Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-06
MINING INTERESTS
The Santa Rita Company Is Again
Pushing Work in the Santa
Rita District.
EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Some Active Mining Work Is Being Done
in Taos and Dona Ana Counties
A High Grade Gold-0op-
per Lead.
DONA ANA COUNTY.

DONA ANA COUNTY.
Newton Edison is taking ont some fine
ore on the Jim Fiske claim.
J. T. Allen has bonded one of the Cox
claims at Organ and will develop it.
w. H. Mackeye has started force of
men at work on the Maggie group at
Organ.
Another body of 40 per cent. copper
was encountered in the Torpedo mine at
Organ last week. This mine is now
shipping from Las Cruces to the Ell Paso
smeters a car load of high grade ore
daily.
The Modoc company at Organ has
completed its well and has about 13O feet
of water. Whether the flow will supply
twenty five gallons per minute, the guam
tity demanded by the smelter which the
company will erect, remains to be seen.
About seventy feet Of water remains
in the south shaft at the Torpedo, at Or
gan, but the new machinery which has
been in course Of erection for the past
several weeks, will, when completed,
quickly withdraw it.
A high grade gold-copper lead has
been uncovered near Cox's steam pump,
in the Black mountain district The dis
covery will tend to hasten deal involv-
ing many of the best properties in that
camp, the growth of which has been re-
tarded by a very few back-cappers and
professional claim jumpers.
TAOS COUNTY.
Three shifts are steadily at work on
! hp LNrn nrft Of ,riun nd
of buildings have lately been
built.
w. f. Anderson, of the Rio Grande
tunnel, and w. II. Croft. mining ex-
pert of Denver, are in Red River on a
tour of inspection.
The owners of the Inferno tunnel
near Red River resumed work this week
and will push development work until
they cut the lead about 1,200 feet Deep
They are now in about l 200 feet.
Chas. Compton and H. S. Stevens are
developing the Oxide mining claims at
the foot of Gold Hill. They thought
they had only gold mine but rs depth
is reached they find they have As much
copper as gold. The lead is very wide
and steadily improving with depth.
The Black Copper has large force of
men at work. This property is situated
about six miles up Red River. Thou
sands of dollars have been spent upon
it in the last three years. 1t has a large
tunnel and over $50 feet of shaft. A
large steam pump and air drill is stead
lily at work. Enough ore is now on the
dump to keep Acton mill busy for
months. Lately rich body OF ore was
struck.
GRANT COUNTY.
The Santa Rita district is one of the
old districts worked in 1894 by Mexicans
from chihuahua. Over Sc, 600. 900 worth
of copper was taken from there to Chi
huahua by pack trains, but the camp
was broken up by Indians and the Span
iards were driven back to Mexico. The
Santa Rita Mining company own about
1000 acres of land there in one body.
They are sinking four shafts, which are
down from 200 to 400 feet. They have
three steam hoists and in few days
the other one will be in place. They are
sinking large working shaft to connect
with the other some 800 feet away by
tunnel, giving plenty of good air all
through the mine. The ore lies in large
deposits, but in some places it has vein
form through the deposit of mineral.
The mineral is in a white quartz, por-
phyry. The company contemplates
going in under the old working of over a
hundred years ago, where the Mexcans
took out the great flakes of native cop
per- 1t is under these workings that the
company will likely strike it rich This
hos IN Iot nf, Il h,,t,
worked by leasers. About dozen are
shipping ore to the Silver City smelter.
This camp is forging to the front and
will soon be'a big producer of copper.
The ore carries such high values that
the whole camp will average 20 per cent
copper. The low grade ore taken out
and thrown on the dumps hauled to the
concentrator, WHICH is treating about Is
tons day. This concentrator is using
the Whitley tables very successfully.
They say they can work 2la per cent ore
at profit.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The Rio Grande is dry again, and
water is much needed in the valley for
late vegetables.
Leo Cortesy left socorro for Grand
Island, Neb where he will attend
commercial college.
1t is said that the rate of taxation of
real estate in Socorro is lower than
that in any other city in the southwest.
There is now no prospect of there be-
ing any public school in Socorro before
January l. This is a deplorable state
of affairs.
Rev. Mark Hodgson came down from
Albuquerque to conduct the funeral
services of his old friend and brother,
Lloyd Lunday, at Socorro.
There are about fifteen cases on the
Socorro county docket awaiting the at
tention of the judge whose appointment
is expected from day to day.
Hon. c. A. Leland and family depart
ed Tuesday morning from Socorro for
| their former home in Caldwell, o.
From there they expect to go to Ashe-
vile, N. c., where they will spend the
winter in a sanitarium for the benefit
of the judges health.
| Invitations are issued to the mar
riage of Katherine Neill, sister of Rev.
Mayo Cabell Martin, rector Of St. Glenn
ent's church, Ell Paso, to Frank H. Sea-
mon, brother of Prof. w. Fl. Seamon,
formerly director of the faculty of the
New Mexico School>of Mines.
DR.. NJ. A. sayler, of Socorro, closed
the purchase of the Hubbard property
Immediately across the street from the
school of mines. The deed conveys
about fifteen acres Of land for the con-
sideration of $500. DR.. Sayler will put
the house in good repair at once and
make the place his home. M
There We're recorded last week in the
office of Probate Clerk H. G. Baca two
deeds, by which A. T. Harrison conveys
to Winfield s. Baker, trustee, of Cook
county ILL.,, all his right. title and in
terest in two mining claims in the Drip
ping Spring mining district, San An