Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-25
Mines and


A new diamond drill will soon be put
in by the Rose Copper company on
their property just east of Santa
Rita, Grant county.
The Wilson Mining company at
Stems Pass has purchased the boiler
and machinery formerly used in the
lone Mountain mill, and had it Install
ed in their OWL mill.
A daily shipment of 26 cars of iron
ore is being made by the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company at Fierro. An
extra train will shortly be put on to
accommodate the increasing business
of the company.
Through the negotiations of Frank
Nicholson the Little Fanny mine, in
the Cooney district, Socorro county,
has been purchased by Boston capital
lists, and extended operations will be
at once commenced.
At the Boston Mine Exchange last
week, 1,175 shares of Cochiti stock
were sold at from 40 to so cents a
share. OF Santa Fe Gold & Copper
company stock 5000 shares were sold
at from -s2.75 to 1925 per share.
The Mogollon Gold & Copper ON
pany. of Socorro county, is rapidly pro-
crossing in the development work on
it's claims in the Mogollon mountains.
The working force has been doubled,
and the ore shows a great quantity of
free gold.
An extension lease of two years has
been secured on the Arizona mine at
Pinos Altos by William McAllister,
n extensive improvements will soon
be made on that already well devel-
oped mine. A. new double compart-
ment shaft will be sunk and a new
hosting outfit of the richest gold pro-
ducing mines In the territory.
A mining expert will arrive at Fer
TO in a few days to test the advisable
ty of sinking several shafts to about
1000 feet depth. This will be done to
locate the sulphide ore which Is
thought to underly the present work
ings. and will be an important acqui-
sition after the construction of the
new smelter.
Work on the new smelter to be con-
structed in the Burro mountains, Grant
county, will be commenced as soon as
the site is selected. Mr.. Laughlin, of
the firm of Cross & Laughlin, st.
Louis, manufacturers of smelling fur
ndCtS, WHO TeCeutly optut al
weeks in examining the district, will
return shortly Inc a Cotton plant will
be erected.
AL. Quinley. of Las Vegas, has re-
ceived a letter from w. E. Newman,
who was formerly employed with b.. F.
Forsythe. saying that he had organ
lied a mining company in Salt Lake
and left with 100 pack mules for the
Thunder mountains, where they claim
they can "pick up gold by the hand
full" His friends at Las Vegas feel
quite envious.
The meeting at Tecolote Saturday,
for the purpose of coming to some de-
cision regarding the survey of the
Tecolote grant, for the purpose of get.
ting a patent from the government,
was we'll attended. The following com
mittee was appointed to attend to the
survey: Jose LobatO, Miguel Esqui-
bel, Jose Andres Salazar, Jose Aten-
clio, Jesus Montoya, Eugenio Griego,
Octaviano Maestas, Albino SalaZar
and Ambrosia Archuleta.
Charles NJ. Shannon returned to
Lordsburg from a trip down into Mex
leo, where he had been to look at a
silver mine. He found one of the Mex
lean mines, worked in the old Mexican
fashion, where the ore was brought
out of the mine by poems on their
back. The ladders were notched logs
and the tunnels through which they
had to travel were so small they had
to travel on their knees for rods at a
time. If Mr.. Shannon had been raised
a Methodist instead OF a Missourian
he could have gone through the mine
much easier.
w. w. Dorland, president of the
Michigan-New Mexico Copper com
pany operating in the Shakespeare dis
trict, left Lordsburg for the east. Mr..
Dorland and other officials of the COM
pany nave been there the past week in
conference with A. r. Gibson, presi-
dent of the American Consolidated
Copper company. These companies
are now able to produce 200 tons OF
ore per day. The Michigan-New Mex
leo people have entered into an ar
rangement whereby their product will