Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-14

modern machinery. Some big plant
are going in this spring. Eighteen mile
away, to the east, is IL mountain Of irOi
ore which is to be experimental upol
! by Edison. the electrician. He il
, coming out from New York this sum
mer, and if reports are to be credited
we will see some big operations befor'
the end of the year.
The Silver City Reduction Work.
owned by tho Hearst estate are among
the most important in the territory. S
Il. Bretherton is their general manager
The most noticeable feature that strike.
the visitor to the work is their cleanli
ness and the good repair in which every
building is kept. Lying close to eacl
other are found gold, silver, copper and
lead ore. Huge chunks of rock are
placed i'll the teeth of the crushers anC
reduced to a sand-like fineness. To
prevent the sailing of the ore. no one is
allowed in the assay Office except the
assayers. Some of the ore is very valua
Bile, not only the gold and silver ore, but
also the copper ore from the famous
Santa Rita mines. The ore after it is
crushed is wheeled to the blast furnaces
out of which it comes in a molten state.
After cooling it is shipped to the re-
finery. A duplicate Of the general and
assay offices which burned down in the
latter part of last month, is in course of
erection and almost completed. A
brick stack 125 feet high carries away
the sulphur fumes and is one of the
latest Improvements. An idea of the
cost of the plant may be gained from
the fact that, one of the machines,
known as the briqueting appliance, cost
$4,000. Over 100 men are employed day
and night at the plant.
The W. H. Martin Company of Rose
dale, Socorro county. forwarded to Den.
yer Il gold brick, worth S3,595.73, the
output of the company's stamp mill for
30 days. -...
William Duran, of White Oaks, is
developing a fine mine in the JicarIlas
and has had some tlattering assays from
the Ell Paso smelter.
NJ. f. Atkinson and Dr. Main are
putting an elaborate equipment of
placer machinery on their claims in the
Jicarillas.
Superintendent Wells and his assist
ant Mr.. Shoemaker together with force
OF workers, are encamped near Gray in
the Saado district, and have commenced
work on the coal mines in that vicinity.
In the Sacramento mountains j. c.
Tucker, William Warner and Joseph
Smith have located a copper claim in
Dry canon near Alamogordo, which at
a depth gives value Of $l9O to $3.50 IL
ton. Charles E. Workman. Charles
Beasley, N. Olson, John Chaplin and
Samuel Dowell have located the Flag
staff near there and it yields promising
values of gold and silver. The Commo-
dore, owned by William Warner and
Joseph Smith has good prospects. Two
prospectors from Leadvile, Colo, are
sinking shaft on claim which yielded
So gold and SO silver at the grass
roots Experienced prospectors say
that the entire western slope of the
Sacramento mountains is well miner
allied and predict that some valuable
mines will be opened this season. The
formation is granite and limestone con-
tact, interspersed by porphyry dikes
and veins of quartz and spar. Tho
leads are al. well developed and can be
easily followed.
Edwin Boyce kimball, of British Col
umbia, is inspecting DR., Driscoll's Tim
Der Peak mines in Socorro county.