The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1897-09-03

A correspondent OF the Denver Re.
publican az Santa fc writes rs fOllows'
The placer gold deposits of this terri
tory are just now enjoying n boom.
Every sort Of Information concerning
them Is eagerly sought for Scores Of
applications for pamphlets and maps
have been pouring In upon the sccrc-
tary OF the New Mexico Bureau Of I'm.
migration FOR three weeks past. Terri.
torial Secretary George II. Wallace re-
ports an unprecedented demand for
copies OF the New Mexico corporation
laws and within few days dozen IN
qulrics for information ~ 10 the loca'
tlon OF good placer ground have been
received by various residents Of this
city. These calls FOR information come
from widespread territory from
Kansas. Nebraska, Iowa Illinois. Tex.
ns, Indiana, Ohio and New Jersey, and
ns they almost Invariably specify
placer ground the natural Inference Is
drawn that the much talked Of placer
discoveries OF the klundykc country
have inspired the Inquiries.
The principal placer fields are located
IN TNos. Santa re. ColfaX. Sierra, Grant
and Lincoln counties and their dcVcl-
opmont. chiefly 10y local Interests, e.
VEhftthluE WIN WV klfuN'nA NAANAs ~
Tnos county. n onc-half OF what Is
heard here. proves true. an cXtmorll.
nary gold Yield Il assured before winter
sets In. According to parties who have
recently been over the ground. the la
Relic project 90 extract gold from the
sands OF the Rio Grandc river bed by
the dredging aud slnlclng process has
proved most successful II N said that
the drcdge boat. upon which n power
full machinery, Is working an eighteen
foot gravel bar, lifting the gravel
through twelve feet Of water and hand.
ling 1000 yards daily. from which i
extracted an average OF 81 per yard. A
similar boat Is about 20 be contracted
for TO be operated In the Chama river.
where there II known 10 exist abUn-
dant gold. though perhaps not 10
coarse and therefore not 30 readily
saved. as that In the 1Aos section Of the
Rio Grandc
In the Ellznbcthtown district. whore
the placer deposits have been steadily
yielding profits for thirty years, the
golden harvest will this year he about
double all previous records. one new
plant there deserves special mention.
on the Moreno Mining Company's
claims, one mile from lsllzabetht0wn,
one OF the largest modern plants ~ ma
chincry ever erected In the West N now
In course OF construction aud In thirty
days Manager II. II. Argue says II will
he under full Roadway. The plant II 20
! have capacity Of handling something
like 10000 cubic feet Of gravel per hour.
on the uppcr Red river, six miles
west Of Ellzabcthtown. ,fcssrs Kelly.
Doughcrty. Pope 4 Company. have Just
made their first cleanup aud II proves
highly satisfactory. Below them other
placer companies are In full operation
and results have shown concluslyely
that the Red river Is rich In placer gold
In Santa Fc county. where Insult.
Client water only prevents 100000 acres
\ OF placer ground rum becoming GEM.
inc beehive OF Industry. hundreds OF
dry placer machines are being operated
by hand with good profits TO the min.
ers. Here the most expensive work NJ
present II being done by the Monte
Crlsto Mining Company Of Kansas City
which II slulclng gold by tho use Of
water from n tubular well and for
which Pennsylvania well experts arr
now engaged I'm driving i've additional
wells. These great placer deposits are
thirty miles distant from and midway
between the Rio Grandc and the Pecos
river Some day. II IL probable. some
entcrprlslng syndicate Will ditch the
water from one or the other OF streams
into the vast gold impregnntcd district
and extract a fortune thercfrom every
day.