Albuquerque evening citizen., 1907-07-12
BIG RICH LEDGE
IS FOUND At
FLEMING
MOgOllOn Mountains Yield
% Another Strike of Great
Value.

Silver City, N. M, July 11-Rapld
progress Is being made sinking the
Mayflower shaft on the Nashvills
group of claims situated on the di-
vide between White water and Iron
Creek in the Burro mountains. The
group consists of five claims and be-
longs to Cosgrove & Knucky of Bur-
ros. The deep workings. 8 feet from
the surface, show strong veins of cop
per ore, from which twenty per cent
ore is assorted in marketable guam
titles. The Copper queen, Mayflower,
Nashville No. 2, Smuggler and Nash
vile Group all show ore in paying
quantities, and may be regarded as
among the many first class mining
groups in the Burro mountains, The
proprietors are going ahead with
their work Of development carefully
and intelligently and will in a very
short time open up a valuable and
highly productive property.
Fleming.
The discovery of what promises to
be one of the most valuable finds in a
mining sense in Grant county was
purely accidental. For the last quar-
| ter of a century the mountains ad-
1acent to old Camp Fleming have
| been prospected and most excellent
results have followed; but it was left
for Baylor Polk while in search of
! drinking water to discover and To-
| cate the Dark Horse mine less than
a quarter of a mile from the old
wagon road in a northerly direction
and about three-eighths of a mile from
Black Prince Gulch. Noticing a
moist place in the bottom of the
gulch he dismounted and began to
| dig for water and found with the
| first stroke of the pick, rich silver
| bearing lead. 1t required but few
moments to locate the mine and de-
termine its width as a possible ship
ping proposition. A few days DEM
| onstrated that the Dark Horse vein
| and group of claims contiguous to
| the discovery was a phenomenal find
in point of value and visible produc-
| tiveness The vein has been stripped
for a distance of sixty feet and shows
from two to three feet of steel gray
| galena, and as depth is gained there
Is preceptible increase in the
values and product of this, one of the
most promising discoveries of 1907.
| The fortunate owner has recently
disposed of his property to Messrs.
IL. II. Carter & Co, at good figures.
| The new owners will develop their
| newly acquired purchase, and it goes
almost without saying that the pres
ent year will develop the Dark Horse
mine into a highly productive and
profitable property. All the condi-
tons necessary for a permanent and
valuable mine warrant the above
predictions.
| Cars of Ore.
| "A carload of smelling ore is await
ing shipment from the old Black
Prince mine. James Cumbee, CO.
owner with Ed; Young of Silver City,
| has had considerable trouble in Sc
curing teams, but that now that this
| trouble is obviated, the indications
are that the returns from this ship
ment will justify work on a more ex-
tended scale than has heretofore been
ut ttaff1 Tod an ,iy b,
neglected property.
| Nat Fisher has uncovered good
shipping ore in one of his recent To-
cations, and in addition to the initial
labor necessary to hold a claim, has
| in view and will open up the old
Columbia vein and take out the rich
chloride of silver ores for which this
property is noted.
George w. Robinson, another sue
cessful prospector, has made whas
er, which he has named the Gertrude,
near the summit of the ridge divid
ing Black Prince Gulch from the
Southwest fork of Walnut Creek. AS
yet the openings are mere surface
pits, but these indicate that greater
depth. The ore is silver lead, and
carries 1876 ounces silver and so per
cent lead and is widening with depth.
The crevice or pay mattrial is now
two feet in width.
MOgOllOn.
For many years the Mogollon
Irange of mountains, in Grant county
has attracted the attention of pros
lpectors throughout New Mexico. 1t
remained however for Col j. W.
Fleming to locate one of the most
promising of copper silver bearing
mineral yet found in that wonderful
ly rich mining section. During the
summer of 'S5, while following a
band of marauding Apaches Col.
Jack noticed the ledge, and has out
fitted several parties at differen
times, all of whom were unsuccessful,
land failed to find the copper bearing
rock. Nothing daunted by the fail
ure of others, Col. Fleming called to
his aid Frank Fleming, a nephew
who has cattle in the region alluded
to, telling him that If he ever found
any green rock to bring IL in. After
many unsuccessful hunts Frank
found the rocks and outcropping g
ledge, brought samples to his uncle
for assay, which gave a return of 36
per cent copper and q ounces of sill
yer per ton. On visiting the place
last week Col. Fleming found IL to
be the identical spot he had noted 22
years ago. The find has been prop
erly and legally located, and within a
very short time Will be opened, and
tonnage lots taken out to demons
trate the value of this new and what
promises to become a productive and
rich copper mining district.