Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-05-01
THE COCHITI MINES.
Patents for Several Great Properties
Asked fOr-News Notes from the
Rich Hills of the West.

The survey of the Dry Monopole, Free
Trade and Lone Star mines in the Cochi-
ii district, owned principally by Mr.
Thomas Lowthian, has been submitted
by Deputy U. s. Mineral Surveyors H. T..
and L. M. Brown to Surveyor General
Easley preparatory to applying for a
patent to the properties. General Easey
will carefully examine the matter before
| taking final action, as he recognizes the
Importance of thoroughly investigating
the sub ect before acceptance or rejection
of the survey. His action in the premises
will go long way toward settling the
difficulties which now surround the camp
on account of the alleged Canada de Co.
chit grant. According to Surveyor
Brown, should the surveyor general fail
to approve the survey the matter will be
contested to the last, and Mr.. Lowthian
has employed as attorneys Catron & Spiess
to carry the matter before the commits
soner of the land office if necessary to
establish the fact that the grant claimants
have no concern with these mineral To-
cations.
THE SANTA CLARA REGION.
Messrs. Valentine Schick and F. W..
Wientge are home after three weeks
prospecting tour through the Vale and
Santa Clara regions, thirty miles north
west of Santa Fe. They found good min
eral. About twenty-five Colorado miners
are now on the head of the Santa Clara
and in that vicinity. E1-Sheriff John
Clark, of Rico, has forty foot ledge of
gold bearing rock on which he has secured
assays of $50 to the ton. Mr.. Kernahan,
Jack Harris and a prospector represent
ing Dr. Andrews, of this city, have also
| located promising claims thereabouts.
This region is twenty miles north of Co
chit district. South of the Santa Clara
canon Messrs. Schick and Wientge located
ledge of fine looking quartz that runs
from fifty to $50 feet in width. Assays
will have to be made before they will
venture to say what the big quartz dyke
amounts to.
MINE NUGGETS.
HI. Hawkins and Frank Whitmore, of
Amizett, have gone into Cochiti on a
prospecting trip.
Assay returns on some mighty rich CO.
chit rock were received here to day from
Leadville. Particulars later.
The Cochiti Call, by James Lightfoot,
a rust,lng, experienced journalist of Colo
RADIO, will make its appearance in that,
mining camp about the middle of May.
Messrs. j. j. Harris and VIM. Meecham,
two expert miners from Georgetown,
Colo, left for Cochiti this morning by the
Santa Fe and Cochiti stage. They report
increased interest in Cochiti among the
Colorado miners.
John Ely, of Nevada, and Chester ones,
of Montana, left for Cochiti to-day to re-
port to northern capitalists on the pros
pects at Cochiti. 1t means something
when such men get into a new mining
district. They go first to Golden and San
Pedro, thence to Eagle. Mr.. Donald Nc
Rae accompanies them.
Cliff Arnold is busy to day buying a
glass front and other filings for his new
store at Eagle. He has been made glad
by the arrival of his partner, Mr.. E. l..
Fletcher, of Boston, ana after laying in a
stock of drugs, stationery, etc, they will
proceed to Eagle, accompanied by Mr..
Horatio Cushing, of Skowhegan, Maine,
uncle of Mr.. Arnold.
Photographer 7. J. Curren has gone to
Hunter, on the Chama river, where he was
called by letter to come and take photo
graphic views of the Bucyrus placer gold
machine, now so successfully at work.
The photographs are to be sent to the
Buffalo, N. Y, and Milwaukee stockhold-
ers of the company as reminder that
they have struck it rich.
The Albuquerque Democrat has at last
come to its senses and is buckllng in to
aid the New MEXICAN in supporting the
just claims of the Cochiti miners. The
Democrat says: "The attempt to brighten
miners, prospectors and investors away
from the Cochiti district with the cry of
land grant can not be sufficiently con-
demned. In the past this kind of work
has done much to retard the progress Of
the territory"