Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-10
HANOVER is HAPPY
Most Prosperous Mining Camps in
the Southwest Are Found in
Grant County.
SANTA FE Is INTERESTED
Charles A. Scheurich Returns Home from
Trip to the Great Copper and Iron
Camp and Is Enthusiastic Over
Its Prospects.

Charles Scheurich has returned home
from a trip to Hanover in company
with A.. w. Tenant. Mr.. Scheu-
rich was greatly impressed with the
camp, and declares it to be the greatest
copper district in the country. There
is unparalleled activity around Han
over and Santa Rita. The Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company has 100 teams
going constantly hauling ore to the de-
pot. The arrival of the railroad at the
camp will double the output of the dis
trict, and many mines will be worked
that are now idle. Every foot of ground
is staked out, and the new town of
Dewey is entirely laid out on mineral
claims.
Laborers from over in Mexico are
employed On most of the mines. There
is no lack of laborers in the district;
still, Americans are gradually being
employed at some of the mines. The
small lessees of the Hearst claims are
overjoyed at the recent change of own
ership, for now they can take their ore
to market wherever they please, and
where they ear get the best prices.
On the Bragaw-Potter mines, recent
ly sold to New York parties by Mr..
Tenant, three shafts are being sunk.
In one shaft, at the depth of 60 feet,
solid ore has been struck that is over
10 feet thick. At the depth of 40 feet
there is another body of ore 6 feet thick
of azurite and diorite ore. A concen-
traitor will probably be erected at the
| mine at once. Another shaft being sunk
| at present will probably cut three rich
| veins, two of which are probably 100
| and 10 feet thick.
On T. B. Catron's mine there is much
/ activity at present, and plenty of fine
ore is being taken out. At Hanover it
is reported that Mr.. Catron sold his
interest in the mine, but Mr.. Catron
denied this a short time ago, saying
that he had merely leased the mine to
a Silver City party.
The silver mines at Georgetown are
idle, but there is considerable activity
at Cooks Peak. Considerable zinc is
| also being shipped from the immediate
vicinity of Hanover. The Mineral Point
Zinc Company, of Wisconsin, which
operates through it's agent, William
Swancoat, has been doing it's work so
| quietly for years that few outsiders
have any idea to what proportions the
business has grown. Many car loads of
high-grade ore are being shipped to the
east.
In Carpenter district, on the western
slope of the Black range or Mimbres
mountains, are located very rich as we'll
as extensive deposits of zinc, yet those
fields are worked only in a desultory
manner, and lie idle at present. South
of Carpenter district, about ten miles,
are large deposits of zinc, which merely
await capital and enterprise to become
paying mines. Near Georgetown are
immense deposits of zinc, and only one
year ago shipments valued at $1,000
| were made from that deposit.
There are mines innumerable at Han
over, and everybody anXiously awaits
the coming Of the railroad. Most of the
miners are putting the ore on dumps
until the railroad reaches the camp.
Many of the mines are very accessible
to the railroad now being built, and
grades are as easy as can be expected
in a billy country.
No rain has fallen at Hanover for
many months, yet water can be secured
anywhere in the camp by sinking. Veg
citation is luxuriant. Mr.. Scheurich saw
century plants in bloom, and brought
along a can Of mahogany that was cut
in Grant county. The evenings at
Hanover are even cooler than at Santa
Fe. Mr.. Scheurich also brought a splen-
did collection Of ore samples. Some
specimens of ore taken from Mr.. Ten
nant's mine are almost pure copper, and
are as pretty samples as ever were
found.