Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-17
THE GREAT MINES.
Over 100 Claims in COchiti District
on Which Assessment Work
Has Been Done.
The Northern Field-Indians Run a
Bluf-A New Precinct
News Notes.

News Notes.
The Cochiti mining district is develop
ing much more rapidly than people gen
orally imagine. At present assessment
work is being done on some forty claims.
Sitting in front of ones tent in the town
of Allerton one may hear all day long the
rumble and the echo of the giant blast.
necessarily, up one canon and down an
other. In district that is at this time
probably three miles wide and five miles
long there are 100 claims on which assess
ment work has either already or is now
being done. Probably two-thirds of
these claims show pay mineral from the
surface. Some comparison may here be
made as to whether or not, under these
circumstances, the camp may be called
really a great one, and for the pur-
poses of such comparison let US take
Cripple Creek, the Colorado wonder. Up
there the greatest number of claims ever
producing at one time was seventy. To-
day not half this number is being worked,
not because the pay mineral is wanting,
but because labor organizations are
paralyzing the arm of both labor and
capital. Thanks to the good sense of the
sturdy men at Cochiti no such sentiment
has come to aftiict this camp, and at this
time the energy everywhere shown, the
enthusiasm over the mammoth ore
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combine to show that there is no discount
on the greatness of the district. One
Colorado man who has spent six weeks
there, going on horseback to personally
inspect every part of the mineralized
belt, says if one-half the prospects on
which assessment work is now in progress
yield pay ore, Cochiti will not only make
a large and prosperous city of Santa Fe,
but will exercise an influence on all New
Mexico that will do more than any other
one thing toward bringing about state
hood.
LOOKING TO THE NORTH.
1t is admitted that the Cochiti district
proper is now all located, SO that it is
scarcely worth the while Of new men to
go in there in hopes of striking bonanzas.
The early bird has caught all the worms.
This being the case several Colorado
parties now returning from the camp ap-
pear to have no hesitancy in saying that
the district is not what it is cracked up
to be. After talk with them, however,
it is plain to see that failure to get in on
the ground floor is their only grievance.
While there are few of this class, there
are many of the other stripe who believe
there are just as good fish in the sea as
were ever caught, and they are going after
them. Men of this latter stamp are now
looking toward the north of Cochiti
canon. For distance of twenty miles to
the north and west this region is being
prospected. In San Ildefonso and at
the head of Santa Clara canon mann
moth lodges of ore have been
found. On the surface it runs about IS
in gold to the ton, but parties who have
been there tell the New MEXICAN that
they think the richest part of these leads
has been thrown aside.
With the knowledge of what has been
shown at Cochitl the miners now in there
expect to be able to tell country rock
from pay ore. As many as fifty men are
now prospecting between Espanola and
Cochiti canon with every chance of re-
vealing large and attractive bodies Of
mineral
CHRIS YEAaER's EXPERIENCE.
Chris Yeager, the Cerrillos miner, who
has spent the past year at Amizett, is in
town to-day. He comes from near Will
low Springs, Cochiti district, five miles
west of Kent City, where he has charge of
claims located in the name of himself,
Chas. Way, Robt. Herrcke and others of
Cerrillos, G. L. Betterton and others of
Santa Fe. There are fifty men in this
camp. He states that on Saturday evening
last eight San Domingo Pueblo Indians
called on him and notified him to leave
the camp. Mr.. Yeager lost an eye while
blasting in his Amizett mines and the
black patch he wears over it has aroused
suspicion and superstition in the minds of
the noble native of San Domingo. Yeager,
however, is a slayer. He is not on Indian
lands and hence he doesn't have to leave.
To-day he called in company with Gen.
G. F. Easley upon Capt. j. L. Bulls,
Pueblo Indian agent, and the agent sends
an official letter to the Cochiti Indians to-
, night telling them not to modest Mr..
Yeager.
THE PERALTA PRECINCT.
Another precinct has been carved out
of the Cochiti mining district as origi-
nally mapped out by the miners assem-
bled at Eagle City. This second precinct
makes Kent City, in -Peralta canon its
common center, and it claims to have a
population of 500 persons within the
new boundaries as set down at a meeting
held on Saturday at Kent. The north
boundary of this new territory is de.
scribed as being the southern line of
Pine canon; the west line Is the Jemez
river; the east line 10 the boundary of the
Cochiti pueblo grantand the south line
is the road leading from San Isidro to
Pena Blanca. The meeting named Chas.
F. Hunt as mining recorded; Chas. Pax
ton as justice of the peace and Peter
Powers as road supervisor. A commit