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They Are Wide And Profitable With Free Milling Surface Ores, CAMP ATTRACTING ATTENION Modern Plants Going in to Handle the Ores From the Lower Levels~A Glance At thy Heavy Producers,, On the southeast ane mast Tar Clee tN, Uhaddline Chegon innate . a Pit oot the thieves of Ete efrek arid ep Potd: creek, thes ahinge fells one the sonbees al these strrathts dna beens Wothed extemssydyy and have to ‘heedt Predt san Wt out of probably over $2, “eH eet adit oon PEaericenes tony ibayed Seen Gots Det witht catenntiat+ Hak (Mes, aid by great extent om the Prinytive wepasteylais, st Comsed Uyaren of WAR Qaatiods au aa oat vaidites VU Get dhet wrodted Chan Chose saved has been lost in the tailiigs of the mites Worthwedl in those districts. The property which ranke fiest i oce Viteerenk distriet aus a0 prodheer ds dhe Water, hocated air the stint of the old Vadis pide between Ute creek and Poe MAD creek. One einai have been taken out at this ininve aid opt oet shal low OSH Rree Workities onty, ne agreget Aepid Davie vet been renewed, the Tower Teves are opeted: upoan enurniots Yield nay be expected. The vein is a contivt, frames to 2 feet on thickness. Its general dip is a ty ai degrees from the vertical. The ore bodies in the vein WHT uy from $t0 to $70, free milling, Tagsiess thie Values in the CONCETTER EES. There has beet run ih feet of tan- nels and drifts at GW. feat of shafts, opening the mine for 220 feet on the Vein and toon depth of about 300 feet. There are several stmaller veins, which are fissure veto, in the quartzite, from fiveW inches, in thickness, very rich, and shown large quantities of whre eit. The male is eanipped with ae 1,600 ArAUvity thomway and a _ forty -stramp min . Adjoining the Aztec on the southeast is the Ben-Hur.On the southwest are the Azurite, the Nancy Hawks, the Mountain Bion and the Rosita. The do site has a 80-foot shaft, showing a vein * fent in width, and gives assays of Prom $23 to Seay peat . The west heaviest producer in the Ute creek district is the Monteguima, which is credited with a Mebto of more than $250,000 free gold, none of the refractory portion of the ure having been saved. The vein is tront to feet between Wells, and is a nearly vertical fixture Vein, cetting through porphiry and the strat of timestone, which is the bed rock of the country. “It lives on Monte zuma Hill, and adjoining it, ‘on the same Vein. are the‘ Bull-of-the- Woods and Honestake snines, which’ together have about 4,000 feet development and have each produced several fortunes in free Bold, , 4 Adjoining the Montezuma on the south in the Heel; a recent Jocasion, owned by William Reel and Baron Van duylen. A tunnel has just cut the vein at #00 feet, and shows a 10-inch streak that will plite from 3 to ounces. Six feet of vein a Yields $5 to $7 free milling. The oh Kher rade ore in being sacked for treatment on the Biddle mill, on the Point, and the lower grade will be stored up for treatment, on the round. A stream of water running by the mouth of the tunnel, would furnish am aple supply of water for a mill. In the same Yern, is the Mounntain Queen, which [a being Operatedt under lease by John Jedrisont. Ey addition to the vein Opened Up ature in the Reef there is “another Vein of refractory ore that returns from Stu @omens per ton. The ore from this vein is sacked as taken out, for ship, ment, and the free milling ore is treated on the ground in an arrastra, with good results. The proceeds from this opera tion and from sinking several thousand tons of dump thrown aside a waste by former operators, pays the expenses of Working ‘the mine With a force ‘of six men.. . .. The Rebel Chief group lies next to the Mountain Queen, and consists of six elasma, covering 4,500 feet in length and 1200 feet in width, on which has been soune 2,000 feet of work in tunnels, drifts and shafts. At is a@ fissure vein in pur, vhyry, with a dip of 20 to 40 degrees. A milk and concentrating plant has been built, to be opened ‘on ore ‘from the Era The Black Horse group consists of three claims of 1,500 feet each on one vein, and two claims of 1,500 feet each on a vein parallel and only 90 feet dis tant. The pay atreak is from 2 to €@ feet in width, and runs from $10 to $100, about one-half free milling. A tramway 1,200 feet tunk connects with the unit, a thirty-stamp plant, on Black, Horse Ruleh, a tributary of Ute creek. “ On the east slope of Old Raidy and Within a short daslance of the summit is the Gibsonburg Group, on which about 1,600 feet of development’ have been done to date. As force of men ia kept at Work opening Up the mine and blocking out ore for reduction works,’ which will be begun as soon. on a deci sion IX reached on tents Which have just been made to determine the best mode of Creatment of the ores, One vein: of ' 16 feet, Carrying copper‘and load, in in Itsvifa bonunga, nT . The placers ‘of Ute creek district used, thir annual returns, varying with the Water apply of each season. Its ‘new Wines are opened up and development pushed on old ones, and, water in creased, the volume of, the output of these placers may be expected to in crease in proportion. As ditch or pipe Nie eleven, miles in length to bring in the water of the Cimarron would, if te stimated, enlarge the working capac ity of the hydraulic plants now in op eration aw to increase the yield to not less truly $40,000 per annum. The gold in coarge, and the output conststa to a great extent of nuggets, one of the value of $265 having been found re cently. . = The Paragon is located on‘ theeset ‘slope of Little Baldy mountain, in the Ute creek district. It is developed by a: 0-foot shaft and 200 feet. of drift on the fern, which’ in 3 feet wide, and carries free ‘milling: gold ore ‘running from one to three ounces‘per ton, ‘Ue te under bond and lease. Id. W. 8. Scott, who in taking out oriton treatment, on the Confidence mill : _ Leopold Biddle is operating his stamp antl ore from an immense slate vein just above the mill, which in operated by water Power, the ore cunning from the mine on a tramway. The vein has been opened 125 feet in width, and gives an average return of 06 per ton. 3 ‘This district in reached from A@pringer, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. railways ‘Atty tiles south ‘at the Colo rado line. The Hawkins dairyetages connect with ‘the ‘trains and Wand ‘pass engers direct In the heart of the camp. The opportunities here for leasers with arrall working fund are mumer na wit rete free. milite facilities © jirntiew’
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Santa Fe New Mexican Review
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Thu, Aug 31, 1899
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