Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-22
MINING REVIVAL
DUE AS SPRING
. SEASON BEGINS
Great Activity in Prospecting,
Development and improve
ment Work Looked for in
Near Future,

the calendar today marks the begin !
ming of spring and coincident with it
revival in prospecting, development |
work and mine improvements.
Organ District
In the Organ district, Dona Ana !
county, contracts have been drawn |
under which the American Smelling |
and Refining company is to acquire !
the Torpedo, the Stephenson Bennett |
and the Franklin groups covering |
thousand acres, extending from organ |
TO Baylor canyon. The option on the |
Bennett-Stephenson is said to amount
to 100000. The Guggenheim inter
ests have sent experts into the district !
To report on the properties. The OPP |
ton on the Torpedo is for 100000 |
and on the Franklin for 100000.
White Oaks District.
In the White oaks district, Lincoln !
county, Thomas n. Stanton and w |
NJ. Mcdonald of FL Paso have ar
ranged to take over several properties
and will work them. Col w c. |
Pritchard has also arranged to put |
several men on his gold prospects ON !
Baxter mountain.
Pinos Altos District
The Empire Zinc company at Pinos !
Altos, Grant county, has started work /
on a concentration which is to have a I
capacity of 200 tons a day The Pinos /
Altos Mining and Milling company is
building a cOncentrator on the Gillette
mines which is to have a capacity of |
Of fifty tons a day. The former has
seventy-five men at work and the lat
ter will treat custom ores. The mag
netic process of zinc separation is to
be used by the Empire people. who
have completed a tramway to Silver
city and are now building ore bins,
and the electrostatic process is to be
tried by the Pinos Altos company.
The mill of the latter is to be complet-
ed by June 1 and its completion
should mean the employment of sew
eral hundred men on mines now idle.
Cochiti District.
The twenty-stamp mill lin Media Ria
canyon Of the Cossak Mining COM
pany at Bland, Sandoval county, is
working satisfactorily as is also the
cyanide plant D. A. McCallor, the ,
manager, has opened up double the
quantity of ore in the upper levels of
the Lone star and Albemarle than had !
been expected A long transportation
and drainage tunnel is planned to be
run through the ridge from the Lone !
Star to the Albemare and also the re-
Mobilization Of the power plant at the
Madrid coal mines.
Black Range
Despite the destruction Of the $l0,-
600 mill on the Calumet at Fluorlne,
Sierra county, extensive development
work is in progress on the Republic
and Minnie mines and orders have
been given for the erection Of new
mill. A force of seventy-five men is
employed. Capt John Winram has
had returns from the Mail Line Of l75
ounces of silver, SO per cent in cop
per and SIS in gold from ore taken
from drift in the 150-foot shaft. A
wide fissure vein cuts through an
andesite country rock, the vein mat
ter being white quartz through which
silver gold bearing chalcocyte is dis
semnated.
AT Kingston in the same district, the !
coal discovery recently made has re-
suited in p. H. d. BendiXon filing on
100 acres of coal lands The vein thus 1
far is only one foot thick and pitches |
40 degrees eastward, yet the coal is /
of good burning quality. The coal |
occurs in the shale-sandstone forma- /
ton overaid with limestone similar
to the coal formations three and four !
miles north of Santa re The roof is /
sandstone. f. VI Mofftt has let
contract for 35O-foot drift on the /
Eureka. John Sears has resumed OPP |
erations on the Fox at Placers
Hurley District.
Work is being pushed on the new |
flotation plant at Hurley in Grant
county, boilermakers, carpenters ana F,
electricians working overtime in in I
stalling the turbine engine in the pow
er plant
san Pedro District
The Santa Fe Gold and Copper
Mining company expects to resume at
its copper mines and mills at san
Pedro, southern Santa Re county, as
soon as it floats an issue of $25,OOo ,
seven per cent convertible first mort
gage real estate bonds to be ollereu |
stockholders at sos.
Cooks Peak.
A. 0. Ihlseng. representing New
York capital has taken a lease on
the Mcdaniel group Of mines at
Cooks Peak. Luna county. Quite a !
number of men are to be at work by /!
April /.
Red River.
carload of mining machinery mas |
been hauled to Red River, Taos coun-
~ for installation on the Butt"io-
New Mexico mines The main shatt |
is down $50 feet and will be suEk 2o0 |
feet deeper.
Lordsburg District.
California parties are samplinE ore |
from the Atwood mines and II expert /
menting with the ore proves success
iul reduction plant VIII be eree-ed' !
Tyrone
Another townsite is being laid out
at Tyrone, Grant county Extensive |
work is being done by the bufro |
Mountain Copper compaoS.