Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-19
VALUABLE STRIKES
The Owners Of the Deep Down Mine
In Socorro County Are In
Luck.
TERRITORIAL MINING NEWS
Good Work Is Being Done In the Mogollon
District-A Profitable Mine Trans
action-Sierra and Grant
County Mines.

actlOn-Slerra anu Grant
County Mines.
SIERRA COUNTY.
A new concentrator has been placed
lin the Wing mill at Fairview.
w. D. Nourse, of Hermosa, Is timber
ing the Cook mine at Fairview.
Judge Holmes has closed down the In
dependent mine on Silver Monument
hill, near Fairview.
Pueblo (Colo.) parties purchased q
group of mines In the Chloride district
which carries ore that assays 60 per
cent copper and 400 ounces Of silver to
the ton.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
c. F. Brown sold the Queen group of
mines in the Silver Mountain district.
The B. o. b. company, in which Gov
ernor Otero is interested, made two i'm
portant strikes on the Deep Down mine
at Mogollon. The ore runs s19 in gold
and 20 ounces in silver, with some ore
that gives much higher results. Five
additional stamps, with crushers and
other necessary incidental machinery
have been ordered, and will soon be put
in place. Charles Smith, who for many
years operated the Maud 8. mill, has
been employed to take charge of the B.
o. B. mill.
Large bodies Of very good grade of
ore have been developed on the Little
Fannie mine at Mogollon. All OF the
available space in the ore bins on the
surface has been filled with rich ore ta-
ken out in development. There is suffi-
cient ore developed in the mine to keep
a twenty-stamp mill profitably engaged
for three years. New York capitalists
are at present negotiating for the pur-
chase of the mine and mill.
The Scargo mines in the San Andreas
have several hundred tons of ore on the
dump, and the workmen are only 20 feet
underground. Shipping will not be COM
menced until a depth of 100 feet has
been reached. The group consists of six
claims, 1000 feet in length, and is locat-
ed half way between San Marcia, and
Three Rivers. They were staked last
naco,nhor opd vorly On <ho,,o 1uo "a ooy,o
menced in January. The property is a
low-grade proposition. The ore assays
from Is to 35 per cent copper. with an
average Of 10 ounces in silver and a
small percentage Of gold. The Scargo
company was organized at Portland,
Me-, with 100000 capital. The same
company owns six claims in that same
section, and named it the Red Hills
group. 1t is a good concentrating prop
osition.
Large bodies Of rich ore have been
developed in the lower levels Of the
Confidence mine at Mogollon. The prin-
cipal development upon the property is
being prosecuted through No. 2 shaft,
which has attained a depth of $50 feet
below the adit level, or equivalent to a
depth of 900 feet below the surface,
making it one of the deepest mines In
the territory. The power for the mill
and the mine is derived from a great
water system built upon Whitewater
creek, where the mill Is located. The
power developed by this water system is
far in excess of what is necessary for
the extensive operations at both mill
and mine. The placing Of the pipe line.
which is 5000 feet in length, was one of
the most difficult pieces of hydraulic
engineering ever accomplished in this
part Of the west. Two large motors at
the mill run very large electric plant.
which develops power to run the thirty
stamp mill, with pans, settlers. concen-
traitors and electric lights for the mill
and camp, the power being transmitted
a distance of four miles. Electric hoists
and power drills are used to operate the
mine. All Of the development work at
present Is being done by power drills
which are operated and the ground bro.
ken at one-fourth the ordinary cost OF
manual labor. Additional machinery Is
being added from time to time, and the
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Mexico.
The Silver Bar mine at Cooney re.
Gently passed into the hands Of Colora-
do and California capitalists The shaft
has attained depth of 200 feet below
the adit level, with a body of ore
throughout its entire depth running
from to 10 feet in width, with an av.
erage value Of $50 per ton in gold, sill.
yer and copper. The ore Is principally
a bornite, with some chalcocite in the
lower workings. Some ore Is taken out
that runs much higher and is shipped
direct to the smelter This ore averages
about 40 per cent copper and about A
ounces of silver, with from quarter tt
half an ounce Of gold per ton. The Sec
ond-class ore is concentrated in mil
at the mine, the concentrators running
slightly in excess of the flrst-class ore
The company has already developed
and in sight ready for extraction full,
a quarter of million dollars worth o.
ore, insuring net profit of at leas
$150.00o upon property for which thu
purchase price was only $4,000.
GRANT COUNTY.
Fifty-one men are now employed ol
the Iron Head at Fierro.
Rauman Graham q Ra1l made ,