Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-07
Big COAL LAND DEAL
A New York Millionaire Bought l.
600 Acres of Coal Land in
Lincoln County.
LARGEBODIESOPCOPPER ORE
Discoveries in the Gallinas Mountains
Some Mine Developments in Sooorro
Oounty-A Nine Deal in Taos
Oounty-0ther Mine Notes.
LINCOLN COUNTY.

LINCOLN COUNTY.
The new copper camp west of Noga
Is attracting unusual attention, ricf
finds Of copper glance are being made
every day. and preparations are being
made for shipping ore from number
of prospects just as soon as the new
wagon road to the station is completed
Experienced miners say that this is thu
New Mexico.
A deal Of no little Importance to Lin.
coin county was consummated whereby
over 1000 acres of valuable coal lands
were sold to Archibald Mccullough, q
millionaire of New York The tract
embraces some of the most valuable
| coal land adjacent to Captain. The dea
| was made through NJ. Griffin o Neil
Mr.. Mccullough has number of east
arn capitalists associated with him, anG
development work on the property will
begin at once.
A number of Lincoln county people
have located valuable copper prospects
in the Oscura mountains, fifteen miles
from Malagro station, on the Ell Paso
& Northeastern road. There is said tC
be great amount Of copper there, and
the outlook would amply justify the
erection of plant to treat the ores. Re-
Gently John H. Skinner, of Bonito. To-
Gated copper claim in the Oscura dis
trict, which the smelter assay gives Is
per cent copper, and Burlingame's as
say H.24 per cent copper, 3 per cent
iron and no sulphur. zinc or lead, and
worth 2SO per unit. This prospect shows
up a well-defined 4-foot lead Of vein
matter.
Some large bodies Of refractory ores
have recently been discovered in the
Gallinas mountains. The district is of
sedimentary formation, and the ore
bodies seem to lie pretty deep, as it Is
only in the deeper canons that they
have been exposed. The ore consists
mainly Of carbonates of copper and lead
along with the oxide Of copper and the
sulphide and sulphate of lead. The ores
are all silver-bearing-some of them
running as high as 40 ounces to tine ton
silver Assays Of the copper ores show
from 25 to 40 per cent copper. Jones Ia
liaferro has good copper mine in this
belt which pays we'll, Notwithstanding
the ore has to be hauled by wagons fol-
distance of fifty miles to reach the
railroad before 1t can be shipped. From
inent mining men who have passed
through the district are of the opinion
that some large bodies of silver ores will
be shown up which will eventually
make the Gallinas district the site Of a
second Leadville.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The South Juanita has struck an i'm
mense body Of heavy carbonates. Nc
lack Of ore now.
A new feature of Kelly's prosperity is
the working Of the Silver Bell pre- cperty
of James MCGEE ct al. This valuable
claim shows large bodies of low grade
ores, and will almost certainly make q
mine.
The famous Kelly mine, Babcock &
Connolly, leasers, has increased its out
put and from the fact that a LONG
crosscut will soon be completed, great
things are expected in the way Of new
,re bodies.
Tha nraop uro,,p ooro nv Ia ca atiaf ad
with developments on the east side OF
the Magdalena apex, and has concen.
trated all efforts in driving the tunnel
from the west side to strike the vein al
from 800 to 700 feet. Two shifts of ex.
perienced miners are now about 1j0 feet
from daylight.
The work on the Cavern property
Messrs. Stevens, Allen ct al, proprie'
| tors, under the management Of J. w
Stevenson, Is progressing nicely, witt
| every appearance Of success. A car loa(
of machinery, material and supplies l!
now at Magdalena for this company. A
burro train will soon carry these tom
into the land of the clouds, and in tn
near future the Cavern will be hear'
from.
| GRANT COUNTY.
A strike of considerable proportion
was made on the Copper Kettle proper
ty, owned by Carl Abrahamson. Horac
Feltis and Cornelius Mccarthy. The or
was found while driving tunnel in de
velopment work. and runs well IN cop
per, gold and silver.
A gasoline compressor has been In
stalled by the Hanover Copper Com
Ipany on the Philadelphia mine for oper
ating the machine drills, and is provin
highly successful. The company Is de
veloping the mine upon an extensiv
scale, and the results are proving tina
the property Is we'll worth the expense
Fred Bellum and julius Welgehause
leased and bonded their Antonio min'
near Central, to a party of eastern car
ltalists for twelve months term. Th
ore carries gold. silver, zinc and lead.
is understood that q proposition is un
der way looking to another extensiv
operation in this camp, similar to tn
Texas mine, which will include larg
number of properties.
The smelting plant Of the Silver Cit
reduction works is receiving more OF
at the present time than ever befoi
since It has been In operation, and II tn
rush continues 1t will be necessary
blow in the third furnace, which hs
been heretofore kept for emergenc
/, purposes. Instead Of coming in sing
: car lots, nearly every freight into Silv'
City brings from five to ten car lots I
ore for treatment. and the local supp
Is proportionately large. 1t is believe
the capacity Of the plant will be e'
larged.