Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-03-21
MINING MATTERS.
News About the Great Indastry OF thls
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4 nne showing IN a claim out there,
and will doa good deal Of develop
ment on 10.
There are indications OF quite 4
mining excitement around Duncan.
Ia one day the LIBERAL received
orders from two different men in that
town for a dollars worth OF location
n0tlcies, Experts have figured out
that II properly disposed Of a dollars
worth OF location noticles will locaue
eleven million dollars worth Of mines.
@. w. Maxson came down frem
STEMS pass Monday to take IN the St.
Patrick DAYS ball, and spent a couple
OF days 10 town. He reports that
affairs In the east are progressing
satisfactorily, and anticipates thatthe
coming summer will see a complete
renovation Of that camp. More work
will probably be done there next sum
mer than during any summer 10 its
history.
T. ]. Davis expects the inventor
and builder OF the Vulcan furnace in
town almost any day, 20 give the fur.
mace a trial run. The furnace was
sold on the guarantee that it would
smelt s~evenJy.Hve tons Of material
daily, and the company has been uu
able TO get that mu;h material
through IL. Before making the guar.
auCee good the builder wants u have
y chance TO see II the furnace will do
the work.
A prospectus has been issued OF the
proposed American mining company,
of which Thos. A. Lister, OF Williams.
port, Pa, is president and treasurer.
The capital stock OF the proposed
company Will be 900, 900 shares, with a
par value OF two dollars per share.
The company expects to acquire, de-
velop and work the Peg Leg, Gladi-
atOr, Sub Rosa, Horn Silver, Billy Boy,
and Cobra Negra claims In the Vir-
ginia district. These claims all have
a ane showing, aud undoubtedly Will
develop into large properties.
The Lena mining cOmpany's tFac-
tien engine arrived last Saturday and
! Sunday Professor Carrera had steam
up, aud gave a number Of his friends
a ride. Monday the engine was
thoroughly overhauled, and Tuesday
morning started for the Miser's Chest
after a load of ore. Roads had been
built for the engine, but they had not
packed down hard, and considerable
trouble was experienced in getting the
machine through. and once or twice 1t
was zeal heing ditched. More work
will be done on the roads, and when
they are got into shape Professor
Carrera expects no further trouble
with the transportation question.
MeSsrs. Wright and Endicott Co me 10
from their prospect 10 the hig BurrOs,
and they think they have got a good
thing. There is a we'll defined ledge,
which They have traced from the can.
yun Over a hill, and at the top III the
hill 1t Is mere than six hundred feet
above the 1uOr OF the canyon. Where
ever they have sampled this ledge
they have got gold values. There Is
graphite in abundance, and the
peculiar thing is that this graphite
ASSAYS alb lut sixteen dollars in gold.
At 1rst they thought they had a big
thing in the graphite, but when they
found that the market quotations for
pulverized' graphite in the ea>tern
markets we're thirty dollars u ton they
concluded that the graphite was not a
bonanza.
Jim Lee, often called irish, the
Chinese restaurant man, who ran an
eating emporium in L Irdsburg for
many years, whose place was burned
nut about a year ago, has been In
| Stems Pass for snme time, acting as
chef for the Mineral Mountain en-
plnyeS. jim l. not kept nusV all the
time doing his work, and has taken
to prospecting. He has a way OF DIS
appearing from the boarding house,
and M one knows where he gne'
Recently he showed some specimens
Of high grade ore, and said he had Y I
about three feet Of that materiaI
The miners wanted To knnw where II
was. 50 they could Rn and see it, mt
jim will tell them nnthing ahnu' the
location. ConddentisllY he told
Superintendent Maxsun. Of the Miner
al Mountain company, that he thought
IL Was IN tue company ground. Ii ht
found II vas not on the company
ground he was going tO have II located
and would get rich Cd 1t II IL proves
to be on the company ground thu
company has got to pay him BIZ
money, or be will not tell him wher,
1t is. He keeps it COVERED up, no tn
p~rospectors will not and IT,. II jim
should make a million be would spen'
|. II like a sport.
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