Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-03-10
FOR SALE BY
n. B. CARTWRIGHT 4 BRO.

are manifested by the activity of as
many miners and mechanics as can BE-
employed to advantage and at the same
time be afforded accommodations in the
present inadequate bunk-houses
The main shaft on the mine is being
sunk as fast as possible, many men are
engaged in blasting out of the solid
mountain side the foundations for the
steel reduction plant soon to arrive, and
another force of men is crowding con-
struction work on the large boarding
houses, bunk-hOuseS and other buildings
needed for the operation of the mines and
mill. When these improvements are
completed the force of miners will be in
creased as fast as they can be employed
advantageously in the development of
the company's great ledge of gold
quartz.
! The reader will be able to form an
approximate idea Of what this means
! when he is advised that the AL
bemarle ledge varies In width from
20 to 80 feet, that in places it
towers from so to $50 feet above the
country formation, and that it can be
plainly traced on the surface through
the entire length of the four full claims
composing the Abermarle group for IL
distance of 5000 feet
So far only about 700 feet of develop
ment work has been done on the prop
erty and the greatest depth attained is
less than 300 feet in the main shaft, but
the entire ledge prospects on the surface
from $40 to $50 in gold, and the ten feet
OF quartz between the timbers at the
bottom of the shaft run from 500 to
$3.50 in gold and silver, indicating very
plainly that every foot of depth gained
Is disclosing quartz of increased value
and at the same time showing a larger
and more perfect ore body than that ap-
pearing on the surface.
The steel plant purchased by Mesars.
Coram and Posey for the treatment Of
this immense ore body by means Of the
cyanide process will start in with a
daily reduction capacity of l25 tons per
day, but it will be so constructed that
its capacity can be almost indefinitely
multiplied, and Mr.. Coram, whose word
is good for cool million in the Boston
money market, has intimated that it is
the intention of his company as rapidly
as possible to block out ore enough in
the Albermarle group to keep a 25O-ton
reduction plant in constant operation
for ten years. No one who has walked
over the ore body the company has In
sight doubts that he can easily realize
these apparently sanguine expectations.
The force of men now employed on the
Albemarle numbers about 200. 1t will
number 600 in 90 more days. Mark this
prediction.
The New MExIcAN's reporter while
away took care to gather complete data
the development work on the
Lone Star, Iron King, John Sherman.
Washington, Crown Point and numcr-
Jus other promising properties in the
Golden C0chiti mining district. These
acts will be printed in another chapter
ater. Meanwhile please remember
hat only the beginning of the Cochiti
tory has been told. The district hap
billy possesses the golden resources nee
,ssary to make it the Cripple Creek of
New Mexico and this scribe honestly
believes that its great gold bearing
edges are destined to give it front rank
among all the gold producing districts Of
The world.