The copper era., 1905-06-01
NEW MEXICO NEVIS 2
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changed it's bed near ! las Crhces, IN. M., inundating many acres of land and leaving much oth fer property heretofore watered bS the/ canal without irrigation. Asf a new ditch three miles long must be built, the present crop is likely to be lost be- fore it can again be Matered.
 The latest news is that the Cole rado & Arizona railroad will com mence active work on its proposed line from Durango through San Juan county and through wes Stern Valencia and socorro counties ib this territory to connect with the( Southern Pacific in Arizona, a3rau~early date. It is ,beIeved by t1i lose well posted on the railroad situation that within the next eighteen months there will be another north and south line through the western portion of New Mexico, a section which is practically unde- velopeG and in reality but little known and sSarsely settled, but which has great possibilities, as it wmntains rich and extensive natural Psits, especially in the shape of
 which exists in almost inex- 5tible quEItities in southwestern ncia aHe northwestern Socorro ties. As the New Mexican has uently( remarked, there cannot Do much railroad building for the ing three years in New Mexico. oks now as if there will be a good done in that line and that by the of December, 1906, there will be
 thousand miles more railroad k in the Sunshine Territory"
 there is at present. The terri
 will take on new life during
 three years and new towns will 6g up and flourish in many places nd in many directions. This will, in some manner, change business Aconditions and may hurt some of the Alder communities, but it will be beneficial to the commonwealth as a Tno1e: New Mexico is all right Kew Mexican.
 [A L1lhALS OpC1dIAOI nIlCh lo dI- tracting considerable attention, ow- ng to the fact that it might be said 10 be the first extensive and sys- EematiC attempt at placer mining ver made in Grant county or south Tn New Mexico, is now almost ready or active work on Whitewater creek bout three miles southwest from the own of Central. The enterprise in . uestion has been inaugurated by the Detroit New Mexico Mining & Devel- opment company. For more than a year past, engineers have been at work making tests and examinations of the values to be found in White water creek, and being entirely con- vinced that the gold was there, the ! company proceeded to complete it's plans for the systematic handling and WorkiTg the Same, and there is now Approaching completion a awell equip ped and up-to-date plant for this pur- .ose. The plant, in a general way, insists of two eighty-horse power Aers and large centrifugal pump,
 SSe pipes leading from the
 Ahe. bed of the creek.
 es will be drawn
 Foe def
 eere the golSAwlll
 Hhe plant will have
 D6f $50 tons per day. A
 Szzle will be used to wash the
 rom the bed and sides of the
 D stump, from. which it will
 through the suction pipe
 -1uice boxes and separators.
 the values have been secured, Icy will be converted into bullion means of retorts and then ship Il. The results of the tests have wn that dirt running low as five its per cubic yard can be handled profit. Some of the values run high as $2 per cubic yard, and in- huch as all of the ground shows De and the large capacity of the ht be taken into consideration, it s Ks near a certainty as anything |can be, that the operation will prove prOHI&oiC OhC' IolhOC IhC ~NniCAl T can occupancy of this section, placer gold washing has been carried on a primitive way, and with success, in the bed of Whitewater creek. The gold has undoubtedly been washed into the water course from the ledge deposits of the Central pining dis trict, concluding the Santa Rita, Hanover, Fierro and Gold Gulch camps, the Assure veins supplying by decomposition and attrition the placer values found below.-Silver City Independent.
 MexicO'S Dividend Payers.
 Following is list of some of Mexi- co.'s dividend paying mines, and