Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-11-21
NEW MEXICO MINING INTERESTS,
Splendid Indications for Oil at Santa Rosa
Sierra County Mines,

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on the Great Republic mine at Graf
ton, Sierra county, opening up bod,
of gold ore.
The Romadake Mining company ha
commenced development work on it
group of claims in the San Andrea
mountains, S5 miles west of Tularosa.
The Silver Monument mill at Fair.
view, Socorro county, had to close
down on account of an accident an6
will not resume until a casting has ar
rived from Denver and is put in place
The Hillsboro Gold Mining company
of Sierra county, has installed a new
pump to unwater the mine it is work
ing near Hillsboro. The former ap-
pliances were not adequate to remove
the volume of water that flows into the
workings of the mine. The shaft will
be sunk considerably deeper.
| ]. w. Orchard, who has held an op-
ton for nearly a year on the Dude
mine on the Macho, in Sierra county,
has taken up the option. Consideration
$4,000. A. ]. Brown of Utica, N. Y, al
| so has an interest in the mine. 1t is
the intention to do extensive develop
ment work on the mine.
The Grandview Mining company of
the Carpenter district in eastern Grant
county, has opened large body of
lead and zinc ore, which averages "a
feet in width and at several places is
$50 feet wide.
Hon. John l.. Thompson of Titltsville,
Pa, in the center of the Pennsylvania
oil region, president of the Spartan
burg, Pa, First National bank, and an
oil man Of experience, has declared
that the oil indications near Santa
Rosa, Guadalupe county, are far better
than have been ever found in Pennsyl-
vania. One of the most favorable in
dications is the 45 degree trend of the
oil lands. Experienced oil men will not
go into a new district unless it shows
the proper degree. If oil is struck near
Santa Rosa, the probabilities are that
it will be high grade.
A Boston syndicate intends to COM
mence operations on the Sunol group
near Organ, Dona Ana county, by New
Year. A plant is to be erected for the
treatment of gold and copper ore.
Kingsley and Ames have uncovered
ore on the Tough Nut, at depth of rs
feet, and an abandoned shaft eastward
of the present workings of the Excel
sior, at Organ, Is being cleaned out, so
that a lead of high grade ore at so feet
may be further developed.
The mill on the Modoc at Organ will
be completed by January
On the Benefits Stephenson at Organ
not much more is being done than to
keep the water under control. 1t is
understood that the owners, the Copper
King company, will soon begin extern
sive operations on the mine and ad-
joining claims, which it owns.
The new pump on the Mountain Key
mine at Pinos Altos, Grant county, has
been installed and is pumping the wa
ter out of the shaft which Is filled up
to the second level. The capacity of
the pump is 10000 gallons day and 1t
will be but a short time before the
shaft is cleared.
The Cherry Creek Copper company
which Incorporated last week will sink
a 100 foot shaft on the Beacon group in
the Burro mountains in Grant county
Timber is being hauled to the Copper
Ring and Little Burro mines near San
ia Rita, on which the American Con- |
solidated company intends to erect a |
milling plant.
Considerable prospecting and develop |
ment work is going on in the newly dis |
covered copper district in southeastern
Chaves county.
T. Mooney, Guy Thomas and J. P.
Kelly have received the contract to |
frive another 200 feet on the McGinty |
tunnel at Elizabethtown.
John Williams has closed down work |
On the Willow Creek placers near Eliza |
Dethtown, Colfax county, for the season. |
The Consolidated Mining & Smelling
has received gasoline hoist |
ng engine which it has placed on the |
Tom Payne mine in southern Santa Fe |
county.
M. Byrd, of the Cape Milling company,
has left Lincoln county for st, Louis |
Ind Chicago to purchase machinery for
,he Grow mine in the Bonito district in |
Lincoln county. There are seventeen
claims in the Crow group. all situated |
IN the same lode. Drifting has yet
'ailed to disclose either of the vein walls.
The Cooks Peak country is to be
,horougly tested for oil. The Ell Paso
has let a, contract for boring
IN 1900 feet well on its property in Luna
county. The machinery is on the
round. Experts have pronounced the
Ill indications excellent. If oil is not
truck, the promoters are certain that
hey will strike artesian water which
would be of as great benefit to Luna
ounty.
All the maehinery for the Aberdeen
near Lordsburg, Grant
ounty. is on the ground, and building
> being erected over it. The concen-
rator Is to be ready for operation on
lew Years day. The shaft In the Ma