Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-02-08
Reports From Many Camps In Seven
Of the Counties of New
Mexico.
PROGRESS IN The COCHITI
What Is Being Done In the Captain Coal
Field-New Strikes Made Near Hills
boro-santa Rita Showing Up
splendidly-0ther Camps.
LINCOLN COUNTY.

the Fuel company at White Oaks.
Thirty coal miners with their families
from Bevler Mo-, have settled at Capt.
tan.
Four SIXTY horse power boilers and
two hoisting engines are being placed al
the coal mines at Captain.
During December the New Mexico
Fuel Company employed 800 men. Its
payroll amounted to $11, $50. The out
put for the month was 4,409 tons Of coal
Fifteen cars of coal daily are now
shipped from the Captain coal mines
After March twenty cars daily will
be shipped
The Lady Godiva at White Oaks will
resume operations March /. Free mill
ing ore has been uncovered at several
places, and mill will be erected.
Charles Vail, of White Oaks, has
opened up contact lead of high grade
copper in the Oscura mountains, which
shows ore for rs feet that runs II per
cent.
New York capitalists have bought the
Boston Boy, north of the Old Abe, at
White Oaks, and are negotiating for the
purchase Of the South Homestake mill
Henry Little and George Deaton, of
Colorado Springs, and J. G.. Spicer, of
Cripple Creek, were in the Oscuras and
Jicarillas examining properties with a
view of purchasing them.
Max Wienberger, Ziegler Bros and
Captain D. Doherty are shipping ore
from the Effle, eight miles south of Red
canon. The ore Is hauled seventeen
miles to Malagra station. 1t runs 10 per
cent in copper
SIERRA COUNTY.
The Mesa de Orc company has been
reorganized in Pennsylvania.
The Verdigris mine will make fifty
ton sample shipment to the smelter.
Barney Martin & Co. have resumed
work on the Blaine and the Mckinley
New strikes of great value were
made on the Trippe and the Richmond.
The Cliff smelter at Chloride, owned
by the Catherine mine people, is to be
moved to Hillsboro.
A strike has been made on ]. Max
fields mine at Hermosa, running SOC
ounces of silver to the ton.
A 10-inch streak Of high grade gold
ore, running $500 to the ton, has been
opened at the head of Monument creek
The output Of Hillsboro mines last
week was 1O5 tons.
An accidental fall of rock at the Road
side mine revealed a big chute of gold
and copper ore in the abandoned work
ings.
Martin Conaboy, owner of the Flying
Dutchman, went to Chicago Ito organize
a company.
John A. Kruse, mining expert ar
rived from Mexico to superintend the
starting UP of the Lake Valley mines.
The Lookout mine on Trujillo creel
made a $4,000 shipment this week
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Telesforo Chavez Is opening a tur'
ouois mine i'm the Picacho mountain, si2
miles from Las Cruces
George Lynch and surveying party OIL
Las Cruces surveyed a group OF si1
mines in the Gold camp for Humphreys
& LOSS, of Junction City, Kan, and D
r. Francis, of Montana. The claims are
the stonewall jackson, Gold Dust, Dix
lie, Junction, Bimetallist and Monomet'
allist.
TAOS COUNTY.
I. T. Burns and j. L. Cummins ar
building bunk house on their mining
property near the Golden Treasure q
Red River.
The Inferno tunnel at Red River Is ir
over !, 100 feet and has cut several goot
leads. 1t Is owned by the Black Noun
tain Mining company.
William Mexican has surveyed th'
ditch and mill site for the June But
company at Red River. A. X. Thomp
son has drawn up the specifications 70
the mill.
Ed. Westoby and G. Brockelsby ar
developing the Star Pointer on Place
creek. Last year they drove go feet Of
three-foot lead that averaged IS to 81
per ton.
The Mine and Smelter Supply compan'
of Denver has filed release Of tn
m ,rtgage upon the mill and machiner,
of the Copper Hill Mining company
: The machinery was accepted and tn
final payment Of $4,000 made.
GRANT COUNTY.
A teaching plant ia to be erected o.
the company mines at Santa Rita.