Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-25
A MINE DEAL.
Milo bill Buys the Independence Other
Mininp News,


on the Robin mining claim in
Media Dia canon.
William jerks and son Harry intend
to do some extensive development work
this summer on their group Of claims in
Cola canon.
R. r. Wentworth, until recently the
foreman in the Bland mill, has accepted
a position with the Empire Milling
Company near Prescott, Ariz.
H. H. Allen, who has been employed
in the Albemarle mill for the past year,
has gone to Hanover, N. NJ, to take
charge of a zinc concentrating mill.
Last week George Buck and Thomas
Abbott finished their work on a tunnel
in the w. ]. B. mine in the Cola can
On, which they began operations on in
December. They succeeded in driving
a tunnel 165 feet. A large body of high
grade ore was uncovered.
Last week a mining deal was closed
between Fred A. Bletcher and Milo Hill
by which the Independence mining
claim, situated in the Cola and
cutting this canon at Chihuahua, passed
into the hands of Mr.. Hill. Work was
begun on the claim Immediately by the
new ownSrA The vein is large and
traceable to the Peralta canon.
SIERRA COUNTY
f. McFarlane, a mining mar from the
northern part of the territory, is giving
the Apache mining district a thorough
examination.
Hugh McTavish has opened up a nice
streak of bournite ore on his Confidence
claim situated on Black Hawk gulch,
near Chloride. "
The whim at the Chance mine was
| wrecked the other day while hosting a
bucket of heavy copper ore. The Chance
has a fine leading of ore that goes as
high as Y per cent copper.
Peter Crumrine and Jefferson Owen
are working the Jubilee at TERRA Blan-
ca. They have started a tunnel In on
| the vein which is all in ore. The Jubi-
lee Is the same vein as the Log Cabin,
and the ore which they are extracting
looks well for values.
The persistency of the prospector is
thoroughly exempliied by Thomas Ca
sey, who has dug a shaft $50 feet deep,
following a pipe Of ore. He handles the
rock and ore at least six or seven times,
| and has dug the shaft all alone.
The Mana, at Chloride, owned by
Armstrong Bros, Morgan & James, is
increasing in value with development
1t now has a 15O-foot tunnel, and the
vein shows good milling value for a
width of 4 feet, the richer ore being on
the hanging wall.
Mr.. Coddling, of Cripple Creek, has
become interested in the Goodenough
and Hoosier Boy group of claims. Prep
arations are being made to put a force
Of men at work at an early date. There
have been several shipments of high
values being gold, silver and copper
| The condition of the second-class ore Is
unusually good for concentration. A
test gave returns of a saving of Is pei
cent.
The old famous Log Cabin mine is
again at the front with one of the rich.
est strikes of ore in its history. Sinking
through the shale to its west contact
with lime, rich bodies Of ore are crop
ping up. BY drifting south from the foot
Of a 1OO-foot shaft, a pipe of about q
feet, and ranging up to 2 feet in width
is now uncovered. This ore fairly glis-
tens with native silver and sulphides
and is without doubt very rich. The full
extent of the body Is hardly known, and
development Is going forward to exploit
it. Another very rich pipe occurs some
| distance above, but has left the con-
tact and Is keeping a tortuous way
and a half of dollars in precious metals
have been mined in Hermosa in just
such conditions as exist in TERRA Blan-
ca and now being exploited in the Log
Cabin. This contact exists for sixteen
or eighteen miles. running from the Be
renda to Cave creek, and very rich ore
| has been encountered at many points
| along Its course. Should this new de-
parture in prospecting its western shale
! contact prove ore to exist in other
! places it will open a new era in pros
| pecting for the whole section.
COLFAX COUNTY.
The Ragged Pants mine and the prop
erty just across the road at Elizabeth
town have been sold to Colorado par
ties. 1t Is understood that the price for
the Ragged Pants was 10000.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
An assay Of the ore through which
the shaft Is being sunk on the White
Cap mine at Rosedale gives 1890 in
gold per ton. The vein Is, 4 feet wide,
and this rich ore was struck at a depth
Of $50 feet. The ore body proper is II
feet wide, and nearly in its center Is
found the 4-foot deposit of decomposed
quartz. Several tons are being sacked
for the Kelly smelter.
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