Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-09
NEW MEXICO MINES.
Extensive Operations at San Pedro
Improvements Oh the Fitzgerald
Mill-TelephOne for La Belle
-Newsy Notes from the
New Gold Camp.
SANTA FE COUNTY MINES.

For some time party of Denver men
have been quietly looking into certain
gold fields in New Mexico. The district
lies about twenty miles south of Cerrillos
and is known as San Pedro. That thi,
particular region is rich in GOLD leads
and placers has been long known, but
saddled by the claims of a spurious land
grant, recently declared void by the
United States land court, the region has
never had the attention it seems to rich
lY deserve.
Those who have been on the ground
are satisfied that the country is not only
very rich in gold, copper and silver, but
is very extensive. The country is al
most wholly occupied by Mexicans and
their primitive methods of gold extrac-
tion still prevail. There is everywhere
evidence that the country has been pos
sessed and worked by these people for
more than a century and their tradi-
tions are replete with fabulous stories of
golden treasure.
The present enterprise is incorpor-
ated under the laws of Colorado and
will be known as the San Pedro Mining,
Milling and Prospecting company. They
already have secured possession of the
Iron King group, consisting of six claims
lying in the heart of the district. Gold
values running far into the thousands
have been taken out at various points.
The gold is free in the quartz, and the
veins strong and permanent.
We are informed the company is COM
posed of conservative men, and that the
management will be in the hands of a
practical and experienced miner, who has
a thorough knowledge of the camp and
its requirements Mining Record.
&C. Fitzgerald is enlarging and i'm
proving his plant on the Tuerto, near
Golden. A large consignment of ma
chinery has arrived at Cerrillos from
Denver and carpenters are busy eLlarg
ing the buildings for its reception. The
increased facilities for the treatment of
ore by the Fitzgerald process is war
ranted by the fact that there are immense
bodies of ore in the district close to the
mill which will be worked on an ex-
tensive plan during the coming summer.
LA BELLE.
A new paper is being talked of for
Anchor camp.
One thousand dollars worth of town
lots sold at Anchor on the Sd.
The Dillon boys sold one of their claims
a few days ago for $4,000 with $1,000
paid down.
Yesterdays stage met twenty teams
loaded with goods and building materials
on the road to La Belle.
What the locator of the Hamilton
found, and how deep the shaft was sunk,
is only matter of conjecture, as at the
present time proper information can not
be obtained.
That the boom is rapidly spreading
and that it is assuming more than local
character can plainly be seen by the large
number of strangers that are arriving in
town daily, from all parts of the country
whose destination is La Belle.-Trinidad
Advertiser.
John Gysin went to La Belle from
Trinidad on Friday for the purpose of
starting another town which will be
named Gysin. The new town ia on the
government side, located on 160 acres of
placer ground and is only 1920 yards
from the Anchor town site.
Next week will witness the greatest
number of arrivals ever recorded in La
Belle. The election at Trinidad has held
back many of the flour and molasses
boomers, but here they come this week a
thousand men, and only hotel accommo-
dations for few dozen.--Cressett.
Mr.. Fortson has a proposition from
the Maxwell Grant company to be sub
mitted to the people of Catskill and La
Belle, for the construction of a telephone
line between these two points. There is
an existing line from Catskill to Ration,
where it connects with the long distance
Colorado circuit. By building the thirty
mile gap between Catskill and La Belle,
it would put that place in direct COM
munication with Trinidad and Denver.