Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-20
RICH GOLD PROPERTY
It Is Located at Rosedale and Its
Ore Runs High in Free
Gold.
.$t2,00o,00o WORTH OF ORE
That Much Has Been Produced at Magda-
lsna-Ths Prosperous B. 0. B. Nine
The Mining News Of socorro, Sierra
and Other Counties.
SOCORRO COUNTY.

SOCORRO COUNTY.
1t Is said that the Magdalena camp
has produced twelve million dollars
worth of ore.
Hardscrabble mine is;a shipping e car
load Of ore daily to their smelter at
Cerrillos.
A Boston company will begin work on
the New Era mine in the Black Range
Immediately. A force of men with sup
plies left Socorro this week.
The Junletta mine, located in the
Black Range district. is regular ship
per of lead and silver and promises to
be great producer. The Queen is not
shipping any ore at present but is driv
ing 1.000-foot tunnel to open up three
ore bodies. New York capitalists re-
Gently bought the Queen from c. IT,
Brown.
In the Mogollon district the B. O. B.
mine is maintaining it's record as pro-
ducer, the ore running from SIS to $50 a
ton. A new air compressor has just
been added, and air drills will be intro
duced in the mine. when it is expected
the output will be greatly increased.
Another big improvement has been
made in the way of a new ten-stamp
mill, with capacity Of about thirty
tons day. A streak Of ore varying in
width from 8 to IL inches has recently
been encountered which will average
$40 to the ton. The ore is refractory.
and the company is thinking seriously
of adding concentrators.
]. f. Nichols, Charles Featherstone
and other residents of San Marcial are
the lucky owners of free gold mine
at Rosedale camp, thirty miles west of
San Marcial, which is verging the rec
ord making point. They have a ten
stamp mill near the property which is
running day and night, and has been
for three years, and the property has
paid from the grass roots down. The
property is paying all developing work
and something left, and they have not
in the whole three years stopped out one
pound of ore. The breast of ore holds
it's own all the way down, with an av-
erage width Of Z feet. This is another
piece of property that will come to the
front as a producer soon. Mining men
should look into this district. They
might pick up bonanza makers.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The New Mexico Mining and Extrac-
ton Company. which was incorporated
in Colorado with capital stock of
s1OO, 900, is buying a number of promis
ing copper claims in the White Oaks
country.
A company is being organized of El
Paso people to work a group of copper
claims about thirty miles from Nogal
G. F. Montgomery Is the chief mover In
the enterprise, and he states that $4,000
has been already subscribed for the de-
velopment of the property.
A large deposit of sulphur has just
been discovered about four miles north
east of White Oaks. in the foothills of
Lone mountain. Over several hundred
acres are included In the deposits, which
are exceedingly rich. A great deal of
land has already been located, and ar
rangements will be made for putting 1t
IN the market.
For the Ell Paso chamber of commerce
display of ores the White Oaks exhibit
is nearly ready. The material has been
received, and the necessary work for
preparation to ship is now under way.
Three different kinds of stone have been
prepared, beside marble iron, coal. sill
YER, lead and other metals.
SIERRA COUNTY.
The Grandview Mining Company, of
st. Louis, Mo-, has established Its head
quarters at Kingston, with D. Bowman
as its agent. The company has secured
the Grandview group of mines in the
Carpenter district in the Black Range,
eight miles from Kingston. 1t also pur-
chased the water rights and site for
milling purposes Of the Mimbres Hot
Springs Mines and mill will be connect
mensity Of the ore bodies Of lead and
zinc and the large supply Of never-fail-
ing water place the success of the en-
terprise beyond doubt James Reay, of
Kingston, is in charge of the develop
| ment work at the mines.
GRANT COUNTY.
D. Bowman Is engaged in organizing
St. Louis company for operating the
Maggie NJ. mine in Shingle canon. near
Fierro, an enormous zinc mine Of very
| fair quality ore. The headquarters of
the Maggie M. will probably be in DEM
ing.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Leopold Biddle came to Ration from
his mines and reports that the men de-
veloping on the Mystic, a claim located
high up on the east face Of old Baldy,
uncovered a 4-foot vein Of quartz carry