Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-14
NEW MEXICO MINES
COCHITI DISTRICT.

The Victor has 35 feet of unnel show
ing a full breast of pure quartz which
assays $40 in gold and $4.67 in silver.
On the surface at the mouth of the tun-
mel the ledge matter is fully 20 feet in
width and is a fine white quartz. The
Criterion and Burt complete the
Victor group of mines and have been
opened by Is and 20 feet of tunnel re-
spectively Assays average a little over
IS per ton in gold.
R. R. Ripley, of Denver, has accepted
the position of bookkeeper with the Co.
chiti Gold Mining company.
The annual assessment work on the
High Tide, Laura s.. and Hillside is be-
ing done by James d. May.
Henry Peard has located a mining
claim in Horse canon. He will go to
work at once and sink a shaft.
A 30-foot drift has been driven on
the Independent owned by John O'Con-
nor.
The Victor group owned by a syndi-
cate OF Santa Fe railroad conductors is
a good prospect. At one point on the
claim an outcrop of quartz standing 20
feet in height and from two to six feet
in width is in plain sight. A short dis
lance from the outcrop a shaft has been
sunk to a depth of 70 feet, showing a
light-colored quartz the entire distance
OF the workings. At the bottom a drift
has been run Is feet for the purpose of
prosecuting the ledge. The values in
the shaft and crosscut range from So to
$l4 in gold with only a few ounces in
| SiIVnr AprnSS tho rp1oh On fLo D,u.o,
one of the group. a tunnel has been
driven AZ feet and the ore encountered
assays 1875 per ton. An outcrop near
the tunnel measures seven feet above
the ground and five feet in width.
TAOS COUNTY.
The Black Copper people at Red River
have commenced to ship ore to the Eliza
BEETHOVEN mill and if after a run of fifty
tons the Ellspass mill process will save
the values OF the ore they will erect
such a mill on their property.
e. G. Abbott is building a mile and a
half ditch from Grouse creek to Placer
creek for the purpose of washing on the
Iron placer.
The Lone Star now known as the
Brookland mine will be in operation
again in the near future. The mine is
situated in the Amizett district and has
a vein which at the bottom of the shaft
Is 20 feet wide and shows rich sulphide
OF copper with gold and silver.
The third cross-cut on the Iron Dyke
tunnel nearly 400 feet under the hill
shows over 25 feet of vein matter. For
mer cross-cutS have shown 80 to go feet
between the walls.
A shaft so feet deep has been sunk on
the Gold Queen.
o. Helphenstine and j. Hill expect to
cut the vein on the Yellow Jacket. Near
the surface the vein runs heavily with
argentiferous galena.
Stanley & Weimer are running a deep
trench on the top of Gold Hill.
1t is expected that work will be re-
sumed on the Fraser properties and that
a mill to treat the ore will be erected on
the property.
Work has been resumed on the Gold
Queen.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
A. M. Armstrong of White Oaks, has
been awarded the contract at the Old
Abe %Company's coal mines to mine and
deliver the coal into the company's bins
for $1.10 a ton. White brothers have
a contract to haul the coal to the COM
pany's gold mine and mill.
d. B. Merry of the Elizabethtown
mining bureau, has located a number
OF mining properties in Lincoln county.
the principal mi of which is on Lone
mountain.
The shaft on the Lady Godiva is going
down as fast as machine drills can force |
it. The 70O-foot level has been reached.
White Oaks now has four mines with
an average in depth of more than 1000
feet. Two of these, the Old Abe and the
North homestake, are the deepest dry
mines in the world.
A number of prospecting camps have
been established in the Oscura noun
tains, which are said to be very rich in
copper. Two or three companies from
albuquerque, as well as White Oaks and
Jlcarilla people are on the ground. In
some places copper is found in blanket
while in other localities rich
veins have been discovered and ship
ments to the El Paso smelters will soon
be made.
GRANT COUNTY.
Work on the Gilchrist-D Dawson lease
near Hanover has been suspended tenn
porarily on account of railroad supplies
blocking the wagon road.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
has commenced work on the Hugo mine
Santa Rita.
Suit for the recovery of the Pescada and
Terrace mines at Santa Rita has been
brought in the district court by Albert
Burrage VS.. Ayrus Hamilton.
A strike vas made on the Humboldt
near Hanover.
Thomas s. Parker is shipping 80 per
cent copper from his Burro Chief
mine In the Burro mountains.
The Hanover No. 2 tunnel at Hanover
$ driving in pyritic iron, but some dis
ance must be run yet before pay ore
will be struck.