Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-10
Mines and

VIM. NJ. Robins, of Hillsboro, Sierra
county. has purchased one-fourth in
terest in the old American mine neal
Hillsboro. Consideration, $4,000.
Hillsboro. Sierra county, will this
month give employment to about 49,
men. Two companies and the Gales
outfit will each give employment tc
about sixty men.
The santa Rita district. New Mexico
is coming to the front and now attract
ing special attention. Several rich ship
ments of ore nave recently been made
to the FL Paso smelter.
Reports come to Las Vegas of rich
copper finds at Pintada. Some consid
cradle work is being done under the
direction OF G.. Taggart and fine ricl
oil es have been encountered.
At the Boston Mining Exchange last
week 927 shares of Cochiti stock were
sold at from % to As cents a share
and 1,410 shares of the Santa Fe Gold
and Copper company's stock at SO q
share.
The gold and silver tellurium ores
are found on Trujillo creek. about six
miles south of Kingston. Sierra county.
IL 10 lOuHu ii SiLldii phiNhNS itol thN
surface; 500, 900 to 100000 has been
sold already.
Extensive work has been done on
the Clearwater group, Santa Rita dis
trict. New Mexico. Native copper has
been encountered at a depth of twenty
feet. The value of the ore body is in
creasing with depth.
1t has been definitely decided that
$500. 600 will be advanced to buy orc
for the proposed smelter at Silver
City, n. NJ. This proposition has been
made by eastern capitalists. The first
proposition made was 500, 600.
The kingman Mineral Wealth says:
John Kay has struck a fine body Of
copper and gold ore on another of his
mines at Mineral Park. 1t will make
the smelter men smile when they see
this new feeder to their smelter.
+. c. Baker, A. r. Qninly and R. S
Morrison have recorded the following
copper claims in the San Miguel coun
ty mining district: Copper Chief
claims. Nos. / to 8; Copper Queen
Nos. l to 3. and Copper Cent. NOS.
and 2.
margarine Romero reports excellent
DTOSTeSS III Ills Qua nlut up thS Val
linas canyon near Las Vegas. In one
of which a vein -wenty-four inches
thick has been found. The coal is OF
coking material.
The splendid developments in the E
Porvenir coal mines have caused the
stock to take a jump of several cents
The issue is exhausted and there Is nc
more stock for sale. The mining oper
ations there are becoming quite exten
sive and those interested feel they
have a little bonanza.
w. B. Twitchell has returned to Las
Vegas from his Denver and st. Louis
trip and says everything looks rosy fol
the immediate construction of several
reduction mills. Two mills will go in
at once, he thinks; one at Fulton and
one at Blake's. The mill at Tecolote
is being held up a few days for a de-
cision as to the size wanted.
At the Tecolote grant meeting al
Tecolote, San Miguel county, it was
decided to borrow the sum necessary
SITS, to pay the survey, or for running
the lines and getting the boundaries
of the grant determined. 1t will be
money well spent, for, after the boun
diaries are determined, a patent from
the government can be secured.
The commissioners on the Tecolote
grant survey in San Miguel county Sc
cured the necessary sun of $775 fol
the payment of the surveyor from H
w. Kelly. Mr.. Kelly literally gave the
gentlemen the amount without interest
for eight months, after that time they
will pay 6 per cent on the balance due,
until paid. The survey will be made a.
once and titles in that district will be
clear o
The Timber Peak plant complete
has been sold to a company operating
at Velardina. Durango, Mexico. T. l..
Mitchell of Spokane, Wash, has charge
of the ~dismantling and shipping of the
plant. Ed Keller and Zim Gibbons
have taken a contract to deliver the
dismantled plant on the cars at Water
Canyon station. They will begin oper.
ations at once and expect to complete
the work in about three weeks.
An important deal was made at Trim
idad, Colo, by which B. F. Groomer
and w. ]. Murray, of trinidad, and DR.
j. z. Lowry, of Sopris, Colo, became
owners through bond and lease of the
Free Gold claim of the Chickasaw Min
ing and Development company, foul
miles southeast of Red River and sew
en- miles from Elizabethtown. The con
sideration was $4,000, to be paid in five
annual installments. with 10 per cen
interest. The ore on the claim is
brown mass of hematite and assays
from 500 to $500 per ton in gold. A Al
foot shaft and a tunnel of 175 feet con
stitute the development work. Mr.
Groomer and associates have also pur
chased the Emerald mine adjoining the
Free Gold.
A little life may be sacrificed to Q
sudden attack of Group. If you dom