Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-02-15

| cred with volcanic cap, which is broKen
off irregularly where the canons head.
In some places this cap extends on the
mesas below the heads of the canoDs and
can be seen on the walls. In some places
it is but few feet thick, and in others
it is many hundreds. All the leads
located are below the lower edge OF the
cap. On the north side of Pine canon
quartz veins fifty feet thick can be seen
underlying the volcanic rock, and these
are said to assay we'll. Some of them
might be worked through tunnels in the
canon wall.
WOOD AND WATER.
The slope of the range is heavily tim
bered with yellow pine, thus assuring
plenty of fuel, mining timber and build
ing material. There is fairly good
supply of water in Pine canon, enough to
run two or three mills perhaps, certainly
enough to supply town. A reservoir
would conserve an ample supply for all
purposes. There are streams IN the
other canons, but in the dry season they
do not run to the river. However, the
Rio Grande is not far away, and mills
and smeters could be located on the bank
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| POSSIBLE TOWN SITES.
| If the camp pans out as well as 1T pros
poets, there will be a series of mining
towns rather than one town. The people
must live where they can get water, and
as there is no water on the mesas and %
practicable way Of getting it there, the
towns will string upand down the canons.
Each cauon will have its settlement, and
the men who mine on the mesas will have
to climb about thousand feet to their
work and slide down home to supper.
Wagon roads can be built up to the
mesas. The men in Pine canon have
named their collection of tents and brush
huts Scamp Harrison" after the late
mayor of Chicago, and they rather expect
to have town there this year.
Mr.. May says: "This will be no jim
crow camp. 1t will be a of big
camp. l feel sure Of it. OF course no
man can see any deeper into the ground
than another, but the formation and the
prospects convince me that we are on an
| immense lead. If this is not so, then
am all at sea as a miner. If had to pull
out of here, I don't know where ] would
go to look for mine. II this isn't a
mine, don't know where a man could
find one. It is my belief that there will
be thousands of people here next sum
mer."
The miners had intended to meet and
organize district, but the snow-storm
drove some of them out and blockaded
others in camp, and the meeting had to
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be called the "Allerton" district in honor
Board of Trade, who is largely interested
the mines. Mr.. Dougine is Allerton's
preventative on the ground. His first
v. it to the camp was brief one. He
!, oked at some prospect holes in Pine
c'1on, sized up the formation, and went
out on horseback as fast as he could go.
In two or three days he returned with
several men and set Thorn at work max
irg locations and digging holes. The
Chicago outfit has been trying to keep
the strike as quiet as possible, SO the
miners say, and have not been in favor
of encouraging people to flock into the
, camp at present. The inference is that
Mr.. Allerton's man wants to have time to
pick up the best of the claims and is
afraid that too many prospectors would
diminish his chances of getting big
grip on the camp. The best part OF the
mineral belt is on government land and
not on grant.
l now TO GET THERE.
Cochiti village is on the west bank of
: the Rio Grande, about thirty miles from
Santa Fe by wagon road and about TWEEN
ty-fve by trail. The trail coulL be made
3 a wagon road with but little work, pro-
vided practicable route can be found
Q from the edge of the mesa down to the
: river. There are two wagon roads from
. Santa Fe to La Bajada, one running down
8 the canon of the Rio Santa Fe and the
!, other over the high mesa. The latter is
, the better road. We went down the first
and came back by the latter, and although
3 the difference in altitude between Santa
t Fe and Cochiti Is about 1000 feet, we
made better time coming than going. La
t Bajsda hill, coming up from the river to
| the top of the mesa, is steep and rough.
The rise is 525 feet. It is not good
. piece of road for a heavily loaded
/ outfit, but with light rig time can
i be saved by coming that way. The trip
can be made either way in six hours quite
: easily. Before I left town, saw posted
, up map showing straight road from
Pena Blanca to the camp, bearing forty
: degrees west of Cochiti. There is no such
3 road and can be none. The ridges and
canons can not be crossed on any such
line. The line probably is meant to be the
Jemez road The road from Pena Blanca to
the cam P goes through Cochiti, and to g o by
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time and increases the distance nearly
ten miles.
, The railroad point nearest to Cochiti
: is Wallace, but that is only small place
and no Quitting point. 1t is twenty
three miles distant and part of the road is
, through heavy sand. Nothing needed in
camp can be bought there. There are no
stores at Cochiti, and there is but scant
, accommodation there for travellers. Par
ties going to the camp should outfit in
Santa Fe and take along all the provi.
sions, bedding, tents and horse feed that
they will require. good load can be
hauled over the road, which is mostly
smooth and of even grade. There ia
only one hill of any consequence, and
that is from the creek to the top of the
big mesa.
1t is useless to attempt to 60 to the
camp while the snow lies deep. In about
three weeks the mines probably will be
accessible, but there will be very little
work done inside of four weeks. The
prospectors are either simply holding
down their tents because that is easier
than wading out, or waiting in Cochiti
for thaw. As more snow fell Tuesday,
the latter class will wait some time yet.
Some of the men who had live stock in
camp had to come out, and they lost
some of their horses ON the trip.
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