Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-03

James Ellspaso, who put in a new mill
at Elizabethtown, is making arrange
ments to build a new mill at Red river.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
G.. c.. Ingerich and w. S. Towney are
developing several good prospects in the
Ladrone mountains.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
A rich strike was made at the Torpedo
mine. Ore containing silver, lead and
] copper, ~assaying $500 per ton, was tap
ped.
In the Organ and San Andreas noun
tains there are ten copper claims and
several lead properties shipping ore to
Ell Paso. The gold camp contains two
gold shippers. The Modoc, the Bennett
Stephenson and Bennett & Friedenblum
groups are lead properties. The Excel
sior, Torpedo and Memphis are copper
shippers It Organ. The Dead Mans
canon group, Membrillo, Hopkins and
Griffith group and ]. r. DeMier's mine
are shippers from the San Andreas.
Most of the ore of the San Andreas goes
to the Eel Paso & Northeastern railroad,
via Tularosa and Alamogordo. The
copper belt is seventy miles long, and
promising prospects are being opened
continually.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Charles H. Myers is putting in a
hosting plant at his Mikado mine.
The Trippe mine is again several hum
dred tons ahead Of it's mill.
Woelsey No. 2 has begun shipping to
the Charter Oak mill.
Jefferson Owens, of the Sherman
mine, has a large shipment for the Por-
ter mill.
Native copper in paying quantity has
been found in the big Wicks mine.
Robert Watson and Jacob thinner
man, leasers on the Richmond, cleared
800 apiece laSI week.
Inc EignIy-tive and the Sheridan
mines at 1llisboro have become pro-
OF ore made from the Eignty-Five net
leu The management S4S per ton over
and above all expenses.
The Lookout mine management re-
ceIved a $4o, UUv check tor it's last thirty
ton shipment OF ore.
The Golden Era mine in the Hillsboro
district was sold by Judge j. Il. Smith,
! agent OF the j. r. Mckinnon estate, to
b. H. Bickford and p. J. Bennett. The
Golden Era is a gold and copper propo-
%sition, and is extensively developed. 1t
will be thrown open to leasers.
The Charter Oak and Percha mills
made a shipment Of $4,000 in gold bricks
last week.
Peter Crumvine and j. w. Orchard,
leasers on the Snake mine, are taking
out $3.50 ore.
Colonel r. Woolsey sold a half inter-
est in the Gold Hill mine to Bernard
Martin. Mr.. Martin will Immediately
begin the active development Of the
property.
A 160-foot tunnel at one of the Freed
properties in the Caballo mountains has
entered a large deposit of a green and
gray copper ore, yielding from So to 40
per cent.
J. e. Collard has taken a big lease on
the Lookout Mountain.
JARILLA, OTERO COUNTY.
The Mamie Baird, Lucky, May Z,
| Come Eleven, and Lincoln, all owned by
the Eddy brothers, are being rapidly de-
veloped and are now considered steady
shippers. The Mamie Baird and Lucky
have been provided with such railway
facilities that the ore Is loaded auto
m%atically in the cars, when hoisted from
the mines, without extra handling.
The Three Friends shaft Is now down
81 feet, and the work of. sinking will be
reached. The values range from So to
$40 per ton. Ell Paso capital Is back of
the enterprise.
A rich ore shoot has been opened in
the Maggie mine, adjoining the Mamie
Baird. The property is developed by an
incline shaft to a depth Of $50 feet. Il
will be added to the list of regular ship
pers.
Rich ore has been found in the Wa
Dog, owned by Smith & Kelly, and in
the Evening Sun, owned by Smith &
Rivers. The workings are too shallow
to ascertain the true worth of the val
ues, and sinking will be continued at a
rapid rate.
Samuel Spaulding has found a rich
prospect, which returned him an assay
Of 40 per cen copper to the ton.
Preparations are being made on the
Mamie Biard to put in air drills and
sink the shaft to a depth of 1000 feet.
The Lucky shipped three cars Of ore
property is equipped with a steam
hoist and the latest mining machinery
The st. Louis Copper Company ship
ped three cars of high-grade copper ore
to st. Louis last week.
Florencio Luna has a large force OF
men at work on his turquoise property,
and has recently made a shipment Of 81
pounds Of the stones to New York.
The railway company has inaugural
ed a low freight rate on ores to Ell Paso
anu Is eLucdNoili6 III CVeIy way W NV
the prospectors and operators in devel-
oping the camp. On SO ores or less the
freight is. 81 per ton, and the rate in
creases with the value of the ore ship.
ped.
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