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quics wu nuin^ies nnyimng.TliKToirilt FI II LI .Mr. t'ha* L. Thayer has just paid another visit to hi* newly copper camp. in the foot lulls eight mites southeast of Nantn Fe. He come* Itaek aomlerfully pleased with the re-suit, and being one of those oh) miners, practical, long-headed and careful, who never gets enthusiastic and * stops over his utterances will ho taken fcif facts— certainly by allWIIU KNOW HIM.Hinee Mr. Thayer s last visit to Uiia flourishing camp his miners have U*u constantly at work and have gone dowu on the Naomi mine slmft sixteen feet, making the total depth of the shaft now thirty feet. They have worked in mineral from the very surface and are still at it. The vein, so far aa prosified, is full four feel in width, and now at a depth of thirty feet is beginning to widen, while the quality of tl»e ore, if anything, improves oa depth is attaint**. Thisrirtritl.S THE I’llKDKTION of an old tinner made in these columns recently, to*wit: “If the miners iu the mountains adjacent to Santa Fe would And pay ore they must sink their ahafta to a considerable depth.'1 From the success which has attended the sinking of the only two shafts in this immediate vicinity—on the Aaliton gold prop-erty and at the Thayir camp- -this would seem to be a fact that must noon be generally admitted and followed out in alljfuture prospect work. Three as says have been made from ore taken from the Naomi mine and THE HKSILT was 19, 2S and 33 per cent copper—a magnificent showing indeed. Mr Thayer says he would be satisfied to continue the work of development if the percentage ran down at low as 10. The 19 per cent aaaky was obtained from ore which was being thrown away as worthless, but since the assay was made all this la being saved so that every bucket-full of material that now cornea out of the shaft is preserved on the dump as pay dirt. The miuers are still going down onTUB KHAPT and will contihue so to do until at least sixty feet iu depth la attained. “If the vein hold* out in the neat twenty feet aa it has in the forty already opened, said Mr. Thayer this morning, “I shall set tlie men at work on an incline aud I behave I can take out suftcient ore to keep a doen teams constantly hauling between the camp and the new Santa Fe smelter.Here is certainly abundant encouragement. What an Impetus It would give every class of business oouid our new* smelter be abundantly supplied with ores from the immediate vicinity of the city! It seems probable 1HASTA Ft? ahkad.
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Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican Review
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Thu, Sep 13, 1883
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