Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-09-29

AND ACTIVITY
Bromide Mining District Is Fourishing in
Spite Of the Low Price Of
Copper.
SEVERAL new DISCOVERIES
Recent Biz Strike on the Tampa Claim In Gun
nlngham GuIch is the Most Impurtant-More
Silver and Gold Found as Depth
!c Gane
Bromide Mining District,


existing in many copper camps because
of the present low price of copper and
the unsettled condition of the mining
stock markets in consequence, the Bro
mide district is enjoying a season OF
prosperity and activity. Several new
discoveries of much Importance have
been made in the last few months
among which the recent big strike
made on the Tampa claim in Cunning.
ham Gulch is the most important. The
Tampa is a comparatively new claim
and is owned by the Tusas Peak Gold
and Copper Mining Company, an Upper
| Michigan corporation. Good surface
indications were followed with shaft
which at the 50 foot level encountered
what is probably the richest large body
of ore found in the district. AT this
point a few feet of cross-cutting OPEN
ed up a clearly defined vein of mineral
12 feet in width, full feet of which is
high grade shipping ore, the remain
der being of good milling quality The
ore is a sulphide composed principally
of chalcopyrite and chalcocite, the
higher grade assaying on an average
from $S5 to $115 per ton, principal val
ues in copper, but carrying some gold
and several ounces of silver in addition.
Sinking was at once recommended and
is now being carried on while force is
also at work taking out ore for ship
ment. The shaft is about so feet in
depth at the present time, with the ore
still in evidence. A fine equipment of
modern steam hosting machinery is
being put in, while large bunk houses
a boarding house and shaft house are
also being erected. A new road has
been built to the property, connecting
with the main road to Tres Piedras,
the shipping point. Two NJ three CAR
loads will be shipped to the Pueblo
smelters at once and the management
Is confident it can produce that much
daily when the machinery IS Installed.
The old Bromide mine is being oper-
ated by the Colonial Mining and Leas-
ing Company, which has put in i'm
proved pumps to handle the heavy flow
of water and sunk to the 40 foot level.
where they are now drifting on the
vein both east and west with good sue
cess, there being now exposed two
clearly defined veins of ore, one about
40 No ~ oil
width. The ore is a high grade steph-
ante, carrying from 300 to 300 ounces OF
silver to the ton with some gold values
and varying amounts Of copper.
Several cars have been shipped which
confirmed the values given. AT the
present time the company has stock
piles of from two to three carloads of
the ore piled up at Tres Piedras and
the mine, from which shipments are
made from time to time. The Bromide
is the oldest mine in the camp; over II
years ago it was opened up and much
ore of good quality shipped from it. A
heavy flow of water was soon encoun-
tered which hampered the original op-
orators very much, and to cap the eli
max, the shaft house, containing the
boilers and hoist, was burned, which so
discouraged the owners that the mine
lay idle until the past year, when Col
orado parties obtained lease of the
property, which was in turn acquired
by the present operators, who placed
additional much needed machinery on
the ground and by pluck and persever-
ance have demonstrated that the mine
can be operated at a good profit.
The Mexican King Gold and Copper
Mining Company, Milwaukee, Wis,
is developing and otherwise
it's property on Cunningham
Gulch. On the War Eagle, patented
claim, the company Is running cross
cut from the shaft north to encounter
a wide vein of ore some 60 feet distant
which has been opened up on the sur
face to some extent, where 1t shows
good copper and gold values. On the
Butterfly, owned by the same people,
the shaft is being deepened the vein is
of rather low grade quality, but is ex-
pected to prove good milling propo-
sition. Development work is also being
pushed on the Horse Shoe and several
other claims by the same company
The Admiral Mining Company, a |
Kansas City company, has closed down |
On the Dewey while waiting the install
nent of machinery to handle the water |
in the shaft. In the mean
lime it is working two shifts on the
Blue Bird shaft, which is now down
over 100 feet.
The Sixteen to One owned by Mr..
Hall Of Hopewell N. NJ, is still work
ng with the same good vein of high
grade ore in sight. This vein has been
followed down over 100 feet and has
shown continuous good values in gold,
silver and copper all the way. 1t is ex-
,ected to begin shipping very soon
low, as there is good sized ore dump,
Ill taken out in the sinking of the
,haft.
The Bromide Copper and Gold Mining
Company of Milwaukee, Wis, is doing
/ great deal Of work on it's group Of
,laims. A 1o0-foot shaft has been sunk