Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-12-06
BIG SHIPMENTS OF
ORE FROM RICH
LAURA NINE
Colorado Fuel and Iron viii
Continue to Mine at Union
HlII--NewS of Grant County
Mineral District.

notwithstanding the copper situa-
ton and the general financial depres-
SION. the sound of prosperity is still
heard in all parts of the Grant county
mining district. The Silver City hide
pendent has the following.
Steeple Rock.
Since the last report of the rich
strike at the Laura mine shipments
have continued steadily without inter.
ruption, with ten wagons of SKIES con-
stantiy employed in hauling the ore
to Duncan. In fact, were it not that
the management is afraid of the ella
river rising, as it does at this time of
the year, and there being no bridge to
cross, they would put on twice the
of teams. They have had one
experience of having to dump the ore
all on the ground for ten days and
hen reload when the river went
down.
The ore is now being shipped to the
Copper Queen Consolidated
Douglas, as the Shannon had twelve
carloads standing OF the iding of
Laura ore alone awaiting treatment.
The management is shipping all the
ore just as il comes from the mine
without asserting. The vein is twelve
and one-half feet wide in the bottom
of the shaft. There are five stations
now cut In the mine, and in drifting
to the south another of the very rich
ore shoot has been uncovered.
The mine has a chance of becoming
a big onanz as there is a vein thirty
rect wide on the surface, lying fifty
feet west of the Laura vein. which
dips towards it, and it is believed they
viii come together or cross one an
other between the 300 and 400-foot
levels. This vein shows the same
characteristics as the Laura vein on
the surface, but is much larger,
The EOnnpr Oman Cp,aIfarg ha.so
agreed to take up to ninty tons per
day for converter Innings. They pay
a premium for the silicious contents
of the ore, as 1t averages about 80 per
cent silica, M they state that the
Steeple Rock ores are the best they
a get for this purpose.
Los Angeles syndicates have recent
ly combined and have started work on
the Pinon II other claims. They
have put on about ten men to start
with and have let a contract for sink
ing a 100-foot shaft.
Many of the old-time miners of
Carlisle n Steeple Rock are return
ing to their old love.
IL is rumored that there are two
mills projected for this district in the
near future. ~Prospectors and mine
owners are paying particular atten-
ton to their assessment work, also n
number of outside owners are return
ing to see their work done in person.
The Twin Peaks Mining and Mill
ing company is keeping a force of ten
men sinking their main shaft. They
are taking out first-class ore In this
work. Their secretary has just rec
turned from a very successful trip
from the east and they are making
plans for steady development. They
have recently installed a new sinking
pump and other machinery.
Three of the representatives of the
Copper Queen Consolidated Mining
company, of Douglas, were in camp
recently and went through the Laura
mine. According to their remarks in
Duncan the camp was a revelation to
them. They at once succeeded in get
ting lower railroad rates from Duncan
for the Steeple Rock ores.
Representatives of the Southern Pa
ciic from Tucson have also spent a
week with II. c. f. Spence looking
over the district.
Injunction Proceedings.
The injunction proceedings institute
cd by the Bessemer Copper Mines
company, of Fierro, against the Colo
RADIO Fuel N Iron company, We're
dismissed last Wednesday by Judge
Parker, before whom the ease WAS
tried. The Colorado Fuel and Iron
company had a lease on the Union
Win properties of the opposing COM
pany. The lease runs twenty years,
nine of which have elapsed, leaving a
balance of eleven years to run. Onc
of the stipulations of the lease Is that
ores running I've a certain per cent
of copper should not be mined as or
binary iron ore. II was alleged in the
suit that copper ore was being mined
and injunction proceedings began. on
hearing the case, the proceedings
were dismissed on technical grounds
and a compromise entered into salts
factory to all parties. The Colorado
Fuel and Iron company viii continue
mining iron ore for a period Of one
year on Union Hill and after that
time will anime their operations 10
the east side of Hanover GulCh, and
the Bessemer people VIII direct their
energies towards building a smeltcr
and developing the Union Hin prop
critics and show up what promises TO
become one of the largest copper