Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-23
FROM THE MINES.
Narrow Gauge Surveyors Headed for
COchiti-Rich Placer Find
Near Santa Fp.

A surveying corps of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad left Espanola yesterday
to run preliminary lines with view to
ascertaining the most feasible route into
the Cochiti mining district. They started
in at the end of the old White Rock canon
grade, four miles south of the point where
the Santa Fe Southern leaves the Rio
Grande river to run into Santa Fe. There
is much difference of opinion as to the
cost of going directly down the river as
compared with line running west from
Santa Fe, and the object of this survey is
to demonstrate which is the best and
most economical route. 1t Is said the
surveyors will first go to Cochiti by the
river route, and after running line up
Pine canon will start in at Allerton and
survey over the new stage road into this
city. The fact that both the A., Z. & s.
f. and D. & R. G. are thus early in the
field with railroad projects certainly
speaks much for the permanency of the
Cochiti district.
THE GRANT QUESTION.
The U. S. department of justice de.
clines to order survey and the taking of
testimony to establish the fraudulent ma
ture of the Canada de Cochiti grant. At
the solicitation of citizens and mining
men having large interests in Cochiti, U.
s. Attorney Reynolds took this matter up
with the department and presented it as
urgent, but the department declines to
act, saying there are absolutely no funds
at hand to meet the expense of such work.
This means that this grant case can not
come on for trial at the present term of
the U. s. land court. 1t is now the inten-
ton to bring it to trial at the August
term, and in the meantime the miners,
those who have claims in the district that
are supposed to be within the alleged
grant boundaries, are advised to stay
right there and prosecute the develop
ment of their claims without fear of mo-
lestation.
EsPANoLA IN II.
An Espanola dispatch to the Denver
Republican says:
st seems almost impossible to believe
the stories of big leads at the new Cochiti
camp. Messrs. Conger, Wilhelm and
Coffin, three experienced Colorado mining
men, who left here several weeks ago,
have returned and say that half has not
been told. They brought samples from
one lead that is seventy feet between walls !
and averages 800 in value in gold and sill
yer across the lead with several streaks of
very high grade ore. They say there are
millions of tons in sight The Cochiti
boom makes passenger business on the
Santa Fe branch of the Denver & Rio
Grande good. Some of theNl outfit here
and some go through 70 Santa Fe. Bur-
ros can be had hore at from SO to IS
head ard supplies of all kinds are almost
as cheap as in Denver or Pueblo. The
people of the valley are jubilant over the
excellent mining prospects north, south
and west of Espanola."
PLACER GOLD NEAR SANTA FEE.
Even Aqua Fria turns out to be gold
field. By most fortunate accidental dis
very field of richness has been opened
up almost within the city limits of Santa
Fe. If there be those who are skeptical
let them visit the jewelry store of George
W. Hickox & Co and inspect the spec-
mems on exhibition and their skepticism
will soon vanish.
The discoveries of the field are very
secretive concerning its location, but
enough has been learned to state that the
specimens now on exhibition were found
in the bee. of the Santa Fe river just be.
low Aqua Fra, or about six miles from
Santa Fe. Some men we're engaged in |
plastering house and secured some sand
out of the river. In sitting the sand they
caught sight of what appeared to be a
speck of gold. They procured a pan |
washed five pans of it and secured some
go cents worth of gold.
The gold is in the shape of nuggets,
and if there is any quantity of it the dis
covery will prove rich thing for Santa
Fc.
All those who have seen the specimens
brought in by the men who made the
constituent.
Parties have gone out to-day to invest
igate the III after.
NUGGETS OF NEWS. |
At G. W. Hickox d Co.'S store are dis |
played samples of decomposed quartz
from the Wiegan mine, San Pedro, in
which gold is visible to the naked eye.
The Santa Fe and Cochiti stage left
for Cochiti this morning carrying two
passengers, Mr.. George Comstock, a min
ing expert, of La lara, Colo, and Mr.. G.
F. Alley, of Denver.
The Socorro smelter is after the sill
cous ores of Cochiti and the smelling
which were formerly 500, on &C.
count of the shortage of this class of ore,
has been reduced to $40 per ton.
Messrs. Flavel Simonson, of Milwaukee,
and A. T. Hathaway. of Colorado, re-
turned last night from trip to Golden.
They brought in samples of free gold
rock from the Hazleton mine.
The Lone Star mine will, as soon as
Mr.. Lowthian systematizes his work,
place Burleigh drills at work in the mine.
The vein of thirty-five feet in width as.
canda tho mountain for 2O0 feet at an