Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-09
NEW MEXICO MINES.

Parties from the Sandia Mountains
near Bernalillo are bringing in fine min
eral specimens carrying 20 per cent cop
per and considerable gold and silver.
Now that the La Huerta grant, locat-
ed in Santa Fe and Bernalillo counties,
has been thrown open to the public,
mining operations have begun there,
and fine ore is being hauled nine miles
by wagon and then carried 80 miles by
rail to Cerrillos to the smelter there.
These shipments are now becoming
regular. Quite an influx of miners is
promised by spring,
Otto w. Anthony, of the Mimbres val
ley, will search in the Sierra Madres for
the lost Spanish mine of fabulous
wealth.
Captain Peter Scott is preparing to
leave Denver for Socorro to begin work
on a 15O-ton concentration plant for the
Timber Peak company. The mill will be
ready in three weeks, and have $50 tons
daily capacity, with two large ore
crushers, six sets of finishing rolls and
20 frue vanners of the latest pattern
with iron frames.
There is great activity in the Pinos
Altos gold belt owing to the extensive
operation of the Hearst estate. The es-
tate company will increase it's local
mining capacity to 200 tons per day, and
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huahua. All the ~neighboring mining
properties are turning out finely.
]. M. Moad is getting fine galena ore
out of the Esther tunnel in Red River
district.
The Aztec mine near Elizabethtown is
again a bonanza. A 12-foot vein has
been found in the lower level running
from $SS to 500 per ton, and 20 stamps
are kept at work On this ore. A vein in
an upper level has been cut two to four
feet wide, carrying $50 to $100 to the ton.
The Confidence Mining Company, of
Elizabethtown, has ordered a new mill,
to be ready by February 20. Whitley con-
centrators will be put in, and the mills
capacity will be from 40 to so tons daily.
The entire new plant will cost SIS, 1000.
The Blue Bandana shaft, near Eliza
BEETHOVEN, is now down over 200 feet,
and into very rich quartz.
Over 20 men were working on Bitter
creek, Red River, for wages last week.
There are a good many prospectors
going into the Sacramento mountains,
Notwithstanding the time of year, many
being from Ell Paso.
Messrs. Stanley and Weimer, of Taos,
have returned to Amizett to continue
the development of their mining prop
critics during the winter.
Unusual activity has of late charac-
terized the Aztec, Black Copper, Ajax
and other mining camps in the Eliza
BEETHOVEN and Badly districts on ac-
count of the rich strikes made there.
Colorado men and capital are pouring
in so that it is predicted that 1899 will
prove a record breaker. Colonel R. c..
Wilson,, of Cripple Creek, and the
Messrs. Teller, of Denver, with Chicago
capitalists, have secured a bond on a
new Aztec discovery and will operate
the same with a company backed by
81, 1000, 900 capital. The discovery is a 12-
foot vein carrying $12 to $50 ore in gold.
Twenty stamps are already at work on
the ore, and 20 more will be started as
as the snow begins to melt. Baron
Van Zulen has just sold one of his Az
tee properties to Colorado parties for
$40, 900, one-half being cash down.
The new strike in the New Moon at
Elizabethtown yields $50 per ton in gold,
1920 in silver, from a three-foot vein in
a 40-foot drift.