Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-10-04
MINING MATTERS
News About the Great Industry Of this
Section Of the World.

NRN''uNStNNhb OVohi VI buO AuNI"
deco, did not get bis machinery az
work quite as soon as be expected
He was delayed considerably by the
failure Of lumber to arrive. Il seems
quite the rule for Alamogordo lumber
TO be promised one week aud arrive
some weeks later. II no further de-
lays are encountered he expects 70 get
things moving the latter part OF this
week or the FIRST Of next.
H. 2. Elliott, of Clifton, was In the
city Tuesday returning from a trip TO
the Pacific coast. On bis way home
be went up to Santa Rita, to take a
look at the Clifton copper company's
mines aud mill. He Is quite a large
stockhOlder 10 the company, aud rep
resents macy other Cllftonlans, who
own stock in It. He was greatly
pleased with what he saw, and con-
slders the Investment a good one. The
oOmpany:has a few delays, as all com.
panies do, freiRhts did not get there
promptly, the lumber was DELAYED,
aud a big rain put a couple OF tables
out OF commission. Despite these
delays the mill is running, and 10 a
short time it will be running TO its
full capacity. 1t will not have to run
rohg before the dividends promised by
Col, z. R. Smith will begin to ma.
terialize.
The Miser's Chest mine is proving a
world beater, and the man who named
It was wiser than be then knew. A
few weeks ago the LIBERAL noted
that free gold had been found In the
mine, the 1rst free gold ever dis
covered in the Virginia district
That, however, was only a specimen.
This week Professor Carrrea has made
a strike which out classes anything
ever discovered in New Mexico, ex-
cepting the wonderful strike made at
Lake Valley many years ago. At the
face OF q Of the drifts be has struck
a body Of solid patanque, sulphlde OF
silver, which carries sUnie sulphlde Of
copper. A winZe has been sunk from
an upper level, some eighty feet, and
small particles Of this ore found most
Of the way down, Where the WINE
and the level met this patauque was
encountered. How much OF it there
is no one a tell. There Is however,
a face OF ten feet by three, and 1t ap-
pears to be solid at the bottom Of the
level. An assay Of IL shows that it
goes seventy-eight per cent silver.
When you measure the amount Of
silver in ore by percentage, instead Of
by ounces, you have got mighty rich
stuff. As a matter Of comparison it
might be mentioned that the wonder
full and at Lake Valley consisted of a
slab of:chloride OF silver some three
feet thick, ten feet wide and seventy
two feet long, running from 1fty to
sixty per cent in silver.
The New Mexican Of Wednesday
has a long illustrated account of the
work the American consolidated cop
per company the company which took
the Atwood properties, will do ln this
territory. From this we print the
following extracts:
Without any degree Of publicity,
this c~onservatively managed corpora
Thoroughbred under the laws OF
New Mexico, with general offices in
New York, central offices at Column
bus, Ohio, and its southwest Office az
Santa Fe-has been quietly at work
for several years acquiring bv original
location and purchase much OF the
choice u~ndeveloped copper property in
the territory, with the result that 1t
owns today a consolidation Of mag
nidcent mining properties situated In
the most promising copper camps OF
Grant, Socorro, Lincoln and Santa Fe
counties, Its holdings comprise an
area OF about seven hundred acres of
carefully proved mineral territory.
These holdings are located as follows:
In the Shakespeare mining district,
Grant county, q miles from Lords
burg, on the Southern Pacific railroad.
AZ VIZ ~ MOuuboAu nluluk us
trict, Grant county, Is miles from Sill.
YER City, the county seat Of the ban
ner minersl-prOducing county of New
Mexico.
In the San Andreas mining district,
Socorro county, IS miles from the Ell
Paso & Northeastern railway.
In the Galllnas mining district,
Lincoln county, n miles form the Ell
PasO 8 N~Orsheastern railway.
In the Santa Fe mining district,
Santa Fe county, Q miles from the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway.
The property irst visited lies in the
Shakespeare district, aud contains
over 100 acres of developed copper
properties ~ miles from the flourish
ing, town of Lordsburg, where, by the
way, a large customs concentrator is
now being erected and a strong Cali.
fOrnia company Is installing a smelt-
er plant Of 300 tons daily capacity. In
this digLrict the AmArican OOnaolI.