Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-31
NEW MEXICO MINES
COCHITI.

Twenty-Five feet of tunnel on the
Crown Point has been completed, and
the mineral bearing quartz encountered
during the work is very satisfactory to
the owners.
]. A. Hunt has resigned his position
chief engineer at the Bland mill, and
will go to Lower California.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Progress on the Lady Godiva shaft
has been much retarded by a strata of
very hard formation.
The Gumm company's cyanide plant
has been closed for want of cyanide,
which has Deer delayed on account OF
the heavy rains making the roads i'm
passable.
GRANT COUNTY.
The Pinos Altos Gold Mining Com
pany has a force of laborers employed
upon the grade and trench for the pipe
line from the Gebhardt George Cienega
to Pinos Altos. The line will be five
miles in length.
The Gillette shaft, on the Pacific vein
at Pinos Altos, is 700 feet in depth, and
levels will be run from the 70O-foot
point, although the shaft will be con-
tinued to a depth of 1000 feet, levels be-
ing run at intervals of 100 feet. Good
gold ore is showing up at every point.
The extensive drifts run under Whis-
ky creek valley for the catchment and
OF ora 90 pF 1uofar for Tcn of tha TavoC
mill are completed, and the mill will
soo be put in operation.
A fine stope Of ore, showing a large
body Of concentrating ore, has just been
opened between the 400 and 500 foot
levels on the Texas mine at Central.
Herbert Bishop made a shipment of
ten tons of rich ore from his Baltic
cas- at Chloride Flat.
Z. c. Whitehill and H. l.. Dotson have
taken a lease upon the FIagler mine at
Chloride Fiat.
Antonio Olguin, Of Chloride Flat, has
struck rich silver ore IN his leased
ground on the Grand Central.
Roach & Fisher made a ten-ton ship
ment Of rich silver ore in one day from
their lease on the Baltic al Chloride
Fiat.
"A big silver deposit has been discov-
cred by Manuel Taylor on the Grand
Central at Chloride Flat. Christian Sell
man and Stephen Corley have a force
of miners at work drifting from the bot
tom of a 5O-foot shaft on their leased
ground on the same mine.
Fisher, Roach & Bishop made a joint
shipment Of a car load Of rich silver ore
from their leases in the Chloride Flat
camp.
Considerable development work is be-
ing done in the White Signal district.
Denver parties are interested.
r. L. Powell has a small force of men
at work at Gold Hill, and the camp
promises to be booming before long.
The old Johnny Bull mine, near
Stems pass, has been reopened by w
c. Henry, representing New York cap
italists. The ore is h~igh-grade silver
and lead, and will be worked in a sys-
tematic manner
Operations have been suspended at
Paschal by the Southwestern Copper
Company, while Messrs. Thompson and
Martyr continue to work their claims at
Paschal. The Southwestern Copper
Company shut down for an examination
to be made by parties who intend to buy
the mine.
Manager e. s. Bretherton, Of the Sill
yer City reduction works, has intro
duced a e method for heating the
blast by mea of heat radiated from
blast furnace Stag. By this means he
has succeeded largely in reducing the
percentage Of coke and very materially
increased the capacity Of the furnace.
He has had his system patented. The
blast is heated from 500 to 900 degrees
by the apparatus. The furnace former
ly smelted fifty tons of ore, but now
smelts eighty tons.
Gilchrist & Dawson are shipping ter
tons of copper-iron ore daily from the
Jim Thayer mine at Hanover.
Joseph Schlosser is working on a good
body Of copper ore on the Humboldt
mine, Hanover. The ore body shows
along the claim for a distance Of ove
800 feet as far as stripped. The ore run:
from 8 to 20 per cent copper, with al
excess of iron.
Garrett Cochrane has opened a 81
| foot yotn Of ncnnar -iron o,,o ,,poo -,
of the RUDE Bennett mines, which he Il
developing al Hanover.
T. B. Atwood has sunk a 50-foot shat
upon the Rather at Hanover, and il
drifting from the bottom of the shaft.
On the Arson S., at Hanover, the worl
of pumping out and repairing the shat,
is being prosecuted with vigor. Tit
mine produced large quantities of high.
grade copper ore in its early history.
The old shaft on the Hanover mine II
being pumped out and the old working.
drained as rapidly as possible. In thu
meantime two new shafts have beer
sunk to tap the ore body, M having
reached the depth Of rs feet and the 9th.
err of 65 feet. Drifts have been started
to connect with the ore bodies in the
old workings.
Every foot Of development work or
the Bragaw & Potter Modoc group al
Hanover shows an increase Of the or
bodies. One body of ore partially devel'
oped is over 16 feet wide. It gives a goot
percentage Of copper and carries a larg,
excess Of iron.
Fritter & Worthen are mining 100 tom
per day on the Montoya, at Santa Rita
on contract for Crawford & Derbyshire
About 1000 tons reserve is mined aheat
of the mill capacity.
Crawford & Derbyshire will continu,
to run their concentration plant at San
ia Rita after the other leases expire, a
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