Image 7 of Santa Fe new Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.), July 3, 1911
author: Anonymous
source date: 1911
availability: public_domain

MONDAY JULY 3 1911 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SANTA FE N 1L PAGE SEVEN dies ud mm Grant County The Gold Frog Mining Company op erating a group of claims in Gold Gulch Grant county held a meeting ol stockholders at Silver City last week John V Hughes and Milton Parks of Dallas Texas were among the stockholders present Pay ore is being developed on the group J E Saint is looking over the Mangas De velopment Companys property in the Burro Mountains and operations are to be resumed in the near future The Savanna Company intends to prospect seven of its claims at Chloride by churn drilling Washington Produces Coke Washington is the only state west of the Rocky Mountains that contains coal possessing coking qualities and the coking industry of Washington is restricted to a limited area in Pierce county Tests made at the experiment al plant of the United States Geolog ical Survey at Denver in 1908 showed that a fair quality of coke could be made from the coal mined in the northern part of the Roslyn field in Kittitas county the only workable coal in Washington east of the Cas cades but so far