Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-03-07
SILVER CITY SHELTER
is TO SHUT DOWN
The Tumble in Copper and a Fall OF in the
Local Supply Of Ore Causes the SmsItsr
TO Suspend Operations for Time.
GREAT ACTIVITY IN MINING
At SANTA RITA AND OTHER POINTS

superintendent LEUcSC HARMS mas re-
ceived orders from headquarters In
New York to close down the Silver City
reduction works on April l. The 120
employees will receive their notice to
quit on March Is. The explanation CIV
en- for the indefinite shut down is the
adverse condition Of the copper market
and the closing down of the Pinos Altos
Gold Mining Company. The assurance
has been given that the shut down is
not permanent The smelter company
may r surne when the copper market
shotss snprosylments. Ttc 'tnseiter
company VIII <aaintain al agcfIcy at
Silver City to buy up ore for the El
.paso smelter. Mayor ]. w. Fleming Of
Sill, er City, is in correspondence with
Denver parties who are desirous of
erecting plant of 200 tons daily ca
pacity to treat the custom ores of the
surrounding camps and if this Industry
is secured, it will be an offset to the
shut down of the smelter.
The Santa Rita camp is gradually in
creasing it's output of ore. The Santa
Rita Mining Company is now averag-
ing shipments of more than two car
loads of high grade copper ore day.
Among the leasers, Jones, Dawson and
Burns average twelve cars per month
of IS per cent copper ore. They are
down 200 feet H. William Dawson has
fifteen men at work on his leases and
is shipping 25 per cent copper ore. l.. h.
Bartlett and Company employ five men
on their lease and ship three carloads
Of 80 per cent copper every month.
Charles S. Bell Is working eight men on
his lease and ships two cars of high
grade ore every month. Bayne, Port
wood and Moses are prosecuting on
the 2OO-foot level on their leases They
are taking high grade ore from the 15O-
foot level shipping about ten cars ev-
cry month. The shipments of two cars
per day made by the Santa Rita Min
ing Company come from the Carrasco
mine. Benigno and Pedro Ruis snip
two carloads a month from their
lease. l.. s. Osmer has a force of six
men on his lease. Fritter and Crawford
are working two leases. On one they
are sinking new shaft to depth OF
$50 feet. Ten men are at work. On
the other lease four men are employed.
A force of ten men is employed at
the concentrating plant at Santa Rita
which is handling 80 tons of ore every
day and is being run day and night.
Burns & Co. have twenty-five men
working on the Chino lease at Santa
Rita and are shipping ten cars of ore
per month.
On the Lee mine at Santa Rita, l.. s.
f s. Edwards has taken a; iettse N
the Nellie at Santa Rita and mas sunk
a fifty foot shaft. Last month he
shipped three carloads of ore averag-
ing 16 pen cent copper. The ore was
taken out near the surface.
L. D. Lugo who has lease near the
old reservoir at Santa Rita. is sink
Ing a shaft and struck a good sized
streak of high grade ore.
Charles P. Laughlin of st. Louis, has
taken bond and lease on eight copper
claims at Burro. Grant county, owned
by George Bell. IT is Laughlin's in
tention to erect sixty ton smelter fur
mace in the Burros for the treatment of
ore from the claims and also Of custom
ore.
An important copper ore discovery
has been made one and a half miles
| west of San Lorenzo, Grant county. w.
M Tavlor sunk a 25 foot shaft and re-
ceived returns Of 33 per cent copper and
some silver from the ore he struck,
About twenty claims have been staked
off