Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-08-09
GRANT COUNTY
ON GREAT BOON
A Steady Develop
ment of Mineral
Resources.
MANY FACTS BY EDITOR BUSH
Great Activity in Mining and
Business Circles---Silver
City Prosperous.

Frederick A. Bush, editor and mana
ger of the Silver City Enterprise, was
a sojourner in Santa Fe Monday and
Tuesday on newspaper business. He
also desired to make visit to the
Capital and renew old acquaintances
Mr. Bush made very good impress
sion on those whom he met and was
well pleased with his stay here. The
Enterprise is one of the most infiuen-
.tial weekly newspapers in the Sun
shine Territory, ably and cleanly con-
Quoted, bright and newsy. Mr.. Bush
is 20 years of age, a native of Indiana
and received liberal education in
the public and high schools of his
state and took a course at the State
University at Bloomington. He came
to New Mexico eight years ago for
the benefit of his health and engaged
in newspaper business. For time
he worked in the Duke City and five
years ago made Silver City his per-
manent home. AT that time, he pur-
chased the Silver City Enterprise, the
oldest established paper in Grant
County and has conducted it ever
since. He has made success of the
journalistic venture. Mr.. Bush is we'll
posted on social, political and busi-
ness conditions in his home county
and his views thereon are as follows.
Silver City is prospering as she
never has before, although the town
has seen some mighty prosperous days
in her thirty-five years of existence
The town Is fast laying claim to the
distinction of being "City of Home
builders" as we'll as a "Silyer City
with Golden Climate" A number
Of wealthy health-seekers with their
families, have become so enamored of
the climate, that they have decided to
locate permanently in the town and to
this end are having handsome homes
built for their permanent abodes.
Then the permanent residents of the
town, business, professional and labor
ing classes have caught the building
fever and the result is seen in dozens
OF new cottages going up in all parts
of the city--substantial brick cottages
costing from $4,000 to $4,000 each. Sew
eral large business blocks have been
recently completed and others are in
course OF construction, including the
new Elks' hall and opera house which
will cost $4,000 and will fill an Zach
ing void" in the social life of the
| town.
Boom in Burro Mountain District.
THE BurrO Mountains continue to
draw prospective investors and there
is hardly foot of ground in the en-
tire district that Is not covered by a
location notice. Several sales of
mining properties at good figures have
been made recently and the compa.
MES taking hold of them are actively
prosecuting development work. Among
the largest and wealthiest of these is
the Tyrone Development Company
commonly referred to as the
Briggs Oliver Company, which is
developing the Burro Chief group OF
claims, recently purchased from
Captain T. s. Parker. They are EN-
ploying scores of men in their devel
opment work, the hills in the vicinity
of the Parker homestead, being literal
ly alive with workers and they are
fairly burrowing that part of the dis
trict in a manner never before at
tempted in the Burro Mountains. Cal
loads of mining timbers and hoisting
machinery are arriving daily for the
company and if they do not make II
win out, it will not be for lack oi
systematic and intelligently directed
development work. However, it is un
derstood they have several large
bodies of copper ore in sight, so then
success seems assured.
The BlrrO Mountain Copper Com
pany has recently increased the
capacity of their concentrator to three
hundred tons daily. Leopold is tht
name of this company's camp and Il
has a population conservatively esti
mated at one Thousand. | was our
there recently and for a modern, VI
to date mining camp, commend mt
to The Leopold 1t has water works
I electric lights and other conveniences
which the miner of Bret Harte's day
would have scorned, but which tht
modern miner takes as a part of hi.
daily wages. Not far from Leopold
the Comanche Mining and Smelling Co
the Merrits of Duluth, and the Bent
leys of Milwaukee, are actively engag
ed in developing their respective prop
critics and at each place large force.
of men are employed. The Comanch,
Company Is engaged in driving tun
mel nearly mile long, to connect
their four shafts and which will eros!
cut the veins in that district, openin.
up new and numerous bodies of Low
grade ore. Well informed mining mel
who have followed the trend of event
Of what are now large mining centers
say that all signs point to the Burr
Mountains as a second Warren dis
( trict, and declare there will be tel
thousand people in the district insid,
, Of five or six years. This may be ey
aggerated to some extent but 1t vii
be we'll for you to keep your eye o.
that section Of New Mexico.