Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-22
MINE LITIGATION
SETTLED
The Owners Of the Banker Mine at
Red River Buy Up the Scar
let Claim.
THE MOCKINGBIRj MINESOLD
A Contract for 100000 Feet of Lumber
for Dredee Starting Tunnel on
the Denver at Elizabethtown-
Other Mine Notes.
COLFAX COUNTY.

Messrs. Well & Sutton are in 24O faat
on their Little Wonder at Elizabeth
town.
Inc Blue Bandana tunnel at Eliza
bethtown is in 720 feet. The Red Ban.
dana lead will be struck in short time.
Michael Walsh is starting a tunnel nm
the Denver at Elizabethtown. Ha re-
Gently encountered an 1S-foot lead of
pay ore.
Z. ). Dodd of Elizabethtown, has been
given the contract for the 200. 900 feet of
lumber with which the new dredge for
the Moreno river is to be constructed
OTERO COUNTY.
Some man will certainly find in the
Jarilla mountains a gold mine of fab
ulous value. 1t is there somewhere that
IS certainty. and it is only a question
or time until it is discovered The
mountains are only ten miles long and
four miles wide, so that it is certain
that the mine will be found"
The speaker was A. j. King, a min
ing man, who was at Denver this week.
THE knowledge of the mine or mines
IN the mountains is gained by the i'm
mense beds of placer gold found in the
desert at the foot of the range" contin-
ued Mr. King. 1.-THE mountains are sit
uated In the center Of a desert, having
absolutely no connection with the
ranges of mountains on each side of the
dVSert. There is no water except that
which is hauled in on cars over the Ell
Paso & Northeastern. so that 1t is i'm
possible to wash out the gold, but it is
sifted out. Nuggets the size of the end
of mans little finger are picked up.
The desert seems to be one mass of gold
nuggets. They were, in the course Of
ages, washed down from the Jarilla
mountains. The mines that furnished
these nuggets are the ones that hum
dreds of prospectors have sought for
and are seeking to-day. The mines are
there, and there is no question but
what they will outrival those of King
Solomon.
New Mexico is forging rapidly to the
front, not only in mines, but in every
thing else. Near Jarila is a new cop
per mine that promises well, and the
old Aztec turquois mines are being sue
cessfully worked, and other turquois
mines are being opened. A million feet
of lumber Is being cut every month in
sawmll near the town, and several
The Rock Island and the Ell Paso &
Northeastern are being extended to a
junction, and the advent of the Rock
Island will be big thing for the terri
tory"
TAOS COUNTY.
Gauda Bulgaroni, August Baca and
M. Frank are doing assessment work
on the Mazzino on Bitter creek.
Three more loads of machinery for
the Copper King at Red River have ar
rived, and the boiler is on the way
Charles Forrest has been given the
contract for cutting 100 cords of wood
for the June Bug Mining and Milling
Company at Red River.
M, Lutz and c. s. Tappin have f1n-
ished their assessment work on their
property at the head of Malette creek.
and have gone home to Canon City, Col.
The litigation between the owners OF
the Banker and the Scarlet at Red Riv-
er has been settled. The owners of the
Banker people bought the Scarlet lode,
paying s1.5o0 for it.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
M, Mcdonald sold the Mocking Bird
mine in the San Andreas mountains to
w. K, Shelton, of Tularosa. Mr.. Shelton
| will develop the property.
TAOS COUNTY.
| Some rich strikes have been made
| during the past week in the tunnel
which the Rio Hondo company Is drfv-
ing on the Fraser property at Amlzett.
The Railey property at Amizett mas
been bonded by El Paso parties. H.
Mel. Cobb negotiated the deal, the
property will be carefully prospected.
and If expectations are realized, mill
will be erected and development work
pushed.
w. H. Ashton. of Boston, has pur-
chased a large number of placer claims.
which were located last spring. and
cover all of the banks of the Rio Grande
between the mouth of the Red River
and the mouth of the Rio Hondo, ano
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