Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-09
LA BELLE AND ANCHOR.
Interesting Budget of Items Respect
ing the New Taos County
Gold Camps.

The Cresset predicts newspaper at
Anchor.
A public school building will soon be
erected at La Belle.
The saloon license for the La Belle
school district is rapidly accumulating.
The Climax has cut the vein and shows
free gold at depth of sixty feet or more.
A great deal of surface work, trench
ing, etc, is being done on the Monte
yuma.
1t is rumored that mill will be put in
as soon as the machinery can be got in,
to treat La Belle and Keystone ores.
Says the Cresset: La Belle is getting
gay. Two Pueblo gamblers dropped $65
at crap game and departed Tuesday
morning for greener pastures.
The Silver Plume shaft is being put
down rapidly, under the supervision of
Mr.. Hewlett. 1t is twenty feet deep now
and looking better all the time.
The Boston shaft has cut the vein at
depth of ten feet four inches. Tale on
one side and poryphry on the other, with
eighteen inches of quartz between.
The What-is-it is now down thirty feet
and is splendidly timbered. This shaft
will be put down to Il depth of eighty
feet and will undoubtedly be banner
property soon.
The La le-Anchor-M Midnight region
covers a radius of perhaps twenty to
thirty miles and some good strikes have
lately been made that will attract an i'm
mense immigration of miners.
Abandoned mines in the La Belle min
ing district apparently worked by the
old Spaniards, are discovered every day.
Most Of them appear to have been worked
as placer mines and were undoubtedly
very profitable under their system of
slave labor.
Comanche creek, one mile below La
Belle, is the scene of some lively mining
operations. The Midway, Red Cross
One Eyed Wonder, RAMS Horn and others
are being worked. The owners of the
Bullet expect to commence work in
short time.
The Legal Tender mine, belonging to
Messrs. Givens and Oviatt, on the Ca
bresto, shows fine body of ore that as
says 80 per cent lead and fifteen ounces
silver. Shipping will begin as soon as
arrangements can be made. Five four
horse teams will be employed to do the
hauling from the mine to Antonito.
The Cresset: Gerson Gusdorf and AL
bert Sheurich arrived from Taos by pri-
vate conveyance last Tuesday. Mr.. Gus
dorf owns property here, both in the
hoe
cluded to build aud move his large stock
of miners supplies to La Belle which the
New MEXICAN calls the young giaLt gold
camp.
The Cresset: j. W. Smith, president,
and H. W. Bowman, secretary and treas
urer, of the Gold Conda Mining company,
announced last Friday that they had,
after nearly 200 feet of dead work, cut
what they believe to be their main lead.
The vein has the appearance of true
fssure and is about four feet wide be-
tween well defined walls. The lead mat
ter is principally decomposed quartz
interspersed literally with yellow partl-
cles of free gold plainly visible to the
naked eye.
The Cressett: About $500 worth of
work has been done on Main and Pels
streets and Grand avenue during the past
ten days. Besides $500 expended in
work upon the Anchor road. A number
of bridges have also been put in along
Comanche creek and the upper Costilla
and the main road from the saw mill
greatly improved. The Catskill and La
Belle ROAD and La Belle and Antonito
roads have claimed the greater share OF
attention. 1t is safe to say that our ren-
terprising citizens and neighbors have
spent at least $4,000 on roads leading to
La Belle. And Anchor, Midnight and the
Cabresta people are not far behind III the
matter of public Improvements.