Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1896-03-07
THE LADR0NHN
what Is There AMI what They Can Ne
Made to Albuquerque.
NV MiNrpc DISTRICT

Nhulu'tlur, ahld we'll known citizen
~ THIS paI-t- representative yesterday.
"ln thr-" days, continued the gentle.
man, when the air Is full " rnmurs II
gold discoveries, when the government IL
running IN debt al the rate ~ ti;nIgr..
go ITt annunI tn keep her gold reserve
Wy tu the required STANDARD when p,uple
all over the nitsi states are driven t.
bankruptcy hy hard times and are lra,.
INK rum'urtAhl" homes Ia ~ aud -rrk fur
gold, 1t l. time the people " Albuquerque
should prick up their ears ani yet u
move on th"m-'lNr- tina, they ma, reap
the benefits IN store Tor ,hrm. such n
.trikr ~ Met nrriSton \ Co.. have made
~ the lAirun.s. II male In n new dis.
ttlct within "a hundred miles 4 Colorado
SPRING ~ Denver would put n lh 'UNani
I.'oplr IN there IN ten days
In lN;J aud l>Sl There wa quite an
excitement In ninins circles over 4ome
discoveries ~ lead AMI silver Ia the la
irnnrs. but ~ Development II an, value
w. ever mdir aud the excitement died
iuwn There l. - tradition. tpr among
the native IE'oplr. that somewhere within
the rugged sides II those stately peaks II
one ~ thv-" I'D spanish mines that las
irrp shafts, hong drIit- and large cham.
hrtS. that u almost pure silver. that
at on" time Iputrd forth con.
slant stream ~ silver that went
IT, M ne Golfers u the king III spain. that
at the time ~ the ln-urrrrtiuu IN iBSl.
the mine Wa cn,rt,i up AMI hastily
abandoned, but within III. last year the
tirsi- hal uncovered the mouth ~ the old
working AMI that within the last month
n Mexican hal found II AMI brought ~
the priest "A, Nrlrn samples II what he
hal found Now. this may hs true. and
1t may not br trus, hut one thing IL true,
AMI that Is. that iylug Ia the west ~ the
l.aitune peaks aud near by. II n basin rix
tu eight miles east aud west, and from
twelve tu fifteen miles north and rDuth
that has been the center ~ great volcanic
activity, In this basin are nuHl.r
1
~ blistcrs, " bubbles Ia n IL,
~ buillng mush are formed. callr,l
blow outs h, miners, and from
these blow -'utr, tadiat" dykes, caused b,
the upheaNAl ~ the blowout" itself
These dykes .are generally parallel. aud
the general trend II from north 70 south
and In many places the legal claim Of Gls
feet wide will cover three dykes. The
formation II lime capped. but above III,
dykes where the cap rock Ia fractured, ar,
Groupings Of spar and iron.
The history of the discovery by Meteor
rton n Co. Is something like this: Char
iry i'ilky made the location for lead ore
~ hr discovered a little native lead crop
ping III the spar. on the surface f III,
dyke. aah Immediately began sinking
shaft. NJ found the cap rock about tire,
feet thick. below which hs struck MI
right-f"ut >"ln II spar. which sonn de
Nrlopci valuable lraI ore. and At tlfteei
feet h" had right t,ci -lx inches ~ lea
~" that Averaged about ti1 per ton. Al
thirty feet Ia" lead ~" had pinrhed dOwI
a. about siN inches, Hnl II locked a
though another llnle IN tie "a th r0nl,
b" lrt, atA monument H. tn" misplace,
runlid"nr" of the l"r susceptible pr,Sprc
tor, hut hight here 4nmCthlng hnppene,
which. like the turning IAint In many -
the important discoveries and inven
tiOnS IN histrry. will no doubt b, the h.
ginning ~ the most important minrfa
. discovery In New Mexico for decah'
III. D,sii. whn hal just returned from
cripple Creek went Ia the camp ~ pro.
pect for lead. aud ~ course visited tn
McCoriistuu shaft. The lead had ahnu
disappeared, hut pr.i was attracted II
once l., the similarity II tho vein mate
. Ia thu rich ore III Cripple Crcek, and u
once selected samples and came ~ Albu
. lurrluc ami had ASsayer Stevens asss
, the ore. AMI Ia the delight of Dodd. an
rCorTi-ton X Co, they found they Ia
ore that asssayei AZ high M $tT5 per tor
and other assays showed great value Il
gold. Their great luck was kept quie
until they could get hack there and ~
cure some II the good ground contiguou
u the rich vein. McC0rrison. aud pix
? n Dunlop secured at once several goo
. claim extensions Of their claims. Did
II Rankin secured several g,rd claim
Fancher. saint and Scholes were early o
hand and -ecurei valuable ground. Chi
drrs " Dobs"n. through rlky, secured 4
g"Si claim M any.
l.. II. Putney and his -On Rob. and thei
hookkeeper. Brown, got In on the groun
7, tinr with the "Old Reliable" and Oths
: gUh claims Assayer Stevens, X. "
Hopkins and other Albuquerqueans ~
: comfortably fixed for goOd ground. bod
= has equipped himself and has u force I
= men. and will be Of "a develop his claim
before this article appears In print; b,
!" II IL sate to say that within this miners
g zone Ave thousand claims can DO locate
where the surface indications are Under
teal with the "luckyJim" ,McCorrister
!. claim.
- The I.A,irone district " SltuAtsd abo'
v sixty miles southwest from Alhuquerqu
r al~ut twenty eight miles from helen
, La .Ioya on the Santa fe, and about
~ like distance from Rir ruerc0 station q
n the Atlantic & Pacific, The roads a
.gooi, especially on the meSa land, Sh'e
reach from La Joya OF Rio puerco % u
;. mines. From Belen. which Ia the nmrs'
ii point where accommodations can be n
le cured II, present, the ROAD Is god szceI
IL In the crossing II the Rio PuercO allie
n. which IL very sandy Tor about two nile
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