Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-02-15
MINING NOTES
Information From Many Districts In
the Mining Regions Of the
Territory.
OUTPUT OF HILLSBORO MINES
Several Mines In Oolfax County Are to Be
Patented and Mills Are Getting Ready
for Business Rich Silver Strike
At Pinos Altos.
DONA ANA COUNTY.


| The Humphrey -Connor group at Colo
camp have been patented.
A concentrating plant Is to be erected
on the Oriental in Gold camp.
The Black Prince, at Gold camp, ir
| the Organ mountains has been bonded
to Kansas City parties.
GRANT COUNTY. ...
Hanover Is to have sneIter this
year
The smelter at Pinos Altos is being
put in shape for the resumption OF
work.
On the Langston at Pinos Altos Il
shaft Is being sunk to the mouth of the
tunnel.
The shaft of the Pacific Gold Com
pany at Pinos Altos is being sunk to the
sO0-f foot level.
found in a crosscut on the 250-foot leve
in the Silver Cell at Pinos Altos.
A contract has been let Ito run the 700.
foot drift 500 feet further to the soutl
on the Atlantic mine at Pinos Altos.
CoLFAx COUNTY.
The Confidence properties in the
Elizabethtowm districts are being ex-
tenssively developed.
John James has made a fine strike OF
ore on the Rosdta, an extension on the
Aztec vein The quartz assays 500 to
the ton.
]. B. Wheeler, OF Colorado Springs,
win overhaul the mill he owns at Baldy
this spring and will start work on the
Moale and French Henry.
The Black Horse mime at Elizabeth
town HAS the longest tunnel and the
deepest shaft ON ore in the Elizabeth
town district. The tunnel is in over
LOO feet, and the shaft is down $40 feet.
The following claims are being sur
veyed for patents: The Gold Leaf, in
the West Moreno district, and the Eu-
clid, in the Willow creek district. The
Confidence site is also being surveyed
for a patent.
The Bidd1e mill, owned by Leopold
Biddle, situated on the Ponil side of old
Baldy, is undergoing considerable i'm
provement The waiter power is being
doubled, and additional stamps are be-
ing put in. Several concentrating tables
have also been added.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Senator Andrews asks $1,000,000 FOL
the Trippe mine at Andrews.
A big strike of silver ore has beer
made In the Cabello mountains.
The production OF the Hlllsboro dis
trict last week WAS 1O5 tons Of ore.
The SinnIamiahoning will not ship un'
til the ore on It's dump amounts To 200(
tons.
Cleveland parties are examining the
manganese iron deposits around Hills
boro
Gold ore is being taken out Of thu
Lookout mime ON Trujillo creek that as
says $S7, 900 to the ton.
e. H. Bickford has a force Of mer
employed pumping out and tlmberins
up the main shafts of the Johnson.
The Walker Milling and Mining Com.
pany are making arrangements to put
in larger reduction works at Grafton.
The owners of the Warren, at Hills.
boro, have let a contract for mining 20t
tons of milling ore. Cooper & Lee have
the Job aIt 81 ton.
The first mortgage bonds have beer
taken up by the Mastodon people, and
they have a nice balance left In thu
treasury. Copper is the cause Of this
prosperity.
Walker 6 Taylor have opened up 6
rich run of gold ore in the Braxton nint
at Grafton. They are sacking ore thai
assays s., 900 to the ton. The Braxton II
in Ivanfoe gulch.
Messrs. Buchanan and Baker, Of st
Louis, representing the company tha
owns the El Dorado NEAR Hillsboro, ar,
putting the property In shape for TIL
resumption Of active mining operations
At one time the Ell Dorado was the larg
/ est producer in the Hillsboro district.
soCoRRo COUNTY.