Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-07
H|LLSB0RO TAKING
A NEW LEASE
OFF LIFE
BIG PROPERTIES BROUGHT
INTO LIST OF PRODUCERS
Sierra Consolidated Spending
Half a Million in Development
and Equipping Its Property
for Economic Mining,

| Especial Correspondence Morning Journal
HIllsboro. N. NJ. Sept. 5.-During the
past six months things have beeh
moving very satisfactorily In h min
ing camps surrounding Hillsboro ana
he famous old mining camp bids iair
very shortly TO return 70 all It's one
time prominence among the big pro-
ducing districts OF the southwest. The
Sierra Consolidated Mining company
| has had a good deal TO do with bring
ing hbout the new conditions. The
| company has been developing It's prop
| critics on an extensive scale and ex-
| pending large sums OF money in equip
| ping its mills with the most modern
machinery and It's property with every
| convenience for economic mining.
The new mill which Is now nearing
| completion will be one OF the finest in
| he southwest. II viii have a capacity
| II $50 tons per twelve hours run and
| will be operated throughout by cleo
| tricity. ten motors having been set up
n the plant, which are operated by
| f75-horse power generators. There are
| thirty stamps. ten Wiley tables and
he plant throughout is the most mod
I'm and the most efficient that money
sould buy. Every labor saving device
has been Installed and the whole prop
erty Is on a first class working basis.
boarding house has been built TO
accommodate 100 men, there is a
| Handsome residence for the use Of the
mine superintendent, while a new Of
flee building and store have also been
erected. At present some eighty men
are employed on the property. In
The Snake mine development Is being
pushed, the shaft being now at a
depth Of 600 feet. while the Eureka
and the Hilltop are also being devel-
Jped. J.. J. May. the mine supertn-
-. 4L-.....L V.Hatuu ~ nfR.ar
and Is putting the property IN the nm
est OF condition. Three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars has been e.
pended ALREADY In the development
and equipment of this company's
property. Senator Warner Miller OF
lHerkimer, n. ". and New York capt.
%tallsts are the wners. The property
is going to be "a big producer.
Another Old Property Re-Opened.
The Ready Pay Reduction com.
pany's properties which have beer
closed down for the past four years
are also being opened up again under
the management of John II. James
one of the most experienced of south
western mining men. Two Huntington
mills have been installed and the minC
Is being fc-timbered. II is the intcn-
ton 10 reopen all the old levels ane
drifts. This is a gold property and Ia,
company is backed by New York men
The company has been a producer II
the past and viii shortly be again q
heavy producer. The property l.
about W. and a half miles from Hills
boro.
The Bonanza min is running in full
blast and Is proving a good producer
The property Is owned by Kansas
men and is being managed by JOIN
Miller.
j. j. May. superintendent Of the 81
Terra Consolidated properties, is devel'
oping into a farmer as well as q
miner. He has taken up 100 acres O
land and has surveyed a ditch system
which viii take water from Trujill'
creek. His experiment in irrigation
is being watched with much interest.
Hillsboro merchants report tina
their summer business has been verl
satisfactory.
The following HillsbOro young peo
pie have left for the Agricultural col
llege at Mesilla Park: Homer Hirsch
Robert sanchez and Pau Given, sol
of DR.. r. /. Given, Hillsboro's popular
physician. James Robbins, who grad
uated with hOnOrs from 81. Michael
lcollege in Santa Fe last spring. hal
gone TO the Roswell military school.
Thomas Murphy is fitting MP a new
saloon here which he expects To opei
In the near future.