Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-12-26
THE GOLDEN DISTRICT.
Interesting Notes About the Mines
and Miners.
SOME GOOD STRIKES REPORTED.


Special Correspondence.
Golden. Dec. al. ID. Hart, Of the
Palace saloon. will present his many
customers with some very pretty god
nugget TASKS for Christmas.
Chas. l.. Thayer. connected with the
Monte Cristo Gold placer mining COM
pany, spent a day in Golden looking
after the affairs Of his company.
Frank p. white and Lee Burner are
now doing this years assessment work
on the Delgado and other claims Join
ing 1t In the Delgado placer grounds.
L. ID. Sugar, of the Argo
mining company OF Milwaukee, Wis,
came up to Golden last Saturday 20
receive a fifty foot contract Just an.
ished by Bosser md company at SIS
per foot.
J. b. Mayo, general manager for the
Old Reliable Mining company. has put
several men to work repairing the
roads to the Lucky mine, PREPARATORY
TO stert doing some very extensive
work on the mines. From Mr.. Mayo's
mines your correspondent went to the
C~andalaria mine. lately purchased by
the Galisteo mining company from
Col. J. r. Hutchison and found M. L
English with several men at work de-
~veloping the property In nrst-class
shape. After seeing the Candalaria. I
went TO the Pine Tree gulch where I
found Daniel Mcnamara, agent for
he Kansas City Gold Placer com
pany. hard at work expecting to send
his company some fine gold ore for
Christmas present. l hope he strikes
as he has been looking for II long
enough now. A tramp TO the east of
W miles further brought me to the
old AL Perry gulch. where Messrs
Roberts n Perry hold forth. but af-
ter trying on the doors Of the cabin
and inning several shots 20 call them. !
had to retire to the next gulch In the
Cid Pacific Iron mine. where / found
several teams hauling Iron ore for the
Santa Fe Gold and Copper company's
new smelter. Here the company has
three men at work taking out the ore
for iuxing purposes. After partak-
Ing OF a cup of coffee with Abeyta, ]
started around the mountain to the
San Lazarus guich. but before I got
to It I found people from everywhere
In the district. taking all the ground
available around the east side OF the
mountain. and where the main depot
Of the Santa Fe 4 Albuquerque rail-
will be built. You can depend
on II hat none here are going to get
left, when II to having all the
land they can get. l was pleased TO see
80 many people looking after their
best interests. as well as establishing
. depot in the most beautiful epot next
to the San Istdro mountains. In the
San Lazarus the same old timers were
found exchanging stories. for Il was
Sunday and their religious doctrine
them to work on the seventh
day. Mr.. Lohnek and Mr.. Hall own |
ers Of the Mckinley mine, were at |
home. and they informed me thai the |
sulch was pretty well populated nov
by men doing their own m Others |
assessment work for the finishing |
From the road. being late and |
cold, and unable to go. / saw the mag |
niicent steel plant OF the Santa Fe
Colo and Copper company. with the |
fine houses surrounding II. In
San Pedro / didn't ind any one tina |
could give me any reliable news Of |
what was going on in town and I went |
down TO Golden, where I found that ali |
the people had gone TO roost rather
early, having spent Saturday night in
a dance given by one OF the young
men OF the city. GOLDEN.