Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-03-14
MINING MATTERS.
News About re Great industry Of thia
Section OF the World.

ton at Telluride. Colorado. He left
for his new place Saturday.
The Silver City smelter will shut
down by the first Of next month,
when It Rets wurked up the ore IL now
has on hand. The reason given by the
management is that not enough ore il
shipped to che smelter from the camps
surrounding Silver City to keep IL GO
ing. The >rDelter has had TO ship 10
sulphide ore from Arizona, aud IL is
more economical to ship that ore to
ri Pas0.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Carter. ofSprinl-
neld, Massachusetts, and Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Dewitt, OF Worcester, Miss. we're
in the CITY YESTERDAY, en- route to Clif-
ton. Mr.. Clrter is president OF the
Shannon copper company. The party
has gnne up To Clifton 60 look after
the interests OF tnc company, and in
tend to stay there until the smelter is
blown In aud the company is making
copper, which means they will stay in
this section NJ the country Tor a couple
OF months or SO.
Jas. G. Barton, manager Of the
Pacific Union smelling company, who
recently went to Santa Rosa. to coi,-
suit with the officers OF the company,
writes that he Will not he back i'm.
%mediately, as he will stop IN San
Francisco To inspect the building NJ \
new eighly-ton furnace, which the
COMPANY will put in. The COMPANY
will not start up the present plant un.
I'll the new addition 10 made. When
that Is accomplished The company will
be prepared, in all particulars, to do a
large business.
DR.. Luton was in from his camp at
Malone this week. lie THINKS he has
one Of the finest gold showihgs he
knows OF IN the country. He has a
four foot ledge that will avptage dfty
dollars in gold and silver, with silver
at dfty dve cents 40 ounce. Much OF
the ledge will 60 higher, but he has
q 1t had an assay IA Of u that carried
less Than an ounce Of gold. lie 10.
tends to do considerable development
on this property before deciding what
tn do with the ore, but If the ore con
tinues 10 quantity he will undoubtedly
put a mill on the properly.
The long lost and much hunted
A lams .diggings have again been
found and this time it Undoubtedly is
the real thing. The circumstances
surrounding the re. discovery shows it
entirely genuine. 1t will be remem-
bered that in the seyentie, a man
named Adams with a companion,
started from Arizona prospecting.
They travelled eastward aud finally at
the m nth Of Il creek which fl wed in
to a canyon they found a wonderful
deposit Of placer gold, with a little
digging nuggets were taken out like
= < us Pblu uilC1s A'tdAklN dll his
companion we're stampe1ed by the
Indians, the companion was killed
aud after many days Adams reached
a settlement, where he told his won.
derful story OF the rich deposit ut the
mouth Of this creek. The only land
marks he had were two large buttes
standing near, Many parties have
gore oGL hunting for these lost Adams
diggings, but never we're able TO 1nd
them. Adams died a poor man,
never finding his own, moi making
another stake. A cOuUle Of weeks ago
a party OF men, consisting Of e. F.
Heath, H. Wright, P. A. Endicott, A..
d. Stout aud e. L. Truitt, none OF
whom mad ever heard Of Adams and
his lost diggings, started out from
LurdSburg 10 20 tn Scarhprough's
ranch in the BurrorsI near which,
they had heard, vas some placer
ground. They drove north into the
BurroS, lost their road, and never got
10 Scdrboruugh's. Now and one ac-
quainted with the history Of mining
knows, there is no better way TO and a
bonanza tnan tn get lost. They made
camp, nearly froZe TO death that night,
and the next morning found some
float. They prOspected up a canyon
which is not far from Malone. mt
here found a quartz ledge. and in
IL free gold, and what is more peculiar,
along one side OF IL a black substance,
which afterwards proved tu he
graphite, and this also carries gold.
The men came in town this week
with samples Of their dnd and ASSAYS
showed they had some high grade
gold rock. Mr.. Wright was 10 the
LIBERAL office, telling about his And.
He mentioned they had camped ia a
canyon. aud there we're two large
buttes standing near. The writer
remembering The story OF the Adams
diggiugs, asked him II a creek came
down into the canyon, and he said
there did, ana they had found free
gold in IL. Wright was then told the