Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-01-27
C0CHITI WILL BOOM
Description of the Magnificent Fire
Proof Plant Ordered for the Al
bemarle Gold Group.
CONTRACTS HAVE BEEN LET
Plant Must Be Completed by April 20
Body of Ore in Albemarle Group
Remarkable for Its Even
Values.

The New MEXICAN yesterday repro
duced from a Boston paper Mr.. j. A..
Coram's telegraphic announcement from
Denver to his business associates in
Boston of the closing of contracts for the
erection of steel reduction plant on
the AGemarle mine in the ,Cochiti min
with the contemplated extensive devel-
Opment and operation Of the Albemarle
and other Cochiti gold properties recent
y acquired by the Albemarlc Mining &
Milling company.
Speaking of the closing of these nota-
BILE contracts. the Denver Republican
says: This completes one of the most
important mining enterprises that has
been tioated on the eastern market for
several years The deed for the prop
erty was concluded in Boston several
months ago and the enterprise is backed
by some of the best business men in
Boston. The promoter, j. A. Coram, is
well known in mining circles as a sue
cessful miner, who thoroughly under
stands the mining business and is in
close touch with the strongest financial
men of the country.
Have Thirteen Claims.
The Albemarlc group embraces l3
claims in the Cochiti district of New
Mexico. all of which show mineral of the
same character. IA hard quartz CARRYING
gold in fine PARTICLES the distribution OF
which is remarkably even throughout
the rock. Tests made while the deal
was in progress show it to be one of the
most remarkable instances of thorough
mincralizatio verfound in the country.
The lowest return made was So per ton
and the highest $2S. and the average
value is maintained in every mass of
rock broken down. Mr.. Coram says that
the ore is the most even that he has ever
found in long experience in mining
enterprises of every kind. Tests by the
cyanide process give return of saving
of 81 per cent of the gold values and
slightly less percentage of the trifling
amount of silver carried in the ore.
But the most important feature of
the enterprise is the mill which is being
erected on the ground for the treatment
of the ore. This will be entirely of steel,
lined with asbestos felt, insuring immu-
nifty from fire, and the requisite warmth
in cold weather 1t is the first steel
structure erected in New Mexico and has
no counterpart in Colorado. The Mercur
mill of the Mercur district of Utah is on
the same plan, and in many respects has
served as model for the Albemarle
structure, the general plan being on the
same line.
A Gravity Plant.
in most Of the details is gravity plant,
elevators being used in but two in
stances. The ore is brought through
the tunnel to the upper part of the
crushing mill and carried by chute di
rectly to the crushers, from whence it is
discharged to the first set of rolls by
gravity. From these it is elevated to
the second set of rolls, which complete
the preparation of the pulp. From
these it falls from the bins to the tanks
located below the cyanide solution tank
in which the gold is taken up by the
solution. The solution is directed by
pipes to the pulp tanks, and when the
process is complete is pumped to the
zinc room in the upper floor, where the
solution is freed of its gold and is con-
Quoted through pipes to the solution
tank below to be used again after the |,
necessary addition of cyanide.
''The nominal capacity of the plant is
100 tons daily, though when the mill is
fairly in operation 1875 tons per day can
be treated. There is ample floor space
for the addition of machinery so that
whenever necessary the capacity of the
mill can be readily increased to 200 tons
per day.
All of steel.
"Thc several buildings of this plant
are the cyanide house, 60x173.6; the
boiler house, 4Ox25; the engine room,
4Ox36, and the crushing mill, 76x99. All
these buildings are steel and iron, with
corrugated iron roofs, no wood whatever
being used. in their construction. Be
sides the buildings of the mill proper
there will be a machine shop, Office and
several smaller buildings. plans for
which have not yet been made.
1.-THE plant was designed by f. M.
johnson, of Denver, who will superin-
tend the construction. The work will
be commenced Immediately, as the con-
tract provides for a scaling down of the
contract price for every delay, and work
will have to be pushed vigorously in or