Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-31
Reports From Many Districts In
Various Parts Of the
Territory.
PROGRESS AT COCHITI
Michigan People Engaged In Mining Ac-
tivity At Oooney Oamp-The Cop
per District In Rio Arriba
County.
RIO ARRIBA COUNTY.


ty is doing we'll. The Whale is being
worked by two shifts. The shaft is down
100 feet, and whim is being used for
hosting. On the Strawberry two shifts
are also kept employed The shaft is
down rs feet. Arrangements are being
made to put in steam hosting engine.
THE COCHITI DISTRICT.
John Hart and S. w. Young have To-
Gated a new claim as an extension Of
the Uncle Joe, belonging to the Lone
Star group. 1t has been baptized the
Summit.
Electricians and machinists are ad
justing the machinery in the new 1890
horsepower plant at Madrid, which is
to furnish electric power for the Cochiti
Gold Mining Company.
The Union Mining Company is doing
extensive development work on the
Union mine purchased months ago.
Fifty-five feet of new work has been
completed in the north and south drifts
The old shaft is being timbered and lev
eed preparatory to hoisting ore. The
shaft Is 4x7 in the clear.
The air drills ON the Lone Star mine
at Bland have not yet been started, but
the engine and boiler room have been
completed and a fire built under the
boiler to dry the brick and stone mason
ry The air pipe line has been extended
to the various levels of the mine, and
work on the tramway has been resumed.
COLFAX COUNTY.
B.~F. Groomer is running a tunnel to
cut the leads on the Free Gold group at
Hematite.
C. M. Drake has taken a contract to
drive 100 feet in tunnel ON the Golden
Ajax at Elizabethtown.
Baron Phi. Won Zuylen will start his
Black Horse mine and mill at Eliza
bethtown in the near future.
Several Pittsburg capitalists are at
Elizabethtown, examining mining prop
critics with a view Of investing.
Prof. ]. c. Young, an expert min
eralogist from Cripple Creek, Is exam
ining several mining properties at Elz-
abethtown for Colorado capitalists.
w. D. Kerschner and Benjamin Pool
er 80 to erect o. mill on, the
Me l.s.;te 11lizabethtown. They
hay ;. ~ .lgh-grade ore exposed
foI 4OU ir.eC by tunnel on the lead.
C. B. Collingwood, state senator of
Michigan, was in Taos to hire fifty men
to construct a new wagon road near
Cimarron. Mr.. Colllngwood is superin-
tendent of Michigan company carry
ing on mining operations on the Cimar-
roncita.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The owners of the Last Chance mine
are repairing and enlarging their stamp
MILL
The new mill on the B. c. B. mine,
Mogollon district, will be in operation
about May l.
"A new concentrator is being put in to
handle the large accumulation of tail
ings from the Confidence mill in the
Mogollon district.
the Nebuchadnezzar mine in the Cooney
district, will soon begin making a trial
run on 400 tons Of ore at the Queen mill.
The Silver Bar Copper Mining Com
pany, operating the old Cooney mine, is
concentrating and shipping about five
tons of ore per day which averages
about $50 to the ton.
The following are the mining camps
Of socorro county: Mogollon, Rosedale,
Socorro Water Canon, Magdalena, Kel-
| ly, Cat Mountain, Black Range, Oscu-
ra. San Andreas, Pueblo, Gallina, Santa
Rita and La Joya.
The owners of the White Cap at Rose
dale have been informed by the Kelly
smelter officials that the ore on the
dumps at the mine is rich enough to
warrant the paying of freight charges,
about "a per ton, and to leave sufficient
surplus to cover the expense of extract
ing the ore from the mine.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
The Mormon shaft, at Organ, is down
1870 feet.
The Foys are driving a new tunnel on
the Silver Belle group at Organ.
AT the Torpedo at Organ Adam Dodd
struck copper in sinking a shaft to 16t
feet.
I Mr. Brazel in sinking the tunnel o1
the Formasara, at Organ, struck a veir
of copper and gold ore.
j. H. Award, representing eastern
capital, is doing active development
work on the Black Hawk and Wolverin.
in the San Andres camp.