Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-02
COCHlTl DISTRICT
A California Correspondent Describes
Several of the Features Of the
Mining Camp Of Bland.
POWER HOUSE AT MADRID
A Description of the Albemarle Mine and
Mill and Their Equipment Of Machin-
ery-A Capacity at the Mill Of
5000 Tons Per Month.
mining and Scientific Press.)

Arriving at Santa Fe over the Denver
& Rio Grande railway, the writer pro-
ceeded westward forty miles to the Co
chit mining district, crossing the Rio
Grande at the old Cochiti Indian mis-
sion, which was established more than
three centuries ago, the relics of whose
adobe and cement covered buildings
stand as a reminder Of historic days.
The Cochiti mining district lies at a
point on the eastern slope of the Cochi-
ii range, ten to twelve miles west of the
river crossing referred to. The district
covers an area of 3x8 miles, near the
heads of three parallel anons which
drain eastward to the river, known as
Pine, Cola and Peralta canons The
main wagon road goes up Pine to the
town of Bland, above which is the Lone
Star mine, belonging to the Navajo
Gold Mining Company, and a mile be-
low town is the mill of the Bland Mill
ing Company. At the mouth of this can
on is the mill of the Cochiti Reduction
and Improvement Company, whose
mine, the Iron King, endlines with the
Lone Star above Bland. Three miles
south of Bland, in Cola canon, is the
Albemarle mine and mill, belonging to
the Cochiti Gold Mining Company; far
Their to the south is Peralta canon, in
which are numerous mining locations,
and near the head of which is the water
supply of the Albemarle property, the
water being piped by gravity to mine
and mill seven miles.
At the Madrid coal mines, near Ger
rillos, on the Santa Fe railroad, is the
electric power plant of the Cochiti Gold
Mining Company, inclosed by a steel
building, with asbestos lining. The 900
*. w. three-phase generator Is driven
by IN 800 horsepower direct-connecting
Corliss steam engine, the fuel used be-
ing screenings from the coa yards. At
this power plant the 600 volts are trans
formed to 10000 for line transmission
to the substation at the Albemarle
mine, thirty-one miles distant. Here
s%tep-down transformers reduce the volt
age back to $50, which is the voltage
used on the motors. The pole line is of
three No. 4 wires for current transmits
sion, and two No. u wires for telephone
work. The transmission circuit is trans
posed every half mile, and the telephone
circuit every five poles. The poles are
% feet long, set 51A feet deep, 80 per cent
of the number being in solid rock.
At the mill and mine are electric mo-
tors Of various capacities. The belted,
two-stage air compressor is operated by
a 175 horsepower motor; the double
drum hoist over the mine shaft Is run
by a 100 horsepower motor, giving a
rope speed of 1000 feet per minute. The
mill is operated in two sections, each
by a $50 horsepower motor. by which
each section may operate Independently
of the other; two motors of twenty
horsepower each operate the Pelatan-
Clerici equipment, and there are two or
three ten horsepower motors for va
rious other work.
The Albemarle ledge trends north and
south through a porphyritic formation