Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-08-25
MINING OPERATIONS
There Is Much Activity in the Red
River, Elizabethtown and Ad-
joining Districts.
DEEP MINING is PROFITABLE
Good Showing in Baron Won Zuylens
Black Horse Mine-A Big Deal That
Is Pending in the Red River
District.
TAOS COUNTY.

]. B. CHASER. of Colorado Springs,
and L. c. Blakeslee have been investi-
eating the Red River district
l.. s. Davis returned from Pueblo to
/ look after operations on the Golden
Treasure at Red River City, which he
holds under bond.
| r. l.. Pooler has opened up the Mem
phis at Red River City 900 feet below
the former workings, and has thousands
Of tons of ore now in sight
T. J. Phipps has returned to Red
River City after an absence of three
years. Mr.. Phipps was one of the first
on the ground here. and says that this
the Rocky mountains.
| The Shoshone, on the Red River slope
of Gold Hill, has recently been bonded
for good figure. 1t is a copper and
gold property, owned by Gusdorf Bros.
William Cannon. George Walters and
w. A. Gardner have made location of
a fine lead of copper carbonates on Cop
per Hill. The vein is feet wide. and
carries copper to the value of $254O per
ton They have named it the Copper
| Hill lode.
Raymond and Albert Abbott are
cleaning up bedrock and panning out
| good-sized gold nuggets on the Iron
placers near Red River City, and max
ing fair wages at it. They are exhibit
ing a chunk of gold worth little over
81. washed out in the pan this week,
and a number of smaller ones. The
gold of these diggings is % carat.
The Last Spur district is on the west
ern slope of the Taos range. lying west
of Red River, including also the placer
fields between the foothills and the Rio
Grande. These gravel deposits are very
extensive. One of the pioneers of this
district is j. H. Young, of Cerro, who
has a group of claims from which he
has had mill runs giving an average of
1880 gold per ton.
The deal pending on the group Of
copper claims across the river from the
town of Red River has been carried to
the extent of determination by the
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bond to prospect the ground by sinking
q shaft 200 feet or more on the vein to
f, ascerta'l the character and extent of
| the ore body at depth. George B. Pax
ton, consulting mining engineer, of Jop-
lin, Mo-, arrived at Red River City, and
has made arrangements to begin work
at once with day and night shifts. The
properties which will be opened by the
parties represented by Mr.. Paxton, who
are Pittsburg capitalists, are the Ana
conda group, the Copper King and the
Invincible. f. C. Abbott secured con-
tracts from the various owners of the
different claims, and brought about the
negotiations. The claims cover an i'm
mense body of copper bearing ore that
has been opened up by some 600 feet Of
. tunnels, and the extent Of the deposit
is such that if continued at depth it
will make one of the great copper bo-
nanzas of the southwest.
COLFAX COUNTY.
o. F. Matkin is working the Legal
Tender mine and mill in the same dis
trict. The property is under bond,
which will surely be taken up
The Ohio Gold Mining Company. in
the Badly district, has opened the ex-
tension of the American Flag vein. The
property is being operated by A. M.
Miller.
The Senate and Bobtail mines, in the
Baldy district, have attained depth Of
400 feet in a tunnel $50 feet long and
have reopened the lead which was
opened near the surface.
The Denver property in the same dis
trict, owned and operated by Ohio peo-
pie and managed by Mike Walsh,
practical Colorado mining man, is show
ing larger ore bodies at depth, and is
being put in shape to have its ore treat
ed at its mines.
In the Cimarroncito district, ten miles
further from Baldy. the Contention
company has opened large body of
ore on the Contention group. 1t has
tunnel in 500 feet, and will go to 700 feet
before mining the ore bodies which
have been encountered in the progress
Of the tunnel. The principal ore body
will be encountered at about 700 feet in,
and with depth of 1.500 feet.
Deep mining is showing up most prof
itably on the Black Horse property. The
shaft is now down 400 feet, and demon
strates the fact that ore bodies opened
in the upper workings are showing per-
manency and an increase of values.
This is most significant and will in
spire others to sink deeper on properties
located in this same district. The ores
on the Black Horse are gold. Baron Won
Zuylen is running fifteen-stamp mill.
but finds that some Improvement has
yet to be made in the treatment process
| in order to get all the values from the
shines. His mines are located In the
Badly district, seventy-five miles west