Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-10-11
THE GOLDEN DISTRICT.
The Citizens Correspondent Visits
the Mines Of the District.
AN INTERESTING LETTER.


teemen appointed by the miners Of the
new placer mining district. and also for
the Dolores district, Of south Santa Re
county, have been looking the country
over with n view OF taking to the fair
an exhibit of the minerals Of both dis
tricts. While | was out Sunday I done a
little work for them in the way OF pick
Ing up some fine specimens of the differ
ent minerals Of the camp. This camp
will undoubtedly have an excellent exhib
it In Albuquerque.
Starting out from Golden bright and
early with two one gallon canteons Of
water. a half dozen crackers and a rab-
bits leg for lunch. / first reached the
workings of the Monte Cristo" company,
now deceased but Mr. Dicks. who is the
general manager of the company. as
sured your correspondent that the COM
pany would revive In a few days and that
n large force Of men would be kept at
work as long as the cold weather would
permit. Charles l.. Thayer. OF New
York. who will be the general manager
Of the new company. Is expected daily.
while not much work Is being done now
Mr.. Dicks keeps nv men at work getting
things in shape waiting the arrival OF
Mr.. Thayer.
About a half mile south and In the Old
Timer gulch, Walter Middleton, the sec
| rotary OF the Monte Cristo and Thomas
O'Niel. were hard at work in the Bowling
Lode. Walter. who Is n fine book
keeper, undertook to tell your CORE
| spondent that he was a first class miner
and practical geologlst. and was only
there showing Thomas o'Nell how to
mine. After a few minutes ak I asked
| Mr.. Middleton II he would allow me to
take a few pounds of his ore to the Albu-
querque fair, but. after n few minutes
figuring. he said he would II a $50 deposit
would be made for the return of his ore.
OF course. | promised him the money
would be forthcoming. and / laid aside
the ore I wanted
The ore from the Bowling mine IL so
fine l~ooking-and I don't doubt but what
Mr.. G%eologist IL right that Il contains
so much gold to the cubic foot! | took
his word for II, anyhow, and left Mr..
Middleton still giving lessons to Mr..
O'Niel how to drlll. etc. etc.
| next found Frank White in his camp
cooking breakfast. but not an inch would
he go with me on that day to show me
his claims or give mo any ore for the
| ltfFs U hNu npl uldT1t FTbIh very much
for not showing me more courtesies. as
he explained that nc was going to dress
up and go to town, as he had a very urg-
Ing appointment to meet. I know a little
of his appointment and let him 60, wish
ing him buen tempo.
So mounted my burro. and up I went
TO the Hazelton, where Mr.. Sugar has
been putting up some new gasoline hois-
tiers and timbering, the shafts to sink
down several hundred feet deeper. or
until the copper ore IL found. But no.
body was there. Mr.. Sugar and his part
ner having left a few minutes before for
San Pedro to hear his customary Sunday
gospel, and | vamos POGO mas oriba and
reach the Pine Tree rulch. OF course. I
found Daniel there. and also Messrs.
Kipp and Griffins. These gentlemen are
Interested In the Golden Gate Mining
company and are doing lots of work on
all the claims they have. Mr.. Kip. who
has only been out here a few days. Is
satisfied with the prospects OF all the
claims they have. and work will be
pushed this winter. No ore will be sent
from the Pine Tree this fall. but by next
fall there will be quite n lot on exhibit
ton.
From the Pine Tree ] went over the
mountains to the Perry gulch. Al Perry,
who has spent over ten years In the
gulch, was not to be seen. as 1t was Gus
tomary to all visitors to his camp. Al
Perry, who was well known here by all
the boys, met with an accident on Tues
day, september IL, While riding down
to the Baird Mining company's property
In the dark, he struck n 2Nl scantling
that had fallen down from a bridge and
was hanging Just over the road the bio"
being hard enough to cause conclusion
OF the brain Al died on the Following
Friday, september 20, at > O'Clock n, m
and was taken to Cerrillos for burial.
Messrs. Richard and William Conners'
who are In charge of the Perry property
showed your correspondent around. They
Tuerto mountains. which nj present fur.
nishes the iron ore TO the San Pedro
smelter.