Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-31
SEVERAL MINE DEALS
Two Mines at Organ Are Placed
Under Bond and Lease at a
Good Figure.
W. 4. ANDREWS GOOD LUCK
he Rsdiscovered an Old Gold Mine in Sierra
Oounty-Nogal Copper Prospects Bond
ed-Work of the New Mexico
Lead Company.
OTERO COUNTY.

Inc output OF the mines DelOnSlnE TO
the New Mexico Lead Company for
June was 1000 tons, and Mr.. Hopkin.
says that he calculates to double that
for July. Regular shipments are being
made to the Ell Paso smelters.
George C. Hopkins, general manager
of the New Mexico Lead Company's
mines in the San Andreas mountains
exhibits samples of ore that showed
from 40 to 70 per cent lead, and says
they have uncovered vein of this to
the width Of 16 feet, and there's no tell
ing how much wider it Is New mines
are opening up frequently in these
mountains, and all are making good
showings.
Il was in the San Andreas mountains
in 1882" said Mr.. Hopkins, but the
cost Of transportation and the neces-
sary materials We're SO high that man
could not afford to handle the ore. The
expense of handling ore is Is per cent
less now than in 1882. and while smell
ters made charge for treating ore
then they will treat it free now and pay
a premium for the lead they secure in
the process. Then we couldn't handle
$40 ore at a profit. Lead ore, during
Cleveland's administration, was as low
as $2.10 per 100 pounds; yesterday it
was $4.20 per 100 pounds. Still, there is
large portion of the ore we cannot yet
handle, but when we get our own ma
chinery we can handle it all, and that
time is not far off, for the company ex-
poets to put in 100-ton concentratol in
the near future
Two or three cars of ore are shipped
from this region every day, it being
hauled in wagons from fifteen to thirty
five miles. Mr.. Hopkins says the ship
ment would increase 100 per cent If the
means of transportation were better
and cheaper. II could furnish ten cars
day right from the surface he said,
III there was railroad running near
the mines. l sometimes pay $40 per ton
for the ore to be taken to the railroad.
while the railroad takes it several
times the distance for $3.50 per ton, SO
you see railroad would enable us to
ship the low per cent ore that now may
as well be thrown on the dump, for it
costs more per ton to have it transport
ed than 1t will assay"
SIERRA COUNTY.
Senator w. H. Andrews, Of Pittsburg,
is entertaining T. Lee Clark and A. II.
Trimble, of Pennsylvania, at his min
ing camp in Sierra county. Mr.. Clark is
cashier of the Enterprise National bank
and Mr.. Trimble is a well-known bust
ness man Of Pittsburg. They cone to
New Mexico to spend several weeks
and to inspect Senator Andrews re-
Gently discovered Ell ORC mine. Here
5-foot vein Of gold-bearing ore has been
uncovered, which goes down as straight
as an arrow as far as the shaft has
been sunk, and with not the least indi
cation of thinning out. Mining experts
who have examined the property give it
as their opinion that the vein is true
assure. and that it will hold out for at
least 1000 feet. The lowest average as
say ofsthe ore Is $500 to the ton, while a
small ledge, varying in width from to
8 inches, will run from $50 to $50. Min
rounding country have always held that
the mother lode Of which the Snake,
Opportunity, Wickes and other large
veins are Offshoots would be found in
this gulch, and many are of the opinion
that it has now been discovered. The
Ell Orc claim was worked several hun
dred feet from the present shaft over
quarter of century ago by st. Louis
parties, from whom the senator recent
ly bought It, At that time $50 ore was
found, but being several hundred miles
from the nearest railway point it would
not bear shipping. The workings were
abandoned and never reopened until
Senator Andrews took hold of it. A new
steam hoist has been placed in position
at the mine, and three shifts are work.
ing night and day sinking the shaft.
DONA ANA COUNTY. az
Edward Wilder, treasurer of the San
ia Fe system, and E. B. Learned, of To-
peka, recently took bond and lease on
the Merrimac mine, Organ district, for
81, 500, and this has been followed by
the leasing and bonding of the Ruby
Eclipse mine for $7,50O by J. F. Hufford.
the owner, to Goodwin Bros, of Colo
RADIO. Both properties are being worked.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
A group of copper prospects recently
opened near Nogal has been taken un-
der bond for $1,000 by George E. Mof-
fatt, of Ell Paso.