s. Park camp,
and is backed by a syndicate of eastern
capitalists.
Quite a force of men are employed in
Lie WOIh ulIueI Lie ulTeCllOH OL y. II.
McCarty, formerly Of Aspen. The ma
tional park reserve comprises about 600
square miles, and has been prospected
but little, and that in a desultory way
by struggling prospectors. The pros
pecting syndicate is pushing the work
in a systematic manner, doing consider
able development on all promising pros
poets.
They have succeeded in opening up
some large leads of low-grade ore.
Many stories are afioat about lost mines
in this section that were fabulously
rich, but they are still lost. Some very
rich float has been found, one lot of
quartz, IL pounds, yielding 6 ounces in
gold, and a score Of prospectors are try
ing to find the lead.-Denver News.