Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-13
MINES And MINERS
The Fierro and Hanover Mining Dis
tricts Keep Hundreds Of Men
Steadily Employed.
MANY SHIPMENTS ARE MADE
Properties Being Opened Up by I. ". Bible
The Emma Mine Has Been Thorough
ly 0verhauled-A New Shaft on
the HUMBOLDT.

GRANT COUNTY.
The c. f. and I. Company Is working
q force of men on it's property east of
the Anson s. mine on Union Hill, in the
t1eIro district, and Is shipping four car
loads of ore daily.
McCargo & Henderson last week
shipped car load of copper ore from
their leased mine, the Jim Fair, in the
Fferro district. The shipment netted
$l73 and the work at the mine has been
suspended for the present.
The Mineral Point Zinc Company, of
Mineral Point, Wis, has quite a group
Of zinc claims in this district, is doing
considerable surface work. and is ship
ping several car loads to it's works in
Wisconsin.
r. l.. Lafranz has a car load of ore
about ready for shipment from the
north end of the Humboldt. AS the ore
has been carefully selected, big returns
are expected A shipment will soon be
made.
The Shanley tunnel, being run by the
=. F. and l. company from the gulch
,evel to tap the ore deposits on Iron
nill, Is making slow headway on ac-
count of close air. A blower is in con-
slant use.
Joseph Schlosser's new shaft on the
Humboldt at Fierro has about reached
the tunnel level so feet below, and
cross-cutting will be commenced imme-
diately. Some ore of good quality has
been found. Work has been necessarily
slow In sinking, as foul air has been a
continual drawback.
Andrew Johnson has struck a large
body of and per cent ore on his lease
near the Anson s. at Fierro. He is
driving tunnel and preparing to do
extensive work during the fall and win
ter months. When everything Is in
proper working it is expected to ship
two or three car loads daily to the rail-
road.
The Hanover Copper Company is also
doing considerable work in this district.
They have shipped six or seven car
loads Of ore to the Silver City smelter,
running from 10 to % per cent copper.
Their main shaft is l35 feet deep, and
has good steam hoist. They are sink
ing the shaft deeper to catch the ore
body farther down.
McCargo & Henderson, who have a
lease ON the Heartburn, have passed
through 20 feet Of ore in sinking a shaft
10 feet deep. They have let a contract
10 sink the shaft deeper A car load of
ore was shipped to the Silver City re-
ductiOn works. A small force of men
are being employed by the above named
parties on the Jim Thayer, and punches
of good ore are being encountered.
Mr.. Bibles concentration was put up
by the Ell Paso mine, mill and smelter
supply house. 1t Is the most convenient
and best equipped concentration in the
southwest. The capacity of the mill is
about seventy-five to eighty tons pei
day. 1t has an eighty horsepower boil
ar and sixty horse power engine, Blake
crushers, and tour large sized Bartlett
tables. Everything runs as smooth as
clOckWOrk. Plenty of water; wood costs
$3.50 per cord delivered at the mill.
Beaver & Webster, who are working
lease on Union hill, made car load
shipment. 1t is claimed that the ore
will average 6 per cent copper and ST.
in silver. The ore body is said to be
immense in size, and but little expense
is incurred in it's extraction. The same
parties have about ten tons of high
grade ore on their Eighty-six lease, but
they will not ship until they get car
load. Their richest ore Is a heavy black
oxide plentifully mixed with gray cop
per.
In the Fierro district, two miles from
Hanover, are the big iron mines be-
longing to the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company, of Pueblo. They have an i'm
mense crusher, crushing about 300 tons
of iron day, which goes to their works
at Pueblo. They are working quite a
lot of men, and FierrO Is quite a lively
camp. This ore is a very fine iron, car
rying small per cent Of silica, which
accounts for the long haul to Pueblo.
Alongside Of this large iron deposit are
veins of very heavily charged magnetic
iron.
The Emma mine, at Fierro, recently
purchased by new owners, has been
thoroughly overhauled and cleaned out
and now looms up as probable shipper
at an early day. The shaft has been
enlarged to two compartment, and
has been timbered with square sets
from top to bottom, q new gallOws
frame erected, and the entire surface
appearance has been changed for the
better. Two shifts are being employed
The pump Is kept going steadily.
J. X. Choate has out several hundred
tons of ore on the Mother lode dump at
Fferro, which will be shipped to the
concentrator as soon as the courts de-
termine the disposition Of the water
rights controversy now pending. The
ore was mostly extracted in doing dead
work. The Mother Lode Is among the
very best of the many leasing PROPOSE
tions in camp. 1t has paid handsomely
in the past.
The Hanover Mining Company ship.
ped several car loads Of ore, presuma
bly, for the purpose of deciding the more
profitable method Of treatment. In Ell
ther event, whether the ore be smeltet
or concentrated, the Hanover mine ha:
ore enough in sight to furnish severa
car loads daily for many months tt
come.
Considerable work Is going on in tht
Hanover district. I. w. Bible, formerly
Of Colorado Springs, Is developing eigh
claims. Most of them are copper claims
but he has one lead claim that Is a fine
concentrating ore. All of his claims rur
we'll also in silver, all the way from
to 40 ounces. He Is pushing the devel
opment work. and can produce mor'
than his concentrator can handle at tn,
present time. p. G.. Simmons Is opening
ble's company, but at present is max
| ing an upraise for air. The ore is ricl
iron sulphides carrying copper pyrites
good ore for concentrating and desira
BILE for smelters. Mr.. Bible also has {
lease ON some Of the Southwest Goa
and Iron Company's property, and II
shipping about five car loads a day t.
the Pueblo iron works. This Is one o
the richest iron beds in the United
States. The iron runs 60 per cent owe
the silica. This Is a wonderful proper
ty, carrying such iron value over tn
silica. Mr.. Bibles copper and silve
claims are putting out 100 tons day o
concentrating ore, and are milling from
seventy-five to eighty tons per day
making good car load Of concentrates
every twenty-four hours.
| SIERRA COUNTY.
c. T. Phillips, who has spent severa
months prospecting in the Mogollo
mountains and the Black Range o
southwestern New Mexico, is in Denve
securing a test OF ores taken from pros
poets In the Black Range. Mr.. Phillip
says that the Black Range is rapid
filling up with prospectors, and ina
though the work done 80 far is con
fined principally to shallow working
the showing made Is exceptional