Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-18
THE MINES OF NEW MEXICO.


The New Mexico Bureau of Immigration
has just commenced issuing from the
presses and bindery of the New MEXICAN
an edition Of 10000 copies of m elaborate
and elegant eighty-page pamphlet on
"The Mines of New Mexico" copy of
this important publication was this
morning placed in the hands of the edi-
tor for examination and review by Major
E. g. Ross, secretary Of the bureau of i'm
migration, to whose akillful and vigorous
pen and painstaking and experienced
ability az an editor the need Of praise is
due for the superior merits thereof.
Mechanically it is truly a splendid speci.
men of the modern "art preservative,"
having an attractive cover aud being
printed with the best quality of ink, from
handsome new type and upon an excellent
grade of pure white book paper. The
NEW MEXICAN is naturally proud Of it's
participation in the work.
Having already disclosed the author
ship of the pam phlet, it Is needless to
dwell upon its clear, pure. concise Ian
guage, drawn from "well of English un-
defyled," and other literary merits. Major
Ross reputation as writer is so well
known that these go without saying.
The pamphlet is exhaustively and accu-
rately descriptive of the mining regions
of New Mexico, covering an extent of
country 400 miles long and in places more
than 200 miles wide, and emphasizes by
maps and otherwise that the famous
Cripple Greek gold belt extends south
ward into and across nearly the entire
length of this territory. Evidence is also
presented that the characteristic Cripple
Greek formation Enthusiastically manifests
itself in ths La Belle, Elizabethtown,
Baldy, Hematite, Golden, Cerrillos, Co.
chiti, Ladronc, Water Canon, Kelly, Hills
boro, Grant county and other partly pros.
pscted mining districts of New Mexico.
Upon the whole it ia the best showing
of mineral ever made in the west and tits
believed that the special reports from the
different districts are all conservative and
trustworthy. These reports, as already
indicated, cover an immense area and
show the presence In this territory Of
every kind of mineral found in the earth.
W HAlo uo bfcoU DouduAao AhNo no yeu
been discovered and developed in this re-
gion, pay mineral has been found in every
district, and the field is shown to be
most inviting one to both the dili9ent
and daring prospector and the timid cap-
itaiist, as certain profits are assured and
surface Indications of .ss~esa. Cripple
Greeks are plentiful.
The important fact that prospectors
and miners can work in any of tho dis
tricts of New Mexico 1855 days in the year,
without the Interruptions or hardships
incident to inclement weather and deep
snow, is brought out in bold relief, tho
statements therein contained being sup
ported by indubitable evidence drawn
from the records of the United States
weather bureau at Santa F'e for twenty
three years. This feature of the publica-
t1on is certain to attract the attention of
miners in the mountains further north
and can hardly help proving strong in,
vitation to many to come hithcr. The
climatic showing, taken in connection
with the fact that no vast sums of money
are required to develop the mines here,
makes it apparent that New Mexico Of
fers special inducements to miners of
small capital.
ANOTHER GOLD MINE PAMPHLET.
A copy off neatly printed and we'll
written ten.page pamphlet, entitled "a
Sketch of the Gold Mining Camps and
Mining ReonlatiOns of the MaYwelI Land