Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-28
LOOK TO COCHITI.
Work Ahead for Santa Feans-A Mill
wright's Opinion-News Mug
gets from the Mines.

CitlZenS OF odnGa re UluSb COHtlAuo W
reach out and bestir themselves if they
hope to retain the hold they already have
on the Cochiti mining district. They now
have greater incentive than ever to look
after this business. By Saturday night
the contractors will have completed the
new road, whereby the camp will be
brought within less than twenty-five
miles of this city, and then united effort
should be made to push work on the direct
telephone line. Besides this there is some
very good prospect for the extension of
the narrow gauge into the district much
sooner than is now generally supposed.
The Colorado men who are back OF this en-
terprise are not idle, although everything
appears quiet on the surface. The fact
that ex-Attorney General Chas. H. Toll
and the Moffatts and Whitneys are back
of this railroad project, gives it decided
weight. Mr.. Toll was visitor to the
district few days ago, and the fact that
he had while there conference with the
Brown Brothers, surveyors, may be re-
garded as significant. The New MEXICAN
learns that the survey for this
railroad extension may commence
any day. 1t is conceded that the
road is not practicable down the Rio
Grande through White Rock canon. D. &
R. G. engineers are on record as assert
ing that it will cost from $4,000 to $780,,
600 per mile to build that way, whereas
from Santa Fe the distance to the camp
is fully ten miles nearer and the nature OF
the route is SO favorable as to make con-
struction cost, it is estimated, only about
$1,000 per mile.
In view of these things Santa Feans
have duty to perform now that they
must not overlook. The maps and esti
mates of the original D. & R. G. survey
down White Rock canon will be here from
Chicago in a few days. In few days
also the completion of the new stage road
will be announced Then the Board of
Trade should BIZ prepared to meet and
take up to both the d. g. r. G. company
and the new railroad people matters per-
tanning to the welfare of Santa Fe and
Cochit.
MORE GOOD WORDS.
NIT. II. W. 1lsCoCh ulil"iiBho anu
mining engineer from Colorado, is at the
Exchange hotel. Mr.. Hiscock is an old
time miner, having been in Virginia City
on the Comstock in 1862. The gentleman
has been over to Cochiti, thoroughly in
| vestigated the district, and returns full of
praise for the camp.
When met by representative of the
New MEXICAN to-day he said:
II think Cochlti undoubtedly the big
gest mining camp on earth. There are
mines there already rich enough to cause
prosperity. l refer to the Grown Point
and Lone Star. 1t is milling ore, but
must be concentrated. If we had the
same ore in Colorado that you have here
we would lose no time in erecting con-
centration works. was in Virginia City
an d all along the Comstock in '62 and
did not see anything like have seen here
at Cochiti.
1.-THE camp is going to be permanent
so far as any one can now ascertain. The
formation is porphyry, trachfte and
granite. This is the best combination a
camp can have. The porphyrytic quartz
will carry gold the same as that Of Grip
PIE CIccAS Ouly COCulIl Atbo olO dO -
over Cripple Creek, as the ON aboqops
out and the leads are-ov~ors I'd. They
'Ilssrss the largaaterop agitation saw.
81 mace two locations and intend to
work them, as 1 believe nearly every one
who locates will find something good
Mr.. G. F. Gillette, of Utah, with whom
am associated, is now at Allerton and
should not be surprised if we decided to
put up a mill in the new camp. o
"Santa Fe is the nearestand the natural
center of trade for the new district and 1t
simply rests with your own citizens as to
whether or not you get the business"
MINE NOTES.
Much prospecting is going on north OF
4 Cochiti canon, and some good float has
been found.
Col. j. s. Hutchinson has sold an inter
est in several of his Cochiti claims to
Denver parties.
Lowitzki's stage left for Cochitl this
morning carrying Frank Bennett anG
Charles Gilmore, of Ouray, Colo.
Samples of rock carrying gold anu cop
per were brought in last night from ovel
the Cochiti range in the Jeme[ region.
Messrs. Levi Hughes and/J. W. Akers
leave for Cochiti tomorrow morning te
look after their interests in the camps.