Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-06-07
MINING MhTrRRa
News About tho Great Industry Of thia
Section OF the World.

oectlOh OF tne WofAos
Superintendent Cook Of the Aber-
been copper company has let a con.
tract to sink the Earl, Que OF the com.
panY's claims to the depth Of 6fty
feet.
The Orphans Home Is now down
forty feet and has a vein nearly three
feet wide Of high grade lead and silver
ore. The shaft will be sunk to an
hundred feet as fast as possible.
The Atlantic claim Of the Aberdeen
company Is now down an hundred feet
and shows a vein Of high grade copper
ore. Water has been struck 10 the
shaft but not enough to interfere with
the work.
1t is reported that Mrs. E. f. Pear
son, a stakeholder OF the Orion Mining
company of this place, has closed a
deal for a large gold producing prop
ertY at Hillsboro, New Mexico. The
purchase price is not known.
The White gasoline engine lately in
stalled at the Dundee mine is giving
great satisfaction, ard Major Randall
is pleased at the prospect OF the in
creased amount OF work he will now
be able to accomplish with its assis.
lance.
Mr.. S. M. Rohr and DIR. P. A. Man
cry, officials Of the Pacific Union
Smelling s. Mining company, have
been in town for the past few days.
Ia company with Mr.. @. w. Maxson
they have been looking over the To-
cation for a smelter 10 this district.
Ed Flynn, who has a contract to
sink fifty feet more on the Manila is
pushing the work as fast as possible.
When this work is finished the Ma
nilla shaft will be down one hundred
and fifty feet. The company will
then run a cross cut aud cut the lead
that dips to The north.
Reports come from Dolores in the
northern part of the territory that the
Edison process of saving gold is not a
success. There is a large amount of
gold bearing gravel at Dolores which
would be very valuable If there was
water to wash it but there is no
water. Thomas A. Edison the great
inventor, investigated the place and
conceived a scheme for working the
gravel. A mill was erected under his
direction. EVERYTHING was kept
secret. If the mill would save the
gold from the gravel il would be one
of the most valuable processes invent
ed 10 years, for there are mauy such
beds of gravel 10 the Rocky mountains
that cannot be worked owing to lack
OF water, and now comes the report
that the process is not a success.
Whether Mr.. Edison will abandon the
matter or endeayor to perfect the
process is not known.
In speaking of the Clear Lake mines,
formerly the Bank, the Clifton Era
says: The mines are located in Ora
ham county, Arizona, and are opened
by a shaft 100 feet in depth, and about
100 feet Of drifting, exposing a body o.
ore II feet in width which averages
about SIG per ton in gold. The plant
consists of a ter. stamp mill and one
yanner, which was but recently start
ed up and run but a short time, as II
was found that four more vanDer,
were necessary to concentrate The
pulp from the battery. The mines
are about 20 miles from Steeplerock
in a northerly direction, and arr
reached from Duncan, by a gooC
wagon road. The property is consid
cred a most promising prospect, anC
with good management aud suficien
equipment, will most probably be de
veloped into a paying property. TIL,
Era has not quite located the property
1t is In the Steeplerock,mining district
Grant county, New Mexico, and les
than twenty. dve minutes ride hors
back from the Steeplerock p~ostofice
In speaking of the good features o
the mine however, the Era is correct
and could have gone further withou
making a mistake.