Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-01-21
THE GOLD STRIKE
ON THE BON|TO
About Two Hundred Prospectors Have Pitched
Their Tents Near the Gold Find.
PROSPEROUS MINING CAMPS
Every Miner at EIlzabethtOwn Is employed Mining
Operations In the Grand View District In Grant
County, Fire at Ellzabethtown.

explosion of gas. Frank Taylor, th
occupant of the house, stood in th'
door when the explosion occurred ant
was thrown on top of a nearby woot
heap where he was picked up uncon
scious. His clothes were on fire ant
his shoes were burning A number o
cartridges exploded through the hea
and sent bullets flying in all directions
The house burnt to the ground. The
loss is only $500. Taylor's injuries con-
sist of a bruised head, cut In each
wrist and cut in one leg.
The Patos Oil Company has surveyed
it's prospects around White Oaks and
the superintendent, T. f. Chapman is
preparing to put down we'll.
The Estey Milling Company has
dump at Estey City, Socorro county
| The reduction plant is nearing COM
| pletion. The company has opened up
30-foot vein which gives every indi-
cation of permanency. There are many
leads near the surface containing pay
ore in large quantities. The contract
plan has been adopted for mining the
surface ore.
A vast body Of high grade ore was
struck in the Ell Oro mine at Hillsboro
last week. At the depth Of 400 feet a
cross-cut Of 20 feet opened up a body
of ore from four to six feet wide. The
ore is free milling. 1t is granulate
quartz with tale carrying coarse gold
and nuggets. Through this body of
soft ore run several streaks Of sui
phide ore varying from two inches to
one foot in width. The entire body
averages $50 to the ton. while some Of
it runs $100 to the ton. The ore body is
confined in perfect walls that stand al
most perpendicular. similar body of
ore but not quite as large was also op-
ened up on the 300-foot level.
J. A. Mccoy Of Boston, has been at
Carizililo the past week, getting the
mines of the Golden Cross and Eagle
Mining Company in the Carizililo dis
trict in Luna county in order for the
resumption Of operations. Boston,
Terre Haute and New .Altnr,'. Ind,
capital is interested. The mines are
near the Ell Paso and Southwestern
railway.
J. Barry has moved his saw mill to
a large body of timber above the Fra
ger mines in Amizett, Taos county,
having received the contract to furnish
lumber to the Frazer Mountain Cop
per Company.
The Hillsboro Mining and Milling
Company at Hillsboro, Sierra county,
has begun hauling ore to the Porter
mill for treatment
A steam drill is to be placed on the
Indiana near Elizabethtown, Colfax
county. This will open up this prom
Using property very rapidly.
The Denver mine at Elizabethtown is
to resume operations next week. A
new Hendri and Bolthoff steam friction
hoist will supplant the gasoline engine
heretofore used. The gasoline engine
will be removed to the Arlington tun-
mel in the Humbug gulch where 1t will
be used to operate the machinery in
connection with the air shaft. The
lumber for the Denver mill is arriving
on the ground and the machinery for
the mill is to arrive in few days.
f. Mail Skeats Of El Paso, consulting
engineer, is in the Sacramento noun
tains examining the property Of the
eight miles from Alamogordo. The
company will install steam drills and
will erect concentrating plant for
handling the rich lead ores Of the |
mines II the report of Skeats warrants
1t.
A. Zwergie has resumed operations
on his property near Elizabethtown.
He Is sinking hundred foot shaft.
There are at present no idle miners
at Elizabethtown, Colfax county.
M. Henderson Of Silver City, has !
placed a force of six men to work on !
the properties adjoining the Grand
Central in the Carpenter district, Grant |
county. On the Grand Central, Super
intendent Mills Of Lake Valley, Is
working force of men. On the Little |
Gallinas, two miles north, Mr.. Swartz
Of the Mimbres valley, has two men at
work In the vicinity of Eagle canon,
M. Spates and N. B. Daniels Of Kings |
ton, Sierra county, are developing a |
group of promising prospects. At the
mouth of Roost gulch is A. Ricketts, |
camp. North Of this group Is McGreg-
or's park. Here the Grand View group |
Of mines is located amidst splendid |
scenic surroundings. Especially fine |
water is found here. The Grand View |
mine is partially developed and a large |
ore body has been exposed. The vein |
which is over % feet wide Is solid |
mass of ore. The mine belongs to |
Barr Beaver and Gray, and is being |
steadily worked, the object being to !
show up continuous body of ore for |
several hundred feet and at a good |
depth. The Grand View had been sold
FOR $4,000, but owing to misunder-
the deal was not closed. A
,ross-cut on the 10O-foot level shows
good body Of copper and galena. The
nearest point to the camp is Kingston.
Sierra county. and 1t is reached only
,y trails. no wagon roads having yet
been built.
Judge Lucius Deming Of the Allesan-
lro Copper Company in the Burro
Is directing the work on
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