Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-06-24
GOOD PROGRESS AT
BLIZABETHTOWN
The Bic Dredging Boat Of the Ora Com
pany Will be Ready for Operation by
the 10Th Of August.
A SCHEME TO TUNNEL MOUNT BALDY

Elizabethtown, N. NJ, June ~ A'Vi'
Special to the New Mexican.
Work on the many mines ana pros-
pects is progressing quietly and persist
ant,v There is no boom, nor is one eA-
pected or desired. A good sleauS
growth and practical development 10
better in the long run than any nufnpel
of booms. Miners here are co1liioeh.
that this camp is destined to pe one VI
the best gold and copper dlstrlc's An
New Mexico and they are pushing WORK
in careful and business-like manner
Capitalists in the states from PennsyN-
vania, to Nebraska are investing mere as
never before in both the placer ana leao
mines, and it cannot be long before the
hum of machinery can be heardsin ev-
cry gulch and on every mountain sloe
New machinery such as pumps, holsts'
drills. engines and boilers, is arriving
every day, and before the summer Is
over great activity will be manlfest eV-
erywhere.
The Ora Dredging company IS push
ing work on it's dredge boat with seven
teen men and the manager thinks they
will be throwing dirt by the loth OF Au-
gust. This is a new enterprise IN thls
camp and probably the only one OF IT'S
kind in New Mexico. This machine Will
handle from three to four thousaho
wards of dirt per day. 1t is a monsler
affair requiring 175,000 feet of lumber
and carrying 100000 pounds OF macnlh-
ery when complete. Even at a saving
of 10 cents per cubic yard of dirtWhlch
is a very low estimate, it will collect
from $500 to $500 in gold per day. 1t is
demonstrated fact that the DIRT con-
tains the gold as thousands OF collars
worth have. been sluiced out in the ola
wav. and assays from the pay streaKs
return as high as SO per ton. This
dredge will save the values in more
systematic and economical way, ana IT
is not improbable that in the near 1u-
ture several of these dredges vii be
worked in the Moreno valley
The smithfield Gold Mining & Milling
company, of Pittsburg, Pa, operating
on the Senate-Bobtail and Abe Lincoln
claims recently opened an Is inch lead
averaging $52S per ton, and are enlarg-
ing their plant by putting In new
pumps preparatory to sinking on the
ore.
Captain T. c. Suell operating on the
McGinty group for an Ohio company
recently made trip to Denver to pur-
chase an air drill plant and other ma-
chinery to be put in place Immediately.
This group of claims lies at the head
of Humbug gulch on the west slope OF
Badly mountain.
The Ohio Mining & Milling company,
managed by Mike Walsh, has every
reason to be gratified by the good show
ling on their Denver claim They have
1S feet of ore which averages SIG to the
| ton and it is getting better at greater
depth A large flow of water was re-
Gently encountered necessitating larger
pumps. These will be put in place in
few days.
The Legal Tender Mining Milling
company. O. F. Matkins manager, has
renewed operations in Willow gulch
This property was worked years age
with an arastra with good results
Equipped with modern machinery this
property will surely prove a good IN
vestment to the stockholders.
The big development scheme of the
district, and one which has been talked
of for years as the best and most feasl-
BILE plan for tapping the rich mineral
deposits of Baldy mountain, but by rea-
son of it's gigantic proportions and lack
of means was not undertaken, has re-
Gently been started by the Gold anc
ICopper Deep Tunnel Mining & Milling
company, incorporated in New Mexico
This company proposes to run tunne
into Baldy Mountain from the ives
slope 5000 feet gaining depth OF 200
feet. 1t is reasonable to suppose tina
this tunnel will cut many valuable lead
as it strikes toward the very heart Q
Badly mountain, the acknowledge
mineral center of this district, cross cut
ting the formation. This company ha
been granted concession of 100 acre
| of ground by the Maxwell Land Gran
company. The surface indications ar
very fattering and in one place near tn
tunnel line, copper ore running 27A pc
Icent copper, has been uncovered. TIL
; company has made good progress 10
:, the amount of money expended sine
: starting and besides $50 feet on the tun
q mel and an uprise of Is feet to the SUI
face for air, has put up good substar
/, tial improvements for future use. II "
are allowed to predict, we will say ths
Y we confidently believe that the easter
stockholders in this company will SOC
realize that they have one of the be-
. properties in the Rocky mountains
# New Mexico.
t x LOVE FEAST At Las CRUCES.