Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-17
Notes Concerning Development In
Many Districts In Various Ooun-
ties of New Mexico.
BUSY In NUMEROUS CAMPS
Discoveries and Production Reported In
Many Directions and There Is General
Activity All Over the Territory
By Miners,
LINCOLN COUNTY

1
ON the Orphan, ON the Bonlito, and a
winze has been sunk 20 feet on the
VEIN 1t is owned by Capt w B. Brack
| of Ell Paso. 1t assays gold, silver and
| lead. g
The Big Four at the head of Tank.
ard canon, Nogaa district, is owned by
Emerson May. 1t has a 4O-foot Shaft
| showing good clear vein, the ore as
| saying $1110 in copper and silver.
The Cricket and the Fire King, on the
Bonlito, are owned by c. G. Peters, and
assay we'll in gold, silver and lead.
There are forty tons of ore on the dump.
One shaft is sunk 100 feet, and tun-
mel of 120 feet has been driven.
The Mogul, ON the BonIito, has a 49,
foot vein lying between granite walls.
IT has been bonded for two years by AL
fred Corn and A. Anderson, of Gaylord.
The output of the Captain coal mines
is now 100 tons a day. Entry No. 4 is
NOW in 400 feet, and the vein is feet
thick
DONA ANA COUNTY.
A new mining camp llas been estab-
lisfled near Organ. 1t is known as Min
elal Hill. The Oriental is the principal
mime alt THE camp being actively work
ed
A tunnel is being driven on the For
minissary ait Organ.
On the Mormon at Organ the main
shaft is being sunk perpendicularly
down on THE lead. Drifts are being run
both ways from THE lead.
An ore and shaft house rs feet long
has been erected on the Torpedo.
SIERRA COUNTY.
The Dell, at Hillsboro, will resume
operations next month.
Hon. Silas Alexander, one of the own
ers, is arranging to resume work on the
Butler, near Hillsboro.
The Porter mill alt Hillsboro is adding
third Whitley table.
The 3-foot vein recently discovered on
the Chance alt Hillsboro carries ore that
assays $3.50 gold and $50 copper.
A big strike of Bounce gold ore has
been made on the Happy Jack ait Hills
boro.
William Thurmo1fd, of Hillsbor'o, has
gone to Arizona to dry concentrate the
million-ton dump of the Vulture, for
merly owned by the late Senator Tabor,
Of Colorado.
The nIinies owned by Larson, Mitchell
& Saline in Ready Pay gulch, near
Hillsboro, are being put in readiness for
resumption Of operations.
Eastern capitalists have made an Of
fer Of $500 for the X. X. ait Hillsboro.
The offer was refused, and $4,000 set as
the e'selling price.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
A large concentration is being erected
at Graham to- treat the large amount of
taIilings from the Helen Mining Com
pany's mill.
Mechanics are repairing the Last
Chance mill at Mogol1on, preparatory
to installing new machinery.
Ore bins and tramways are being con-
structed ait the Deep Down alt Mogollon.
The shaft is being timbered and every
thing prepared for large output of ore.
An accident to machinery has COM
pelled the closing down of the Fanny
mine at Mogollon.
The Silver Bar Mining Company at
Cooney has let a contract to Shannon &
Thomas for putting the shaft down am
other so feet.
GRANT COUNTY.
The Dundee, near Lordsburg, recently
acquired by the Orion Mining Company
of Ell Paso, HAS two parallel veins,
which are 20 feet apart. On each vein Is
a 50-foot shaft, but the mouth of one Is
so feet higher than the other. BY sink
ing one shaft another so feet both shafts
will be on the same level. Drifting on
each vein will then be commenced, un-
till the drifts are near together, when
croSscut to unite them will be made.
The shafts are 600 feet apart A gaso-
line hoist Is being erected on the prop
erty. Fifteen men are employed in de-
velopnlent work, but taking out ore all
the time, which is paying for the work.
On the Mangus near Mangus another
strike of rich silver ore has been made.
Two shafts are down to the depth of
100 feet, and I'm crosscutting from one
shaft to the other very fine vein Of
silver ore was encountered.
Work has been resumed on the Cleve-
land group, near Hanover, recently sold
by George H. Utter to EASTERN parties.
James HIN has located a number of