Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-02-05
THE GOLDEN COCHITI.
An Esteemed and Trustworthy Special Cor
respondent Has Something of Deep In
terest toSay to New Mexican Read
ers Concerning the New Mex
leo Cripple Greek.

Special Correspondence New Mexican.
| Bland, N. NJ, Feb. A dead man
would know something was going on in
Bland and throughout the Golden CO.
chfti district in general, During the
present fine weather the continual sound
of hammer, saw and the voices of drivers
can be heard on all sides. And the
ancient capital is lying over yonder,
35 miles away. apparently asleep, while
here at her very door, is a boom taking
unmstakable shape that will make
Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico,
what Colorado mining camps have made
the cities of that state, If the people of
Santa Fc will show the proper spirit
and reach out an unreluctant hand
to grasp the opportunity of its history,
now presented by the Golden Cochiti.
If the Albemarle, Crown Point, Lone
Star, Iron King and Washington alone
We're operating steadily, these in them
selves would be sufficient to create Il
large camp and greatly contribute to the
wealth and growth of Santa Fe; but
these are by no means the only proper
ties in the district that will make great
bonanza mines. At least ten claims
along the Albemarle lode, outside of the
Aibema rles graun ct fenr mines, will M
questionably beFas enormous and ricn us
| the property now under thorough opera
ton BY, the Cochiti Gold Mining com
pano.
Along the lode upon which the Iron
King, Lone Star. Washington and Giant,
which Is one of the mines included In
lease and bond of the Crown Point to
Q. P. Posey and his associates, are situ
ated a dozen claims, which. under de-
velopment, will show up as big and val
liable as those mentioned.
Again, along the lode on which are
included such properties as the Bull Of
the Woods, Black Girl. Good Hope, No
name, Union, Ellen L.. Little Mollie
and Mammoth, which only require
proper development to make profitable
mines of each are some ten or more OK
cellent properties.
Then interlying among these three
enormous recognized lcdges of gold
quartz, possessing value ranging from
SIS to several hundred dollars ton, are
innumerable veins and spurs which are
described as being strong and continuous.
Surely the Cochiti district cannot be
surpassed for surface showing by any
other mining district in the world. and
there is every reason to believe that
there are great many more mines here
than the Albemarle, Crown Point, Lone
Star. Iron King and Washington, which.
by reason of the expenditure of more
capital upon them than upon the rest.
have attained greater prominence In
public opinion.
If nothing else is evidence that the
Cochiti Is sure to be as great, if not
greater than any mining district in the
Rocky mountains. the fact that snch a
company as that represented by Messrs.
Coram, Posey, Cartan and number of
other gentlemen of means and wide
mining experience have taken hold here
and are expending thousands of dollars
in the erection of the most perfect ma
chinery for the treatment of these ores,
beside developing the mines they have
acquired and building mountain roads,
Is proof that the faith of the old inhabi-
tants in the ultimate outcome of the dis
trict has not been without foundation.
Like Cripple Creek, which for years
was stunned by capital and condemned,
by self-constituted experts, the Cochiti
mining district will in the obvious future
toot its horn with "a million month.