Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-03-24
AGGRESSIVE DEVELOP
MENT in THE BROMIDE
MINING DISTRICT
Although an Unusually Heavy Snowfall This Win
ter Caused Number of Properties to Shut
Down Yet Every Miner in the Camp is En-.
pIoyed and More Can Be Used
PUSHING AHEAD ON THE TAMPA
THE STRAWBERRY. THE SARDINE.
CONTINENTAL AND OTHER MINES

With the advent OF spring, develop
ment work has been commenced in tn
Bromide mining district, of Rio Arrib
county, in this territory, with a vir
and vigor which bids fair to make goo
the prediction made through these col
ums some time since that the coming
the annals of the Bromide district il
the way of development of its ricl
mineral resources. At the present tim
there is not an idle miner in the camp
several of the companies now at worl
on their properties being s1ort-handed
and men are being put to work as fas
as they can be secured. The past win
ter has been about the worst in the
records of the camp, so far as heavy
snowfall is concerned. The roads, with
the exception of two or three of the
badly blocked and rendered impossible
for nearly the entire winter, which has
had the effect Of causing several prop
critics to shut down and others to re-
frain from beginning projected work
which, now that the snow is rapidly
disappearing under the influence OF
clear sunny days, will be begun with
out delay.
This summer will see several new pro-
ducers, the foremost of which is likely
to be the Tampa, as the ''big strike"
made on this property last fall has
been followed up by continuous devel-
opment through the winter and is now
proven to be permanent ore body with
uniformly high values. At the present
time work is being pushed night and
day with two shifts sinking in the
shaft and also drifting on the vein at
the 100 foot level opening up ground for
stoping ore for shipment this summer.
Within a short time the $50 foot level
will be reached in the shaft and while
sinking will be continued below that
point, a cross-cut will also be run to
the vein from that level and the stop
ing continued on there. The Tusas
Peak Gold and Copper Mining Com
pany, of Manistee, Mich, the owner of
this property, is showing itself to
be the proper sort to open up a mine,
as since work was first begun on this
property last June, it has never ceased
for day. At the so foot level cross
cut from the shaft to the vein opened
UP a good body Of ore of high enough
grade to bear expense of shipment, ana
the company at once continued work in
sinking and at the same time ordered
and installed fine plant OF. modern
steam hosting machinery and contin-
ued pushing the work without a halt.
It is the intention Of the company to be-
gin the building of a modern milling
plant with matte smelter for treating
it's ores, construction of which VIII
begin this summer, and for that pur-
pose has acquired a former ranch on
the Las Tusas Creek, favorably located
as regards handling the ore ana Wen
situated as regards water, roads and all
essentials for milling and smelling its
products.
The st. Michaers Mining and Refin-
ing Company has begun work on lts
sardine shaft where it lately installed
a complete plant of steam hoisting ma
chinery with Cameron pumps to nan
die the heavy flow of water 1t Is en-
At present it has two shifts
at work sinking in the shaft following
the ore AMI will put on three shirts as
soon as men can be obtained. 1t IS the
intention of the company to continue
The shaft to the 200 foot level. at which
point, il not sooner, it is expected that
the oxidized ores will give place TO
the sulphides and SO lessen the cost2ol
and allow of shipment OF ore
to the Pueblo smelters, pending sum-
cient development to warrant the buiid-
ing Of its own mills.
On the War Eagle, owned ny the
Mexican King Mining Company, OF
Milwaukee, Wis, work is being pushed
day and night sinking in the shaft, as
a four foot vein on the contact between
gabbro and granite which was shown
in a cross-cut higher up, will be open
ed at about the 100 foot level and the
company is pushing things as fast as
noss,ble in order to reach this ore and
onen IN the vein SO as to permit ship
ments being made to the smelters this
summer if possible.
contract has been recently let on
tho payroll, owned by the Keystone
Mining Company, for 100 feet of cross
cutting at the $50 foot level OF the in
clined shaft which was finished last
fall. This cross-cut should definitely
determine the value of this property as
a mine, and it is to be hoped that the
results will be as favorable as the man
agement expects, as much money anu
labor have been expended in the effort
to find and open hitherto bafhing VEN
Of sulphides supposed to run through
this property.
Work will be begun on the old Bro
mile within 30 days, as the question OF
rights between the rival lessees mas
been finally decided and work will be-
gin in earnest this spring and carried
on without further hindrance. This