Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-11-09
The Lead King and the Lead Queen
in the San Andreas Sold for
100000.
ANOTHER GROUP FOR $4,000
1t Is Located at Grafton and Was Bought
by Denver and Philadelphia Capital
ists-A Number of Mine Sales
at Red River.
SOCORRO COUNTY.

Colorado parties are investigating the
copper and iron deposits in the Cuchllo
mountains
mine hoist was unloaded last week
, at the Buckeye office at Socorro for
shipment to the Black Range
The Ashville on Dry Creek is another
: Black Range gold property that only
lacks plant to treat the ore on the
. ground to become great producer of
bullion
deed was recorded in the probate
clerks office at Socorro last week of the
. Lead King" and Lead Queen" mines
in the San Andreas mountains by Win
field s. Baker to the Salinas Peak Min
ing Company for the sum of 100000
The deed bore 500 worth of revenue
stamps.
Ihe U. ). Treasury group of mines in
the Black Range, owned by kingsbury
, ';ros., shows one of the largest bodies
of milling ore in the territory The ore
shoot shows for 1000 feet on the sur
face. There are several shafts on the
, lead, one of which, at the south end, is
and only one wall shown as yet The
tunnel on the vein, to connect with the
shaft, Is now so feet under cover and
shows over 20 feet of ore. There are
about 1000 tons on the several dumps
which, by careful sampling, average
over $40 per ton.
SIERRA COUNTY.
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inspecting some mining property in the
Carpenter district several days.
c. n. Barr and Mitch Gray of Hills
boro, received last week $4,000 as the
second payment on their Grandview
group of claims in the Carpenter dis
trict
A very fine specimen of grey copper
ore was brought into Hillsboro by c.
H. Laidlaw from his new workings on
the Black Knife No 2. 1t is Il quartz
containing quite a percentage of gold.
B. S. Phillips of Denver, accompanied
by Prof Bentz and Messrs. Longcoop
and Pike of Philadelphia, have been
looking over the mining properties in
the neighborhood of Grafton. They
have purchased a group of properties
from Tom Scales for $4,000, subject to
the usual assay test being satisfactory.
TAOS COUNTY.
Another rich strike is reported on the
! Fraser properties at AmiZett.
A. X. Thompson of Red River, is hav-
ing some work done on the Dorsey min
ing claim up Mallette creek.
! Quite a number of mine sales are be-
ing talked of at Red River, and some of
them run up into the thousands of dol
lars.
j, NJ. Mead is developing the Eureka
mine near the June Bug mill. He now
has over so feet of work done.
The Black Copper mine. situated
about five miles up the river from Red
River, has made arrangements to put
in a mill as soon as it can secure the
machinery.
The Red River Copper Company of
Red River. is building an engine and
hoist house. They have sunk over 20
feet in the last ten days on their prop
erty.
COLFAX COUNTY.
&. S. Wilson, u mining expert from
| Edinburgh, Scotland, has been exam
lining the Lexington mine at Eliza
bethtown. He has now gone to Arizona
to do some work for the same company.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Keene & Allen of Organ have moved
their camp nearer their claims in the
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fident that they will develop several
good properties in that camp.
| SIERRA COUNTY.
There is more active work being done
in the Chloride mining district in the
Black Range country, than has been
known for many years. a number of
fine bodies of ore are being opened up
| on the Apache claims-the Ashtield, the
| Treasure and the Eagle are working,
and George Cowdery, a Denver expert.
has been investigating the Great Re-
public group and other valuable claims
for Colorado company. George Wal
ker of Grafton, is in New York, arrang-
ing to have a large amount of work
LINCOLN COUNTY.
| The Kansas City company which has
purchased the now famous Compromise
mine at White Oaks for $4,000. has re-
fused an offer of 100000 for the prop
| erty There is no decline in the rich
ness of the ore, which is wire gold in
manganese and iron. Assays in the
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nuggets of pure gold of considerable
value are found daily. The recent boz
nanza in the Old Abe mine still contin-
ues and the management believes that
almost neXhaustible bodies of ore,
richer than any ever taken from the
productive mine. have been reached at
a depth of nearly l,200 feet.