Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-25
They Are. Wide And Profitable With
Free Milling Surface Ores.
CAMP ATTRACTING ATTENTION
Modern Plants Going in to Handle the Ores
From the Lower Levels-A Glance
At the Heavy Producers.

500, O00, ground out on huntington ana
stamp mills, both without c%oncentrat-
ing tables, and to a great extent on the
primitive arrastra, as a consequence of
which methods an amount of values
equal to if not greater than those saved
has been lost in the tailings of the mines
worked in these districts.
The property which ranks first in the
Ute creek district as a producer is the
Aztec, located on the summit Of the d.
viding ridge between Ute creek and Po-
nil creek. Over 81, 900, 900 have been
taken out Of this mine and out of shall
low surface workings only, no great
depth having yet been reached. When
lower levels are opened up an enormous
yield may be expected The vein is a
contact, from 8 to 20 feet in thickness.
Its general dip is 80 to As degrees from
the vertical. The ore bodies on the vein
will run from $40 to $40, free milling,
besides the values in the concentrates.
There has been run 5000 feet Of tun-
nels and drifts and 600 feet of shafts,
opening the mine for 1,2OO feet on the
vein and to a depth Of about 300 feet.
There are several smaller veins, which
are assure veins, in the quartzite, from
4 to 10 inches in thickness, very rich,
and showing large quantities Of wire
gold. The mine is equipped with a 1000
gravity tramway and a forty-stamp
mill.
Adjoining the Aztec on the southeast
is the Ben-Hur. On the southwest are
the Azurite, the Nancy Hanks, the
Mountain Lion and the Rosita. The Ro-
sta has a 30-foot shaft, showing a vein
7 feet in width, and gives assay of
from $2S to $233 gold.
The next heaviest producer in the Ute
creek district is the Montezuma, which
is credited with a yield of more than
$780, 900 free gold, none of the refractory
portion of the ore having been saved.
The vein is from 3 to 6 feet between
walls, and is a nearly vertical assure
vein, cutting through porphyry and the
strata of limestone, which is the bed
rock Of the country. 1t lies on Monte
yuma hill, and adjoining it, on the same
vein, are the Bull-of-the- Woods and
Homestake mines, which together have
about 1000 feet development and have
each produced several fortunes in free
gold.
Adjoining the Montezuma on the
south is the Reel, a recent location,
owned by William Reel and Baron Van
Zuylen. A tunnel has just cut the weir
at 300 feet, and shows a 1O-inch streak
that will plate from 3 to 5 ounces. Six
feet Of vein matter yields IS to 81 free
milling. The higher grade ore is being
sacked for treatment on the Biddle mill
on the Ponil, and the lower grade will
be stored up for treatment IN the
ground. A stream of water running by
the mouth Of the tunnel would furnish
an ample supply of water for a mill.
Below the Reel mine, on the same
vein, is the Mountain Queen, which is
being operated under lease by John
Johnson. In addition to the vein opened
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vein Of refractory ore that returns from
S to 6 unce per ton. The ore from this
vein is sacked as taken out, for ship
ment, and the free milling ore is treated
results. The proceeds from this opera
ton and from sluicing several thousand
tons Of dump thrown aside as waste by
former operators, pays the expenses OF
working the mine with a force of six
men.
The Rebel Chief group lies next to the
Mountain Queen, and consists of six
claims, covering 4,500 feet in length and
1900 feet in width, on which has beer
done 1000 feet of work in tunnels, drifts
and shafts. 1t is a assure vein in por-
phyry, with a dip Of 20 to 80 degrees. A
mill and concentrating plant has beer
built, to be opened on ore from the
group.
The Black Horse group consists OF
three claims of $500 feet each on one
vein, and two claims of 1,500 feet eacf
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tant. The pay streak is from 2 to 6 fee
in width, and runs from SO to 500
about one-half free milling. A tramwa!
1900 feet long connects with the mill
a thirty-stamp plant, on Black Hors'
gulch, a tributary of Ute creek.
On the east slope of Old Badly AM
within a short distance of the SUNNI
Is the Gibsonburg group, on whicl
about 1000 feet Of development hav
been done to date. A force of men /
kept at work opening up the mine an
blocking out ore for reduction works
which will be begun as soon as a deci
sion is reached on tests which have JUS
been made to determine the best mod
of treatment of the ores. One vein Q
16 feet, carrying copper and lead, is i
itself a bonanza.
The placers Of Ute creek district yiel
their annual returns, varying with tn
water supply Of each season. It's ne,
mines are opened up and development
pushed on old ones, and, water in
creased, the volume of the output q
these placers may be expected to in
crease in proportion. A ditch or pip
line eleven miles in length to bring /
the water Of the Cimarron would, 1t
estimated, enlarge the working capac
ity Of the hydraulic plants now in or
Grafton as to increase the yield to nc
less than $4,000 per annum. The gold
coarse, and the output consists to