Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-07-18
GL!TTERiNG WEALTH
a Handful of Nuggets from the Great
Placer Beds in Santa
Fe County,
The Water Problem The Huntington Pro
cess-An Experts Suggestions
Camp Crumbs,

! \ gold button valued at $3.50 and
hand full Of nuggets worth $50 MOI
were brought in from south Santa +
county's placer mines this morning b
, John T. Kelley, and through the Frs
National bank forwarded TO the L.
mint at Denver. This writer had tn
pleasure Of "heiting" the yellow stuff
and while doing so asked few questions
Mr.. kelley's placer plant at Golden i
low employing twenty men and tn,
gravel is yielding very profitable returns
II is gravel, too, that was years agC
worked over by the Mexican placer min
ers. and ii is matter OF Nonderment thai
under modern methods it should now
yield such nuggets, varying i'll size, Us
large as pea TO the size OF d ti!bert, II
value they run from so cents to $40. The
latter is the value OF the largest brought
in by Mr. Kelley to-day.
The water Tor working these placers
was obtained by sinking tubular well
$50 feet deep, which brought the water
up within lao feet Of the surface, from
! whence it is pumped into sliuce boxes
Mr.. Kelly now has about twenty inches
OF water at his command, and feels con.
| tident that well 1000 feet deep and
] pucpI II i'll yngplt n nrtn T.
is anxious TO demonstrate this idea, and
| proposes to DO SO at no distant dav, for il
flowing wells are possible in that locality
there IL situated the biggest placer mining
possibilities on the American continent,
These placer lands cover thousands Of
/ acres the gravel is from forty to eighty
. feet thick, and the Weld with plenty OF
water and intelligent treatment, is es.
timated TO be from 50 cents to $l.25 to
the cubic yard with an occasional nugget
OF great value.
! In the excitement over quartz gold
galena and carbonate finds the placer
! fields have not cut much of q figure in
Santa re couuty's mining boom this year
but the gold is there, and with the de.
velopment Of water, which is now Ger
talnty, if signs mean anything the gravel
deposits OF the old and new placers will
ere long become the chief factor in our
industrial prosperity.
THE HUNTINGTON PROCESS.
Col. Y. :. Shelby returned home this
morning after IN absence OF several
weeks. His time was divided between
the Jefferson barracks at ST. Louis, where
he went to visit his old friend, Capt.
Rucker, OF the 9th cavalry, and at the
Aztec mines in Coliax county, in which
he and other Santa Feans are interested.
He prolonged his stay at the mines to note
the workings of the new Huntington mill,
and Col. Shelby comes home clated over
its successful operation.
This is the only mill OF the kind in
New Mexico, and great deal of interest
has been felt by mining men as to how
it would work. 1t was put up by San
tr9ncisco man who was commissioned by
the Inventor TO go and see that it was
properly built and started. When com.
pleled 1t moved off without hitch of anv
sort, and it is now treating on an average
Of tWenty-tW tons per day. The ore is
deromposed quartz and yields well. Col. |
Shelby regards the Huntington process as
superior to stamps, and thinks also that !
It Is cheaper. This mill, including ma
chinery, freight, expenses and buildings,
has been put in operation ut cost OF
$4,000. Now that this process has been
demonstrated to be success it is not i'm
probable that parties owning large depos.
is OF free gold ores in Santa Fe county
will consider the matter of adopting this
lass OF machinery.
AN LxPERT's OPINION.
A colorado mining expert who has been
'oing New Mexico's camps with letters
# introduction from Prof. Longuemare,
writes the Ell Paso Bullion in this friendly :
train:
AS you are aware, have now completed
hasty but very general voyage through :
ew Mexico, stopping of at Cerrillos, /
an Pedro and other points in the north. G
RI portion OF the territory, and must say
take my departure for Colorado far more .
impressed with the value OF New MeXico's
mineral resources than | had Anticipated, c
will remark, how ever, before closing that c
have arrived at the conclusion that New =
.exico will never approach its maximum :.
reduction OF bullion until more general y
tention is paid to the dressing and con. b
OF the immense ore bodies that a
e known to exist but that are either too &
W in gold and silver value to Fay in their =
atural condition or too refractory to be re.
iced at profit. 0
CAMP CRUMBS.
Outside capital continues to roll in '
ON many sources. z
Capt. John Gray is On the ground d
hopping up work on the Chester.
c. +. A. Fischer, II. Bartsch and J. ". .,
onway are looking after business in the \,
mps, u
Michael O'Neill, one of the stalwart o.
lners OF the Cerrllos region, is attending VI
business here to-day. Ia
q. j. Smith, Of San Pedro, John T. Kel.
!, OF Golden, and Frank Berdick, OF Ger n,
los, came i'll last night. ''
a miner who inspected the Bullion day ~ ~
lore YESTERDAY, says it is true fissure v
III with four feet OF fine ore in sight. II
Gov. Prince has made Contract with 81
rock, Of Cerrillos, to do some sinking &C
,rk on the Sunrise claim, near the n,
,lcher. :.
Jefferson Reynolds and brother, of Las ~,
.gas, are on visit to San Pedro and ~
re it out cold that they will probably DC
en- bank there. OF
Druggist Miller and s. a. Larock, of
rrillos, have assays of $36 galena taken