The copper era., 1902-11-27
NEW MEXICO NEWS


T. J. CIarK or. at NllU, N. M.
 A force Of men are now at work put ting the streets of Silver City into something like decent condition
 With two broad gauge railroad heading in that direction, San Juan county would appear to De in the track Of prosperity never dreamed Of here tofore.
 Deming papers claim that it Is as good as settled that the Phelps Dodge people will erect q shelter there dur ing the coming year for the treatment Of their Fierro ores.
 Mrs. C. L. Ashton has returned to Silver City after an absence Of several years in Europe continuing her musi- cal studies under the direction Of the best instructors on the continent.
 Andy Laird, for many years sheriff or Grant county, and marshal Of Sil- yer City, Is now in southern Arizona writing insurance for the Washington Life.
 It is rumored in Las Vegas that a new spur of the Santa Ee from Azul to Taos Is contemplated, and that the surveyors expect orders to run the line at any time.
 The result Of the election in SocOrro county is now in the courts, the com missio CTS of that county having been enioined from counting the votes cast for the independent ticket in that county.
 A new railroad is projected from San Antonio on the Santa F'e to Coyote on the Fl Paso tS Northeastern system, a distance Of seventy miles. The enter prise is said to be backed by eastern capitalists.
 Wm. II. Woodward, Of Silver City, has gone to Porto Rico to take charge of some mining interests for New York people. Considerable placer gold has been arriving in New York for some time from that section.
 Oil has been struck at Pastura, new town near the Rock Island rail road. The further sinking Of the well and the boring of others will follow Eastern oil men who sunk this well be- lieve that the region will be a second Beaumont.
 Major Appel, who made a national reputation on his treatment of con- sumptions at Fort Bayard, was enter- taincd at the san Vicente Hotel last week by the people of Silver City, who holds him in high esteem. The Major has been ordered to the Philippines. w. $. Mclaughlin, a former Grant county boy, who is now in charge of the big store of the Montezuma Copper company at Nacozaro, Mexico, was in Silver City for a couple of days last wock on a vist to his family and friends. Ho is enthusiastic oyer the prospects Of the camp at Nacozari.
 The copper furnace at the shelter in Cerrillos is in full operation once more and the yard is well filled with ore. Tho lead furnace will be started as soon as it can be made ready. The | amount of custom ore being received is fairly good, and 1t is believed the | tho furnaces will be able to run stead | fly from now on.
 Thompson X Copp arc shipping an average of q carload of ore week from their Virginia property in the Burro | mountains to the Verde shelter, near Jerome. Arizona. A portion of this is | being taken from ore already on the | dumps and the remainder from the | mine. The Virginia ore is especially | adapted to fluxing purposes. and is | much in demand for such purpose.
 Dr.. J, R. McKinnie, of Colorado Springs, Colo, has made preliminary arrangements for tho incorporation of l Il company to build a railroad from the | mining camp of Bland to some point on the Santa Fc railway, probably q | little north'ot Thornton, and also for 1 the erection of q large reduction works on the Rio Grande, just below the White Rock canyon.
 There are persistent rumors of the | erection of a teaching plant at the old
 
 water supply is to be had. Such q plant would treat ore as low grade as i per cent. and as there arc vast Gcpos- its of low grade ore all over the dis trict, the enterprise would result in the greatest benefit to the camp and in fact to all this section of the south st.-Independent.
 Geo. w. Bowman and wealthy asso- ciates have great things in store for Socorro. The company proposes to purchase I340 acres of bottom land near Socorro-the fertile partially un- drained areas stretching eastward from the depot. Some 3i0 acres will be reserved for buildings and parks, and ;he residue it is proposed to drain, irrigate from the Rio Grande, blow, and plant with crops suited to the lc- cality.
 The Independent has it upon un- questioned authority, that negotiations are now under way which give every promise of the erection of 1O0-ton smelling plant equipped with the very best of modern machinery. No at