Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-11-16
TERRITORIAL
MINING NEWS
Activity in the Organ, the Black
Mountain and the Headstone
Districts.
SEVERAL SMALL MINE DEALS
Milwaukee Capital Interested in Several
Rio Arriba County Mines Machinery
of the Torpedo Working Satisfac-
torily- Other Mine Notes.
DONA ANA COUNTY.

| A small force continues work on the
| Excelsior and on the Memphis, both
copper properties at Organ.
Many new locations are being worked
| at Organ as the means of the owners
permit, so that Organ is quite lively
camp.
The Copper Bar Mining and Milling
Company at Organ has suspended de-
velopment work at the water level
where it has four bodies of ore in sight.
Messrs. Allen and Keens of Cripple
| Creek are at work on their three claims
at Organ and on twelve claims in the
Black mountain district east of the
range about ten miles northeast of Or
gan. Work on the latter has uncovered
very high grade ore, showing large
quantities of black manganese and red
oxides, lead and silver, in large well de-
fined leads.
Harry Ferguson, L. Root and r. Y.
! Anderson have extremely valuable
| trict. They have cut into a lead of
| white quartz bearing per cent copper,
SIS gold and 1850 ounces of silver, as
says showing $3.50 per ton. A sufficient
amount of work has not been done to
determine the extent of the lead, but
| it is thought to be the extension of that
| upon which the Galloway is located.
The machinery on the Torpedo at Or
gan is working satisfactorily, sending
a large volume of water down the
gulch. 1t is thought to be an easy mat
| ter to control the water in the south
shaft, and, that it's management will be
still easier as the water is lowered in
| the reservoir which now supplies it
| superabundantly. So soon as all is got
| ten in ship-shape, it is predicted that
Alarge shipments of high grade mineral
Twill be made as the work is pushed be-
low water level.
e. P. Warner of Chicago, also presi-
dent of the Copper Bar Company,
| which has a capital stock of 100000
| is at Organ and has given the informa-
ton that the work of hoisting and
shipping ores will be commenced as
soon as machinery can be erected. The
principal claims owned by this COM
pany, most advanced with development
work, are the Copper Bar on the east
side line of the Torpedo and the Tor
pedo No. 2, on the east side line of the
| famous Old Memphis.
| RIO ARRIBA COUNTY
| The Mexican King Gold and Copper
| Company, also of Milwaukee, has ac-
quired five good claims in the district
known as the War Eagle group.
| The Whale mine in the Headstone
district has been worked all summer
and fall by Judge Royal, the veins
/ showing that there has been no de-
terioration since the first phenomenal
| strike.
The New Mexico Gold and Copper
Company of Milwaukee, Wis, is still
sinking a shaft on the Strawberry
claim in the Headstone district, the ore
increasing in value with depth, the val
ues in free gold being considerably in
creased.
The Burnt Mountain Gold and Copper
Mining Company, also Milwaukee,
Wis, corporation, has purchased the
Rusty Bucket and Sardine group in the
Headstone district Of the York Brothers
and Is developing by sinking shaft at
the junction Of the two claims, the ore
showing good quality Of copper both
carbonates and oxides.