Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-05-22
MINES AND MINING
IN NEW MEXICO
Black Mountain District in Dona Ana County Is
Again Beginning to Attract the Attention
Of Capitalists and Promises to be
Good Producer.
The WILDCAT AND CLIFTON PROPERTIES
At SANTA RITA CAMP ARE TO RESUME

Clearwater is down s. or 70 feet, ant
the drift 20 TT. from the surface is in ma
tive copper. A whim has been Install
ed and a large ore chute completed.
total of three shafts are being sunk or
the group.
w. p. Dorsey and Others operating
at Dorsey's camp, 1s miles from Lords
burg, Grant county, nave opened 6
, body of ore on one of their propertie.
which runs s11 gold and 254 ounces sill.
yer to the ton.
The Gibson Development Company
has let the contract for 100-foot shaft
on it's San Simon group, near Lords
burg.
The Hoosier Milling Company has
agreed to build 500-ton concentration
at Lordsburg. provided that sufficient
tonnage will be guaranteed b. L.
Berkey of the b. L. Berkey Machinery
Company Of FL Paso. is promoting the
enterprise
| There is much activity in Gold Gulch,
| five miles from Santa Rita, and good
| sized mining boom Is under way. A
| big streak of high grade gold ore was
uncovered in the Owl claim, owned by
A. A. Hamilton. and the first car of ore
shipped out ran $50 per ton. H. Finch
and others Of Colorado, bonded the
property for 100000 and are taking, out
and shipping ore which they are conf
dent will realize upward of s75 per ton
A dispatch from Chicago announces
that the Wild Cat and Clifton copper
properties at Santa Rita will soon be
worked again, and the 100ton concen-
traitor of the Clifton Copper Company
which has been shut down for some
time, will be started very soon.
The daily shipments of iron and cop
per ore from Santa Rita, FIerro and
tributary camps, aggregate 25 to 30
cars.
j. E. Rhim, superintendent of the
Corona Gold and Copper Company of
Ell Paso and Kansas City, has secured
for the company the Little Gem and
st. Josephine properties in Gold Gulch.
This company has twelve claims In this
district, but in the ensuing two months
most of their work will be concentrated
on the Gold Gulch properties, although
development will he prosecuted on their
groups Of copper properties adjoining
the holdings Of the Santa Rita Mining
Company. The ore body on the st. Jo-
sephine Is more than ten feet wide and
assays of the ore show from $40 to SIS
gold per ton. A picked sample run
$1O6.
The gold and silver mill at Volcano
camp, near Lordsburg, will commence
operations on June 1. Shipments OF
lead and iron ore from Granite Gap to
Ell Paso will be shortly resumed.
The operations Of the Wilson Mining
and Milling Company, about eight
miles from STEMS Pass, Grant county,
gives promise of becoming permanent,
and although new, everything is run
ming smoothly. A new 12O-horse power
engine and two boilers have been sub
stituted for the three gasoline engines
formerly used in the 10-stamp mill and
which proved unsuccessful. The shaft
in the mine Is down 1926 feet with levels
every 100 feet, and the ore values are
Recent assays showed $50
ounces in silver and $50 In gold. The
mill has a daily capacity of 25 tons.
Owing to the heavy increase in the
output of ore Of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company at F'ierro, Grant county,
a new train has been added on the
Santa Fe railway, the crew being the
one which runs between Denling and
Silver City. This makes two freight
trains a day for Fierro.
The Cooney mine, located in Socorro
county, has closed down temporarily
on account of the high freight rates to
Aguas Calientes, Mexico, that being
the nearest smelter since the Ell Paso
plant cannot take care Of the ore.
Professor F. A. Jones, formerly direc-
tor of the School of Mines at Socorro, is
making geological survey Of Grant
county and is enthusiastic regarding
The future of the district from a mining
A comparatively new mining district,
known as the Black Mountain district
Is located 20 miles east of Las Cruces,
Or about midway between the lines OF
The Santa Fe and El Paso and Rock Is
land line. The new camp is ideal IN
many respects. 1t has an excellent cl1-
mate, water is there in abundance and
can be had by boring but a few feer.
There Is plenty of available ground
much still open for location, and what
IS more important, there are wonderful
mineral indications. besides free mill
ing ore that Is being already disclosed.
The Ell Paso smelter within a compar-
ative short distance, will take care OF r
Ill the ore produced until such time as :
! smelter is built at the camp. In addi-
ion to the gold, there Is to be found
cad, copper and iron. Iron deposlts i
1ave been found which are so feet wide
md which carry 20 to 45 per cent iron. i
rhere is both hematite and metallic !
ron. The nearest settlement Is Organ. !
Black Mountain camp Is bounded on
.hree sides by mountains. those to the
north rising some 1000 feet above the
Black Mountain valley. The mineral
lrea Is Is miles wide and 40 miles long.
rhe formation Of the mountainous area
8 q limestone traversed by strong por- ,
,hyry veins. In the valley the forma- !
ion is granite. showing traversing 1t
trong porphyry dykes. and the whole /,
. a net work Of strong veins. The
dormon claim has been developed to a
lepth Of $50 feet and about $4,000 .