Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-12
A Big COPPER FIND.
The Mineral Wealth In the Santa Fe Noun
tains Is Being DaYeloped,


Warren Reynolds and Cyrus Smith,
who with Contractor A. Windsor back
ing them, are working their newly dis
covered copper find three miles above
Monument Rock. came in from camp on
Saturday night bringing a half bushel
or so of the ore taken out in develop
ment work. 1t looks pretty good. Every
mining man who has examined it on
graduates the lucky discoveries and en-
courages them to continue development.
After laying in a fresh supply of provi-
sions they packed their burrOs and re-
turned to camp this morning. Miner
Reynolds states that they have run a
tunnel in ten feet and in doing so have
cross cut a vein of quartz four feet in
width which to all appearances is much
richer than the surface rock on the big
vein further up the hill which yielded
an assay of $3.50 per ton in copper.
This richer vein he thinks should run
$40 to $50 per ton in copper and prob.
ably some in gold. The tunnel is to be
driven in to crosS-cut the big ledge
which is traceable on the surface for s.
900 feet. The above named trio have
located five claims along the ledge and
it looks as if they had found something
very near Santa Fe that may turn out to
be a bonanza. The claims are rather in
accessible but if the ore proves, upon de-
velopment, to be as rich and in such
quantity as appearances at this time in
dictate, ample capital will be forthcoming
- anrctnn,t a ,niln ~ Oh IF on1ln no, IN
to bring it down into the valley for mill
ing purposes.
COPPER HILL MILL.
j. X. Turner, manager of the Copper
Hill Mining company, is in the city from
RincOnada. Water is now flowing
through the pipe line into the reservoir
that supplies the new mill and the
plant is to be started up next week, en-
ploving in mine and mill about 100 men.
/ This is a concentrating nplant Of the
| very latest design. The ore is REDUCED
down so that ten tons as it comes from
| the mine is concentrated into one ton of
concentrates worth $50 per ton. The
values run 40 per cent copper; 80 ounces
silver and the remainder in gold. The
concentrates are shipped from Embudo
to Denver and Pueblo. The mines are
looking well, active development having
been going OF for nearly a year. Four
Sullivan compressed air drills are in use.
| At present the chief work consists in
running a cross-cut 1000 feet in length.
MINE NOTES.
r. A. Bradley, who claims to have a
promising copper prospect half way be-
tween Monument Rock and Glorieta has
gone to his camp in company with a
California man who thinks of investing
if the property shows up satisfactorily.
G. D. Jordan and j. W. Taylor re-
turned last night from a ten days pros
pecting trip at the head of Santa Fe
canon. They say they saw many fine
looking quartz lodges and they brought
in a quantity of rock which will be
tested for pay mineral.
A native citizen showed up in town
| yesterday with a fine looking piece of
white quartz carrying free gold visible
to the naked eye-the kind that will
pay to work if the streak is but an inch
in width. He told certain business men
here that he took it from a strong
quartz run IL miles out in the Santa Fe
mountains. Responsible parties have
gone to investigate.