Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-15
WONDERFUL BLAND
The Coehiti District Still Pushing
Forward and Onward In a
Marvellous Way,
1000 MEN ARE EMPLOYED
Good Chance For Santa Fe Merchants to
Secure Trade-Important Mining Deals
There Are Now 5000 People
In the District

-Ihere Are Now o,OUV Fe0ple
In the District
Special Cor New Mexican.
Bland, N. NJ, March 13.-Time- tried
and thoroughly proved up by men of
pluck and brains, the Cochiti mining
district has long since passed the ex-
perimental stare. and the visitor Of to-
da 4 wonderfully attractive
lrpposi,.on Irom almost any point of
view Without anything in .le nature
Of fuss and feathers with no at
tempt at booming or hurting any sort
Of bouquets at itself, the camp has made
extraordinary progress during the past
six months. The town of Bland has
kept pace with the industrial develop
ment that has been going on all about
1t, and now one finds here perched in
the hills amidst towering pines, hem
med In by beautifully terraced walls of
gold and silver bearing rocks, towering
a thousand feet higher, typical west
ern mining town, characterized by all
the push and energy and "go" that has
made famous such Colorado camps as
Leadville, Cripple Creek and Telluride.
In fact, many of the pioneers in those
camps are now here, and their money
and their genius are doing much toward
helping New Mexicans to paint these
hills yellow and white that may be
seen afar.
1,5OO MEN EMPLOYED.
The population of Bland and vicinity,
including the Albemarle camp, is fully
5000. In the mines and mills and lum-
Der camps over $500 men are employed
at good wages. Money seems to be plen-
tiful, and the streets give evidence of
thrift and prosperity. All day long the
sound Of the hammer and saw Is heard
in merry song, nor does it cease for
Sunday. Over fifty business houses and
dwellings have been erected within the
past four months. Three sawmils are
turning out the lumber for these i'm
put up In Media Dia canon by the Nav
ajo company Is now on the way here.
In commercial way, all lines of busi-
ness are fully represented. The overland
traffic between Bland and the Rio
Grande, fifteen miles distant, is great
factor in the daily life of the place. w.
L. Trimble & Co.'s splendidly equipped
sixhorse coach makes trip in and out
of the camp daily, making connections
with the stage line from Santa Fe, and
with the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
at Thornton station. Cooper & Johnson
also run daily coach in and out be-
tween here and Thornton. The freight
and express business in and out Of the
camp is great, giving employment to
over 300 teams. most of them four and
six horse affairs. .....
TRADE WITH SANTA FE.
While on this subject of freighting,, it
may be we'll to suggest that Santa Fe
merchants do not get one-half the busi-
ness they could command here if some
effort were made to secure it. Having
both the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
and the Denver & Rio Grande railroads
to connect with, the advantage Of a
good wagon road and lower freighting
charges than even from Thornton sta
ton, Bland merchants feel very kindly
disposed toward trading with Santa Fe,
and they are at loss to comprehend
why this backwardness in coming for
ward after a good thing.
BOUND TO TAKE FRONT RANK.
Among the miners one hears Of the
most extraordinary doings. If existing
plans are carried out and present expec-
tations, with reasonable discount, are
realized, Bland will take front rank as
the mining camp par excellence Of New
Mexico within the coming ninety days.
Full details will be given in subsequent
letters. 1t Is said the Cochiti Gold Min
Ing Company will have Its 800 horse
power electric plant and its enlarged
mill in operation by May l, when it will
treat 300 tons Of ore daily. BY that time,
or few weeks later at most, the Nava-
10 company will have Its electric tram
way of one mile and its new 350-ton mill
we'll under way. r. w. Woodbury., of
Denver, represented here by W. c.
Wynkoop, has again come into legal
possession of the famous Iron King
mine, paying $4,000 therefor, and con-
tracts are now being let for taking out
ore to be treated at the new Wynkoop
mill at Allerton, now called the town of
woodbury." and boasting Of recent
ly established postofflce.
MINING DEALS.
The Crown Point Bull Of the Woods
and Little Giant claims, located Just ur
the gulch above Bland. have lately beer
bonded to o. P. Posey and William Bal.
ley, Of Boston, by ]. D. May and others
for $4,000. w. ]. Cartan, another Bos-
ton millionaire, in company with Judge
s. w. Young, of Bland, has also taker
a working bond on the Victor group and
the T. s. K. mine for a sum that runs
away up in the pictures. Contracts fol
extensive development will be let this
week. and another big mill near the
head Of Cola canon is in contemplation
IMPORTANT STRIKES.
New and important strikes are report.
ed to-day from three different sections
Of the district. On the south, in Peralts
canon, George F. Ostrander has opened
fresh ledge Of high-grade ore, and Il
is said the mine has been bonded t.
Cripple Creek parties; between Coils
and Pine canons, on claims owned BY
Rev. G.. 8. Madden and Milo Hill, ant