Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-03-28
GRANT COUNTY MINES.
Renewed Activity at PInos Atos-Tractlon Engines II
Garry Ore 10 Lordsburg Smelter.

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Renewed Activity at plnos Altos-Tractlon Engines i
| Carry Ore 10 Lordsburg Snelter.
Three shifts are now at work upor
the Mountain Key mine at Pinos Altos
The milling Of some waste has beer
successful. 1t was test to ascertain
If the process would pay
The Arizona mine at Pinos Altos is
increasing it's force. 1t is at present
the principal producer at Pinos Altos
The Debyshire and Schofield steam
rocker is proving a good thing and is
Old Bell and Stevens tailings at Pinos
Altos.
Walter Brands and James Schoon-
maker have resumed work at Pinos
Altos after a delay caused by waiting
for returns on their last shipment.
They will sink another 100 feet.
The operations on the Modoc group
at Hanover are confined to the driving
of the LOO foot tunnel on which three
shifts are at work. The average pro-
gress is fifteen feet every "a hours.
The tunnel is In about $50 feet.
The traction engine which is to haul
the ore from the mines of the Lena
Mining and Milling Company to Lords
burg, was given a test run last week.
1t was found that the roads must be
given further improvement before the
engine can be a success.
The work on the Southwestern Cop
per Company group at Burros is con-
fined to the sinking of a double COM
partment shaft on the st. Louis. The
shaft is down 1O5 feet and two shifts
are employed to sink it deeper.
M. Cooper, who recently bought the
Mountain View mines at Pinos Altos,
has struck body of high grade ore
carrying lead, copper, silver and gold.
Eastern experts have completed a
thorough examination of the Silver
Cell mine at Pinos Altos and a sale
may follow.
G. w. Maxson came to Lordsburg
from Stems Pass last Monday and re-
ported that affairs are progressing sat-
isfactorily, and anticipates that the
coming summer will see a complete
renovation of that camp. More work
will probably be done there next sum-
mer than during any summer in it's
history.
7. J.. Davis expects the inventor and
builder of the Vulcan furnace in
Lordsburg to give the furnace a trial
r,,,, Tho f,,rpooo ,uoc Gold IN tho
guarantee that it would smelt rs tons
of material daily, and the company
has been unable to get that much ma
terial through it. Before making the
guarantee good the builder wants to
have chance to see if the furnace will
do the work
A prospectus has been issued of the
proposed American Mining Company.
The capital stock of the proposed
company will be 100000 shares, with a
pany expects to acquire, develop, and
work the Peg Leg, Gladiator, Sub Ro-
sa, Horn Silver, Billy Boy, and Cobra
Negra claims in the Virginia district.
These claims all have fine showing,
and undoubtedly will develop into
large properties
The Lena Mining Company's trac-
tion engine arrived at Lordsburg last
Sunday. Professor Carrera had steam
up, and gave number of his friends
ride. Monday the engine was thor
oughly overhauled, and Tuesday morn
ing started for. the Mirer's Chest after
load Of ore. Roads had been built
for the engine, but they had not pack
ed down hard, and considerable trouble
was experienced in getting the ma
chine through, and once or twice 1t
was near being ditched. More work
will be done on the roads, and when
they are gotten into shape, Professor
Carrera expects no further trouble
with the transportation question.
LUNA COUNTY.
The Deming Sampling Works have
stopped buying ore for the present and
1t is feared will close down.
SIERRA COUNTY MINES.
e. H. Bickford. the general superin-
tendent for the Lake Valley Mining
Company, is getting everything in
shape to take out all the ore that five
hoists will handle. And the old timers
are to help him out. The immediate
prosperity, at least, of Lake Valley,
Sierra county, is assured as we'll as
that Of many other mining camps in
Sierra county, for capital will undoubt-
edly be attracted to this long neglect
ed. yet promising section Of the south
west
Colonel A. W. Harris is looking after
his Monaska mines of Trujillo and the
Illinois group of Kingston. The east
ern people who now own, or at least
have been negotiating for the Hornet
mines on the TERRA Blanca, as we'll as
the Log Cabin are arranging to work
these properties.
Northwest of Lake Valley OIL the
North Percha, work is going on and
has been all winter. The mines there
are In granite, with regular fissure
veins Of immense richness. and more
reliable as to continuation Of values,
and not jumping from one pocket to|
another, as in the lime at the south Of
Kingston, and around Lake Valley,