Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-22
THE WOODBURY. MILL
This Cochiti Enterprise Is Modern
and Perfect In Its Equipment
and Operations.
BLAND NEWS OF INTEREST
The Ooohiti Is Enjoying Quiet Prosperity
Operations At the Iron King Mine-A
Severe Rain Storm-A Woman's
Sudden Death.
Special Cor. New Mexican.

Special Cor. New Mexican.
Bland, N. M, May 2l.-It is plainly
apparent that the Cochiti Reduction
and Improvement Company is to cut no
small figure in developing the hidden
| riches Of this truly remarkable district.
The officers of this corporation, we'll
known Denver men, are: r. w Wood
bury, president; David Moffat treasur-
err and w. c. Wynkoop, secretary and
general manager. The capital stock Is
100000. 1t Is close or private cor
poration, and it is understood that
wealthy distillers of Peoria, Ill. are
among the larger stockholders.
A BIG MILLING PLANT.
Six miles down Pine canon, at the
Allerton townsite, now called Wood
bury, this company has recently COM
pleted large milling plant which is as
nearly automatic in it's operation as 1t
is we'll possible to make it. From the
time the ore from the mines Is dumped
lion Is in the molds it Is handled by
hand but once. 1t is a combination of
pan amalgamation and cyanide, meth
cd of extraction which has within
few years been successfully adopted in
Utah. parts Of California and at the
Oneida mill in the Cripple Creek re-
gion. Only very limited proportion of
the cyanide solution Is used; not
enough to poison the shines and tail
ings. The present capacity of the plant
is forty tons Of ore per day, but this
will be soon increased, as the other nee
essary machinery Is on hand for oper-
ating 100-ton plant Seventy per cent
of the ore is run through in it's raw
state, being free milling; 80 per cent
carries sulphurets and arsenides, and
this requires roasting, which at this
mill Is done, 1t is claimed, at a cost of
but so cents per ton. The first bar of
bullion was shipped to Treasurer Moffat
at Denver some ten days ago. but since
then a broken roller shell has caused
delay. This will be replaced and this
mill set in motion again by the close of
that by this method the treatment of
Cochiti ores is reduced to the very min
imum of cost, and the values so nearly
all saved as to leave but 40 cents Fer ton
in the tailings, this fact having been
ascertained by repeated assays.
THE IRON KING NINE.
This company owns the Iron King
mine, which is proving itself one of the
greatest in the district. Geo. C. Smith,
widely known to the miners of Santa
Fe county, is fulfilling contract to run
a 200-foot drift on the vein in a 100-foot
shaft. The Iron King vein is about As
feet wide as a rule, the ore averaging
$12 per ton and better, but at point
200 feet below the present workings on
the Star claim the vein has been cross
cut 10 feet, and still no hanging wall
has been struck. This ore is hauled by
wagon to the mill, about six miles, for
81 per ton.
THE BLACK GIRL DEAL.
During the past week Mr. Woodbury.
and his associates have taken a ninety
day bond at $35, 900 on the Black Girl
Posey group of claims, the ore from
which will also be treated at this mill.
A WELCOME STORM.
The heaviest rain storm in year
struck the Cochiti country yesterday. 1t
was a most timely visitation, notwith-
standing some damage was done the
in Pine and Cola canons The
rain fell for sixteen hours. In the lat
ter canon the flood was heaviest, and
no trans have been able to get through
to the Albemarle mill all day. A few
horsemen got through. About fifty men
are at work on the road. however, and
before this appears in type traffic will
be resumed. Below Bland there was
one washout that caused delay Of sew
eral hours Of the Sunday mail coaches.
The incoming coach required ten horses
to draw it up the steep grade two miles
from Bland in the canon. The local
magistrate, however. has called for men
to repair this damage at once. From
sanitary point of view the flood came
as Godsend to both Bland and Albe-
marie residents, the rush of water hav-
ing thoroughly cleaned the towns Of all
refuse matter, purified the air and clad
the adjacent mountain side with Won
derful variety Of wild flowers.
AT THE SPRINGS
Crowds are this early flocking to the
Sulphur Springs, twenty miles north Of
Bland. w. L. Trimble & Co.'s stage line
is rendering excellent service. Every
house and cabin is crowded, and a city
Of tents has sprung into existence.
Scores of people from the Cochiti dis
trict have gone in thus early in order
to avoid the rush which Is sure to fol-
low next month. As 1t is, the capacity
for bathing Is taxed, and win have to
be increased. When the railroad gets
into Bland these springs can be made
by proper advertising the greatest
health resort in the west. Truly, here Is
the Carlsbad of America. and the won
ueT IL tndt SoHie railway coIpUidIoH
hasn't long ago secured control of them.
BLAND NOTES.
Despite the so-called dullness of times
the stage line business in and out of
Bland keeps up well. There were fifteen
passengers on the stage that took
New Mexican scribe into Bland last
Friday, most of them intending to settle
In the district.
About sixty citizens Of Bland, most
Of them ladies on horseback. attended
the Rio Grande bridge dedication. All
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