Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-02-16
Mill to Work the Vast Body Of Gold
Bearing Stuff In Southern San
ia Fe County,
WORK AHEAD FOR YEARS
The Water Problem Solved In the Tuerto
Valley By Driving Deep Wells
Not Very Far From the
Mill,
Special Cor, New Mexican,

Golden, N. M, February lo.-Ihe IN
dustrial Placer Mining Company, hav-
ing its headquarters at No. 903 Park
Row, New York City, on the Santa Fe-
Bernalillo county line, few miles west
of Golden, have located under the min
ing laws $50 acres of gold bearing
CRANE and cement which numerous
tests on a small scale show to yield
from $3.50 to 81 per cubic yard in gold.
On the strength of this showing they
are now erecting
A MILLING PLANT,
the operations of which are being
watched with intense interest by all
classes Of mining men in these parts,
since it is perfectly apparent that If
the values in the cement can be saved
by this process there is enough material
in sight to supply dozen similar plants
with ore for the next twenty five years.
This immense deposit lies out on a
level plain in the valley of the Rio Tu-
erto, and is supposed to have accumu-
lated there In ages past as the result
Of the wash and dislntegration of the
environing Ortiz and Tuerto mountains,
known to be so richly scanned with
quartz ledges carrying free gold. In
riding down Tuerto canon the casual
observer can see
MILES OF CEMENT
from 30 to 50 feet in thickness, resting
upon a solid bed rock Of sand stone.
From the face Of these conglomerate
cliffs and from every acre of the ground
as it extends back on either side of the
canon samples of the stuff have been
conveyed to the mill, and will be worked
through the machinery as soon as
warm weather will permit water to flow
through the pipes without danger of
freezing. The water problem has been
solved by the driving of deep wells near
some natural springs in the Tuerto val
ley. half a mile above the mill, whence
the water is piped; at present in 4-inch
Mains but S-inch mains are now on
the ground ready to be put in at an
early day.
AIN ARlESlAN fLOW.
There are two wells, one 61s feet deep
in which the water rises within 10 feet
Of the top, and another 73O feet deep,
which actually flows over the surface;
NOT a spouter, but flaming we'll. just
the same. A new 1,500-foot 2A-inch
cable has just been received, which
will be used in sinking other and deep
er wells, after which the present mill
ing plant will be greatly enlarged.
The mill Is Of the Snodgrass pattern,
which is in successful use In many
parts of California, and the power IS
supplied by an eighty horsepower boil
er and sixty horsepower engine. The
mill building, dwelling, bunk house and
office quarters are all new, neat and
comfortable. A steam hoist operates
the tram cars, which lifts the cement
and gravel from the ore bins up an in
cline and
DUMPS 1T AUTOMATICALLY
into a huge hopper, whence it Is fed
into and through two iron boxes about
AKA feet and Is feet long. Revolving in
side of these boxes Is a spiked cylinder
similar to music box cylinder, and as
the ore works from one end to the 9TH
er of these boxes stream of water is
also poured in, and thus the cement Is
dissolved and the gravel thoroughly
washed. Before working its way down
through the second box, wherein the
cylinder with smaller spikes revolves
much more rapidly, the gravel is au-
tomIatically screened and carried of on
the dump, while the pulp is passed on
through the second box, and after thor
ough agitation for second time flows
out into the sluice boxes, where the
rifles catch and hold the gold.
VALUABLE TESTS.
w. G. Smart, of Denver, is the mining
engineer in charge, and has at the plant
complete laboratory. He has been
FIVE weeks making careful tests on the
cement, and will be thus engaged for
the next two months. II this system OF
treatment will save an average Of 81 In
gold per ton he says there Is no saying
how big plant the company will speed
lily put in. Thus far results have been
very satisfactory, but the actual figures
on cost OF treatment and the average
gold yield per ton could not be learned
for publication. In the Black hills i'm
mense profits have been made in treat
ing ore of an average value Of $4.49 per
ton at cost OF SO cents per ton, saw
ing rs per cent OF the values carried in
the ore. and this is an effort to handle