Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-16
THE GOLDEN COCHITI
A Brief Review Of the Active Min
ing Operations At and About
Bland.
new MEXICO CRIPPLE CREEK
Work That Has Been Done at Albemarle
and Other Mines Denver Republican
Special Correspondent Writes
Up the Camp.
Denver Republican,

Denver Republican,
Bland, N. M, Oct. 13.-The fame of
the great Cochiti gold mining region is
already well known to many, but ere
another year passes the Cochiti district,
with Bland, N. M. as its commercial
center, will be to New Mexico much as
, Cripple Creek is to Colorado.
There is not the usual secrecy and
mystery about these mines that is at
tached to many of half the value. In
fact there is nothing to be hidden. The
Cochiti, or better known locally as the
Albemarle mine, is entered by an in
cline shaft of &C degrees, following the
vein, which crops out on the surface
very prominently. The vein has a
width of rs feet and has yielded good
mining ore from the very surface, wild
ening out in many places to a width not
yet known. At one place rich vein mat
ter has been cut IS feet across. The
average vein is 40 feet wide, yielding in
value an average of $40 per ton, one
fourth in silver, the balance in gold.
Over 5000 feet of drifting and cross
cutting has been done-entirely through
mineral-gaining a depth of 600 feet.
Only on the first and 22d levels has there
been any ore stopped, leaving the third,
fourth and fifth levels we'll developed
with immense bodies of ore exposed.
With but one shot last week 265 tons of
ore were broken. The past year the
mine has produced on development work
only, 100 tons per day.
The present mill is of the cyanide pro-
cess, with a capacity of 300 tons perday.
1t is entirely built of steel, and has five
12O-ton solution tanks and six 70-ton
tanks. A new addition is now being
built, 70x200 feet, also all of steel, with
IL 200-ton solution tanks.
Another wing is in course OF erection,
30x7O feet. This wing will use the Pela-
tin.Clerici process, a combined cyanide
and electrical method. The total amount
of ore to be treated by this method will
be 100 tons per day.
A new all steel shaft-house, equipped
electrically, with duplicate power plant,
is also being erected. An electrical
power Of 20, 900 volts will be transmitted
from Madrid, 81 miles distant. This
line is now being constructed. 1t is
capable of doubling the transmitting
forces.
Two five-mile water pipes, carrying
sufficient water, and a new wagon road
down Gala canon, on which no grade
will exceed seven feet per mile, are new
features of this extensive plant, and
contracts call for their completion by
January /.
The Lone Star mine has recently been
purchased by Posey & Cohen, practically
the Cochiti management. The consid-
Grafton was in the ~neighborhood of a
million dollars. This property is situat-
cd practically in the town of Bland, and
it Is a known fact that over $50, 600 tons
of ore are exposed, having an average
value of $40 per ton, values equally divid.
ed between gold and silver.
With depth in both properties the val
ues are not only retained, but gain IN
general value, while the values in gold
materially increase and silver decreases
The mine Is an all tunnel proposition.
consisting at present OF five tunnels OF
levels, lettered from A to E inclusive.
Another tunnel site, 1000 feet long,
would cut the mother vein $50 feet
deeper than the present lowest work,
ings. In this mine development work is
farthest on in tunnel, or level &C.
where one must see to be convinced that
an east and west cross-cut has beer
driven through the rich ore vein liz
feet, with no telling where the hanging
wall u.s., and a conservative estimate
puts the foot wall some 20 feet distant,
With this immense body of ore in plain
sight the word bonanza is too common
for use.
The mill to this mine is nOwa ten.
stamp affair, which has treated the orc
Of a $13 grade the past 10 months or
the Pelatin- Clerici process with entire
success, so that the method OF treat
ment for this ore has been fully demon
(. strated and will be no experiment
There is now under consideration anC
construction improvements a~ggregatine
in cost e $500, 900. A surface tram
way, operated by an electric motor, will
run directly from the ore chutes OF the
mine, along the mountain side, and de-,
liver the ore to a 300-ton mill which will
be located in Media Dia canon, just op'
posite the lower portion of Bland, about
one and a quarter miles from the Lone
Star mine.
The writer saw an assay made on ore
now being exposed in this mine that ran
|, 800 ounces in silver and Is ounces In
gold, a total value of. 81, 0s5. Picked
samples have run to So, 500.
Ex-senator Warner Miller and 9th
ers Of New York, recently leased the
Crown Point mine for q consideration OF
$50, 900, the final payment being made
September 6. This property has an In
cline shaft Of $50 feet and four levels Of
some 1000 feet all in vein matter, the
vein varying from 8 to 20 feet. Returns
ON the last car of ore shipped ran '$57 II
gold, 49, so in silver. The total average
will run about $1s in gold and 81 in sill
yer. The new owners are driving q
tunnel to cut the vein some 800 fee
south Of the present workings, where 1T Il
the intention to erect q 100-ton mill
using the cyanide process.
Superintendent George Milliken Is
now in Denver on business connected
with the mine. The purchase. also in.
cluded the Giant extension Of the Lone
star lode, not yet developed, and stht
Bull.of-the-Woods extending into tn
town of Bland. This properly has ship
ned some $500 0 worth OF ore and has II
the n%eighborhood Of 1000 tonsnow on tn,
dump. The Iron King is a well devel
oped property adjoining the Lone Stal
and is owned by a Denver company nov
!, erecting q mill. These Denver men, ar,
|. R. W. Woodbury., president, and w. c
Wynkoop, general manager. II is
property highly spoken of and has
great future. 1t will be operated 9
soon as i new custom mill is com pleted
The mill is located on the new townsit
of Woodbury., q so-acre purchase fror
the Cochitl grant.
There are many other promising pros
meets in the district. A report Is cul
!, rent that the old Washington mine
! about to be re~-opened, the long stanc
~. H4ina4ion having haan settled or