Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-17
CYANIDE PLANT FOR
THE MAYFLOWER
DISTRICT
GRANT COUNTY CAMP
COMING TO THE FROM
Extensive Operations Under
Way by Twin Peaks Mining
and Milling Company Which
Has "a Gold Silver Claims,

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Has24 GoId-Silver Claims.
| Especial Correspondence to Morning JOurnatl
Silver City. n. NJ, Dec. 15.-Among
the sub-districts of the great Grant
county mining field which is 10Y
showing so much general activity, a
busy camp about which comparative
ly little has been written is that In
the enter OF the M%ayflower district.
The principal operation in this dis
trict at the present time is being con
Quoted by the Twin Peaks Mining ana
Milling company at Twin Peaks camp,
which is situated in a very favorable
location and is assuming the proper
lions of a small village. There are Il
half dozen or SO of good houses to-
gether with some tents, The main
shat and hoist are about a quarter or
a mile distant from the camp, and at
this point, opposite the hoist and on
the hillside across Utah creek, the
company is now erecting a boarding
house and a bunk house, which when
completed viii accommodate some
thirty or forty men. When these
buildings are completed the houses at
the present camp will be used as Of
fices. stores, assay office and quarters
for the officials of the company.
The silver City Independent has the
following:
Wood for fuel is plentiful and is OBJ
tanned under contract Tor 2.75 per
cord, delivered. At Steeple Rock and
at the Alabama mine. only -four or
five miles distant, 1t costs So. by
which II will be seen what an advan-
tage the Twin Peaks company pos
sesses over its neighbors in regard to
fuel. Water is plentiful and good,
and the camp Is situated on a flat
with just sufficient slope to give drain
ago. The hoist is a ronmy and well
constructed building with corrugated
iron roof. 1t contains u thirtY-six
horse power Fraser Il Chalmers hoist
with a f%orty-horse power boiler. The
main shaft, Immediately in front of
the hoist building, is now about 1925
feet deep, with the vein showing
strong in the bottom. The shaft is
well timbered, being what is called "A
one and one-half compartment shaft,
the half being for pumps, The mine
makes enough water now TO keep the
pumps busy during a part of the time
only. a contract has lately been made
to sink the shaft to the 300-foot level
and e tunnel is contemplated from
some point on the creek whore the
vein is cut by tho canyon, which fol-
lowing the vein, will intcrsect the
main shaft at about "A depth of 100
feet. At least that is the present
plan, but it may be modified or
changed. As soon as there is sufh-
lent development and a supply OF ore
1t Is proposed to set up a cyanide
plant. Before doing so, however. n
very careful study of the ores and
the new chemical processes of reduce
tion is to be made by the manage
ment so as to insure the very best
of treatment. The water in
the mine is pure and is used by the
men for drinking; enough win be OBJ
tanned to furnish the cyanide plant
with the amount required.
The company owns twenty-four
claims on Utah creek or canyon in
Arizona. The camp is about six miles
an air line north of Steeple Rock,
NJ, but by the road on trail it is
tbout eight miles. 1t is about a half
nile westerly from the line between
New Mexico and Arizona. There are
.hree parallel lodges. the main shaft
now being sunk being on the middle
These lodges run a little west
II north In a general direction. The
most westerly ledge is some two hun
tired feet from the middle one. and
he easterly n fifty or sixty feet
rom IL. The middle vein shows on
he surface and At the bottom OF the
hiatt free milling ore with values run
ling on an average by assay OF about
per ton, OF which about three
in value is gold. the balance
icing silver. The middle ledge can
.e traced for about the length of three q
.laims OF the surface. showing free \
Milling ore all the way. Ia some !
,laces the lode Is blind and covered 4
With detritus. but IL crops out fire. s
uentiy. SO nat 1t can be easily found !
nywhere. u carries the same sur
ace values on an average all the way. c
Though higher in some places than r
theirs. Some ore chutes on this lode d
ave shown values as high ~ three q
undred dollars per ton. The ore con- .
aims no base metals except the usual d
ron. being free from copper lead OF 1
inc So far AS developed and as shown &
I the main shaft. $
Tho site Of the hoist has been well II
there being room for dumps n
~ an indefinite period. the opening {