Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-25
COPPER PLENTIFUL
1t Is Fonnd In the Oscuras, the
White Mountains and Other
Ranges.
MOGOLLONS And MAGDALENA
Rich Old Prospects That Have Been Aban-
doned-An Old Copper Mine Near Tula-
roaa-Good Fortune Camp and
Dripping Springs.

>oPPci oIc dIlu lAuIcdtlOLS are plentl-
full in other ranges than those mem
toned in yesterdays article in the New
Mexican on old copper claims in New
Mexico, and which years ago were pros
pected. but which, owing to the slump
In copper, were abandoned, but would
to-day prove good fields for investment.
THE OSCURAS.
The Oscura mountains, low, dark
range, show copper from it's north
point in limited quantity, as we'll as
gold and silver. A camp was estab-
lished about twenty years ago on the
southwest slope. quite down to the base
In the foothills. and was called Hausen-
berg. There large deposits of glance OK
ides and Of carbonates We're opened,
much Of the ore carrying $50 to $40 in
gold and silver, the latter predominant
ing.
THE DRIPPING SPRINGS.
Five miles south of the north end Of
San Andres are the dripping springs.
They are on the east slope and 300 feet
above the wagon road in the granite
cliffs. Within six miles of these springs
there are fully fifty properties opened,
some of them to a depth of 200 feet,
which were sunk and timbered in 1882.
There is also shaft over 100 feet deep
sunk on lead vein or dixie that is over
100 feet wide. Twenty miles south of
this is Good Fortune camp, that shows
even better grades Of copper and more
silver than the north end. Between
Dripping Springs and Good Fortune
camp, and on the west slope of the
range, is the old camp Of Capt. Jack
Crawford, the poet scout, who did sew
eral years of assessments on number
Of claims with good results.
GOOD INDICATIONS
Some ten miles south Of Fort Stanton
and the Fort Craig road, and about five
miles east of the mouth of Bear canon
and ten miles east of Good Fortune
camp, we'll down in the foothills, there
are found groupings Of copper ore, sui
phide and black copper that run from
20 to 50 per cent copper and about the
same number of ounces In silver and 81
In gold. No work was ever done or To-
cation made in that immediate neigh
borhood.
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. ss,gs
Near Tularosa, on the southwest slope
Of the Sierra Blanca or White noun
I'LL 's IRE is an old copper mine that
49, as showed 3 feet of solid cop
per glance ore that carried 50 ounces Of
silver value with it. Both the White
and the San Andres mountains about
fifty miles apart, show copper almost
down to the Mexico and the Texas lines.
The scarcity Of water, no railroads nor
smelters, and the low price of copper
for many years are the direct causes Of
these sections lying dormant. The Or
gans, a south continuation of the San
per showings in 1882.
THE MOGOLLONS.
The Mogollons. in western Socorro, a
high range, well watered and well tim
bered. have a network of large fissures
carrying sulphides and concentrating
propositions, with heavy copper ores
known as bornites. The same ore is
found in the Black Range as far north
as Chloride, in Sierra county. These
bornite ores carry high per cent Of
copper, generally over so ounces of sill
yer and often some gold values, espe-
cially In the north end Of the White
mountains, in Lincoln county. In the
Mogollon range there Ia also an alum
deposit of immense magnitude. and al
SO natural meerschaum deposits.
THE MAGDALENAs.
At the north end Of the Magdalenas,
in Socorro county. and ten miles north
west of the north end of the Magdale-
mas, there are strong veins Of high
grade copper glance ores with silver
values running up to so ounces.
FUTURE WEALTH.
These are some of the less well-known
mineral deposits in southern New Mex
leo, which sooner or later will yield
their enormous treasures to the advanc-
ing miner and investor.
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