Show NEW MEXICO sylvanite miner the controlling interest in the knight group was purchased for cor cash this week on behalf of boston capitalists by cony T brown secretary of the new mexico school of mines at socorro N M who is also operating some zinc mines near there for the same people tt it is the intention of the purchasers to at once sink a shaft to a depth of feet and crosscut cross cut the dike from wall to wall on this level the work will probably be under the supervision of A J fritch who is now operating a copper property at lordsburg Lords burg sylvanite miner galen F humbert who has a lease and bond on the fairview group at granite gap commenced operations last week by trenching drenching tren ching across the immense dike of porphyry and copper ore and has now opened up a streak of the best looking ore that has been seen in the camp the ore is a carbonate with some azurite and and while the result of the samples sent to bisbee for assay is not yet known it is perfectly safe to estimate mae the contents at over 20 per cent copper As the ore on this property carries good values in gold and silver it will make a highly profitable shipping p product the work of developing this ore body J ij now being continued |