Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-09
SOME MINING NEWS
Grant County Leads In Activity
With Copper, Silver, Gold
and Iron.
and SIERRA COMES SECOND
At the Santa Rita Copper
Mines Indicate That the Properties
Are to Be Worked-News of
Other Counties.
GRANT COUNTY.

about TO resume operations.
Inc Ivanhoe at Santa hlta IS Dein
equipped WIN new machinery,
Burulck & Jackson struck native 81
yer IN the Deep Down at Alhampra.
| Gilchrlst q Dawson have fifteen me
| over.
o. b. Hardy has purchased the coppe
| properties near Oak Grove from N. {
| tascom.
Owing to lack Of water for the mil
| the Atlantic at Pinos Altos has Gu
| DOWN its force.
The new hosting plant on the Dim
mick property at Pinos Altos has bee
completed. The old shaft is being sun
100 feet deeper.
On the Olympia, adjoining the Han
over, Sheridan & Bursum have driftet
in 100 feet and struck copper and irol
pyrite ores.
"A company has been organized t,
build a concentrating plant in the Ho
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ores in the Carpenter district
A shaft is being sunk on the DeeI
Down at Pinos Altos, and has attained
a depth of 600 feet. Good paying ore is
found on all levels below the first.
The Philadelphia at Hanover has put
in a new gasoline hoist, and is pushing
operations on the new working shaft
which Is being cased with square tim
bers.
F. Preston Jones and Theodore Car
ter have taken lease on the st. Louis
and Protection at Burros. They will put
on large force to make the mines good
copper producers.
Negotiations are in progress for the
sale Of the Mammoth mine at Pinos AL
tos, for which at one time $4,000 was
refused by it's owners. The Mammoth
is a lead and zinc proposition.
1t Is reported that the smelter at Sill
yer City has been sold to the smelter
trust, and will be shut down. The Ell
Paso smelter output will then be in
creased from 1000 tons to 1,50O tons a
day. and the cost Of treating the ore
from $1.50 to 81 a day.
Specifications have been drawn fol
the erection of several new buildings on
the property of the Santa Rita Mining
Company at Santa Rita. They include
store and warehouse buildings and a
residence. The material will be adobe,
laid in lime mortar. and the roof of cor
rugated iron. The residence will be
two-story frame dwelling, and will be
occupied by Manager w. H. Burrage.
Avenues will be laid out at Santa Rita
for residences which in time will be
built. A rumor has it that the smeltel
Is to be removed from Silver City to
Santa Rita. The principal work of the
Santa Rita company Is being done on
the Montoya shaft, the ore from which
ls being sent to the concentration. The
tank for the new teaching plant Is be-
ing put up. In the concentrator column
jigs will be put in for experiments on
Santa Rita ore. The company has
granted a number OF leases on outside
ground. Work was also resumed on the
Booth shaft.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Ore worth 500 per sack is being stead
ly mined at the Odell.
Negotiations are pending for the sale
If the Freiburg at Hillsboro.
Night crews have been put again on
he Richmond and the Snake.
The Odell stock pile at Hillsboro has
oeen sold to the Pueblo smelter.
The gold production of the Hillsboro
olacers during February was $500.
A tunnel has been commenced on the
Eldorado. A shaft is also being sunk.
Shipments have been commenced
rom the Blaine and Mckinley mines at
Hillsboro.
New machinery is being set up at the
mines of the Sinnamahoning company
At Hillsboro.
A hundred more good mine leasers
could find employment at -f1illsboro; at
least. so says the Sierra County Advo-
cate.
Hon. Silas Alexander has let a con-
,ract for sinking No. shaft on his But
Ter to depth Of 900 feet and for the
erection of another hoist.
Hon. w. 8. Hopewell has secured a
bond and lease on the Warren mine at
and will next month put
thirty men to work on the property.
The Eldorado company has decided to
expend 5000 on actual development
work on the Eldorado mine at Hills
ooro before shipping to mill or smelter.
Active mining operations have been
commenced on the Wicks at Hillsboro.
and arrangements have been made for
The erection Of pyritic smelter.
A three-mile pipe line is being built
from the Animas river to the Trippe
nine at Andrews. When completed the
rrippe mill will resume its day and
night shifts.
The continuation of the Golden Era
vein has been struck on the johnson at
EIillsboro. It was discovered at the
iepth Of 50 feet, and two tons Of $1S0 ore
ARE being hoisted daily.
A new vein Of oxidised gold ore was
discovered on the Golden Era at Hills
ooro. 1t is located in the gulch, and IL
2 inches wide. This makes the Golden
Era a three-veined proposition.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Another shift has been put on the
Ohio company's tunnel at Elisabeth.
.own.
The Golden Ajax mill 1t Uusabsth-
Town has added complete thirty ton
cyanide plant, VI