Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-03
C0LPAX COUNTY MINES.
Much Work Is Being Done In Many Prop
critics.

critics.
The mining firm of Macdonald & Co.
of New York City, have purchased tn
interests Of the Victoria Gold Mining
Company, located heal Elizabethtowi
and owning properties in Taos and Col
fax counties. The New York City PEG
pie have also taken an option or bont
and lease on the Cuprum group of mines
at the head of Red River near the Fraz,
err group, and on the Badly side have
secured a short time option on the Para.
gon, the Cairo and the Kimberly.
The first carload shipment of plumba-
go from the mines a few miles south OF
Ration was made by DR.. Schiller and his
associates this week. The first ship
ment went to New York City and it is
believed hat next year heavy ship
ments of plumbago will be made every
day.
The Copper Park heal Elizabethtown,
has commenced to ship ore.
The Smithtield Company have COM
pleted the erection of their shaft house,
and have finished putting in place their
hosting and pumping plant.
Joseph Lowry is again at work on his
Tom Boy, neal Elizabethtown, sinking
on the lead. There are several hundred
feet of development work on this prop
erty which shows fine ore.
j. B. Bidwell, of Elizabethtown, has
gone to Cimarron to take charge of a
mine for r. G. Mullen.
G. d. Jordan and James Rife, real
Elizabethtown, have a seven foot vein
of copper and gold ore running $50. On
the hanging wall there is an eight-inch
streak Of iron sulphides that assays %
per cent in copper. The name of the
claim is the Copper Bell, and it's has 100
feet of tunnel work.
James Lynch, of Elizabethtown, has
acquired a copper mine besides all the
interests he has in and around Badly in
gold quartz and placer mines. The vein
is held by the Ophir and the Bull Of the
Woods, both 600 feet wide, making a
AZ acre tract. The vein has been ex-
plotted ait different places advantageous
to work and shows a uniform pay streak
four to five feet wide. From this i'm
mense vein Of ore a chalcotite or rediu-
in copper prevail from 20 to IS per cent.
Gold values occur as high as two ounces
per ton where oxidation is highest.
Repairs to mine and mill are being
made on the Midnight mine at the head
of Bitter Creek. When done, work will
be resumed under the management of
d.. c. van Deist. The property for a
long time has been idle on account of
disagreements among the owners
The Woodland Company, composed of
Cleveland business men, has closed sew
eral deals for property in the vicinity of
their location in Grouse gulch, Colfax
county. They have secured the Abra- |
ham Lincoln extension, and are push |
ing the tunnel to cut the veins and are
employing a large force of men.
The Rosita, a patented mining claim, 1
the extension Of the Aztec, near Eliza
BEETHOVEN, owned by John James of Bal |
dy, was secured by Captain Thomas |
Sewall for an eastern syndicate. There
is ore on the claim which can be taken
out and packed to mill and will plate
from $50 to 5000 per ton, and during the
summer at Biddle's mill on the Ponil,
ore was treated with higher results than
that, and the tailines, which assayed
rom $500 to $1,000 per ton We're washed
INTO the creek and lost. ~
The Mystic Group. near Elizabeth
own, recently secured for a Boston and
Chicago syndicate by Captain Thomas
sewall for $50, 900, is turning out a pay
ng investment. The Mystic has a four.
DOT vein, earring from 80 to SIS per cent
copper, besides several dollars in gold.
a vein Of collaborating quartz above
:wenty feet in width which will in all
estimates made exceed SIS per ton as
he mass is mined. The property Is con-
'iderably developed. Captain sewall
has also options on the Last Chance
group, the Faro Bank, the Metropole.
he Grand Duchess and others.
Edwin Slattery and George West have
inished a tunnel on their new location
II what was formerly the Copper Main
on Badly. The vein Is a contact
n slate and porphyry, and shows about
hree feet of pay. The assays on the ore
which Is pyritic in it's nature give $40
Ter ton gold with traces Of silver and