Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-06-12
COCHITI CALLS.
Big Bodies of Rich Ore Opened in the
Great Camp-News Notes from
the Golden Hills.

Eagle City is just 2months old and has
over 500 inhabitants.
A new townslte has been laid out in
Medic Dia canon and named Coffman.
new stamp mill Is soon to be erected
in the Medic Dia canon, about two miles
northeast of Bland.
AIlerton is going to have church and
Eagle new dance hall. Eagle is little
higher up than Allerton.
R. L. Marksbury is pushing develop
ment work on the Monster and Corena
lodes, extensions of the Washington and
King Solomon.
The Crown Point mine has encountered
q large vein of ore that gives an average
of over 500 per ton in gola.
The Union lode has been sold on
thirty day option for $4,000. Develop
ment work will be pushed on the prop
erty.
The Vicksburg lode, northern extern
sion of the Lone Star, in prosecuting
shows up a fourteen foot vein of fine
quartz. The Vicksburg is the property
of Eagle and Darcy.
Look out for some big strikes in Medic
Dla, Cochiti, La Jara and Santa Clara
canons. The "yellow stuff is there and
the boys are going to bring it to the sur
face if pluck and perseverance will do it.
Samples of ore from the Queen of
Spades lode at depth of fifteen feet
from the surface gave an assay of $5l per
ton in gold and sixty-eight ounces in sill
yer. This property is one-half mile
from Bland or Eagle.
J.W. Akers, of Santa Fe, is one of the
principal owners of the Aspen Girl, Nor
way, Snow Ball, King Solomon No. 2,
Saddle, Arcade and Crown Point No. 2, n
promising group of claims, extensions of
the Lone Star and Washington mines.
The conflict of title to the Ida Foster
and Lucky lodes has been satisfactorily
adjudicated between the two claimants
without any litigation. Thomas McCune
and Milton Katzenberg get the Lucky
property and P. l.. Marksbury the Ida
Foster.
Pipe for the Eagle Water Supply COM
pany are expected to be delivered from
Santa Fe the coming week. Work on the
underground drains is now being done.
Several fire hydrants will be put in on
Main street to secure the town against fire
and to give property owners cheap rate
of insurance.
In Medic Dia Tom Benson has very
promising property called the Charlotte,
which assays we'll in gold and for which
parties from Cripple Creek offered ST.
600 when development work was only
down ten feet. Free gold can be PANIED
from any of the rock composing the VEN
matter, which is said to be at least fifteen
feet wide.
None of the mineral now being shipped
is taken from below the grass roots. AT
6 months of age we can number our
mines that can produce pay ore into the
twentles. We can boast Of the largest
gold bearing quartz veins in the world,
the pay streaks of which are from ten to
100 feet wide cropping out upon the sur
face. We have hundreds of first-class
prospects that would be producing mines
in other camps.
The controversy over the Last Chance
No. property is to be settled by arbi-
tration. j. L. Hill, John Borridaile, w. w.
Strong and Wallace Hesselden on the one
side and Edward Medler, Chas Mccoy and
Chas. Medler on the opposing side, hnv-
ing signed the articles to that effect
Thursday and the injunction proceedings
in court are to be withdrawn.
James Kernahan came in from the
Santa Clara country Sunday, and while
in town called at the Call office. He showed
some fine specimens of gold quartz and
native silver that came from there. The
camp is in the La Jara canon, about
twenty miles southwest from Espanola
Among the prospectors in the camp are
Messrs. Pridham, O'Neil, Virgo, Wiring
Williams and Kernahan.
For the past few days Tom Lowthian
had a force of men at work on the sur
face of the Albemarle preparatory to run
ming in tunnel to cut the vein below
In prospecting on the vein, which is 9
huge compact body of gold bearing
quartz, from several paintings made from
different parts of it string of gold colors
from two to four inches long were OBJ
tanned, the paintings being all taken from
surface groupings. The ore body is al
least forty-fve feet wide, and conserva
tive mining men now estimate that the
entire vein will give over $400 per ton in
free gold, to say nothing of its smelling
qualities.