Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-02
NEW MEXICO MINES
ELIZABETHTOWN

The inferno tunnel, on Pioneer Gulch
is now over 700 feet and has struck a
fine quartz lead, between well defined
walls, seven feet wide.
The Grand Central tunnel at La Belle
has been driven into the mountain over
300 feet.
At the Bitter Creek mines a good
many nuggets worth from 800 to IS. 90
are being found.
There are six mills in operation at
Elizabethtown and almost as many more
in the immediate vicinity of the camp.
w. c. Whitescarver has established a
wood camp on Ute creek. He has con-
tracted to deliver 1000 cords of wood to
the Aztec mill.
The Aztec has been sold to the Badly
Gold Mining and Milling Company. FL.
Lutzikerchen is the superintendent.
The Red Bandana will resume opera
lions this month.
w. S. Scott and Theodore Connard
went to the Upper Red River to spend a
month working on their gold claims.
B. j. Young and associates are going
to erect a stamp mill at Red River.
COCHITI.
Il. O. Conner of Boulder, inspected
the Peralta canon with a view of invest
ing for Colorado capitalists who, If they
can secure the right kind of property,
intend to spend large sums of money to
develop it.
w. c. Wynkoop of Denver, has taken
the first steps toward erecting the new
10O-ton Albemarle mill. The work will
probably be completed in five or six
months.
John Wallace and D. H. Potter have
located a claim in Peralta canon and
called it the Peacock. They have com
menced assessment work.
David +. Meiklejohn of Butte, Mont,
who has been attending Stanford uni
versity in California, will relieve j. I.
Seaman as assistant assayer at Bland
in order to give Mr.. Seaman a chance
to visit Kansas, Nebraska and Mis-
souri,.
Charles Pilkey, a contractor, and two
dozen Indians, are working on the five
mile extension of the pipe line from the
AlbemarIe to the Vale Grande.
GRANT COUNTY.
Rich copper strikes were made in the
Florida mountains, in the southern part
of Grant county.
John L. Burnside and B. c. Gillette
have leased and are putting in shape for
operation the Mcdaniel concentrating
mill at Cooks Peak. A Witty table will
be added and the plant will be ready for
operation by July /.
Frank Bell is shipping a carload of
ore per week, which nets him $500 per
car. The ore is heavy iron, and carries
gold and silver in paying quantities, the
gold approximating SIT per ton. The
ore is shipped from Hanover.
A number of shipments of rich ore
were recently made from Chloride Flat.
The camp has taken a new lease of life.
Chris Sellman and Steve Cawley have
secured a lease of the old Wagner mine,
now owned by Manuel Taylor. The ore
of the mine is high grade silver.
A. Witzel and associates, of Silver
City, have taken a bond and lease on a
property belonging to the H. J. Hutch
inson estate at Hanover.
A party OF Colorado mining experts
are prospecting between the head of the
Hanover and Single n
Many copper properties are being
developed around Deming and there is
scarcely a man in the city who does not
carry specimens in his pocket.
Many valuable copper properties are
south of Deming not far from the Mex
leo line and along the proposed Colum-
bus & Northern railroad.
B. C. Gillette has secured a lease and
Copper Rose mining claims in the Santa
Rita district owned by Judge Lucas and
John M. Clark.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Bennett & Friedenblum have done 800
feet Of work at the mouth Of Bear
canon. One body of ore, which they
took to be decomposed iron, proved to
be chloride of lead, which also run we'll
in silver.
Breeze & Hagen have struck it rich in
a mining claim north of Three Bears.
They encountered a 14-inch streak
which runs over 5000 per ton. The
claim is owned by 2. f. Garrett, w. H.
Llewellyn, J.. Hagen and Adam and Lee
Breeze.
The Torpedo mine, at Organ, has de-
veloped a body Of ore that runs IA to 16
per cent. of copper.
Robert Barsch has discovered a good
copper lead near Martins ranch that
runs $1O4 per ton.
OTERO COUNTY.
B. A. Nymeyer has several carloads
of ore on his dump at the Frog mine at
Salina Peak which runs sixty per cent
copper. He is working a two foot per-
pendicular vein in a blue and gray gra-
mite contact and is now down sixty feet.
The John Murdoch prospect near Sa-
linas Peak runs $24.7 rs in gold near the
surface.
About twenty prospects have been
opened up at Salina Peak.
George G. Hopkins is loading a car
with copper ore from the Nellie mine
near Alamogordo. This ore runs from
80 to IS per cent in copper, $500 in gold
and 4 to 8 ounces In silver.
In San Andres canon Mr.. Hopkins
has five mines on a vein 100 feet wide.
1t is a low grade lead and silver pro-
position with about IL per cent lead and
8 ounces of silver with streaks of lead
ore running go to so per cent.
w. e. Hullett has made a>big copper
strike in the White mountains. 1t is q
small mountain Of low grade copper
ore running four to five per cent on the
surface.