Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-02-24
THE MINES OF
NEW MEXICO
Tho Management Of tho Silver City Reduction
Works Is Now Paying Cash in Full for
All Copper Orc Received.
TURQUOISE MINES IN BURR0S
Completing tho Repair Work on tho Machinery Of the
Helen Mine In Socoro County-Ths Santa Rita
Mining Company Has Commenced Ship
ping 0rs-MInes Of CoIfax.

The management of the Silver City
Reduction Works has discontinued the
practice of making deferred payments
: on ore. that In advancing rs per cent on
3 the value of copper ore received on the
quotation of the day assay, and paying
the other 25 per cent later.
!. j. c. Brooks Is developing two good
! claims at Burros, Grant county. They
are known as the Rover and Astrologer
t and are west of Paschal. A 11O-foot
shaft has been sunk on the Rover and
5O-foot shaft on the Astrologer. The
values are gold, silver, copper and
lead and the shipments made gave re-
turns of $50 to the ton.
Theodore w. Carter has established
his camp at Burros and will next week
begin the development of his Copper
Gulf claim. He has placed whim on
the property.
Robert p. Thompson is now shipping
the high grade copper ore on his dump
on the Klondyke mine at Burros.
The two principal turquois operators
in the Burros mountains at present are
The Azure Company, owning fourteen
claims and employing fifteen men
steadily, and the Gem Turquois and
Copper Company, owning similar
number of claims and employing as
many men. Both companies are ship
| ping large quantities Of stone to east
ern markets. The Porterfield Brothers
| ar V-orlytpO Of
on their group of five claims.
The Allessandro Copper Mining Com
pany has let a contract to J. Fl. Bates
| to sink an additional rs feet on the
| Gettysburg mine at Burros. The char
acter of the ore is mostly low grade
carbonate and oxide from the surface
to near 100 feet in depth. Below the 100
foot depth the ore is copper sulphide
assaying from 6 to Is per cent copper.
The company may erect teaching
plant to treat the low grade ore.
All the supplies for the completion of
the repair work on the mill plant of
the Helen Mining Company at Graham,
Socorro county, are now at hand and In
course of installation. The work Is be-
ing pushed night and day. 1t is to be
completed by next week.
For the first time since 1t has COM
| menced operations, the Santa Rita
| Mining Company is making regular
shipments from its Santa Rita, Grant
county, mines. The present force en-
ployed is It's men and two carloads of
ore are being shipped daily.
The Mystic mine on Old Baldy noun
tain, one of the Oldest mines in Colfax
county, is to be sold.
William Stone is doing his annual
assessment work on a number Of min
ing properties on the Cimarron river,
Colfax county one the line of the pro-
posed Elizabethtown and Taos Valley
railway.
The Iron Mountain Mining and Mill
ing Company is running tunnel into
the mountain of its Iron Mountain
group to cut the ore bodies in the
mountain near Elizabethtown, Colfax
county. The company Is employing
two shifts of men in the tunnel.
The Smithfield Company has pur-
chased the Abraham Lincoln property
near Elizabethtown. A force of men
has been put to work to run a tunnel
on the mine and is now in thirty feet
The tunnel Is being we'll timbered and
is following the vein. The manager of
the company, Frank Spur is nego-
tiating for the sale of the Lexington
to outside parties.
The Smithfield Company desires to
complete Its proposed mill by May 1.
1t will be Of the Huntington type The
cyanide process is to be used for the
tailings and the ore Is to come from
the Bobtail.
Joseph Stanfield is working a very
promising copper proposition five miles
west of Captain. Lincoln county. He
has sunk a shaft on the lead to a
depth Of 65 feet and has about two
carloads of ore on the dump. The vein
at the surface was about six feet wide,
two feet, but increased In richness.
w. G. Cheatham and others have dis
covered a ledge of rock, a few miles
west Of Captain. Lincoln county, which
carries gold Several claims on 1t
have been staked out. but no assays
have yet been made of the rock.
Several good copper strikes are re.
ported from the Captain mountains in
Lincoln county.
John Bennett of Cerrillos, struck d
fine vein of galena ore north of that
town. The claim is in ore from grass
roots.
Three smelters or concentrating
works are counted on by parties work.
ing in the Rociada district. San Miguel
county They are to be located at Las
Vegas, Mora and Watrous, respective
ly. Eight experienced Leadville, Colo.
miners were put to work in the dis
trict this week. F. A. Manzanares has
secured some fine specimens Of ore
from his claim In the district. One is
lead producing ore running high in
gold and silver. It carries 40 per cent
Of lead. The other specimen carries
36 per cent copper, seven ounces Of sill
yer to the ton and $3.50 In gold.