Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-01-13
NEW MEXICO MINES
and MINING
A New Gold Camp Has Been Established
in Lincoln County and There Are Re-
ports Of Important Strikes from
Various Districts.
CLIFTON CONCENTRATOR AT
SANTA RITA Is BEING ENLARGED

goldstrike at Nogal, that has created
great excitement among the people o
that part of Lincoln county.
White Oaks, have located very prom
ising copper prospects in Water canon
White mountains, from which the!
brought fine specimens of ore int
White Oaks.
The Jicarilla Placers are but eigh
miles northeast of White Oaks, and 81,
miles east of the FL Paso and North
eastern railway. 1t was in 1870 to 1877
that the placers first attracted atten
ton. A party of prospectors made sucl
phenomenal finds in the gulches com
ing down from the Jicarilla mountain!
that soon 1000 miners flocked to the
district from different parts of the
country. The only means of extrac.
tion was by melting snow for water tt
use In the crudest kinds of rockers, ye'
the first comers obtained as high as
s1.03 per pan. The late Miguel A
Otero, Sr, is credited with taking
ssOoOO worth of gold nuggets in one
winter out of the placers with his
workmen. Attempts were made to OBJ
tain artesian water, but without sue
cess. There are wells of good pure wa
ter in the district but no flowing water.
There are men in the camp who ex-
tract gold from the placers In much
the same way that they did fifteen and
twenty years ago.
In September, 1891, lode discoveries In
the district commenced to command at
tention. The ore Is in many instances
a quartzite with oxide of iron and man
ganese carrying gold, often changing
off into gold bearing quartz crystals
showing free gold. Lead mining is now
in the ascendancy in the district. The
Jicarilla Placer Company three years
old, sold out to the American Placer
Company This company is operating
a Johnston cantilever placering ma
chine which the builders claim Is capa-
BILE of sweeping the ground for 40 feet
on either side of the big dredge. The
machine has a capacity of IS tons of
dirt per hour. The cost Of placing this
machine was $4,000. A tremendous de-
posit of iron located at Jacks Peak
will undoubtedly also play an inipor-
tant part in the future mineral history
of the Jicarilla district.
Christian Yaeger has reached depth
of 40 feet on his Yellow Jacket group
near White Oaks. He will sink to a
depth of 200 feet. Good ore has been in
evidence all the way down.
H. c. Crary has sold his interest In
the Clipper near White Oaks to E.
Heiniman. The Clipper is located near
the Boston Boy and the Little Mack.
new gold camp has been establish
ed in Lincoln county. 1t Is on the
south fork of the Bonito and on the
east side of the creek. Ore has been
found that averages $4,000 to the ton.
The vein is fifteen feet wide and is fill
greed with quartz crystals carrying
small nuggets of free gold and has been
traced about two miles.
The Jicarilla camp now has trans
portation and telegraphic facilities. A
telegraph operator has been stationed
at Ancho, on the Rock Island, about six
miles from the camp.
Captain D. L. Roberts, who recently
bought two mining claims at Estey
City, Socorro county, has broken into
80 feet of copper ore.
j. NJ Bryson has sold group of
claims at Estey City, Lincoln county,
to number of New England capital
lists. On his remaining claims he has
put % men at work at development
operations. On one of the claims sold
by Bryson, the buyers have let two
contracts. There is enough ore in
sight to keep the big Estey mill run
ming. The ore shows up over 100 feet
wide and the assays show values Of
over $50 per ton. One assay from the
Mark Hanna claim runs $106 per ton.
Work on the Estey mill is being push
ed. Water has been struck near the
mill
J. G. Carlisle, in charge of the Gen.
trail telephone Office at Silver City of
he Grant County Telephone Company,
nas resigned to accept the position of
electrician for the Helen Mining Conn
oany at Graham, Socorro county.
Work on the Gettysburg group at
Burros in Grant county, is progressing
The group comprises q
claims, several of which are showing
Up fine. One the Hattie claim, while
loing assessment work several weeks
ago, small vein Of ore was encoun-
.ered. 1t was followed downward un-
Ill it has now reached a width Of three
'eet. The ore runs Is per cent in cop
Der and a. few ounces in silver. On the
Gettysburg claim shaft is down 10
'eet and will be sunk to 15O feet when
lrifting will commence.
j. l.. Schofield and Charles Derby
shire have taken lease from the Pinos
Altos Gold Mining and Milling Com
,any on the tailings Of the old Bell and
Stephens mill at Pinos Altos, Grant
They started this week treat
ng the ore by concentration and ANAL
,amation. The tailings run well in
gold and silver.
A contract for 100 feet of shafting on
he Arizona mine at Pinos Altos, has
,een let to Brynes, Fletcher Brothers
Ind Campbell.
The Clifton Copper Company at San
a Rita has shut down its concentrat-
ng plants on account of the low price
# copper and bo make needed repairs
md to enlarge the plant It's capacity
viii be increased to $50 tons from 80
ons. On the company's mine, the