Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-06-10

opposite Elizabethtown. In the years
that have since passed, fortunes have been
taken out of the sands, and the work still
goes OF.
HYDRAULIC MINING.
From number of reservoirs in the
foothills, pipe lines extend into the val
ley, and several companies are at work
washing away the hillsides by hydraulic
machinery and saving the gold IN sluice
boxes. In the Moreno valley are rich
placers, bet the lack of sufficient fall to
carry off the tailings has heretofore pre-
vented the successful working of this
portion of the deposits. Large amounts
of money have been expended in expert
menting which proved useless, but the
problem has been solved and the low
grounds will be made to give up their
hidden wealth. New York company,
last year, put in "California JET" by
which stream of water from high ele-
vation forces the gravel out of the pit to
sufficient height to allow the use of
sluice boxes in the usual manner.
RESULTS OF PLACER MINING.
How much gold comes from the
placers? No one knows. If any one
GLASS of men know how not TO tell what
they are doing, successful miners COM
pose that class. An effort was made to
get some idea of the output of the placers
in the different gulches, but to no pur-
pose. That money is made by the op-
orators there is no question. If such was
not the case nea would not work for
years, purchase expensive machinery,
and spend money in carrying on losing
venture. Amongst the best known
placers are those of Grouse gulch, Willow
gulch, Last Chance flats, the Spanish Bar.
and on Ute creek. The gold taken from
the Ute creek placers is very coarse and
many nuggets have been found, one taken
out last year weighing nearly II ounces.
HANDSOME GROUP.
visit was paid several mines in the
immediate neighborhood of town, the
trip taking in Grouse and Willow gulches.
In Grouse gulch are located the Red Ban
dana group of six claims-Red Bandana,
Moreno, Empire, Galena, American Flag
and entenlial-Senate, Bobtail and 9TH
ers. OF these mines the Red Bandana,
owned by James Lynch, is the only one
that has been developed to any great ex-
tent. On this property tunnel has been
driven into the hill $500 feet, a shaft
sunk 200 feet, and a Huntington mill
erected at the entrance to the tunnel.
Seated in an ore car, with Superintendent
Caulley as the motive power, a tour of
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low candle does not illuminate $500 feet
of darkness to any great extent, and the
impression made on my mind was that
some one had crowded a long stretch of
blackness into the earth just to show
what he could do. The atoping Is above
the tunnel and short climb up among
the timbers satisfied me that gold hunt
ing was surrounded with entirely too
much excitement for person accustomed
to living IN the sunshine. The mill is
run constantly on the ore from the mine
and number of men are employed in
the works in various capacities. The ore
runs from $6 to $l00 per ton, and will
average pretty close to $50. In the 9th
er mines IN the gulch development is in
various stages of progress, the ores run
ming about the same as in the Red Ban
dana.
IN WILLOW GULCH.
In Willow gulch three properties were
visited, the Legal Tender, Lexington and
Golden Ajax. The egal Tender is owned
by Kansas-Missouri company, which has
put up Huntington mill near the head
of Grouse gulch to treat ores from the
Legal Tender and Bobtail, and now is
figuring on moving the mill over the
divide into Willow. The Lexington has
shaft down 95 feet and 200 feet will be
reached before work is stopped.
WONDER IN MINES.
The Golden Ajax, owned by Denver
people, is wonder in the mining world !.
Jutting out of the mountain is large
body of ore which resembles stone
quarry more than mine. Whether this
is only deposit or an enormous vein is
not known, but be that as it may there is
enough OF the stuff in sight to make many
handsome fortunes for the owners. Min
ing on this claim is inexpensive for the
reason that neither shaft nor tunnel is
req uired to get at the ore-a single blast
will bring down enough to run the ten
stamp mill on the property for day or
more. At present the company is driving
tunnel into the hill from a lower level
than the outcropping for the purpose of
determining the dip OF the ore body and
to learn if possible how far back the
deposit or vein runs. The ore runs from
Sc to $40 per ton, but as one of the min
ers said, "ifit was only worth $2.5 so it would
pay to mine and treat on account of the
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