Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-08-28
CONTRACT AWARDED
A Trench for a Pipe Line Extension
5000 Feet Long Being Dug
at Bland.
MINES OWNED BY LOND0NER{
A Large Body of Lead Carbonate Ore En-
countered at Cook 8 Peak Eastern Par
ties Interested in Properties in the
Oooney District.
COLFAX COUNTY


L. S. Preston, surveyor for the Max
we'll grant, will be engaged about Eliz-
till midWinter, surveying
mine claims.
A. ]. Truesdale, of the Ohio Mining
Company, has gone from Elizabethtown
on business trip to Cleveland
l.. j. Burt, of the Golden Era COM
pany, has geaa2 to- spes Moines to close
UP his law business, as he intends to
reside at Elizabethtown.
The Ohio company has put all of it's
miners at work on the Denver, near
They are at depth of
$50 feet, and have II feet of ore, 8 feet
of sulphide ore, and feet of oxidized
hematitic ore. A mill run of the hema-
titic ore from near the surface gave $40
in free gold on the plates. The company
will build mill.
o. b. Steen has been at Elizabeth
town during the last week. H. J. Reil-
ing, gold dredge man from Chicago,
him. They investigated
the Moreno placers as we'll as others in
the district, and say no like extent of
territory presents any greater possihili-
ties in the near future will have num-
Der of dredges in successful operation
in the district.
The sale of the big Moreno ditch,
which occurred at Elizabethtown last
will result in the reorganiza-
tion of the company. The new company
will make many needed improvements,
and it is said will put in a pipe line that
will shorten the ditch about thirty
miles.
A. H. Glasner and A. Romeiser, pres
ident and vice president of the Monte
yuma company, arrived in Elizabeth
town last week. 1t Is expected that
new impetus will be given the workings
OF this company, more mining will be
done, the mill will be started up again,
and the development will be pushed.
TAOS COUNTY.
Thomas Grove, of Pueblo, Colo, the
principal owner of the Gold Queen, at
the upper end of Long canon, in the
Amizett district, is at Taos looking aft
er his mining interests. 1t has been de-
cided to do considerable development
work on the property this fall. w. A.
Robbins, one of the owners, will be in
charge.
COCHITI.
The contract for digging a trench 20
inches wide, 30 inches deep and over
1000 feet in length was awarded to d.
B. Wilson last Saturday by the Cochiti
Gold Mining Company, for the extern
sion OF the pipe line in Peralta canon.
There were six bidders for the contract.
A force Of twenty-five or thirty men
were started to work on the line last
Monday morning, and it is the intention
Of Mr.. Wilson to have his contract COM
pleted within a couple of weeks. The
pipe will be connected and laid in the
trench by the company. The line, when
completed, will cost the company more
than $2,500.
The Golden Cochiti Tunnel Company,
which began operations on the big tun-
mel in Cola canon three weeks ago, is
progress, and as fast as room
is made new men are added to the
force. number of employees are now
engaged in timbering at the mouth of
the tunnel, while the balance Of the
force Is at work breaking rock and pill
ing it In the gulch 1t Is the intention
Of the company to install machine drills
at an early date, when it is expected
they will be able to break from six to
ten feet of rock each twenty-four
hours. The work is being carried on un-
der the management of Supt. William
Jenks.
GRANT COUNTY.
Sanford Robinson, representing the
London syndicate, owning many Stee-
gland to make complete report on the
He is now on the Pacific
coast, and ON his return he will sample,
and assay each of the proper
ties and make his report to the London
office. If there prove to be bodies of ore
Of workable grade the company will
put the necessary machinery in opera
ton to work the ores in the camp. On
the result of this examination will de-
pend the future Of the Steeplerock
camp.
NJ. F. Terry, who has charge of the
Gold Coin company, which has been
at Malone, left last week for
Wilcox to look at some properties that
have been presented to him. Mr.. Terry
has been disappointed in the results at
Malone. 1t Is easy to get rich assays
from Malone ore, but he has been un-
able to find any amount of ore.
Cooks Peak is doing considerable in
the way of mining. and larger ship
ments OF ore are being made than for
several months past. The Kansas City
Smelling and Refining Company is
good force of men on COM
pany property, and Supt. John Mitchell
is making regular shipments Of lead
carbonates, and also developing and
keeping the entire company properties
company have been remarkable produc-
ers in the past. and there is no present
indication that there will be any appre-
ciable diminution in ore for years to
come.
Jesus Lopez has recently encountered
q large body of lead carbonate ore at
Cooks Peak, and is making a car load
shipment every ten days. Joseph Hitch
ms and A. Wallis have opened up q
large body Of high-grade ore, and have
a small force Of men developing their
claim and taking out shipping ore. The
old Teel & Poe mines, now owned by
Charles Poe, are showing up in first
class manner. Considerable tunneling
and drifting have been done on these
and until recently the indi-
cations of encountering good bodies of
ore were not as favorable as they
might have been. but now the mines are
yielding shipping grade ore in large
quantities, and Mr.. Poe has a force Of
men working continuously.
A number of other mines-in fact all
are being worked, and the camp is in
first -ciass condition. The water supply
Is now considerably increased over that
OF the past summer months, and min
ing will be conducted on a larger scale
during the remainder of the year.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The Cooney district is forging stead
lily to the front in output and develop
ment. During the past two weeks some
eastern parties have become interested
in Number Of prospect groups in the
district, and report has 1t that a sale
will likely be contaminated within the
next ten days that will mean much for
the camp, the purchasers intending to
put a good-sized force of men on the
claims to develop them. 1t is also stated
that the sale Of the Peacock mine Will
be consummated within the next few
weeks, when 1t will pass into the hands
of the Silver Bar Mining Company. The
Helen Mining Company continues to
develop and take out ore from the
Black Hawk Confidence group under
the superintendency of. A. c. Massey,
foreman Of the mines. The company