Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-06

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prospects and working claims are in
cluded. OF course it is understood there
are hundreds of claims north and south
of these, but they are only staked as yet.
SUGGESTION.
feel rather shy of the following sug-
gestion. Indeed, would not offer it save
that have the evidence of my own eyes
and the Endorsement of good Colorado
prospectors with whom l have talked. 1t
is my honest and candid belief that the
best Of the country has not been touched
This statement is based on the following
reason:
The Crown Point, the Ace of Spades,
the Iron King, the Chicago, the Lone Star
the Washington, the King Solomon, the
Monster, the Albuquerque and the Golden
Era are all within the 5000 foot surface
contour as drawn by the geographer
Henry Gannett of the U. s. geological
survey. In passing, may say that the
Survey" has shown more knowledge of
geography than geology, and that is my
excuse for quoting anything from it to a
community of miners. The map has
been endorsed by practical men who have
had occasion to use it practically.
Following this 5000 foot contour it
runs south to short distance of the
latitude of Pena Blanca, thence north ir-
regularly to near the northern line of
Bernalillo county, then it sheers south
again to about the same latitude whence
it runs directly north parallel with the
10th meridian, and about four or five
miles from it, it turns east again in Rio
Arriba county and embraces the high
peak, before mentioned, and then swings
south to complete it's circle. This line
includes a country nearly one degree of
longitude wide, and about thirty or thirty
five miles from north to south, and con-
tains all the higher peaks of the Jemez
and Vale mountains as we'll as the Cochiti
country.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
The day we started north and west of
the first described mineral belt, we were
told that party of ten good prospectors
had been all over that country and had
not found anything worth locating. We
spent three days in there in snow, waist
deep on the northern slopes, before any
encouragement was had. About a mile
west of the Crown Point the volcanic cap
of ashy grey matter disappears. The
porphyry dykes are covered with layer
of soil, foot to two feet deep, made up
of decayed vegetation. There is little or
no float to be found. Indeed, in three
days we only found three pieces of decent
float But in running little cross-cut
between two immense dykes, about foot
from the surface we found great quantities
of float, and foot farther down a three
foot lead of quartz between defined walls.
In my opinion it will pay to prospect all
the country north and south of the Grown
Point and wherever the porphyry retains
it's proper character east and west. One
thing is certain, the mineral will be Sin
place" if found in the country last de-
scribed. The foregoing would seem to
lend some color to the story of the
English speaking Indian rife In the camp
that there is plenty of gold to the north
of the Pine and much further north than
any of the prospectors have ever gone.
THE KNOWN LEADS.
To 60 back again to the known leads.
They would indicate bonanzas. They
are from fifteen to forty feet wide, run
truly north and sonth, are high grade re-
fractory quartz. Of couse, as in all such
wide veins, they have more or less de-
fined pay streak. But when one considers
the grade of the ore it does not matter If
sorting has been done. They are known
to be 800 or 900 feet deep.
BIG RETURNS.
The Crown Point is the only claim that
has made any regular shipments. The
FIST sInefiuer returns were $104 to the ton
The second return received last week
from carload lot was 2.32 ounces of gold
and S9.2 ounces of silver. The Lone Star
less than 5000 feet south of this mine
has lead open over thirty feet in width
and stripped down for thirty-two feet. II
is perfect picture. The red country
stain permeats every fissure of the quartz
that is not overloaded with the blush
tint of the silver. 1t is known to run over
5000 in gold and from 300 to 400 ounces
of silver. The Washington, the King
Solomon, the Queen of Spades, all Of
them are high grade mines. Assays of
$1,000 to $4,000 per ton are the order OF
the day in selected rock. Without weary.
ing the reader with whole lot of quoted
returns-that he would discount any way
let us say that we have struck one oil
the biggest camps in the world. It il
not as high grade as the Comstock, but
has whole lot of claims that will give
800 returns from the smelter. If any
miner does not believe this let him 60 up
and view the leads have mentioned. It's
an even bet that he will prospect all that
country while foot remains unclaimed
unless he finds something big the first
day.
THE COUNTRY ROCK
is porphyry-white, grey, yellow, brown,
red and blue. Practically all the solid
formation is composed of it. It ranges
in appearance from stuff that breaks with
a slatey appearance and filled with minute
cracks in every conceivable direction to
white chalk texture. You can find the
hard blue porphyry or loose gangue
matter. Near the quartz leads much oil
it is hard yellow rock filled with red veins
I heard that an assay had been made OF
some of this on claim where there was
no quartz and that it ran 81 to the ton
do not know this for certain, but 1t is
surely reasonable.
THE SIZE OF THE CAMP.
One will be surprised to learn that in a
camp of such brilliant prospects there
are only about ZOO men. Indeed feel
sure that from the Cochitl to the Peralta
it would be hard to find that many. An
old Coloradoan said to me one day
swell, these leads may be blow-outs, they
may be break-overs, I don't know; but
I'll tell you one thing, pard, if this had
been found in Colorado, there would be a
hundred or thousand men here to-day
where there's dozen now. D. it, you
fellows don't know how to make camp"