El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-31

Mines and
Mining.
Santa Rita Camp as Described by
Major Davis.

Rita, New Mexico:
The Ssn.a Rita district is one of the
old districts worked away back in 1894
by the Mexicans from Chihuahua,
per WAS packed from here to Chihua-
hua by pack trains. But the camp was
broken up by the Indians n the
S~panisrds driven back to Mexico.
The Santa Rita Mining Company
owns about 2 o acres of land here in
one body. They are sinking o shafts
which are Gown from 200 to 400 feet.
few days the other one will be In
place. They are sinking q large WORK.
ing shaft and it will connect with the
others some 800 feet away by tunnel,
| giving plenty of good air all through
the mine. The ore lies in large depo-
sits but In some places It has
In white quart porphyry. The
company contemplates going under
the old working of over . hundred
years ago, where the Mexicsns took
out the great flakes Of native copper.
IL il under these workings that the
company will strike It rich. They
will then have some beautiful spect-
mems Tor the chamber of commerce.
But 1t will take several months to get
QOWu ouu uuuoE bucec WOEhlpSS
This company q quite . lot OF
ground b.ina worked by lesseee. A. ou.
. DOZEN are shipping ore to the Silver
City smelter. h. q. Dawson has q
lease on the Yosemite and Q part Of the
PEDRO clsims, and IL q regular ship
per. All the ore shipped runs well in
copper, from 10 TO p per cent. The
copper In THE camp all runs up high.
Ten per cent ore is left on the
A- All l.a.a4a ma 1ollAr N
unit royalty: F. c. Burns has lease
on she Chino ana the Lse and
from both claims. lslas & Co.
have Q part Of the Pedro leased and
are heavy shippers. They are do wn
over 200 feet and are making big
money out of their lease. Thos. Hol-
men has Q lease on psrt of the Pedro
claim, is down zoo feet and in
When the ore Is reached he Will be q
heavy shipper. Mr.. Maldonado is
down on his claim 90 feet, and will soon
get to the shipping ore OF Q good guam
tity.
c. P. Crawford is sinking q work.
ing shaft on the Chino and will open
up some fine ground in the near
future. He 10 slready q shipper. J.
NJ. FritSer is also shipping ore from
LIE 1885 oA ~ ~ i QuQOuOS-
edly make a stake out of his lease.
Herdon * Co., ave part OF the Chino
ground under lease and are shipping
out some ore running very high. l
think they have a In their
lease. Sander 4 Co, also have q part
of the Rita ground and are shipping.
Fred. Schmidt las part of
the Yosemite ground AID is about
go feel deep. He will drift to ore as
coon as the proper depth Is reached.
Richardson " Co., al-o Arlett & Co,
nave ground Do the Rita aud are sink
Ing. They hope to get to ore 10 cross
cutting. Mercer & 20. are sinking on
prospect OF geetting ore soon. Hendrick
* Co. are sinking on good shipping
ore and will be among the good ship
pers. They will undoubsed ly make
good money out OF the lease. Ernest &
Gordon have leased some fine ground
and have struck IL almost on top
ard are taking out ore
running as high as 40 per cent copper
a. the grass roots. This camp runs
higher in copper than any other camp
| have visited. Lucsrio Lugo has a
lease n has only oeen 1t work two
days. He has about $3.50 TO $500 worth
OF ore on the dump and you a zee a
mans shoulders above the ground.
The ore runs very high. so per cent in
copper, and some as high ID 65 per cent
copper.
This camp is forging to the from. and
will soon be q big producer of copper
b ore carries such high values that
the whole camp will average 20 percent
copper. The low grade ore hat is
taken out and Throw on b dump Is
hauled TO the conceutrator, which 10
treating about 10 tons q day. This
oonceutrator is using the Wiley
'ables very successfully. They say
they a work , 1-2 per cent ore 81
Q profit.
Ashton & Roach are develop'pg
seven claims au joining the Santa Rita
property. They are putting down four
shafts. The deepest shaft Is in sulphide
shafts are from 80 to go feet deep. The
sulphide ores are rich, running up as
high as 40 per cent copper. They have
spent 81 .0U0 ia de-, elopment work this
year. the 1t carload shipped ran 10
per cent, with very little asserting.
This sGlpnide ore 10 much sought after
by smelters.
this district, and MIR. @. b Thaver,
superintendent of the Santa Rita Min
ing company, says that ia the next few
months the chamber OF commerce can
get up a fine collection of ore here,
when they get the development work
into ore and open up some nice speci-
mems OF native copper.
The Fort Baysrd Mining Company.
elk miles west Of Santa Rita, has a 40
.ou concentration At work and Is increas-
ing the capacity to 100 tom All sbe
machinery is on the ground being put
in place. with a 100 horse power engine
hitch they hope to get going in the
next four weeks. They have made
several reservoirs to store water,
and all are full. This is q stock COM
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