Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-08
The Santa Rita Mining Company Is
Doing Active Development Work
in Grant County.
HOSPITAL BUILDINGERECTED
Two Large Boilers Placed in Position
Santa Rita Camp to Be Supplied
With Good Water-Other
Mine Notes.
DONA ANA COUNTY.


The Excelsior company at Organ has
increased its force, and will begin to
take out ore.
The Jim Fisk at Organ is ready to
make shipment as soon as wagons
can be procured
The pump for the Torpedo mine at
Organ has arrived. Increased shipments
will be the result.
A 5O-foOt shaft has been sunk on the
Laura Newsam and has reached large
body of mineralized tale. The claim is
northwest Of the Memphis at Organ.
| Work will begin in a few days in the
bottom of a 15O-foot shaft on the Ben
nett at Organ, where it is expected that
ore will be encountered that can be
shipped at profit without concentra-
tion.
At the Modoc mine the company's
well Is now down APO feet and the drills
have struck hard quartz and there Is
sufficient water. The owners propose to
turn the water into power for running
a concentrator. This is needed to put
the ore into shape to ship.
| Goodwin Bros. have taken a lease and
bond on the 16 to 1, formerly the War
Eagle, at Organ, owned by ]. " and L.
W. Cowan and w. J. Maginnis. The
! property was located in 1880 by w. B.
| Gibbs. and has yielded large quantities
of high-grade galena bearing silver.
The Torpedo mine, in the Organ
| mountains, in which Governor Thomas,
of Colorado, and others are interested,
after having trouble with water and
| with the machinery, have everything in
shape again for good work. They are
taking out about twenty tons per day
of ore, with values principally in cop
per.
| GRANT COUNTY.
Water has been found at the bottom
of the Superior mine at Lordsburg. If
the body Of water Is large enough,
there is an enormous pauy OF concer
trating ore in The gasu-.
The Saata Rita anpony is doing a
lot Of dev vetopment ~2tr a Pie i
compartment susf; -u M cid Rofle-o
now known as the ~an.a Rita nine
| to proper dep,h Is. .I.I, TO the Hearst
mine. The shaft Is down $50 feet. On
the surface considerable Improvements
are being made. A large new hoist
house has been erected, and sawmill
| and machine houses are now in the
l - tab,
pleted. will be commodious. The old
hoist house, a short distance from the
new shaft, Is to be torn down, and the
| large hoist is being taken apart and
| will replace the small hoist now in use.
Two large boilers were placed in posi-
ton last week, and the foundation for
the large hoist is being built. The COM
pany has erected a hospital building to
the maintenance of which all employees
pay 81 a month. DR.. Charles F. Beeson
is the company physician and DR.. ]. NJ
Johnson Is health officer The camp will
be supplied with water from the Booth
mine. George Robinson, Of Silver City.
has been given the contract to lay the
4-inch pipe line. A good water system
will be put in for residences, business
houses and mines. A new shaft house
has been erected on the Hearst mine
and new machinery necessary for It's
operation put in place. The shaft on
this mine is now down 300 feet, and a
number of miners are at work in the
mine. The concentrating plant Is not
| IN ho, oln
down for necessary repairs. which are
now almost completed The plant will
probably be in full operation by next
!. week.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Some wonderfully rich finds have
been made, notably at the head of Tru-
jllo creek. Assays of $4,000 to the ton
have been obtained and the last lot Of
selected ore shipped averaged $4,000 to
the ton. The Lookout mine in the same
district is showing some very promising
results
Talk of a 125-ton smelter to treat the
ores of the Opportunity mine and GUS
tom ores Is still lively. The Opportunity
mine Is under bond, and If the present
satisfactory showing is maintained for
short time sale is certain, and large
ly increased operations will follow.
Agents for the st. Louis company op-
: Grating the Ell Dorado group are now
: in the east buying machinery for 100
ton mill. Ore which returns from 5000
: to Sc, 900 net per car load is being ship
ped from the TERRA Blanca to the FL
: Paso smelter. Out beyond Kingston the
; Deming Mining and Milling Company
has struck bonanza and is preparing
to erect MILL
The Hillsboro district Is again at
tracing the attention of capital. The
placers to the north of Hillsboro are
similar to the dry placers where Edison
5 has built his plant near Dolores. A
Philadelphia company which has here
tofore been working the placers has be-
gun mining the lodges from whence the
gold came, and has put up expensive
buildings for permanent occupation. II
!" Is reported that the Lake Valley mines
have been sold to this company, and
that much larger mill will be built al
Andrews. One af the largest silver pro.
r ducing mines in the world Is located
here. 1t was closed down, and 1t wa.
commonly reported that the owners
could not agree to work the property ol
to sell at an agreed price.