Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-05-09
WILL SAVE THE GOLD.
Successful Runs of the Buoyrus Mill on
the Ohama-A Larger Machine
will be Ordered-Rich Re-
suits Anticipated.

will be Ordered Rich Re-
suits Anticipated.
Messrs. A. j. Meyer, second vice-presi-
dent, and William R. Watson, secretary of
the Bucyrus Placer company on the Chama.
recently passed through Santa Fe en- route
to Milwaukee and Buffalo. The gentle
men refused to be interviewed in detail
respecting the operations of their COM
pany, but from Mr.. T. j. Curran, who
| took forty photographs of the mill and
placer fields last week, and other trust
worthy sources, the New MEXICAN has
obtained several items of interest.
The Bucyrus mill was built at South
Milwaukee last year at a cost of about
$4,000, and Is operated on the principle
of modern dredge, with machinery for
washing the gravel and matchmaking
the gold saved on plates III addition. 1t
is located at Hunter, on the Chama river,
about eleven miles above Abiquiu. Two
or three trial runs have clearly demon
strated that the mill will save the fine
gold in the Chama gravel at profit. One
clean up of forty-six plates resulted in
$40 to the plate.
But experience has proved that the
mill is neither large enough nor strong
enough to do the work to the best ad-
vantage. Consequently Messrs. Meyer
and Watson will order new mill while in
Milwaukee. The capacity of the present
machine is sixty cubic yards per hour;
the new machine will be able to handle
eighty cubic yards of gravel per hour.
The placer fields are very extensive,
extending for several miles up and down
the Chama. and it is about fourteen feet
from the surface to bedrock. The gravel
yields an average of 80 cents per cubic
yard in gold.
The mill and buildings Of the company,
including two commodious buildings for
offices and quarters, ice house and power
house, are located on the Piedra Lumbre
grant. The company claims to have &C.
ouired rights there from the Chama River
Placer company, which did assessment
work on the placers for ten years before
the grant was confirmed, and also from
the principal owners of the grant. The
company has also located 800 acres OF
placer land below the grant.
Messrs. Joyce and Cockburn, OF
Montreal, Canada, have also decided to
put in a large plant, what is known as
the Bennett mill, for handling the Chama
gravel. 1t will be run by electricity.
NINE MENTIONS.
j. 7. Harris, Butte City; John Frank
lin, F. Kinsley and c. M. Howard, of
Denver, are in the city outtltting for a
trip to Cochiti.
A two-foot vein of ore milling 5000 gold
has been struck in the Legal Tender in
the Moreno district, four miles from
Elizabethtown, N. NJ. 1t also carries 10
per cent lead and so ounces of silver
Denver Times.
Prof. Kuykendall, of Colorado, has 80
called "write-up" of Cochiti in the Den
yer Daily Mining Record of May 5. 1t ia
shiftless and disJointed statement and
reads more like an advertisement fol-
Andy Horne's stage line than anything
else.
Some Las Vegas parties are said tc
have discovered gold in paying quaint
ties in the sands of the Rio Galisteo, and
are in hopes of making it pay to work
them by some such process as that in
vogue in He'll canon or on the Chama.
The score or more of Colorado miners
now prospecting thirty miles northwest
of Santa Fe, just over the divide from the
headwaters of Santa Clara creek, are sale
to have opened up some mammoth Lodges
of quartz running well in mineral. The
best claims are in the neighborhood o.
what is known as La lara creek.
Messr. j. W. Akers and G. W. Dudrov
left yesterday for Eagle City. Mr.. Akers
goes to see the assessment work finished
on dozen claims in Pine and Cola
canons in which he and five other Santa
Feans are interested, and Mr.. DudroW
goes to look over the situation with q
view to establishing lumber yard.
Fl. M. Porter, Dennis Sullivan and
Judge Ward, of Denver, passed down the
road yesterday for Magdalena to inspect
some mining property. Thence the
Messrs. Porter and Ward go southwest to
the Porter ranch and may get into the
Mogollons. Mr.. Sullivan goes to Phoenix
] A. T., where he has gold mine that is
now yielding $4,000 month.
Thos. A. Goodwin returned from Co.
chit last night. He estimates that there
are fully $500 people in the district and
they are going in at the rate of about
thirty day. There are some 1000 peo
pie in Pine canon, and Eagle is on regu
lnr boom. Mr.. Goodwin, E. M. Kelly an6
l.. Muehleisen are working claims at the
head Of Peralta canon.
Thos. McCune, we'll known Colorado
miner, writes from Cochiti: ~ have seer
about all the claims that are being work
ed, and they are wonders. l saw an assay
of ore from the Last Chance yesterday
that run $265 in gold and silver. This
mine is owned by Messrs. Borradaile
Strong, Hesselden and Hill. They art
down eight feet and it is hummer.
have never before seen such ore bodies ir
all my experiences; this will make the
greatest camp, in my estimation, in the
country"
B. P. English, who has been prospect
ing on claim at Cochitl, owned by him