Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-19

is 2 feet in width, and is enlarging with
depth.
The New Mexico Development Com
pany, operating the Modoc group at
Fierro, has it's machinery in working
order. The gasoline hoist having been
| repaired, three shifts are engaged in
sinking and two in drifting. The ore is
hauled to Hanover, as there Is not
enough track room at Fierro.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany keeps two big engines busy ham
ding their output Of ore, while about
fifty men are given employment. Beside
the two big cuts on Iron hill, the man
agement has concluded to tap the de-
posits from the gulch lead by means of
big tunnel opposite West Fork, work
upon which has already commenced.
The tunnel is now in several hundred
feet, or nearly directly under the rail-
road tracks on the switchback. In driv-
ing ahead, this tunnel will necessarily
cut the big copper deposits from which
Gilchrist & Dawson extracted consid-
cradle high-grade ore last year.
The main shaft of the Pinos Altos
Gold Mining Company at Pinos Altos
has attained a depth of over 300 feet,
levels being carried every 100 feet and
air connections made with the other
shafts Of the property The ore Is hoist
ed by a 2Ox4S-inch direct acting hoisting
engine. The cages are double decked,
and the hoist rope Is fiat steel cable
The mill is located $50 feet from the
shaft, and is connected with it by a
trestle upon which the cars are run
across from the collar Of the shaft and
dumped into an ore bin capable of hold
ing one weeks run of the mill. The ca
pacity Of the mill Is 100 tons day. The
ore Is crushed by Blake crusher. After
crushing it is put through a set of
roughing rolls. From the roughing rolls
the ore Is elevated to a series Of from
mels four In number. the ore too coarse
to be sized in the trommels being
crushed in another set of rollers and
again elevated to the trommels. The
ore from the trommels passes to four
compartment Jigs. each Jig carrying a
different sized screen. The tailings from
the jigs pass through Huntington
mill, and whatever free gold there may
be in the pulp is caught by copper
plates, and the tailings from the mill
are again treated on Frue vanners. The
tailings from the mill are stored In a
dam located in the canon below the
MILL only the water escaping. Two
Huntington mills are located in the
concentrator only one Of which, how
ever, is in use. the extra mill permitting
of repairs without shutting down the
rest of the concentration. The plant has
been in operation over four months, and
gives entire satisfaction.
COLFAX COUNTY.
A deal is pending for the Mystic mine
near Elizabethtown. The placers along
the creek extending up the sides of
Mount Badly are all in good water, and
are being worked extensively.
The Aztec mine, near Baldy. will
probably be opened w again by Chica-
go people, who mined 1t last summer.
The engineer now in charge proposes
extensive developments. The big stamp
mill Is to resume before the beginning
of July.
A lease on the Paragon, in tunnel No.
l, at Elizabethtown, has been taken by
Samuel Osborn and j. A. Swanson, of
Aspen, Colo. During the first four days
of their work two men broke down
about three tons of select ore, running
$35 to the ton. As the ore body is WIDEN
ing and improving, the leasers are GER
tain to make $500 to $4OO each per
month.
A force Of men has been put on the
Black Horse mine at Elizabethtown by
Baron Phi. Won Zuylen to do the sur
face work necessary to extensive min
ing operations. New mills are being put
under the long double track tramway
leading from the mine to the stamp
mill. The sawmill men are engaged in
cutting logs and getting the saw ready
for the lumber cutting. The boarding
house and lodging houses are being
overhauled. The mining will be done
by several leasing companies and the
product treated by the management on
it's milling plant, which Is being thor
oughly equipped. BY June l about 100
men will be employed on this property.
The graphite deposits in Cottonwood
canon, five miles from Ration, are being
worked. The company owning them re-
Gently shipped twenty-five tons to
Pittsburg at cost of $40, three tons of
which more than betrayed the freight
charges. The lowest grade nets $50 a
ton. The company operates similar
mines in North Carolina and New Jer-
sey. AS the process Of refining requires
the highest scientific skill, Pittsburg
was deemed the best center for having
the product of the mines treated. At
present only two men are employed at
the Cottonwood canon mines. They take
out about a ton of medium grade
graphite day. The force will be in
creased as soon as the company is
ready to handle a larger output. The
mine Is developed by stopping. The
crude graphite, when mined, is placed
in sheds to dry out before being shipped
in order to lessen the weight. The de-
mand for graphite is on the increase.
the principal sources of supply being 81
IBERIA, Mexico and Ceylon. The New
Jersey graphite deposit is small in COM
parison with the Ration deposit, but It