Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-13

! people confidently believe that, when the
real issue is presented and it is made np-
parent that only questions of fact are in
volved, the supreme court will decline to
take Jurisdiction in the premises and dis
miss the appeal without heaitation.
The important consideration is to
| get the case before this court at
the earliest date possible and thus avoid
all needless delay in dissipating doubts
that are now working such great injury
to the camp and such serious hardships
! to the people thereof. AS previously re-
corded in these columns, the people of
Bland, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Cerrillos,
Golden and Albuquerque have separately
and earnestly petitioned the attorney
general of the United States to use his
best endeavors to have the case advanced
on the docket of the supreme court and
a most encouraging response to these
petitions has been received in Santa Fe.
motion to advance this and other ap-
peals from the land court, so that they
will be heard in October, will be argued
in the supreme court on the 25th inst,
and strong hope is entertained that it
will be granted. So, a. the New MEXICAN
remarked on Monday,SAS is quite safe
to say that the Cochiti titles will be set
tied early next fall"
1t is necessary to visit the mines at
Bland and personally study their possiblii.
ties fully to realize the Importance of the
early and permanent settlement of this
miserable land grant controversy. This
writer, after having spent weeks in the
camp at different times and having ex-
amined many of the enormous lodges for
thousands of feet, is convinced. that the
district is easily capable of outpntting
several thousand tons of good milling ore
per day; that, if located on the public do
main in Colorado, the Washington, Lone
Star, Crown Point, Iron King, Albermarle,
No Name and Ellen l. mines would long
before this have created sensation in
the mining world that would approx
mate the remarkable Cripple Creek boom;
that there are Number of other pros |
poets in the district, all within three or
four miles of Bland and easily accessible
from the wagon road, that promise to
command attention and yield sple endid |
results whom developed.
These deliberate and candid conclusions
are largely based on the disclosures that |
have already been made in the Lone Star,
Washington, Iron King, and Crown Point |
mines, all of which have been more or
less developed and have proved their
ability to output quantities of pay
between tho Washington aud the Lone
Star mines he would hesitate which to
name. He would be in the predicament
of the poet who said:
How happy could be with either,
We're t'other dear charmer away.
The man who would ask more than the
ownership Of either one would bo un-
speakably unreasonably and avaricious.
In both immense lodges of pay rock have
been exposed to q depth that proves not
only their continuity but that their ore
increases in value as depth is attained.
Both have established the fact that they
yield quantities of ore that, after paying
costly transportation charges, richly re-
wards treatment at Pueblo and Denver;
both contain ore that could actually be
quarried like building stone and all treat
ed at a profit if suitable reduction plants
we're near at hand; both have for months
been steady shippers of their first class
output to Pueblo, and both were payers
from the grass-roots. These great prop
critics are especially mentioned in this
way because they are typical. Doubtless
time will prove that there are a dozen
more in the district ebort, if not quite,
as valuable.
Litigation among conflicting claimants
I1y ,Dka cd olpv arf VII |
on the Washington, but enough has been
done to prove it to be one of the most
prospect holes" on earth.
Thirty odd men are now employed on
This property, all that can be worked to
advantage, and it is shippinga car load of
ore from Thornton to Pueblo every other
day.
The big Lone Star ledge, standing mp
like the massive cathedral in Santa Fe, is
being steadily developed and has long
shipped enough Of it's selected output
more than to pay all expenses. At pres
ent Mr.. Lothian, one of the principal
owners Of this and other properties in
The district, is making exhaustive tests of
his ores with view to determining what
s the best method to adopt for treating
on the ground. It is under
stood that he has about satisfied himself
,hat the Schroeder process is the one he
wants.
The ores of the district carry about
equal proportions of gold and silver,
average in value from about $12 to $2,-
500 per ton and seem to improve in the
yellow stuff as depth is reached. 1t is
believed that nearly everything in the
district will pay to treat on the ground.
Speaking of gold reminds the writer that
evidences exist of much larger bodies of
gold ore than have yet been opened. At
one or tive places in the Lono Star free
gold specimens of fabulous value have
been taken out, and recently alarge chunk
Of free gold quartz float from an undiscov-
cred ledge, running from $4,000 to $4,000,
was picked up by prospector.
!. At present Bland is reached by Perley
Wason's daily stage line from Thornton
station on the Santa Fe system. The