Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-09-01
MINING DEPARTMENT
Operations Being Extended Rapidly Rights
Of Miners in Suspended Forest Reserves.

A correspondent of the Denver Re
publican at Santa Fe writes as follows:
The placer gold deposits of this terri
tory are just now enjoying boom.
| Every sort of information concerning
them is eagerly sought for Scores of
applications for pamphlets and maps
have been pouring in upon the secre-
tary of the New Mexico Bureau of I'm.
migration for three weeks past. Terri
toTial Secretary George H. Wallace re-
ports an unprecedented demand for
copies of the New Mexico corporation
laws and within a few days n dozen in
quries for information as to the loca-
ton of good placer ground have been
received by various residents Of this
| city. These calls for information come
from II widespread territory
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Tex
as Indiana, Ohio and New Jersey, and
as they almost invariably specify
placer ground the natural inference is
drawn that the much talked of placer
discoveries of the Klondyke country
have inspired the inquiries.
The principal placer fields are located
in Taos, Santa Ife, GolfaX, Sierra, Grant
and Lincoln counties and their deyel-
opment, chiefly by local interests, is
/ IlIptftblIS Win tllt SINdltSL NtSol. III
Taos county, II one-half of what is
4 heard here, proves true, an eXtraordi-
/ nary gold yield is assured before winter
sets in. According 10 parties who have
recently been over the ground, the La
Belle project TO extract gold from the
/ sands Of the Rio Giande river bed by
/ the dredging and slucing process has
\ proved most successful, 1t Is said that
/ the dredge boat, upon which is power
/ full machinery IL working an eighteen
4 foot gravel bar. lifting the gravel
4 through twelve fce Of water and hand
1 ling 1000 yards daily. from which Is
4 extracted an average Of 81 per yard A
4 similar boat Is about TO be contracted
1 for to he operated in the Ghama river
/ where there Is known to exist abun-
/ dant gold. though perhaps not so
/ coarse, and therefore not SO readily
saved, as that in the Taos section of the
/ Rio Grandp
In the lGlizahcthtowu district. where
/ the placer deposits have been steadily
1 yielding profits for thirty years the
I golden harvest will this year he about
4 double all previous records One new
| plant there deserves special mention.
! On the Moreno Mining Company's
| claims, one mile from Elizabethtown.
one of the largest modern plants of ma
/ chinery ever erected in the West is now
| in course Of construction and in thirty
| days Manager III. II. Argue says II will
| he under full headWaN The plant is to
| have a capacity Of handling something
/ like 10000 cubic feet Of gravel per hour
On the upper Red river, six miles
west of lllizahethtown. Messrs. Kelly.
Dougherty, Pope x Company have Just
made their first cleanup and it proves
highly satisfactory. Below them other
placer companies are i'll full operation
and results have shown eoncluSiyely
that the Red river is rich in placer gold
In Santa fe county, where INSULT.
clent water only prevents 100000 acres
of placer ground from becoming Il genu
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 is being done hy the Monte
Crfsto Mining Company Of Kansas City,
which is sluicing gold by the use OF
water from tubular we'll and for
which Pennsylvania we'll experts are
now engaged in driving five additional
wells. These great placer deposits are
thirty miles distant from and midway
between the Rio Grande and the Peeos
river. Some day. It Is probable, some
enterprising syndicate will ditch the
water from one or the other of streams
Into the vast gold impregnated district
and extract fortune therefrom every
day.