Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-05-03

charge OF Mr.. A. W. Tenant, a we'll
known mining man, through whom the
property was sold 20 It's present own.
ers.
Jefferson Reynolds. of Canton. O..
a cousin Of President Mckinley, is OF.
Grating the boomerang at Fierro.
wv. A. Otis & Co. Of Colorado. are
running a ffty.ton mill on the lvanhoe
group. with J. w. Bible as superintend.
ent.
"Silver City Is one OF the best cop.
per markets In the United States. and
perhaps the best copper market in
the western mining region, as the local
smelter. known as the Silver City Re
duction works. is paying an average
of 500 per unit for copper in ores.
contract my ore delivery from the
mine to the smelter at 50 per ton for
all grades of ore. so o can see that
! lay my ore down at n very good mar
ket for n f%reighting rate Of SO per ton,
all told.
There are many shipping mines in
the Burro Mountain mining district.
all shipping high grade copper ores.
besides storing large quantities of mill
ing ores on the dumps for home treat
ment. Chief among these might be
mentioned the st. Louis and Colwell
mines, owned by the Southwestern
Copper company. a Boston corporation
These two mines under lease OF Jones
Il Chapman, are now outputting IN
average of twenty tons of shipping ore
daily, that averages about 20 per cent
copper. without "a pound OF machinery
on either mine.
The Sampson mine, In this same
camp. has six feet Of sulphide ore eX-
posed at a depth Of 10 feet. This ore
was encountered at 100 feet in depth,
and is continuous from that point to
the present depth of the shaft. 10
feet. This body OF ore. very carefully
sampled, averages 1914 per cent cop
per. and n few ounces silver to the ton.
Every mine in the vicinity Of the
Comanche group. which has a shaft
over 100 feet deep. is in sulphide ore.
and all are shipping ore To the smelter.
besides storing large quantities Of mill
ing ore on the dumps. awaiting the
advent of home treatment.
The ore now being shipped from
the st. Louis Is taken out at the 800
foot level and Is a ~sulphide ore. mixed
with strong streaks OF copper glance,
four to six inches wide and carrying
80 to 20 per cent copper"
Mr.. McGrath has acquired valuable
"copper" property in Grant county, n
of which-thc Comanche group-ap-
pears to be n veritable bonanza, pro.
ducing cubes of red oxide and copper
glance sixteen inches square. running
as high as 60 to 40 per cen copper.
The Comanchc group Is composed OF
twelve full.slzed mining claims. each
coo by 1900 feet. and containing a lit.
tie owe twenty and a half acres in
area to each claim and four large frac-
tons, making In all about 32O acres In
one solid group, The title to which Is
clear and u%ndisputed.
The Comanche mine Is a recent dis
covery. having ben located in April,
1900. and the workings are all new and
have all been made since that, and
comprise Ave shafts, from SO to 60
feet.
In the main shaft on the Comanchc
was struck n four.inch pay streak of
rich copper glance, mixed with red
oxides and carbonates. at n depth of
twelve feet. This rich streak contin.
ues down to the bottom OF the shaft
and widens gradually to a width OF
t~wenty.eight inches at the bottom.
Assays made on this streak run as
high as I0.5 per cent copper. and the
whole shaft Is In low grade ore.