Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-09
AMONG THE MINERS.
Newsy Paragraphs from Cochiti, Taos
and Other Gold Producing
Camps.

Col. John Borrodai4ls claims to have
made a; new strike north Of Pine canon
that assays as high as $1,000 to the ton.
Leonard Skinner, of San Antonio, and
Joseph Routledge, of Glorieta, will both
move their saw mills to Cochiti this week.
Mr.. W. H. Bunce, of Ouray, Colo, who
has been at Cochiti two weeks, left for
California to day, and will return in three
weeks. He has great faith in Cochiti dis
trict.
VIM. Gleason and W. E. Dwyer, of Lead
vile, and W. M. Phillips, of Aspen, all
experienced miners, left via Pattersons
stage for Cochiti yesterday morning.
H. G. Davis and John Netherton, of
Silverton, and Thomas Clark, of Rico,
Colo, outfitted with burros and left for
Cochiti this morning. They will inves-
tigate the prospects of Pine canon.
A new voting precinct has been estab-
lished to cover the Cochiti mining dis
trict. George r. Helmick was appointed
justice of the peace for said precinct; A.
B. Armala, constable, and j. D. May road
supervisor.
Messrs. H. s. Clancy and R. M. Cos
horn, while knocking about on top of the
Santa Fe range last week found some ex-
cellent amethyst quartz. They have gone
out to spend several days in prospecting.
Messrs. Lucas and O'Fallon, solid cap
italists from st. Louis, arrived in Taos
yesterday to inspect the "garnet" and pla-
Ger fields in which they are jointly inter-
ested with Col. Tennant. They are ex-
pected to arrive in Santa Fe next week
and 60 for trip to Cochiti.
John Hesch, the carpenter, left here
yesterday with his family and will locate
at Kent City where he has several build
ing contracts. He purchased several
wagon loads of corrugated iron here to
be used for roofing purposes.
Judge Henry Lockhart has returned
from Cochiti. He says that everything in
the camp is booming and people are go.
ing in daily. Regarding the rumored kill
ing in the district the Judge informed the
reporter that last Monday an italian was
found dead with a bullet in his head and
it was claimed that he had been killed for
tearing location notices off of claims
Albuquerque Times.
Editorial comment in the Denver Re-
publican. "Cochiti, which is attracting
attention just now by reason of the dis
coveries of gold in that vicinity, is situated
in the northern part of New Mexico. 1t
is in the valley of the Rio Grande
short distance above the point where the
A., T. & s. F. strikes that valley on its
way to the west coast. Reports indicate
the existence of large quantity of gold,
and assays show that it is rich. Very
probably there will be great deal Of
work done there this spring and during
the coming summer"
This is the wording of an advertisement
which the D. & r. G. railroad is now run
ming in the news papers of Colorado Utah
and Wyoming: "Persons visiting the re-
Gently discovered and wonderful gold
camp of the Cochiti district in New Mex
leo will find that the best possible route
to the camp is via Santa Fe. A stage line
is running regularly from Santa Fe into
the camp, fare only $5 per passenger, in
Guiding ferry across the Rio Grande river.
Santa Fe is the most convenient and best
Quitting point for all kinds of supplies.
The D. & r. G. railroad is the shortest,
most picturesque and pleasant road be-
tween this city and Santa Fe.. The fare
between Denver and Santa Fe is $780,"
Col R. B. Wilson returned from Co.
chiti Saturday afternoon in company
with Mr.. Sam Cartwright. They went
into the district three weeks ago for the
purpose of making mining locations.
They located a number of claims,
also townsite at Borrego springs, seven
miles below Kent. The townsite is in
the center of the Borrego grant. Ac-
cording to the colonel the mineralized
lodges do not run exactly north and
south. The trend of the lodes in the
mineral belt is from thirteen to twenty.
two degrees east of north and west OF
south. The mines in Cola, Pine and the
head of Peralta canons are displaying
splendid activity. All the different
camps are increasing in population and
the woods are full of people.