The copper era., 1903-12-24

NEW MEXICO NEWS


proved Luc survey or the san Jose De Serita grant Of j,I23 acres in Arizona. The April session Of the court will be held at Phoenix to finally consider the san Rafael De La Zanza grant. con- sistiRg Of I7,47I acres, in which q court order was entered today to have the surveyor general Of Arizona to ap- prove the survey in time for the April meeting.
 The examination Of Jake Mccain. charged with dynamiting the Rodeo water tank, was held before Judge McGrath Monday. The railroad com pany sent Col Herring here from Tue son, to prosecute the case, and A. x. White, of Silver City, defended Me Cain. There was practically no cvi. dence in the case, except Mccain ha z said he blew up the tank. and there was clear alibi proven. Col. Herring wanted to be sure the alibi was honest. and he examined the witness thor oughly. and before he got through he had Mccain pretty we'll scared up. The judge lirLlly discharge him, and lake says he will never again own up to being dynamitcr, nor even a train rUbber. Some folks are too willing to believe him.-Liberal
 The enforcement Of the Sunday law at SOcOrrO shows that Judge Pope means business. He had the saloon keepers before him at the open ing of the present term of court and sentenced them to q fine and imprisOn- mcnt for fifteen days for violation Of the Sunday Jaw. He suspended the imprisonment portion Of the sentence during the good behavior Of the men. Last Sunday the judge took walk around town, and thought one Of the saloons was doing business. The judge tried to walk in with the other people, but the saloon keeper informed him that it was his private office. The next morning the saloon keeper was sent to jail to serve the fifteen days that had been suspended The saloon men will learn that Judge Pope is not to bc fooled with.-Libcral.
 The New Mexico school of Mines at Socorro announces the discovery of radium in the mountains near that place The ore, which experiments in the laboratory Of the school have shown to carry q good per cent. of the valuable and rare mineral, contains uranium to the amount of 55 per cent.
 
 tinium and pollonium, both of which possess high activity. The school i: not conducting d series of expert ments to determine the value Of tn, orc and the per cent. of radium car ricd. President Keys believes tha his discovery will prove of great value d. there are large quantities of tn, orc in sight. The discovery wa made through the interest of an old time prospector in an ore which h, had never seen before, and which h, brought to Dr. Keys for analysis.
 Prof. A. r. Jones gathered tn, statistics of the production of ores an( metals in the territory for the yea
 
 ated, in the governors annual report d synopsis of which has just beel given out. From 1t the following fig urc7 are gathered. which show that q: q mineral producer Grant county leads the territory: The aggregat, production Of gold, silver. copper ant lead was valued at $l 4S9,Ol6. Tn, total production of ore in the territOr, amounted to l33, 353 tons. or thi amount Grant county produced 55, III tons, and no other county produced To, GOO tons. The gold production wa S25l, ,2D5 from lo5e mines and Sl30, IS, from placer mines, q total of s3SI, 6Sj. The gold production from lode mines by counties was as follows: Grant SIS, ,7lO; Lincoln, S5O,6O7; Bernalillo Sill SOcorro. SIP, 0j6; Sierra, S2l |. 705; Santa Fc, $6,Sll; ColfaX. S3. .552 Dona Ana. S3. 100; Otcro, S3, loo; Ri, Arriba, SIP. From placer mines tn, gold production by counties was: Col fax, SllT.6SO; Sierra, $5.95o; Grant S3,665; santa te, $2,l45; Lincoln, s55O Otcro S215; Rio Arriba, Sll5; Taos Sl00. Most Of the placer gold pro duced in ColfaN was by the big or dredging company near EIizabethtown which produced 2S.s per cent. Of al the gold produced in New Mexico il l9l2. In the production of silver Socorro county led with s75 O73, Gran was second with S25.l25. No othe cosuty produced as much as s2O, ,O0O In copper Grant county lead the terri tory. The value of the copper pro duction of this county being nor than hal' of the value of all the min cral produced in the territory, an, amounting to $793,OlS. No othe county produced as much as $50 0O worth of the red metal In lea SJcorro was first with a production O Sl3. .4S9. Luna second with S2S, 265, an Gran: third with SlS,l62 No othe county produced as much d. S5.O0 worth of this metal. Of the $l.4Sl, OI6, the total value of the four mir erals produced in the territory, S9lS 6g was the value of the minerals pro duced in Grant county. Prof. Joue gathered DO statistics regarding tn value of the iron and coal produced the terr itory.
 IL is claimed that ;t costs $50. 900 pc season u run the big placer dredge or