Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-03
MINE MENTIONS.
Live News of the Moment Echoed from
the Golden Hills About
Santa Fe.

L. Clad, of Cripple Creek, came in over
the narrow gauge last evening and will go
to Cochiti in the morning.
John J. Neary, mining man of Alma,
Colo who came in over the narrow gauge
on Saturday evening, left for Cochiti this
morning.
B. r. Nugent, T. j. Barber, Geo. c.
Smith, Cliff Arnold and others have en-
gagged two double teams and will GO to
Cochiti in the morning.
Messrs. P. j. Barber, Geo. Smith and
party of six leave on Wednesday on their
return to Cochiti. Their claims in Cola
canon will be steadily worked.
DR.. T. M. Michaels, of California, an
experienced man in mining and irrlga-
ton subjects, is Investigating south Santa
Fe county business propositions.
p. M. Hawkins, of Creede, P. L. Brown,
of Aspen, and Frank Stottler, of Rico,
purchased supplies in Santa Fe yesterday
and departed for the Cochiti gold dis
trict.
Sheriff Cunningham and Col. j. w.
Bradley have prospectors at work in
Cola canon and the richest piece of free
gold rock yet shown from the Cochiti
district has been sent in to Sheriff Gun
ningham. It is beautiful.
Some Denver gentleman has purchased
of Col. j. s. Hutchinson, of Socorro, his
gold claim in. Pine canon, Cochiti mining
district. The price is 80 big the name of
the gentleman is withheld.-Denver Daily
Mining Record.
According to the Springer Stockman
that "long lost Spanish mine" has been
again discovered. The Stockman goes
infinitely into descriptive details, but
there is one weak spot about 1t all-April
l is too near at hand.
Charles F. Yardman, who has located
several promising prospects in tho Co.
chit district, will return to camp to do
assessment work Immediately after cast
ing his vote for DR.. Sloan. He has faith
in the riches of those big mineralized
dykes.
Mr.. T. A. Hathaway, of Rico, who has
several prospectors at work IN Cochiti,
leaves for the district tomorrow accom-
panied by Mr.. F. T. Webber. Whenever
mining camp can command the atten-
ton of such solid men it is safe to bet
that there is something in it..
And still they come. Louis Digneo and
several parties have located number of
claims four miles southeast of Santa Fe
that bear every surface indication of
proving good pay mineral. Samples
shown on the street reveal heavy deposits
of pyrites of copper. They say the vein
is four feet wide on the surface.
Frank Fraser, Cripple Creek miner,
expressed the opinion to New MEXICAN
reporter this morning that the so-called
garnets found near Embudo we're merely
highly colored silica, and said there was
nothing incredible about The story that
they were rich in gold. He added that he
had often seen gold in pure silica at Grip
pie Greek.
Colorado mining men, who have exam
ined the Crown Point ore sent to the So
zorro smelter and which run on an aver.
age of 500 to the ton, were simply as
tonished when they heard the results OF
the mill rup. None of them thought it
would yield over $40 per ton. The ore
was not assorted. Another carload of this
ore is now about ready for shipment.
The new short road between Santa Fe
and Cochiti district is receiving the finish
ing touches to-day, and this afternoon the
working force will break camp and re-
turn to the city. Messrs. E. L. Webber
and E. Andrews, representing the Board
of Trade, went out to view the road yes
terday. There is some work yet to be
done before the committee can make Its
final report to the Board of Trade.
Says the Albuquerque Citizen: "P. A.
Simpson, who returned last night from
Kent City, in the Cochiti mining district,
states to the Citizen that corps of sur
veyors for the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road camped at the village of Cochiti
Saturday, and moved up to Kent City on
yesterday. They are looking over the dis
trict and will report to the headquarters
of the company at Denver as soon as they
complete their observations"
Messrs. G. W. Knaebel Jacob Weltmer
and Q. Monier returned last evening from
Peralta canon. They say Peter Powers is
doing land Office business with his gen
eral store and restaurant. He is building
house 20x30 to accommodate his in
creasing business. At present there are
about forty people at Kentville. These
gentlemen are greatly pleased with the
mining outlook, and while in the camp
they purchased the Espanola claim of L.
G. de Baca.
Ex-Sheriff ]. G. Clark, of Rico, and As.
sayer William Middleton went to EN-
budo over the narrow gauge yesterday
to invest in the garnet fields. They
claim to have positive information that
a test of the so-called garnets, recently
made in st. Louis, resulted in the fabu.
lous return OF $4,000 in gold to the ton
If this should approximate the truth SEN
sational developments may be looked TO,
in Taos and Rio Arriba counties.
| Cochiti is thus sized up in the Denver
Daily Mining Record: "Some of Colo.
RADIOS best known mining men have re.
turned from the Cochiti gold diggings oil
New Mexico and while they give encour.
aging reports of the extent of the min
eral belt, they do say the early locating
of many claims by single individuals and
the locating of great many by one, two
or three persons banded together as q
sort of a company is going to prove
detrimental and that much time will
elapse before the evil can be remedied
Claims in New Mexico are GOO feet in
width by 1900 feet in length and when
one person locates ten claims, he asserts
a right to 200 acres of prospecting
ground. Then again another thing which
is characteristic of the most of the dis
tricts in New Mexico and the neighboring
territory of Arizona is blessed with the
same encouragement and detrimental
propositions of locators demanding
$4,000 to $4,000 for single claim with
less than a twenty foot discovery shaft
and not 100 foot shaft in the whole dis.