Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-22
THE BROMIDE
MINING DISTRICT
Titles Being Settled. Active and Well Directed
Work is Progressing on the Bromide. Tampa,
War Eagle. Continental and Other Prop.
critics in the Camp.
COPPER. GOLD. SILVER AND
LEAD THE PRINCIPAL ORES

many feet of drifting and stoping il
the Bromide mine and a few twenty
to fifty foot shafts on neighborins
prospects, and on all of these the worl
was at that time only done in a hal
hearted fashion because of the uncer
tainty of title, while now, on the
contrary, there are thousands of feet
, of development and which is being ad
ded to constantly, while titles are as.
sured and perfect. Two mines may bt
taken to illustrate this differenee-the
Bromide, the oldest in the district, and
the Tampa, one of the youngest.
THE BROMIDE MINE.
The Bromide mine is situated near
the southern boundary of the camr
and lies in a belt of chloride schist
which marks the line of contact be-
tween the granite and quartzite in this
part of the camp. This contact with
its attendant schist extends the entire
length of the district in an easterly and
westerly direction and forms one. ,ot
the two principal mineral belts of the
district, the other being to the north ir
the vicinity of Tusas Peak and Cum
ningham Gulch, where the formation
is plutonic granite, diversified by por-
phyry and other intrusive dikes, and
in which the Tampa is located. In
addition to these two principal divi-
sions, there are numerous others lying
between them and in which the forma-
ton shows various types of metamor-
phlc rocks with a high degree of min
aralization, chief among which is the
so called sugar quartz" lead which
Is an enormous dixie, several hundred
feet in width and of undetermined
length, the whole of which runs from
four to ten dollars per ton in free mill
ing gold values.
SHAFT HOUSE BURNED.
The Bromide mine was opened about
1889 and for several successive years
was worked at a good profit for the
silver values it's ore contained. Being
just on the edge of the contested grant,
it was enabled to go ahead with it's
work with but comparatively little OPP
position from the grant claimants.
Shortly after this the company owning
it placed steam machinery on the mine
and operated it to good advantage, al
though more attention was paid to
getting out all the ore possible than to
ed handsome profit on it's silver con-
tents alone, as they received no pay
for the copper and gold which it carried
and during the four years which it was
operated the mine shipped many cars
of ore to the Pueblo and other smelters.
About 1884 the shaft house, containing
the hoist and boilers was burned, sup
posedly by sheep herders who very
much resented being deprived of good
grazing land by the miners; and the
low prices for silver prevailing at the
time offered but little inducement for
the owners to again open up the fight
with the adverse claimants, together
with the expense of new machinery
the property lay idle until 1901, when
lease on it was secured by the Ma
hama Leasing Company. of Creede,
Colo, who put in a new steam plant
and reopened the mine, which has oper-
ated with considerable profit to them
selves, due to the fact that the smelt-
ers now pay for the value of the gold
and copper contents of the ore as
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