Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-20
GRANT COUNTY MINES.
The Sale of the Silver City smelter Is
Denied.

U6ultu,
The copper mines In the santa Rita
district continue to yield satisfactory
returns.
The contractors have agreed to have
the new concentrator at Hanover
ready to begin operations within nine
ty days. A
| The Cooks Peak district Is at present
shipping from five to ten car loads Of
ore per day to Ell Paso, Silver City and
Ell Paso.
The owners of the Modoc mine at
| Hanover are employing twenty five
men sinking the main shaft and drift
level.
The Steeple Rock Development Com
pany, which owns over 100 claims in the
| Carlisle district, expects to have it's
large cyanide plant in operation by the
1st of May.
The persistent rumors that the Silver
City smelter will close down in the near
future are emphatically denied, The
management intends to continue the
plant In active operation.
The silver and lead smelter on the
Dimmick Silver Cell mine, Pinos Altos
district, will be started in few days.
and will handle custom ore as we'll as
the output Of the Silver Cell.
Twenty tons of ore per day are now
being shipped from the important new
strike on the Iron Head mine at Han
over. The ore runs per cent copper,
81 per ton In gold and silver, and 55 per
cent excess in iron.
The trial run of the new concentrat
ing plant at Cooks Peak proved highly
successful, and the plant will hereafter
run regularly upon custom work There
Is a large accumulation of suitable ore
on the dumps Of the district.
The indications are that the Three Fl
group of claims in the Carlisle district
Of Grant county will soon be sold for
large sum of money. The claims cover
large bodies of ore that averages $35 to
the ton in gold and silver, and richly re-
wards concentration.
The Azure company, operating in the
Azure turquois district Of Grant coun-
ty, has been steadily working its claims
for ten years, but only the owners know
what the value of the output has been.
It is essentially a close -mouthed corpo-
ration.
The Ell Paso Smelling and Refining
Company, operating the Othello and
Desdemona mines at Cooks Peak, has
struck an immense body Of high-grade
manganese on an incline shaft at a
depth of 22O feet. A car Of ore Is shipped
daily from these properties to Ell Paso
Thirty men are employed.
The machinery for the new hosting
works on the Texas mine, in the Cen
tral district of Grant county, Is all on
the ground, and will soon be placed In
position. Meanwhile the development of
the mine continues through the old
shaft, which has attained a depth OF
500 feet. The mill and new concentrator
will be started up in few days.
Inc new Dl1IlIIllCh COACGhlA NSoA, WA
nected with the Confidence mill at
Whitewater, Is making a satisfactory
run on an immense accumulation of
tailings The Confidence ore bins con-
tain several thousand tons Of ore Both
the mine and mill are equipped with
the latest and most approved appli-
ances for economical and effective
work, all operated by water-generated
electric power.
Extensive drifts have been driven on
the 375-foot level of the Little Fanny
mine in the Mogollon district, reaching
into the Champion ground, which Is
owned by the same company and Is be-
ing developed through the Little Fanny
shaft. The immense ore reserves thus
developed have stimulated the owners
to rebuild and much enlarge their ore
bins.