Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-13
THE ORGAN DISTRICT
The San Andres and the Organ
Mountains Are Very Rich in
Mineral Wealth.
MANY WELL KNOWN MINES
A Fifty Ton Mill to Be Erected on the
Modoc Aine-Many Prospects That
Gould Be Developed into
Good Mines
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.


claim, in the vicinity Of Rociada, thirty
miles north of Las Vegas, has attracted
considerable attention to that locality
during the past six weeks. Beatty &
Kelly, owners of the Hoosier Girl, claim
to have refused an offer of $4,000 for
their claim. Since the discovery Of the
Hoosier Girl over 100 claims have been
located in the Rociada mining district,
which is nine miles long and about one
and one-half miles wide. These claims
are in various stages Of development,
and the owners are well pleased with
their prospects. Scores of old miners
and mining experts who have visited
the camp freely express their conf
dence that the district is rich in cop
per, silver and lead, especially the for
mer mineral.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
The Torpedo is working forty-odd
men. Samples from this mine created
furore when exhibited recently at the
International mining congress.
Hugh Steele, formerly of Cripple
Creek. has bond on very promising
lot of prospects, called Membrilla, Cop
per Boy and Copper Girl, which are To-
Gated twenty-five miles north of Organ
in the San Andreas mountains.
Miners working further north in the
San Andreas mountains say there are
hundreds of prospects and mines that
ought to be placed before the mining
world. They say that they find pros
pect holes dug twenty-five or thirty
years ago that show up WELL and that
old prospectors ought to take in this
locality, and bring to light the hidden
treasures buried there.
The Mormon mine. which Is about
seven miles east of Organ camp, in the
gold district, has a well-defined lead
about feet in width, the pay streak
varying from inches to feet wide.
One car load was shipped, averaging
about 5000 per ton. Very high assays
have been obtained from this property.
The vein matter is white quartz. Two
men are at work stopping out ore at
present. The walls are granite and
trachyte. Plenty of water. The depth
attained is $50 feet The owners are C.
d. Bonny, of Roswell, and Mr.. Enix.
There Is an immense mineral zone
running east and north, extending
through the Organ mountains and on
through the San Andreas mountains,
seven to ten miles wide and about fifty
miles long. The Modoc mine Is a con-
tact vein between lime and porphyry.
Considerable development work has
been done on 1t. They have one shaft
down 100 feet. In the new shaft at 80
feet they struck considerable flow of
water, but not enough as yet for milling
purposes. AS soon as they can develop
sufficient water to operate a fifty-ton
plant it will be put in. The plant is al
ready contracted for. 1t will consist of
a twenty-five horse power engine and a
large compressor; also new pattern
air drill and tramway from the mine
to the mill. All this work will be done
just as soon as sufficient water is de-
veloped. They have ore on the dump to
keep them running several months.
Throughout the Organ district are
many claims that could be put on a
paying basis If capital could be inter-
ested. Among them are the Excelsior,
Monmouth and Little Buck, which took
out in 1883 10000 pounds Of horn silver
in one car load; the Jim Fisk, which
has 400 feet of work and carries lead,
silver and iron; the Merrimac, which
carries silver, copper and gold, at pres
ent under a $4,000 bond; the Eureka,
running heavy in lead, with good values
in silver and considerable iron; the
Black Prince. which in 1888 shipped 500
tons of ore to the smelter, the returns
giving As per cent lead and SIS to $40 In
silver. All the above claims are IN the
vicinity of Organ city, and all could be
made good paying mines with capital
behind them. This would give work to
thousands Of miners.