Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-05-11
MINING WORLD
IS ACTIVE
Understood the Lake alley
Silver Mines Will
Change Hands.
THE SANTA ROSA OIL FIELD
Wild Story Sent Out About the
Mines in Grant County Be-
ing Unworkable Because
Of Heat.

pleted arrangements to work the Hap
py Jack mine and the company ha
leased the Philadelphia Mining ant
Milling Company's mill at Andrews
Sierra county. for the purpose of treat
ing the ore. e. ]. Fender has charge
of the work of putting the mill in or
der.
James and Saucier are moving th'
old Wing saw mill from near Hills
boro to Poverty Greek in Sierra coun
ty, where it will be set up on the Min
nehaha mine.
| All active development work in the
oil field around Santa Rosa, Leonard
Wood county, has ceased. except by
| the, o. X. Crude Oil Company. This
company is down $50 feet and is maxi
ing very slow progress in drilling as il
experiences considerable trouble in
getting the machinery out of the well
and replacing worn out or lost parts
Work has been suspended on the New
man and the machinery will be used in
drilling another well by another COM
pany, a mile distant from the Newman
well. Other companies are holding off
to let the o. X. Company explore the
field.
From Arizona was telegraphed re-
Gently the item that the mines al
Steeple Rock, Grant county, have be-
come unworkable on account of heat
manifestations. 1t was reported that
in one mine at a depth of 1S0 feet the
heat is so intense as to prevent de-
velopment work. Alexander White Is
reported to have drilled an Is inch
hole out of which gas and steam rose
in such quantities that he had to
abandon the work. In other mines at
the depth of 300 to 400 feet the heat is
not so great but still unbearable. The
old mines with deep workings, he said
are full of water which is quite hot
whereas it was cold formerly. He also
reported that the mill of the Old Stee-
pie Rock Company is being torn down
and moved to Malone, in the southern
part of the Burro mountains where 1t
will be set up and run on gold ore.
Sanford Robinson, superintendent or
the Steeple Rock Development Com
pany, makes an emphatic denial of the
story which was given quite an exteh"
siye circulation. There is no mine in
the entire district in which it is not
possible to work, excepting the OLD
Carlisle mine which is full of water.
The Steeple Rock mill is not being re"
moved to Malone. Part of the machin-
cry has been sold to the international
Mining Company and has been remov-
ed to the camp at Malone but the mill
itself has not been torn down but still
contains plenty of machinery to oper-
ate it.
The low charge for treatment which
the American Consolidated Copper
Company has received from it's proper
ties in the Burros, Grant county, from
the Ell Paso Smelling Company, is re-
sulting in many carloads of ore being
shipped to Ell Paso.
The North American Mining Com
pany operating near Lordsburg, Grant
county, has encountered four feet OF
good ore at the bottom of a 175 foot
shaft. The value of the ore makes 1t
a paying shipping proposition.
Work on the Ration oil we'll Is pro-
ceeding night and day and depth Oh
600 feet has been reached. The well IS
almost filled with water and there Is
considerable pressure Of gas. When
lighted it flames up to a height of sew
eral feet. Heretofore the necessary wa
ter has been hauled by team from the
stream nearby, but a steam pump has
been received and water will now De
obtained from a we'll which was drill
ed for the purpose, few feet from
the oil we'll.
e. C. Maroney has sold his interest In
the Tarantula mine in the Burros to
Charles Morrill, who with w. b. way
land, the other part owner, has COM
menced sinking on the shaft. very
good ore has been encountered and the
Tarantula seems certainly to be devel-
oping into paying proposition.
An Albuquerque company is pushing
work on the c. and c. mine in the San
Pedro district, southern Santa Fe coun.
ty. The mine adjoins the Lincoln Luc-
XIV. The company has purchased new
boiler, hoist and pumping plant and
will thus master the flow of water
which was struck at depth of 25C
feet. At this depth the ore" changed
from a lead to a gold proposition.
There is already a gasoline engine and
hoist at the mine and this will be sup
plemented by a steam engine and mod
ern pumping plant.
John Hayes Hammond has paid an
other visit to the Lake Valley silver
mines in Sierra county and it is UNDER
stood that the Guggenheims intend to
purchase these famous properties
which have been idle for some years, as
we'll as a group of silver mines at
Kingston in the same county.
The mining camp of Estey City, So
corro county, which was founded with