Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-13
GOLD GALORE.
True Tales of the Wonderful Rich
ness of the Amizett Region
Facts and Figures That
Mean Wealth.

The Rio Hondo district, with Amzett
as center point, ls one of the banner
camps Of New Mexico. It lies in the
same gold belt as the Aztec mine and
placer diggings of Ute creek, and the
Lynch and other placers of Elizabeth
town and Monero valley. For every
100000 that these mines have produced,
tho Rio Hondo mines can turn out an
equal quantity and is already beginning
the output.
Mr.. L. NJ. Brown, one of the most pro-
gressive Young mon of Taos, tells the
New MEXICAN many things of interest
respecting this changed condition of
things in our neighborlng county on the
north. He says:
''THE MINERS
have fullconfidence that their title, or rath-
er Uncle Sans, will be made clear by the
land court, and are going ahead prospect
ing and developing their properties. Gold
Hill mines have been steadily worked all
winter and while not much has been said
about it, ore is being piled up on the
dumps for shipment, which will be begun
in few days. Colorado miners are now
dropping in at the rate of three or four
day. All the boys who we're in last season
and spent part of the winter looking
around, are now on the ground again.
The Rio Hondo Gold Placer company,
mostly Denver people, are reopenlng
their slucing operations at the forks of
the river above Amizett. They have
coarse gold from the surface down. The
Rockingham Placer company, which has
ground on the north fork, will also turn
on water in short time.
"The impression created by the Denver
papers seems to be that there Is still too
much snow at Amizett for prospecting.
But this is late enough to get in on the
ground, and there is plenty of country
already open. All the foothill range from
the mouth of the canon north is clean of
snow. There are some fine indications of
big gold leads in this belt. This is GER
tainly the origin of the immense
GOLD GRAVEL DEPOSITS
lying between this range and the river.
Every gulch leading down between the
mesas and ridges, back Of the river, will
pan "pay dirt" and it is only question
of getting water on the ground at an ele-
vation that will knock over the dirt in
large quantities. This ground is all pay,
abundant, and at hand"
Here Mr.. Brown produced bottle and
showed the reporter twenty-nine penny
weights of coarse gold, taken out of twen-
ty three yards of dirt at bed rock, and
continued:
''We have uncovered an extensive de-
posit that averages 60 cents to the yard
actual weight and measurement. l have
just finished six miles of ditch and q
reservoir for storing water during the
night, and turned on water Monday morn
ing for hydraulic operations. This work
is in charge of Eglert Post, who is an ex
perienced placer miner, and knows the
habits of what some persons are pleased
to call flour gold of the Rio Hondo. He
knows how to trap the creature as you can
see from the sample have which is of
sizes from -four dust up to the dimen-
sions of head of match.
"Further down the Hondo j. E. Laco me
and Eli johnson have
FLouRIsH1Na PLACER PLANT.
I had not yet been informed of their
returns SO far when l left Taos, but they
show some fine specimens of heavy, shot
gold and have largo acreage of land.
From the mouth of the Rio Hondo down
to the Rio Grande there is not less than
1000 acres of good ground, all of it pay,
and big pay, by lifting out the water of
the Hondo, which is large stream and
carries water enough for big operations.
In fact, dozen or more plants could be
carried on, as the ground lies in such
manner that the water can be taken up
and used again several times.
Sup the Rio Grande, north from the
mouth of the Rio Hondo, is Camp Meigs,
where the railroad boys have struck it
rich. They have stumbled on to ono of
the little known facts in regard to placer
deposits. They are in the canon of the
Rio Grande. 1t is more than 500 feet
deep. In prospecting the bars on the
sides of the canon they found strata Of
gravel under the malpais. Drifting in on
these strata deposits they have got dirt
that beats the record-$1 to $1.5O to the
yard. They are initiating the deep sink
ings Of Australia, which has since been
taken up in California, and are exploring
the old channels of ancient rivers, which
have been covered over 500 feet deep by
the volcanic flood from the west. P. H.
Leese, of Espanola, and Supt. Helm and
Mr.. Chapman, of the Santa Fe Southern,