Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-03
GOLDEN GLEANINGS.
Facts from Solid Camp That Show
Great Activity in Industrial
Development.

Correspondence New Mexican.
Golden, Santa Fe Co., March 1.-While
thers is so much talk about the other
rich mining sections tributary to Santa
Fe, we think it we'll that this camp should
be heard from.
We have no boom, but there is considera-
BILE quiet development work being done.
]. NJ. Lucas is running his five-stamp mill
steadily on ore now being taken out of
his Ohio mine, which yields very salts
factory returns.
A few days ago ten days run was
cleaned up at this little mill and over
five pounds of retort gold, worth about
$l,100, was secured.
Mr.. L. W. Marsh, of Silverton, Colo,
has entered into a contract with Mr..
Lucas, to attach to the mill a process,
on which Mr.. Marsh holds letters patent,
for the purpose of saving all valuable
minerals remaining in the tailings, and
also to concentrate the slime. Mr.. Marsh
claims that this slime is often very rich
in -four gold and other precious minerals,
which are all saved by his process, an
entirely new thing in treating refractory
ores.
Denver parties are negotiating with
Messrs. Randall and Cullen, of this place,
for their group of gold mines, with
view Of working them extensively, drill
ing for water and erecting stamp mills
on the property.
Weigan & Co., of East Las Vegas, are
doing great deal of development work
on their valuable gold and copper claims
in the Tuerto mountains and are also
working a mine in the Ortiz mountains,
from whence comes a rumor of a very
rick strike in gold and particulars
later.
Deboo & Jones are closing trade for
a ten-stamp mill to treat the gold ore
from their Bonanza, in the north noun
tains. Besides these several other prop
erty owners are in correspondence with
eastern capitalists, relativesto the erec-
tion of reduction works, of which l will
inform you as their plans mature.
The news of the rich strikes in other
parts of the territory, while it has not had
the tendency to attract our miners, has
created new stimulus to push the de-
velopment work on claims here, believing,
as we all do, that this is one of the rich
est mining camps ip the west, and now
becoming widely known through Colo
RADIO as being a riUh gold camp. Pros
pectors and capitalists from that state are
arriving almost daily.
The native placer miners are taking
more gold out of our placers every day
than the same number of men do in any
other camp in the territory. Yet there is
little said about it; but hereafter we will
be heard from, thanks to the enterprise
of the NEW MEXICAN in establishing a
regular correspondents agency here.
A mining expert has been in San Pedro
within the past few days making thor
ough examination of the Santa Fe Copper
company's property and it is understood
that he was here for The purpose of re-.
porting upon the advisabillty of making
extensive additions to the reduction
works in the way of large concentrator
and other improvements, and that the
company will soon commence operations
on larger scale than ever.
From .he present outlook, by spring
/ southern Santa Fe county will have a
gold and copper producing camp that will
surprise outsiders.