Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-19
MOUNTAINS OF MINERAL.
The President of the Taos Mountain
Mining Company Talks of q
Great District.
Big Purchase Money-An UNEMPLOYED
Region-Mills and Railroads
Words of Warning.

s. infantry, inspector of small arms prac-
tice on Gen. Miles staff, is in the city
from Taos, where he has been snow-shoeing
it over the mountains examining tue
properties of the Taos Mountain Mining
company, of which he is president. Rock
Island railroad officials are interested
with him in this enterprise. They, six
months ago, purchased from VIM. Frazer,
of Taos, group of sixteen claims in the
Taos mountains,
PAYING HIM $4,000
therefor, and later bought the Copper
Age claim. The whole has been stocked
for $3,OOo,0oO. Despite the snow, which
yet covers the range four to five feet
deep, work of developing these claims has
been in progress all winter and $20,0O0
have been expended for labor and equip
ment.
One of the chief claims is the Lone
Star, which now has shaft of 70 feet in
depth, showing an eight foot breast of ore
running very rich in gold, silver and cop
per. Within two weeks the vein has
widened and now shows large iron lead
running very rich in silver. These mines
cover what is known as
THE CARBONATE DISTRICT.
Ample tests have been made by Denver
smelters and the ore has been proved up
as being first-class concentrating orc,
80 per cent Of the mineral being saved by
concentration. The company has con-
tracted with the Colorado Iron Works of
Denver for concentrating plant Of
capacity of sixty tons per day. The mill
will be shipped June l, reach the Rio
Hondo June 10, and must be in operation
by August 80. The company expects to
concentrate the ore at the rate of putting
fifteen tons into one, and after September
! expects to
SHIP FIVE CAB LOADS
of concentrates a month to Denver.
Some sifsy miners will be employed and
the ore will be hauled in the company's
own teams from the mines to the D. g. R.
G. line at Tres Piedras, distance of
thirty-fve miles. The company is now
preparing to expend $4,000 in improving
the road between the Hondo and Tres
Piedras.
Capt. Baldwin speaks in the most con-
servative terms of the Taos mountain
mining region. He says his company
have
NO USE FOR "BooMs;"
have nothing for sale, and are there to
prosecute the mining industry on legiti
mate basis. A very large area of country
has as yet not been prospected at all, al
though enough development work has
been done to show that the whole country
is impregnated with pay mineral which
includes gold, silver, copper, lead and
iron. Up to this time about seventy-6ve
claims have been located.
There are the silver-lead carbonate and
the gold-copper districts in the same
neighborhood. It is true, says Capt.
Baldwin, that VIM. Fraser has been offered
$175,O00 for his group of gold claims.
There is
BOUND TO BE RUSH
of Colorado and New Mexico prospctors
into that region this summer, but Capt.
Baldwin says now is no time to make
the start. The snow makes it imposs,-
BILE to do anything but wait, and the man
who gets in there prior to May 20, at the
earliest, will be disappointed because
there will be little doing before that
time. After June the mountains will
probably be alive with prospectors and
town site spectators.
RAILROAD ASSURED.
Capt. Baldwin is in a condition to
know, and when he says, "oh, yes, line
of railroad will tap the Rio Hondo DIS
trict this summer or fall" 1t means some-
thing. His information is that the D. g.
R. G. company will run in branch from
one of three points. Antonito is talked
of I as. the starting point, but Tres
Piedras or Servilleta present the most
feasible routes across Taos valley to the
Hondo.t The distance is about the same
from both points, thirty-6ve miles, but
the Servilleta proposition presents fea-
lures which seem to be the most in
viting.
In closing his conversation Capt. Bald
win repeated emphatically his remark
that one month hence will be ample time
for prospectors to invade that region.