Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-18

the richer pay mineral seems to be in
spots.
THE FORMATION.
The ore is entirely different from any
of that seen by most of the miners now
but one district which produces similar
ore and that was in the Pima Gate district,
near San Bernardino, California. The
general formation is that of lgneous
rock, made up of trachyte, porphyry and
kindred rocks. The ore is more strongly
i'm pregnated with silver than with gold.
The silver appears in the form of sulph-
des and in fit condition for milling.
The ore carries little free gold and will
readily yield its metal to the proper mill
ing treatment. The highest assay received
from the Lone Star mine was 100 ounces
in silver and thirteen ounces in gold.
According to Mr.. Thomas Lowthian, than
whom no miner is better known, the ore
is similiar to that of the Comstack both
in quality and condition of the metal and
texture of quartz.
There are combinations of the veins
across Cola canon that show free gold.
The veins in this canon do not seem to
carry very much silver. In Pine canon
all the ore yields more or less free gold
in panning.
1t is of very siliceous quartz charact-
er carrying about 95 per cent silica. a
little iron, manganese, brittle silver and
sulphites of iron which carries the gold.
The ore has no refractory constituents,
other than quartz and is not hard ore
to treat by milling process, contrary
opinions Notwithstanding.
In order to arrive at clear understand
ing of the country the two main canons,
which are eight miles apart and which
contain the principal mines as we'll as
towns, will be described separately. The
first canon explored by the prospectors
was .5s'
PINo CANON,
at the mouth of which is the to wn of Aller
ton, and which is about twelve miles long.
The greater portion of it is narrow, but
there are portions sufficiently wide for
the location of towns.
other canons for it contains the best
mines so far discovered, although it is
not likely that it will always retain this
distinctive honor.
There are four towns in the canon, two
that are located townsites and two that
n o1 po11ootin1 IF }ents NIad
by miners and prospectors who have
erected their temporary abodes close to
the big mines.
There is fine stream of water that
runs half way the length of the canon and
then sinks, thus necessitating the piping
of water to the town of Allerton. good
| road has recently been constructed from
Allerton to the Crown Point mine, dis
tance of eight miles.
On either side of the canon arise lofty
mountains, whose sides are covered with
fine timber, thus doing away with the
necessity of hauling it any distance for
use in the mines and saving a great ex-
pense. Pine canon by reason of its pos
sessirg the richest mines yet discovered
is more thickly populated than any of the
other canons and IS consequently attract
ing the most attention. The two best
known mines are the Crown Point and
| Lone Star.
The Crown Point is situated on the east
side of the canon near its head and is
owned by Ben johnson, Henry Lockhart
F. Bruce and James May. The vein is
what is known rs the central one, but ap-
pears to be little west of what Is seem
ingly the ore chute or what might be
termed the center of the mineral belt
| The mine was located on the 22d of last
November by James May, who saw some
Cochiti ore in Albuquerque and in the
possession of Charles Pilkey. Mr.. Henry
Lockhart also saw the ore, be-
came interested in it, and sent
Mr.. May out to examine the
county with the result that they now each
have the cinch on large fortunes.
| When the mine was first located the
prospectors failed to secure any satisfac
tory results and they commenced pros
pecting elsewhere. They came back
however, to make more thorough inves
| tigatlon of the vein and to ascertain fol-
certain whether or not it contained any
ore of pay character. They commenced
on the assessment work and struck what
they considered good looking rock, which
Thov sent tbe rocl tn Denver had + as.
sored and secnred retnrns of th;rtv.two
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fter tho "a, raceint Of tho ASSAY certifcats
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