Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-08-16
THE MINES AT PIERRO.
Phelps Dodge & Go. are Pushing Work on
the Modoc Gronn.

Ed. Baker is not shipping from his
Hugo lease at Fierro, but he expects to
ship some time this month. A new
| body of ore was encountered in the in
cline last week. 1t is heavy black OK
| ide and is totally different from any
thing before found. The size of the
new strike has not been determined,
but it is the full size of the shaft, and
gives every indication of permanency.
Schlosser & Mccarthy have COM
| menced work on the south end of the
Humboldt at Fierro. They have clean
ed out an old shaft, put in ladders and
are prepared to take out a stake. They
have few tons of medium grade ore to
start with on the dump and by going
deeper they expect to add to their pile.
J. B. Gilchrist is working force of
seven men on the Republic at Fierro.
They are quarrying out copper-iron ore
and piling it up for future demand, that
grade of ore not being in demand at
the smelters just now. There is a 70
foot shaft on the ground at the bottom
of which some ore has been extracted.
The Republic adjoins the Union Hill
works on the south where the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company are extracting
SO much iron ore.
A. e. Dawson is working the old An
son S. mine at Fierro. Quite recently
he found a quantity of per cent cop
per ore in an old drift from which he
shipped five or six carloads. The ore
was already mined, and the only ex-
pense attached was in hosting to the
surface. The ore was broken by some
of the early day operators, and as per
cent copper in those days was classed
as waste, it was thrown aside as use
less.
The Owen Brothers have just COM
pleted a tunnel of Its feet dn length on
their Copper Belle and Independence
properties on the west slope of Hanover
mountain. The tunnel was driven to
cut the ledge which crops on the sur
face, but either some error was made in
calculating, or the ledge pitches at a
greater angle than was figured ON. In
driving the tunnel several strata of
rich ore were met with, some of it as
saying as high as AZ per cent in copper.
The work will be continued. The tunnel
will demonstrate the existence of ore
in the center of the mountain, or settle
for all times much mooted question.
The Modoc, which is being operated
by the Phelps-Dodge people at Fierro,
has reached a depth Of 200 feet in the
incline shaft. The ground is becoming
softer, and great quantities of water
are being encountered. Heavy pumps
are required to keep down the flow so
as to permit sinking. Three shifts are
employed The bottom of the shaft is
in heavy granite quartz, through which
until quite recently, progress was
slow. Since water has been struck in
quantity, the ground has improved
greatly, and better progress is being
made
A. R. Graham has lease on the Sa-
polio, at Fierro, one of the numerous
undeveloped bonanzas belonging to
johnson and Ernest, and has let con-
tract to sink shaft, work upon which
has been commenced. The property
lies in a good neighborhood, being mid
way between the Anson S and the Modoc
group.
E. s. Porter is working on his Muck.
ley claim west of Hanover mountain.
He has tunnel in 100 feet, has cross
cut SO feet north and south, and he is
now sinking q winze he has out about
80 tons of sulphide ore which will aver
age eight per cent copper.