Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-02-04

/ shaft and has cross-cut to their vein
again at the 100 foot level, thus block
| ing out their ore to the 50 foot stope,
| and the extension of the shaft which is
now being carried on will open new
stopping ground at the $50 foot level be-
fore spring opens, when breaking of ore
will be begun and regular shipments to
the Pueblo smeters made.
| Very near to this property lies the
| War Eagle, owned by the Mexican King
Company, and on which they are sink
| ing the shaft so feet further in order to
| get below the contact vein opened up
| last summer. This vein is about four
| feet in th,lying between quartzite
granite and a hornblende gabbro, and
averaging across the vein $50 per ton in
gold and copper. AS soon as the pre-
| lminary opening work is done at the
bottom of this shaft, they will begin
shipping ore.
The Lady Gay group, lying higher up
! on Tusas Peak is also receiving its
share of comment because Of the good
character of ore which was found there
early in December At present the
snow prevents work being started
there, but the owners will begin devel-
opment on this property as soon as is
possible in the spring.
On the Strawberry group work has
been steadily proceeding on the cross
cut being run from the 100 foot level to
intersect the sugar-quartz vein, which
lies just about 200 feet away from the
shaft With this opened up, they will
have double -barreled" mine, mas
much as their shaft is located on a
good vein of copper ore, and the sugar.
quartz is a wide vein of low grade free
milling gold ore.
The Last Hope, which is owned by
private parties, is also showing new
aspect, as there the shaft is sunk on a
three foot vein of copper sulphide ore,
varying in values from $40 to 800 to
the ton. Cross-cutting was done at the
100 foot level to find the hanging wall of
this vein, and which, when passed,
gave way to a quartz-schist, which
gave mill run returns by the cyanide
process of s112O per ton, assaying s12.SO
in gold for the entire II feet exposed in
this cross-cut at the present time: Nat
uraly the owners are pushing the work
on this cross-cut; and will when the
entire vein is cut, begin sinking again
to block out the ore and later erect
mill to handle the ore.
The ST. Michaes Mining Company
has just finished setting up it's new
plant of machinery on the Rusty Bucket
shaft and which consists Of an So
horse power boiler, 6-S hoisting engine
and q Cameron pump of large capacity.
AS soon as the installation is complete
they will begin sinking in the shaft and
to the 200 foot level, Where they plan to
run drifts on their two veins and open
them up for stopping. They have been
badly handicapped with this machinery
by the unusually heavy snowfall this
winter. Normally the winters are not
at all severe in the Bromide district,
and work has never been interferred
with in the camp by the weather, but
this winter is one of the worst known in
years, the snow being two and three
feet on the level and badly drifted,
whereas in ordinary years the ground
is bare most of the winter This tends
to retard work on many of the new
properties which are not equipped with
shaft houses and cabins for the accom-
mediation of the miners, but with the
| return of warmer weather in the spring
every property in the camp will be
working and decisive results will be
| reached on many of them before the
present year is passed.