Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-27
Mines and

A Russian "pood" of gold is s10,-
900.
The average California loss of quick
silver is about one pound to every fifty
tons of ore.
The force in the mine and mill at
Albemarle has been reduced consider
ably. 1t will be but temporary.
Mining in the Cochiti district will be
attracting attention from all parts of
the country before many weeks are
past.
John Sewer, for sometime past m
ployed as assayer for the company at
Albemarle, has left for San Diego,
Cal.
Limestone is a mineral within the
meaning of the United States mining
law, and may be located and patented
as a mining claim.
The Golden Fleece mine tunnel, near
Lake City, Colo, is lighted by electric
ity, in~candescent lamps being set 100
feet apart through its entire length.
The first gold mine in the United
States is stated to have been the Bar
ringer, Stanley county, North Caro-
lima. a placer mine that later paid as a
quartz claim.
A mining location made by agent
without actually going on the claim
to post the notice is legal. If signed
by the locator, an agent can post it on
the claim and witness the posting.
Frank PAYERS, owner of the Worlds
Fair mine, telegraphs the Tucson Star
that he has not sold that mine, as was
reported some time ago. The report
was in general circulation that the
mine had passed into the hands of
John Brockman for a consideration OF
$500, 900.
The Michigan-New Mexico Copper
company is getting out some fine cop
per ore from it's properties in the Bur-
ros and Lordsburg mining districts in
Grant county. In the Virginia district
property the ore runs Is per cent cop
per and in the Burros district IL per
cent copper, with a few dollars worth
of gold and silver per ton in both.
Lambert G. Peterson have returned
to Cooney, Socorro county, from their
tellurium gold prospect on the Little
Dry creek and have resumed work On
the Iron group on the Whitewater
slope. A cross cut at the bottom of a
seventy foot shaft, sunk at the juno
ton of the Iron Crown and Iron Bar
veins, shows a width Of mineral for
seventeen feet which will average 500
to the ton.
A number of mining capitalists and
brokers have visited Lake Valley the
last week. Among them was Mr.. JEFF
fries, a mining man and expert from
Leadville, Colo; Mr.. Mullen, a bank
err from Colorado Springs, and Mr..
Dale, a mining man of vast experience
and who is backed by unlimited cap
ital. They left Lake Valley on Friday
for Ell Paso and expect to return with.
in the next thirty days and commence
operations on property adjoining the
Mines company.
The White Oaks Eagle says that the
mining situation at Estey City is i'm.
proving right along. The Estey City
Milling company has something like
1000 tons of gold ore on the dump
awaiting the completion of their reduc
ton plant. and Just recently the com
pany opened a thirty foot vein which
which gives every promise of perma'
nency. There are many leads near the
surface containing pay ore in large
quantities, and the company has adopt
ed the contract plan in mining this
surface ore. Other work in the camp
is being vigorously pushed, and the
outlook for 1902 is indeed bright.
The Herald says: Bland, like most
other mining camps, experiences per
iods of comparative d~ullness. But these
spells are merely temporary and often
come to manufacturing and CONNER
cial cities as well. The future of Bland
as one of the leading mining towns OF
the southwest is assured, for the
money already expended in develop
ing and prospecting its vast ore bodies
the machinery that has gone into the
mills, and the large expenditures made
for the thorough exploiting of its min
eral wealth are assurances that the
camp is not one built by a temporary
boom, to be forgotten as soon as rich
er ore deposits are discovered else
where.