Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-01-27
RIO ARRIBA PLACER COMPANY.
bitches and Fumes for Working Ohama
Placers Satisfactorily Located -Abund-
ant Water and Immense Pressure
Construction of Plant Will
Begin in March.

Messrs. Edwin Walters, civil engineer
| and g~eologist, and David NJ. White. civil
engineer, have returned to Santa Fe
from a surveying trip to the Chama
river placers near Abiquiu.
In conversation with a New MEXICAN
reporter this morning, Mr.. Walters said
that he and Mr.. White had completed
the engineering work for the Rio Arri-
ba Placer company and he seemed much
pleased with the results attained.
In order to work the 900 acres of
placer ground of the company named,
said land being located OF both sides of
the Chama river beginning at a point
| about five miles above Abiquiu, the con-
| struction of about six miles of bitches
and fumes from Canones creek will be
required. ''We have fortunately found
a most excellent route" said Mr.. Walt
ers, requiring only about 1000 feet OF
fiuming, and at no place will the flumes
need to be over 81 feet high. Consid-
ering the number of deep canon that
cash the hills along which the. bitches
anu uuIits VIII pass, Wis 10 lultC q
satisfactory achievement"
"The ditch as planned will have suf'
ficient size and grade to carry 5000 gal.
Ions of water per minute. Canones creek
atfording a plentiful supply, and, while
the detailed estimates for the work are
not yet out, generally speaking the
ditch and fumes will not cost to exceed
| S1,50O per mile, and the pipeline from
| the tail-gate at the lower end of the
ditch to the point of operations, to.
| gether with sluice-boXes, hose. etc. will
not cost over 5000 more, making the
total cost of the plant not over Sis. 600.
continued the gentleman.
This plant is intended to cut ant
wash during at least half of each veal
from two to three cubic yards of grounC
per minute" said Mr.. Walters, sane
during the remainder of the year a
least n cubic yard per minute, or, ii
round numbers, from 1,5OO to 4, 200 cubic
yards per day. 1t is expected, from
the thorough tests made, that this ma
terial will yield at least rs cents pei
yard in coarse gold Or that which car
readily be saved, which will make thu
income run from $3.50 to 81 0 pei
day.
1.-The lower end of the ditch will b
800 feet above the bars of the Chams
river, which it is proposed to work, ant
from 200 to 200 feet above the highes'
placer ground on the auriferous mesa.
of the company. This will afford enor
nous PRESSURE" added Mr.. Walters
land renders perfectly practicable tho
work undertaken
The Rio Arriba Placer company il
composed mainly of st. Louis and Kan
sas City men, who possess abundan1
money and energy to carry the enter
prise to a successful issue. Its Officers
are as follows: Jacob %Schreiner, of st
Louis, president; E. G. E. Jaccard, o
Kansas City, vice president; William G
Hills, of st. Louis, second vice presi
dent; J. I. Watson. of st. Louis, treas
urer; j. B. Wilde, of St. Louis, secre
tary; Edwin Walters, of Abiquiu, man
ager, superintendent, resident agent ant
director; f. II. Rogers, of st. Louis
general agent.
The local directors are II. A. Rey
nolds, Charles II. Easley and John Il
Forsha, of Santa Fe.
The company expects to begin ACTIVE
work on it's plant March /, and there
after the important enterprise will b.
vigorously pushed to completion.