Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-10
NEW MEXICO MINES
GRANT COUNTY.

GRANT COUNTY.
A. b. Laird and O. X. Nelson, of Sill
yer City, are prospecting at Stems Pass.
The Pinos Altos Gold Mining Company
has placed IN order for a large concen-
trating mill at Chicago. The company
is continuing extensive development
work on the Pacific vein.
Development work on the Texas mine
at Central is showing up extensive ore
bodies of good value in gold and silver.
The new wells and underground reser-
voirs furnish an ample supply of water.
The mill has been started on day and
night run.
The mine recently located near Lords
burg by jeremiah Uries, of Ell Paso, and
now owned by the Ell Paso Mining Com
pany, has commenced shipping ore. The
ore assays $50 per ton. There are eight
stockholders in the company and SO fat
only $3.50 has been expended on the
property.
The leases upon the company mines at
Santa Rita have all expired except that
of Crawford & Derbyshire which runs
until January /, 1900. Work on all
other parts Of the mines has been sus-
pended. The Crawford & Derbvshire
mill is running its concentrating plant
at the rate of 100 tons of ore per day.
OTERO COUNTY.
Ore is being shipped from the 65-foot
drift of the Lucky in the Jarillas. The
compressed air drills are doing good
work in the mine.
The Maggie G, one of the Ma anie Baird
rrorn povno1ol y for OF 1G0 font in tho
shaft. 1t is thought to be only seepage
from the heavy rains.
One miner has a small, crude rocker
at work in the placer mines in the ia
rillas. He handles from one to II and
a half tons of dirt per day with two men
and clears from $15 to $40 a day.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Z. Z Dodd and G. M. Doris are put
ting up a stamp mill on John Dodd's
property in Texas canon
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Arthur E. Williams, Of Tularosa, will
open an assay Office at Nogal.
The Hopeful is still closed down on
account of litigation among the own
ers.
An assay of ore found neal Angus on
the Rio Bonito showed 30 per cent of
copper and 500 Of silver to the ton.
H. S. Alevard and U. S. Baker, of
Chicago, have located 40 claims near
Carsons City, at the head of the Rio Bo-
nito, and employed a number of men to
do their assessment work.
COLFAX COUNTY.
j. H. Elpass, of Denver, has put in a
custom mill at ElizabethtoWn for DR..
Powell, of Erie, Pa. Mr.. Elpass will
also put in a mill at Red River.
;, SOCOhRO COUNTY.
The main shaft on the Little Fannie
mine ON the Mogollons is being sunk to
below $50 feet.
X. H. Sanders, superintendent of the
Timber Peak mine, has returned from
Philadelphia and says that the mill will
resume in the zeal future and will con-
tinue to run without interruption.
P. A. Ducey, of Detroit, Mich, is in
Socorro county looking after his inter-
ests in the Cat Mountain Gold Mining
& Milling Company, in which he is the
principal s%tockholder. The property OF
the company is situated ten miles west
of Magdalena.
Shaft No. 2 on the Confidence mine in
the Mogollons has reached a depth OF
426 feet below the adit line or a total
depth of 676 feet. The shaft will be
sunk to 700 feet when drifts will be run
in both directions along the vein and
connection made with the main work
ing shaft from the surface. The vast
accumulation of ore taken out in
development work made it necessary to
start the mill, which is now running.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Six men have been put to work or the
Gold Hill.
The July production of the Hillsboro
, placers was s. $500.
Four new leasers have gone to work
on the Fifty-eight.
Four chunks of ore mined last week
at the Opportunity weighed a ton.
One of the new shafts ON the Trippe
mine has entered a three-foot vein.
The Garfield is now producing 500
ore of heavy gold-copper sulphide.
Negotiations are pending for the sale
of the Butler to New York parties.
The Richmond is again working day
and night crews in order to fill its con.
tracts.
DR.. Warren has struck a two-foot
vein of red lead ore on his Faulkner
property.
The main shaft of the Catherine is
now all in ore and shipments have com
menced.
Eleven tons of ore mined by Robbins &
Crews, ~leasers. on the Snake, realized
$685. per ton.
The Tweed Copper company Of the
Cabello mountains has opened general
offices at Hillsboro.
A $1,000 development contract has
been finished IN the Bull of the Woods
and the large ore body exposed will now
be attacked and shipments regularly
made.
At Webster & Parker's Lookout mine
on Trujilio creek, a large deposit of
shale has been uncovered which yields
80 ounces of gold and 700 ounces of sill
yer per ton.
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