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

in gold, has been worked to depth of
300 feet and for 1900 feet along the vein,
and is equipped with 4e.stamp mill.
The ore ruDs from IS to $40 per ton on
the plates, but occasionally streaks occur
which show large quantities of wire gold.
The Black Horse is another important
mine, having two veins running parallel
about 80 feet apart. The workings con-
sist of 1900 feet of shafts and levels, while
| the ore runs from $40 to 300 per ton. A
ten. n.stamp mill is located on the property.
| The Montezuma is another paying
product, 100000 having been taken out
of it, the ora running up to $50 per ton.
THE PoNIL DISTRICT.
| In the Ponil district, lust north of Ute
Creek, there are several good claims, the
principal one being the French Henry.
15-stamp mill is run in connection with
this mine, the ore of which shows from
$40 to 5000 per ton in gold.
To the west of EIizabethtown lies a
mineral country which has until recently
received little or no attention from
| prospectors, but some finds made within
two weeks past indicate that great wealth
IS deposited in the hills and mountains.
Only yesterday some samples of ore we're
brought in from a new strike which car
ried coarse gold and will undoubtedly
assay up into thousands of dollars per
ton. How extensive the ore body is no
one knows, as the strike had just been
made, and the lucky owner was only
touching the highest peaks as he walked
over the hills.
BRIGHT FUTURE.
That this section of New Mexico is
destined to become the greatest gold pro-
ducing country il United States,
there is no quest he little work
already done has trated this fact
to certainty, and mineral lands
have only been scg on the surface.
Judge Booth, who il pretty good authori-
ty on thi.-subj ject,4said to me last night:
ut requires three classes of men to
develop mineral country, the proapec-
tor, the investor and the practical bust
ness miner. Elizabethtown has had
the tirst-class, and is now ready for the
second. The veins and fssures have
been opened and the ore brought to the
surface, the time for the monied man has
come, and he will soon be here; the prac-
tical man will follow him very closely"
A sMELTBB NEEDED.
SO far as | can learn there is one very
important question to be settled, and that
is the treatment of the ores. That in all
the works now in operation from 30 to 60
per cent of the gold is carried off in the
tailings there is no doubt. Could the
proper methods for saving the gold be
found, or If already known be brought
here, the saving would amount to more
than double they do now. A smelter
would be one great step 10 this direction,
and the day is not far distant when the
output of the district will not only de-
mand q smelter, but refining plant, and
when such appliances are put in opera
tion the actual value of the ores will be
realized and not before.
GREAT OUTLOOK.
I am not an enthusiast by any means,
and came to Elizabethtown very much of
skeptic, but what has been seen and
heard has convinced me that the time is
coming, and it is not far away, when the
mineral lands on the Bonito, Urraca,
Moreno, Ute Greek, and other streams
will supply large per cent of the gold
produced on the north American conti-
nent. O. l.. r.