Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-02-18
MINING NEWS
OF NEW MEXICO
Two Concsnirators Are Nearing Completion al
Lordsburg and the Smsltsr at That
Town Is to Resume.
.HANS0NBURG MINES SOLD
Rich Strike Of Silver Made In the Lake Valley Mines
The Double Compartment Shaft on the St. Louis
at suros Is Being RstImbsrsd
Boring for OIL.

The concentrator at Lordsburg. Grant
county, being built by the Miser's Chest
Company, is nearing completion. A
short test run Is to be made in the be-
ginning Of March.
The Michigan-New Mexico Copper
Company of Lordsburg, has reached q
depth of 10 feet on it's Bell mine. AT
65 feet a new vein was encounte led
that runs 35 per cent copper, the ore
| being sulphide. The company intends
to start shipping soon both from the
Lordsburg and the Burros districts.
The Lordsburg Smelter Is to resume
operations by March 1. A number of
improvements have been added since
the breakdown of the machinery.
The concentration being erected by
| the Aberdeen Company at Lordsburg is
also nearing completion.
The double compartment shaft Oh tEe
st. Louis mine at Burros, Grant coun-
ty, has been retimbered to depth of
S. feet from the surface. The boiler has
been set up and the ground has been
prepared for setting up the machinery.
force Of men Is at work on the new
road from the st. Louis mine via Man
gus Valley and Bald Mountain.
The Home Oil Development Company
has its well at Pennington, San Juan
county, down 130 feet. On account of
the quicksand encountered eight inch
casing is being dropped.
Arthur Green of White Oaks, Lin
tunnel work in the Crawford mine
south of Three Rivers, Otero county.
Fred Gritzmaler and Frank Clark
have discovered a fine lead of gold
bearing quartz eight miles north of
Tularosa, Otero county.
The Alcazar Copper Company of Gin
cinnati, Ohio, has completed the pur-
chase of the Hansonburg copper mines
in Socorro county, and will commence
operations upon large scale. A. j.
Borden, manager of the company, is on
the ground making preliminary ar
rangements.
Byrd and Collard have contracted
for the sinking of the shaft on the
Crow mine on the South Bonito in Lin
coin county, 200 feet deeper. The aver
age assays on many Of the gold claims
staked out during the recent gold ex-
citement on the South Bonito are only
81 per ton and 1t is thought the rich
strikes reported are "blow-outs" and
that the general nature of the ore is the
same as in the other gold districts of
Lincoln county.
The Jicarilla Placer Company of Lin
colin county, made a test run and the
dirt yielded SO cents per shovel, with
the shovels set so as to carry but half
Of their capacity The dirt Is richer
than had been estimated as the COM
pany has figured only on 30 cents for
the whole shovel
A rich strike has been made by the
Lake Valley Mining Company near the
Did famous Bridal Chamber at Lake
Valley, Sierra county. The ore assays
700 ounces of silver from an average
sample of four breast ore. The COM
oany will ship three cars of ore to the
,melter as a test.
The Dude Mining Company operating
lear Hillsboro, Sierra county, expects
o put in hoisting machinery and sink
he shaft to a depth Of 500 feet before
loing any stopping.
A rich strike has been made on the
mine at Hillsboro, owned by
drs. E. F. Pearson of Ell Paso. The
re is found in the lower level and runs
100 to the ton.
Colonel A. w. Harris will open the
illinois and Monaska mines at Hills
'oro.
o. D. Warnock of Alamogordo, Otero
ounty, has purchased promising
mining claim at Jarilla in the same
ounty, upon which he made find of
2O-foot vein panning free gold from
80 to $50 per ton. The find lies between
he Turquois mine and Water Canon on
he southeast slope Of Red Mountain.
IN incline TUNNEL has been started
nd will be run for 200 feet.
The Altamont Company at Jarilla, Is
own 200 feet with the bottom Of the
haft in solid galena ore running high
n silver.