Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-10-16
AMONG THE MINERS.
Progress Of Work at CerrillOs, San
Pedro. Dolores and COchiti.

O'Mara d Michaels begin shipping coal
from the O'Mara bank on Monday.
The Postal Telegraph company will
open an office at Cerrillos in a few days.
Albuquerque parties have taken lease
on the Fiske mill and will treat customs
ores.
The Cash Entry company has sold two
boilers to the Albuquerque Water com
pany.
About 100 men are dry washing for
gold at Dolores. The camp is not what
can be called booming, but everyone is
busy and good wages are being made.
The San Lazarus Gold Mining company
at San Pedro have Huntington mill at
work on their property and are employ
ing twenty men under the superintend-
ency of H. W. Schroeder. About fifty
tons of gold ore, which runs from 81 to
$40 per ton, are being treated daily.
Mr.. G. G. Fitzgerald is erecting lotion
mill at the Gray Eagle mine, three .fourths
of mile from Golden. This mill is
merely to experiment on this class of ore
and if successful, which there is every
reason to believe, 1OO-ton mill will be
Dullb at once.
Since the larger portion of the land
claimed by the owners of the Canon do
Aqua grant has been thrown open, a great
many prospectors have gone into San
Pedro and Golden, and Indications are
that within short time the hills will be
full of people. The districts are rich in
mineral and active work will not be long
delayed.
Here is sample of the string of prom
ises that have been "dinged' into south
Santa Fe county people for ten years:
"H. H. Armstead, of New York, is at Col
den, prospecting extensively for placer
gold. He has machine on the ground,
but not yet set up, which he thinks will
prove success for saving all the pre-
cious metal. If this machine is all he
thinks it is, he will put on large force
of men,"
THE COCHITI DISTRICT.
The prospects of Bland are far brighter
than were those of Aspen in 1882.
There are more women and children in
Bland than in any other mining camp of
its age on earth.
The Last Chance No. 2 tunnel is being
rapidly driven into the mountain under
the direct supervision of Bob Hart.
j. G. Holt, superintendent in charge of
the Bland tunnel, has force of fifteen
miners working on three eight-hour
shifts. Mr.. Holt says they will be in 800
feet by the 1st of November.
Sayer Bros. are running their saw mill
below town to the top of its capacity,
but fail to supply the demand for lum-
Der at Bland. They are working a force
of twelve men.
The Good Hope mine, owned by Young
& Spears, and located about 1900 feet
south of the Outlook Office, is shipper
with car load of high grade ore.
I. H. Benson is pushing work on his
new twe-story frame hotel as rapidly as
possible In anticipation of the approach
ing boom.
The Iron King, the Crown Point, the
Lone Star, the Last Chance No. 2, the
Union and the Posy, all within. three
quarters of mile OF Bland, are either
shippers or sufficiently developed to be-
gin making regular shipments at once.
So far during the year of grace 1894
original assessment work, not with the
tricky lead pencil but with honest picks,
shovels, drills and powder, has been done
on seventy-six promising prospects in
the Cochiti district.