Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-14
new MEXICO MINESs
The Latest Reports From the Mining Dis
tricts nf the Territory.

The Latest Reports From the Mining Dis
tricts Of the Territory.
0. M. Tompkins, superintendent Of the
United Verde Mining company of Cimar-
%roncito, says that a recent shipment of
ore from the Thunder lode of the com
pany returned $55 per car.
S. Carmichael, of Trinidad, is general
manager of the Franklin placers on up
per Red River about eight miles west Of
E'town. The company will commence
operations for the season this week.
These placers are now in excellent con
dition for successful working and will
give magnificent returns this year, there
being an abundance of water.
OTERO COUNTY.
Prospecting and development work is
going on at Scheelerville in the Nogal
district, New Mexico. The ores from
some of the mines run high in silver and
copper and also carry gold.
Chris Yeager. of Jicarilla, has re-
Curned from the east. He returns with
an option on the DeMueles turquois
estate in the Jarilla mountains, which
stipulates the payment of $50, 900 in 90
days.
A party of mining men from Ell Paso
have gone to Tularosa to open up some
copper properties near that place. They
have discovered what they consider q
most excellent proposition and will
develop it to the fullest extent. A fine
body of ore is already in sight.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
A number of mining prospects have
been located at the head of Osa canon,
west of Captain. The quartz shows the
presence of copper and silver.
Several rich copper strikes have lately
been made in the Gallina district, Lin
coin county, and a number of prospec-
tors are going into the country.
M. G. Neal, of Captain, recently ship
ped a carload of high grade copper ore
to Ell Paso from the mine. known as the
Soldier, in the Captain district.
Robert II. Houston left Ell Paso for
Lincoln county, where he will engage
in mining operations. Mr.. Houston is
originally from Davenport, Iowa, and
anne to Ell Paso about two months ago
for the benefit of his health.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
The ore shipments from Organ mines
to the Ell Paso smelter have been stead
lily increasing the past month.
j. H. Felter, of Eel Paso, came up
Wednesday to join Judge Newcomb in
| f1n ciott,0 af lonrn how'd o~l I~ol @~
the Merrimack mining property.
A. d. Miller and A. ID. Buckner left
last Tuesday for Andrews, N. M, where
they had accepted lucrative positions
ing Company.
Two new bodies of ore have been en-
countered in the Torpedo. One body is
rich in lead and silver, and the other
shows finer Upper ore than has been
struck heretofore.
A large body of galena is in sight, es-
timated at 1000 tons, at the Modoc. De-
velopment work is still being pushed at
the bottom of the shaft; and work in
the gulch, on the reservoir, is drawing
to completion.
Well founded rumors prevail at Organ
of early railroad building through that
camp, across the range to the Black
mountain district; thence up the San
| Andreas to the Soda beds; thence across
the valley to Tularosa, and up Tularo-
| sa creek to the summit of the Sacra-
mentos.
Within the last fifteen days three par
ties have been at Organ to examine the
| Thompson lead claims, and others In
search of copper properties. Aside from
more substantial buildings, tents are
being erected all over the surrounding
country, and there Is more stir and
business now than has existed since the
| collapse of silver camps throughout the
country.
Several sales have been made lately
in the Organ district. or the number,
Capt. w. r. Fall has leased and bonded
| for the sum of $12, 500 the Merrimack,
patented mine, owned by j. H. Felter,
| of Ell Paso, and s. b. Newcomb, of Las
Cruces, to r. B. Learned and Edward
Wilder, of Topeka, Kan. The Merri-
mack is well known to be a very val
! liable claim. and it Is believed the pur-
chasers have secured a rare bargain,
which, if properly worked. will add an
other brilliant to the Organ galaxy.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Messrs. Stinchcomb, of Chicago, and
| Mosey, of Cleveland, friends of Captain
Sewall, struck Elizabethtown a day or
two ago.
Mr.. Richardson, a mining expert from
! Cripple Creek, is in Elizabethtown, ex-
aiming the Edison mine and other
properties.
A party of thirty-flve miners came In
to Springer from Colorado last week.
mos. of them leaving for the mining
districts west of there.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The first fatal accident in the coal
mines at Captain occurred last Mon
day. David Salmon, one of the men re-
Gently employed, was caught by a load
ed car Immediately after the mule had
been unhitched from 1t on a steep
grade, and the wheels passed over his
chest crushing it so badly that he died.