Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-01-09
new MEXICO MINING INTERESTS.
The Railroad From Maxwell City to Eliza
bethtown to Be Built This Year.

bethtown to Be Built This Year.
The Central Gold and Copper Com
pany at Gold Camp in the Organ noun
tains, Dona Ana county. has struck a
| body of ore in the Bullion mine two
and half feet thick that runs s125 to
the ton and carries good values in cop
per and silver.
Attention is again being attracted TO
| the Picacho mountains, six miles west
of Las Cruces, low range cut and
broken by deep ravines. The principal
mineral is iron of which huge lodges
extend for miles south and north and
| carrying 40 to 60 per cent iron. These
lodges however are twelve miles from
the nearest railroad. Henry Bauer of
Las Cruces, st. * ore at a depth of
only four feet. Ii Eyed So in gold.
Five men are at wolE on the Bishops
| Cap, a few miles from Earlham, Dona
Ana county, looking for a lost gold
mine. They have an old chart which
locates exactly the supposed lost mine,
but while they have found indications
of gold they have not yet thus far
struck any old mine workings.
The drill on the Anaconda at T |,
River has been moved d few rods |
work has been commenced at sink !
. cain
w. C. Haverly of Trinidad, Colo, has
bought the Sharrad claim on the Red
River in Taos county from DR.. r. II.
Sharrad
James LIE Bean, who has charge Of
the work on the Stella group on Black
mountain, Taos county, for w. f.
Tripp Denver attorney, has returne'
to Taos county from a visit to Denver
and is now pushing work with renewed
vigor.
B. F. Schermerhorn, superintendent
of the Three Bears mine at Jarilla
Otero county, has completed over 600
feet Of work and has uncovered some
fine ore. In one place where he had
run tunnel 30 feet upon the ledge Ct
an ore chute of very high grade ore he
has sunk a shaft about 140 feet and run
drifts about 400 feet besides sinking
shaft at the end of it of 100 feet, from
which good air is gotten into the mine.
But few claims were taken up at
Red River in Taos county at the be-
ginning of this year because the as
sessment work on most of the claims
had been performed.
A bad casting on a part of the Victor
drill at the Badly tunnel in Colfax
rfHy hac 1oJo in 10
of the machinery until the new casting
arrives.
Christian Oleson has received the
contract to haul the lumber from the
saw mill to the Denver mine near
Elizabethtown, Colfax county, for the
new MILL The cyanide machinery for
the mill has been purchased and will
be on the ground by the time that the
mill Is ready for It, AS soon as the
mill is completed work will be re-
sumed on the Denver mine. The vein
ON this mine Is 90 feet wide and runs
we'll in gold. The shaft on the lead is
an incline. There is no dead work as
the lead Is large and we'll defined be-
tween two solid walls.
A vein Of free gold ore has been
struck on the Legal Tender at Eliza
bethtown. The ore runs s74 to the
ton and the vein is eight inches wide,
on either side of which is vein matter
is inches wide carrying $40 to the ton.
There Is no water in the shaft al
though it is down considerable depth.
On the Senate Bob-Tail. near Eliza.
bethtown, good strike has been made.
The ore runs high in gold and silver.
The body of ore is sufficiently large to
be worked at a handsome profit.
The 200 foot tunnel on the McGinty
mine near Elizabethtown, the contract
for which had been but recently let,
has struck and cut the vein exposing a
fine body Of ore that lifts the McGinty
from prospect to a mine.
The work of grading on the Cimar-
ron and Taos railroad is to commence
early in the spring at Maxwell City,
and is to be completed to Elizabeth
town in the fall and to the Taos valley
in the followir~ year. This road will
open many pror 7~t'as in the Eliza
bethtown, Red Rivsr Cimarron and
Badly districts which are now idle on
account of the poor transportation ia
cilities.
An option has been given on the
Hamilton mining property in the San
Geronimo district. Mora county. to
Denver capitalists for $4,000.
The Clifton Copper Company at Dnm-
ing has closed down its concentra 'lg
plant and is making needed rer RS
and additions. When 1t starts again It
will be a $50 ton plant instead Of only
an so ton plant, its present capacity.