Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-07
Colorado Newspapers and Capitalists
Now Know That New Mexico
Hos Good Mines.
COLORADO MEN LEASING
The White Oaks and Jarilla Mining Ooun-
try Developing Rapidly What Is Be-
ing Done at 0oohiti, San Pedro and
Other Northern Camps.
Denver NeWS.)

pecting in the vicinity of White Oaks
and Nogal is being carried on with more
vigor than at any time previously in the
history of those camps, and many new
finds are reported from day to day.
Formerly nothing but the very richest
ore could be mined at a profit unless the
product proved to be exceptionally free
and the company operating possessed
sufficient money to erect an expensive
treatment plant on the ground. The
railway, which is pushing into the Sa-
lado coal fields, will come within fifteen
miles Of White Oaks and within two
miles of Nogal, and branch lines will be
constructed to those places as soon as
the work Of construction on the main
line reaches the points nearest to those
towns, thus affording excellent shipping
facilities to the Ell Paso smelters.
Alvord & Baker, representing a Chi
cago syndicate, are prospecting in the
vicinity of Nogal, and have located over
forty claims north of the famous old
Hopeful property. They have secured
assays ranging from So to $45 in gold,
and the product SO far as developed is
free milling. Their company proposes
to erect a stamp mill near the properties
and treat the ore as fast as mined.
Another eastern company is negotiat-
ing for the purchase of the American
and Helen Ray mines, and the proper
ties will be fully developed and operated
on the most scientific principles.
The marble quarries at White Oaks
are now looked on as a source of profit,
and it is figured hat the product can be
laid down in Ell Paso at a profitable fig
ure. AS soon as the road reaches there
a few trial shipments will be made and
the operators will endeavor to create a
market in the southwest.
The Old Abe coal mines are working
full blast, furnishing fuel for the extern
sive mining and milling operations Of
the Old Abe company. Coal filings in
this region are not general, and the
country will probably not be fully de-
veloped until the railway has reached
White Oaks. 1t is claimed that the
Goulds, Rolla Wells, Of Wells-Fargo &
Co., and G. w. Parker are extensive
owners in the coal fields. The White
Oaks coal is a fine quality of the btu
minous article, and is furnished to the
residents of the town by the Old Abe
company at $2.25 per ton.
The new shaft of the Old Abe mine,
which was started last year 100 yards
from the caved old workings, has at
tanned a depth of 1,175 feet. 1t Is said
to be the deepest dry mine in the world.
The facilities for hosting and mining
are of the latest and best make, and the
Old Abe is forging ahead as one of the
largest gold producers in the west. The
vein varies from 5 to 6 feet in width,
and carries values from $40 to $150 per
ton. During the past two years it has
been the desire Of the company to thor
oughly develop the property, and the
ore taken out for treatment came al
most exclusively from the development
work, but very little stopping being nee
essary to keep the old mill running. A
f1fty-ton capacity cyanide plant has
just recently been erected, and the out
put will be pushed during the year.
There is considerable excitement in
the Jicarrilla gold fields, situated about
ten miles northeast Of White Oaks. The
placer grounds cover an area of ten
miles, and the values range from
10 cents to rs cents per cubic yard. Wa
ter Is a scarce article in the region, and
heretofore miners have hauled that
commodity a distance of two to five
miles, or use dry washers. Frequently
after rain storms they pick up quanti-
ties Of nuggets varying in size from
peas to nuggets, and giving values from
81 to So. N. Ozanne, a Jicarilla store
keeper, states that in the last five years
he has handled over $11, 900 worth Of
gold extracted by dry washers. A COM
pany now proposes to construct a pipe
line from the Ell Captain springs, a dis
lance Of seventeen miles, and use hy-
draulics on the placer group.
Surveyors have located the route from
the Marion coal mines, at Madrid, San
ia Fe county, N. M, to the Albemarle
mine in the Cochiti mining district, a
distance of thirty miles. The poles are
out, and the dynamos are being built in
the east with a capacity Of 300 horse
power. The plant is being enlarged to a
capacity Of 300 tons per day. The ore at
a depth Of 800 feet runs $22 per ton in
gold. The width Of the vein at the pres
ent depth is l04 feet. The gold is in
white quartz. The values have an in
crease from Sc on top to $3.50 per ton.
There are two other mills in the vi
cinity Of this great gold property run
ming night and day. Across the Rio
Grande valley to the east, In the Sandia
mountains, a few prospectors are at
work, all on big fissure veins from 8 to
40 feet In width, running down through
the granite. Every prospect hole, and
there are not over a dozen, show min
eral from grass roots in gold, lead, sill
yer and copper. Plenty Of timber and
coal for smelling purposes are very con-
venient.
A recent discovery by Mr.. Eckhart,
who is largely interested in the Monte
yuma group In the Los Huertos canon,
shows a ledge Of copper 10 feet wide,
with assay values Of 50 per cent copper.
The Maceo claim in Pigeon gulch is
showing up well in lead, gold and silver.
The vein Is over 80 feet in width, and is
rather odd in it's structure. Thus, . feet
Of 30 per cent Of lead ore with some sill
ver-then 6 feet Of rotten granite, and
then comes in a red quartz carrying
gold 8 feet wide. Then a porphyritic
yellow quartz, carrying gold and silver
as far as cut into. The vein shows on
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