Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-25

county begins within three miles Of
Lordsburg at Valedon. There the "S5'
Mining company has been putting in
at cost $4,000, improvements
consisting mostly Of a complete steam
turbine power system in addition to
the Diesel system to operate the 400
ton concentration aud flotation mill
and its copper mines. This company
ships about goo tons Of high grade ore
daily About $50 men are empioyed
10y this corporation.
Old BOnny Mine Sold.
The Bonny Consolidated Mining
company, recently organized in the
east. with a capitalization OF $4,000
0H0. has taken over the old Benny
Mining company's mines and other
well known and developed properties,
some coo acres in all Work is to be
commenced about the first of the year
to install 35O-horsepower electric
power plant and the sinking of the
main shaft from the present 500-foot
level 10 the 800 level. A 200-ton con-
centration and flotation mill is also
part Of the new company's DEFINITE
pl9r'
The old Miser's Chest mine in this
same section is under lease and bond
and work has already commenced
upon it,
The Last Chance silver mine, seven
miles south Of Lordshurg, is IN fun
operation and its min is treating in
the neighborhood of siXty-five tons of
ore daily,
About twelve miles northwest from
Lordsburg the Cooperative Mining
company is building a 50-ton MIL TO
treat silver ore from an already quite
well known property.
other important mining sections
in Hidalgo county are STEMS Pass,
Red Rock and Hachita.
oil Prospects ON Animas.
There is great hope of developing
OH in Hidalgo county. especially In
The Animas valley, where large tracts
have been leased or located for OIL.
The Buffalo Oil ana Gas company Of
Lordsburg is drilling an eight-inch
hole about twelve miles west of
I.ordsburg, and at 1886 feet in blue
shale rainbow" showings of oil We're
had i'm the slush. The we'll is now
down over $50 feet and the members
of the company have strong hope Of
striking oil in paying quantity in less
than 1000 feet
The Deming Oil, Gas and Develop
ment company, composed of Deming
and Lordsburg people, plans to COM
mence drilling in the same section
about the first Of the year, while the
Playas Basin Petroleum company has
large holdings also.
Three Railroads Cross County.
Lordsburg, the county seat of this
new county, has population bf 1,5O0
people with about 1900 more at the
yerv nearby mines. The city is on
the main line Of the Southern Pacific
railroad, 1853 miles west of FL Paso.
A freight division point of this road
with roundhouse, repair shops. etc,
is located there The Arizona & New
Mexico railroad, which runs from the
great Clifton Morenci- Metcalf copper
mining district and the rich agricul-
tural valley of the upper ella river
at and around Duncan. all in Greenlee
county, Arizona, crosses the southern
Pacific railroad at Lordsburg and con-
tinues south to Hachita on the Ell
Paso & Southwestern railroad in the
southern part of Hidalgo county. The
last named railroad crosses Hidalgo
county from east to west. These
railroad facilities make the new ooun-
ty seat an important commercial and
distributing center as is evidenced by
the big wholesale and retail mercan-
tile establishments there.
Lordsburg is also located on all the
great projected highways through the
southwest, the "Borderland," the
cold Spanish Trail" the Sunset and
the "DiXieland.P
Airplane Station Projected.
The city has also agreed to furnish
the necessary landing field for the
National Airline association If the