Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-29
COLPAX COUNTY MINES.
Work That Is Being Done In the Mines
Around Elizabethtown.

John Bianchi, principal owner of the
Inferno, at Elizabethtown, will put a
full force at work. They are on a blind
lead which uns $3.50 per ton in gold.
Herman Kaiser, on lower Willow
creek, is running full time on his placer
claim, and having plenty of water, his
returns are larger than in many years.
The Paragon mine. near Elizabeth
town, in the last week has shown up ore
of better value than ever. 1t will run 3
ounces on the plates, and a large body
of it is in sight.
There are some rumor in regard to a
new deal on the Aztec mine. This mine
in the 7Os produced 2 $1,000 worth of gold
per week with a ten-stamp mill, n
has been gouged ever since.
Jack Williams is working his grub
plat placers to their full capacity, and
his clean-ups are larger thar ever. Gil
len, Mead and Mosmann are also doing
we'll with their ElizabethtOwn placer
claims.
O. r. Matkin, of the Legal Tender,
will have the new concentrators In
place ready to start his mill in a day or
so. Plenty of ore Is on the dump to keep
the mill going night and day for many
months.
Negotiations are pending in regard to
leasing the Montezuma mine, in the
Eliz%abethtown district, which is one of
the old producing mines of the district,
but which has been idle for ten years
owing to the impOssibility of showing
the values, carbonates of lead ca 'rying
gold, without concentration, and the
ore not averaging enough to stand ex-
! pense Of shipment to Pueblo or Denver.
The Ohio Gold Mining Company, in
its main workings at the head of Hum
bug gulch, Elizabethtown, is in TAO feet,
and expect to go $50 feet more 10 cut
the vein sought. The tunnel has already
cut three veins that show good values,
running from $50 to $50 per ton, and the
tunnel on completion will undoubtedly
cut the mother vein of the hill and so
; add another profitable mine to the Eliz-
abethtown district. M.
Baron Won Zuylen, of the Black Horse
mine, near Elizabethtown, belonging to
the Four Creeks Mining Company, is
making preparations to start his mill
with improvements in the way of con-
centrators and close amalgamators. AL
though the Black Horse mine has
plenty of ore in sight to keep it's mill
running day and night on it's own ores,
! If has decided to treat small lots of ore
from other properties in the camp with
a view to demonstrating the efficacy of
it's treatment and helping owners and
~leasers of adjacent claims to realize re-
turns from their ores until such time
as a custom mill, for which there Is a
present and aver increasing demand, be
erected there.
The Montezuma Gold Mining and
Placer Company is working three shifts
on it's Blue Bandana, prosecuting for
the Red Bandana lead at the 425-foot
level, and expects to encounter the
same within ten days. This company
has been operating at ElizabethtoWn
for the past four years, and owns some
of the finest properties in New Mexico,
among them being the Red Bandana,
White Bandana, Blue Bandana, Amer
lean Flag and Centennial, all'of which
have development work enough to
prove them producers. Their Hunting
ton mill is the latest improvement, and
is doing fine work on these ores. Con-
tracts will shortly be let for a cyanide
plant to treat the tailings of this plant.
Kansas City capital is back of this en-
terprise.
The Challenge, in the Elizabethtown
district, worked by a Kansas City COM
! pany. shows a vein from Is inches to
! &c inches of sugary quartz, ~perlneated
and filled with hematite cubes and
showing at nearly every fracture free
, and visible native gold. There are two
shafts and two tunnels OF this property
representing 400 or 500 feet Of work. The
vein will be mined the width of the
| openings, and while assays show a
range of from 500 to $16O per ton, yet a
conservative estimate Of the product
which will reach the mill Is placed at
$50 per ton. The millsite selected Is q
most adaptable one. The plant will con-