Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-14
NEW MEXICO MINES
COLFAX COUNTY.

General Belden and w. H. King are
working on their placers on the Paul,
below the Wallace diggings They have
a reservoir which covers ten acres.
The North Star tunnel has cut the
vein at rs feet. An incline shaft follows
the ore 80 feet. There is feet of ore
running 81 to S. per ton. A streak of
higher grade ore of about 20 inches in
width lies on the foot wall, and assays
$55 per ton. The owners are Henry
Pritchard and N. J. Thatcher, of Den
ver
The Iron Bird has an SO-foot shaft on
the vein, and tunnel $50 feet, which
will reach the vein with about 250 feet
more work.
The Challenge has an 1S-inch vein,
from which considerable high grade
free gold ore has been taken. The shaft
is down in the vein 80 feet. A working
tunnel to cut the vein at 600 feet depth
is in IS feet. Forty sacks Of the ore
shipped to Pueblo gave smelter returns
of $43 per ton.
The Hematite Tunnel Company has
cut it's tunnel 200 feet.
The Black Wizard in Hematite camp
has 200 feet tunneling on 3-foot vein
Of ore running go per ton. An S-foot
vein has been cut, showing values of
about SO per ton.
The sale of the Big Mike and other
properties on the Red river, the starting
up of the Black Copper and the work on
the Franklyn placers is building up the
new mining camp of Franklyn. A store
and a postoffice are promised for the
near future.
The Black Copper people are putting
in the best equipped hosting plant in
the Elizabethtown district. A large
boiler with sufficient capacity to run the
hoist and a mill which is to be built in
the near future has been put in posi-
tion.
foot shaft on the Iron Bird vein. A tun-
mel is now being run to cut the vein at
greater depth. The tunnel has been
driven 900 feet, and the lead has been
cut at 200 feet.
Messrs. Bowman and Whitescarver
have made strike of good ore in their
205-foot tunnel on the Maxwell. Mill
run tests have given them $109 in gold
per ton.
Ore has been found on the Black Wiz
ard that assays from SO to $50 per ton.
An SO-foot shaft has been sunk on the
Challenge. Tunnels % and 65 feet long
have been finished.
Development work on the principal
working shaft of the Hidden Treasure
has reached depth Of 40 feet. At the
16O-foot level drift has been run from
the shaft distance Of So feet. The main
tunnel and incline is in 1922 feet, reach
ing the main shaft. For about 270 feet
the tunnel follows the dip of the vein
A shaft 70 feet deep strikes this tun-
mel at 125 feet from its mouth. Another
tunnel has been driven from the surface
on the vein, following it for a distance
Of 100 feet. The ore is free milling, and
is in a vein varying from - to 30 inches
in width. 1t is true fissure vein, and
1900 tons of ore is in sight. A sample
run taken from near the breast Of the
tunnel and treated by the cyanide proc
ess returned $75.15 per ton. Other as
says and tests made on ore from differ
ent parts of the workings have given
returns from $12 to 500 per ton. Sam
Piles taken along the entire length Of the
vein gave $3.50 per ton. The ore has
been treated in an arrastra, saving over
$40 per ton. The property is equipped
with steam hosting plant. 1t is pat
ented and owned by the Jetta Gold
Mining Company.
The Ajax mill will start up this week.
The last run on the Aztec mill at
Baldy produced 5S ounces per ton.
The Maxwell, in the Hematite dis
trict, has made a mill run on so pounds
which gave returns Of $109 per ton. 1t
has 2OO-foot tunnel. the breast Of
which is 45 feet from the lead.