Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-10
A St. Louis Syndicate Gains Control
Of the Grandview Group In
Grant County.
MINING NEWS OF ELSEWHERE
All the Water Has Been Pumped Out Of
the Workings Of the Golden Giant
Strikes On the Grand
Central.
GRANT COUNTY.


The Ell Paso Smelling Company has
opened a large body of manganese ore
on leased ground at Cooks Peak
The Pinos Altos Gold Mining Com
pany will work a larger force of men
during the present year than ever be-
fore
Ore that runs from 80 to "a per cent
copper is being taken out of the 8O-foot
shaft on the Klondike mine, in the Bur-
70 Mountain mining district of Grant
county.
Two very important strikes have been
made in the Grand Central on the 800
and the 900 foot levels, the great ore
body from which over $1OO, 900 has been
taken out.
The A1essandro Mining Company is
employing good force of men in sink
ing shafts and driving tunnels on its re-
Gently acquired properties in the An
derson district of Grant county, and it
is believed that this district will soon be
steady producer.
Large consignments of ore are being
received at the Silver City smelter from
Arizona and the numerous mining
camps tributary to Silver City A large
freight scale is being put in and
switch is being built into the mill so
that the ore can be weighed and dump
ed direct into the crushers.
The Grandview group of mines in
Camp Mitchell, Carpenter district of
Grant county, has passed into the
hands of a st. Louis syndicate, headed
by H. J. Cantwell, president of the Co.
lumbia Lead Company, and will here
thickness of the ore body is 20 feet, and
it has already been proved to be over
100 feet in depth. The ore averages 20
per cent lead, 20 per cent zinc, ounces
in silver and some gold. The treatment
adopted will separate the zinc from the
lead and silver and save all the values.
The water has been pumped out of the
workings of the Golden Giant mine at
Pinos Altos and the drifts cleared of de-
bris. The workings were found to be in
fairly good condition, and a large body
Of high grade ore was found on the Sec
ond level Work of a similar nature Is
in progress on the Mammoth mine near
by. The water will be pumped out of
the 4oo-foot shaft and the drifts cleared
and retimbered The old ten-stamp mill
will be remodeled and put in running
order. This is preliminary to the re-
sumption of active development work
on both of these valuable properties.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Negotiations are pending for the sale
of the K. K. mine at Hillsboro.
Several important mining deals are
likely soon to be made at Grafton.
The Golden Era mine at Hillsboro will
resume operations on big scale in the
near future.
The earnings of leasers on the Look
out mine at Hillsboro during March av-
eraged 1915 to the man.
The average daily earning Of the leas-
ers on the Snake and Richmond groups
during March were $5.75.
A party of four Cleveland mining men
have bought group Of four silyer-lead
claims in the Tank district.
The Hillsboro Advocate is willing to
go on record with the assertion that the
Hillsboro district can produce 100000
tons of smelling ore per day on weeks
notice.
The Chicago & New Mexico Mining
Company has taken hold of several
mining properties near Chloride. BLACK
Range district, in businesslike fash
ion.
The lime belt of the southern portion
of the Hillsboro range is again receiv-
ing attention from mining men, and
considerable development work is being
done in it. S..
OTERO COUNTY.
A car load of copper ore from the
Shamrock mine near Alamogordo,
owned by Eugene Cortney, netted the
owner $18 per ton above freight and
smelling charges. The product returned
$3.50 per ton above freight and smelling
charges. The smelling charges were
$10.50 per ton and the freight $3.50. In
the future shipments from the property
will be regular
W. d. Upton, of Tularosa, made q
rich strike Of lead ore in Good Fortune
canon in the spur of the San Andres
mountains. Ore is now being sacked for
shipment to the Ell Paso smelter. The
ore runs so per cent lead and carries
gold and silver. Another large strike
was made or the Lead King and the
Lead Queen, in Grapevine canon, thir-
ty-five miles from Tularosa. The ore
assays $3.50 per ton. giving 63 per cent
lead and small silver and gold values.
The product is very desirable smelt-
ing ore, and as the Ell Paso smelter re-
ceives a preponderance Of silicious gold
ores from New Mexico, Arizona and
Mexico, and needs lead ores for fluxing.
a good price is paid for the San Andres
ores. The Lead King and the Lead
Queen adjoin, and have been developed
by several tunnels. open cuts and
shafts, proving the continuity Of the
ore body. The vein Is 13 feet in width,
and shows 3-foot pay streak of high
grade ore. The product Is now being
shipped and will be hauled to Lava sta
tion. on the Santa Te railway for trans
portation to the Ell Paso smelter.