Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-18
AUNlQUES7RUC1URE
A Grant County Mining Company
Has Completed a Head Gear
That Is a Wonder.
TERRITORIAL MINING NOTES
Eight Feet of Gslena Ore Uncovered In
the Bennett Mine At 0rgan-A
Strike of Ors In the Burro
Mountains.

The Bayard Smelling and Mining
Company, which owns and operates the
Texas mine and mill in Grant county,
has just completed headgear, which is
the most unique structure of the kind In
the territory. The ore is hoisted to the
top of derrick 100 feet high, and from
there falls into a series of crushers, un-
til by the time it reaches the bottom it
Is ready for the concentrator. The new
hree-c0mpartment shaft on the Texas
will be sunk to depth of 1900 feet.
when stopping will be commenced and
another concentrator erected. Over fif-
ty men are employed by the company.
A sensational strike has been made in
the Comanche group Of mines, Burro
mountain mining district, recently pur-
chased by Denver people. Copper ore
running from 40 to so per cent has been
uncovered at several different points,
hundreds Of feet apart, and the pay
streak is we'll defined. The properties
will be thoroughly developed.
The four mines composing the Cor
lites group of copper mines in the Burro
mountains promise we'll. A large body
Of ore running from 12 to 20 per cent in
copper has been encountered.
Herbert s. Shaw, the welknown
Denver mining man. is enthusiastic in
his accounts of the great mineral
wealth of Grant county.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Eight feet of solid galena ore has re-
Gently been uncovered in the Bennett
mine in the Organ district.
Systematic development of the Ex-
celsior mine is being richly rewarded.
Every day is exposing larger bodies of
good ore.
Two large bodies of high-grade cop
per ore, one nearly 35 feet wide, have
been cut in the drift between the north
and south shafts on the Torpedo mine,
Organ district, which is truly one OF the
mineral wonders of the age.
COCHITI DISTRICT.
A second Sullivan machine drill has
been placed in the Star tunnel. The
working force in the tunnel was in
creased by the addition of six men. and
the rock Is now being broken al the
rate Of about 7 feet every twenty-four
hours. AS the tunnel has been driven
800 feet, it is expected only 100 or 15O
feet more of work will be required to
tap the big ore body.
w. S. Sandon and w. D. Mccoy have
just returned from a trip through the
Los CeriIlos mining district. where they
have located claim which carries lead.
gold and silver. The claim was opened
by the Mexicans years ago-presuma-
bly, for lead to make bullets. There are
five shafts on the claim, and they will
average from 20 to 25 feet in depth. ex-
posing about Is inches Of lead ore and
q inches of tale. The assessment work
has been done and the claim has been
w. M. Greenfield, an ore hauler of
the Cochiti, has entered upon con-
tract with the Cochiti Reduction and
Improvement Company to haul all the
ore from the Iron King mine to their
mill in Woodbury., and he expects to
commence work as soon as certain re-
pairs in the mill are made.
Fred Goodwin, of Philadelphia. who
arrived at Bland couple Of weeks ago,
is doing some extensive development
work on the King Solomon. He Is driv-
ing a crosscut tunnel to tap the main
lead. The property is located short
distance south of the Washington mine.