Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-14
MINING MATTERS
Decision As to Publication of Ap-
plication for Patents.
ACTIVE WORK In TERRITORY
Notes from Camps in Various Sections
q Development on the New Line of
Railway in 0tero and Lin
coin Counties.

statute requires that notice of an ap-
plication for "a patent for a mining claim
be published for 60 days and that all ad-
verse claims be filed during the 60 days.
Heretofore when notice was published
in weekly newspaper ten consecutive
insertions were held necessary Under
this rule the tenth insertion always oc-
ours after the expiration Of the period
required.
At Hanover the railway is being ex-
tended to handle the enormous output
of the mines. Two shippers are sending
two car loads of iron ore daily to Pueblo
and much goes to Silver City. The
Standard Oil Company is working a
force of men on the Whitney property.
Rodgers e. Allen are preparing to build
a 100ton smeter for custom work. St.
Louis parties have leased the Bragaw-
Potter property and will put in con
centrating pant.
G. G. Pitrat has contrat to put in an
electric light plant at the Timber Peak
mine in Water canon.
The Bank OF Deming has purchased
the Dell mine in the Hillsboro district ut
mortgage sale for S3,o12.
The following notices of mining loca-
tions have been filed: Dewey lode, in
Bernalillo mining district, by John d.
Hart; Sampson and Hobson lodes, in
Bernalillo mining district, by r. M.
Coiley; Schley lode, in Bernalillo mining
district, by Geo. Alexander; Robert lode,
Cochti mining district. by j. g. Schu-
mann.
At Hillsboro an agent of Andrew Car
ter =, has been sampling the manganese
ascertain their value for the manufact-
ure Of armor plate. Frank l. Given re-
Gently disposed of a half interest in his
Richmond gulch property to Scott F.
associates have purchased a half inter-
est in the Scandia mine, owned by Lar
son and Silene, and will construct
tramway to transport the ore direct to
the Porter MILL The price paid for the
interest was $6,5OO T. F. Chapman has
bonded the Happy Jack. Much leasing
and trading of leases is reported
Ed. M. Hand, formerly of Silver City,
is prospecting in the Philippines for a
Holland syndicate. The company has
a large concession. He reports: "Out
Of 80 assays so far have only found a
trace of gold and they were from places
that were supposed to go $40 or over.'
Mining around Ilizabethtown indi-
Gates much activity. Competent judg-
es state that go per cent. of the lode
propositions discovered in that district
and now in various stages of working
and development are of a refractory
nature, yet the free milling propositions
are anything but insignificant There
are fully 1,500 people in the district all
busy and happy, and there is a steady
influx of new capital and new labor.
Otto K. Dorm and D. B. Merry, the
latter assistant engineer of the Maxwell
Grant company, will establish mining
exchange and assay office at Elizabeth
town.
The American Flag Extension mine,
about one mile from Elizabethtown, is
being worked day and night by three
shifts Of men. Some delay had been
caused this winter by the erection of
blacksmith shop, cabins, barns and 9TH
er necessary buildings. The mine is
owned by Cleveland, Ohio, parties.
Thirty to forty men are employed at
the Aztec mine, which is one of the pro-
ducers at Elizabethtown. The largest
veins run from $40 to SIS gold per ton.
The ore is free milling and the 40-stamp
mill which does the work was recently
changed from the slow drop stamp to
the quick drop type.
Eastern capitalists are negotiating for
the purchase of the Bob Tail mine near
Elizabethtown. Mcintyre & Davis, the
operators of the mine, ask $13,5O0 for it,
They recently struck two veins. The
smaller one is very rich, the free gold
being plainly discernible in the ore.
The ore runs from s12 to SIS ton.
The Confidence Mining company Is
now engaged in putting electric ma
chinery in their mill at Whitewater.
A shaft is being sunk in the Blue Ban
dana mine near Ehzabethtown. At 1926
feet bedrock has been struck. Kansas
City parties own the mine.
The output of the Hillsboro gold
mines for the first month of April was
2S5 tons, making $3.50 tons since jan
| uary, 1899.
| New and rich strikes are reported
from the Printer Boy and American
mines, near Hillsboro.
The gold production of the Hillsboro
district for the month of March amoun-
ted to $780, of which amount $3.50 was
in nuggets ranging in size from small
to large beans.
Hillsboro offers a free site for the
home for old and disabled miners which
the Western Federation Of Miners pro-
poses to build. Sites for the institution
have also been offered in Utah, Colora-
do and Nevada.
FL Paso and Las Cruces parties are
investigating the copper properties in
the San Andres mountains.
j. w. Jones & Company, Of Socorro
have been awarded the contract tc
furnish the salt for the stamp mill al
Mogollon. The salt will be taken out
of the Salt Lake, near Quemado, So
corro county.
Jimmie Lynch, one of the mining
magnates of New Mexico, says the Den
yer News, for quarter of century
has pinned his faith to Elizabethtown
a mining camp on the northern
border of New Mexico. He is today es
timated at $95O,OOO. 1.-The district,
said he, "is as good as ever as gold pro
ducing region, but operations of the fu
ture must be carried ON by means O