Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-03-02
RED RIVER DISTRICT
Millions Of Gold in the Great Ledges
That Protrude Through the
Country Formation.
ROOM FOR PR0SPECTORS
The Lofty and Gold-Ribbed Mountains
Contain Treasures That Have Not
Yet Been Touched by Pick
or Drill.
Special Correspondence New Mexican.

Special Correspondence New Mexican.
Red River, Feb. 2s.-Careful eXamina-
tion and patient study of the Red River
mining district have fully confirmed my
first impressions that it has great flu
ture as gold producing region and l
cannot resist the temptation to write out
some of the substantial reasons upon
which my faith is founded.
Two years of prospecting here have
demonstrated the fact that this country
is full of large veins of gold bearing min
eral and many are from 20 to 100 feet
in width protruding up through the
country rock and clearly visible to the
casual observer at a considerable dis
tance. All carry values anywhere from
few dollars to over 500 per ton in
gold.
These values are considered good
enough for any camp in the country
and why are they not good here SO close
| to the business centers of the country?
All that is lacking now to perfect ma
lures splendid work is sufficient capital
to push the development of the mines
and build large mills so as to reduce the
ore in close proximity to the mines. Then
no part of the Rocky mountain gold
regions will surpass the Red River dis
trict.
Thousands of acres belonging to the
public domain in this district have not
been touched by the prospector and are,
so far as we know, equally as good as
any that have been appropriated and
developed.
More people of the right kind with
money to operate mines and mills. so as
to reduce the product into bullion here
in the district, will furnish thousands of
men with employment and soon add
millions of dollars to the circulating
medium of the country. This will fur
nish the only panacea for the gold fever
now prevailing as all epidemic.
No one need question the fact that
the ore bodies here will be permanent,
or increase in value with depth, for the
reason that extensive mining has been
carried on at EliZabethtown. but IL
miles east in the same general forma
tion for 80 years, and several millions of
dollars have been produced, and the
mines are still producing and are be-
lieved to be but in their infancy now.
AT Hematite, about half way between
Elizabethtown and this place, there
have been several splendid properties
opened up in the last year, notable
among which are the Red Bandana and
Black Copper, the latter having yielded
fabulously rich ore, assays from which
have run as high as S2B4, 900 per ton.
The former is free milling PROPOSE
ton with large vein that averages
$50 per ton in gold, and is now consid-
cred to be one of the best in the country.
A good Acton capacity mill is situated
near the mine, which does its work sue
cessfuly, and will be enlarged later on
to meet the demands.
From Hematite all the way down the
Red River canon, including the numer-
Gus small canons coming into it from
both north and south, the country has
been prospected in d6sultory manner,
and all who have made such eXamina
ton of the country indicated agree that
the veins seem larger and stronger as
you go westward from ElizabethtOwn,
until you arrive at the mouth of the Red
River canon at Questa, a distance Of rs
miles.
Galena, carrying gold, silver and lead,
is found occasionally, but not in guam
titles sufficient to characterize this as a
silver camp. One very fascinating thing
to be seen by the prospector, or even
any one else, when he arrives in the
camp, are the large veins of quartz
pushed up through the country rock,
which can be seen in some instances at
long distance.
Consequently, it is the best camp to
be found anywhere in the country for
the inexperienced man usually called a
tenderfoot) to find gold mine In. AS
the leads or veins are to be found on
the surface, it saves the usual expense
of hunting for them, and the money
that is too often wasted in searching for
the vein can at once be applied in de-
velopment work.
New Mexico has for a long time been
noted as the seat of Mexican land grant
troubles, but happily this is now a
thing of the past in many parts of the
territory. Especially is this true in
this district, as the last vestige of the
plaster known as the Canon del Rio
Colorado grant has been forever re-
moved and perfect titles can now be
obtained from the United States gov
ernment as readily here as in the states.
So that there are no more obstacles In
the way that need cause any fear of
losing money invested in this part of
northern New Mexico.
Nature has not only ribbed the lofty
and precipitous mountains of the dis
trict with great veins of gold bearing
mineral, but has abundantly supplied
the same with pure water for all pur-
poses, including swift flowing streams
for the cheap generation of electric
power for the operation of both mines
and mills.
About 1000 lode claims have already
been located in the district, and many
of them have been sufficiently developed
to enable the owners to begin shipping
on a large scale in few months.