Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-12-19
R0SEDALE MIN
INC DISTRICT
Several Discoveries Recent
ly Made Of Good Indica-
tions of Gold Ore.
.M'KINNEY IS ENTHUSIASTIC
Wood and Water is Plentiful and
a Good Wagon Road Has
Been Constructed From
Magdalena.I

Rosedale mining district, 25 miles ives
of San Marcial in Socorro county, anC
| the nearness of timber and water
makes the prospects for it's rapid de-
velopment brighter Joseph Mckinney
who was scout through New Mexico
in the early SOS and who served with
Troop of the Sth cavalry, is interest
| Cripple Creek in the early days of its
development and he is enthusiastic ov-
er the prospects of the Rosedale dis
| trict. He is the owner of several
have been several discoveries Of good
indication of gold ore. Describing the
district he says:
about two miles westward from
Rosedale is the Baking Powder mine in
Big Rosy canyon, on which the most
work has been done except the develop
ed Rosedae mine. The Baking Powder
is located upon a big phonolite dixie
that runs northerly and southerly and
is located for several miles. The min
eral is in the porphyritic hornblend
quartz and the soft porphyry that lies
on the contact between the phonolite
and the andesite.
"The values are all in gold with a
very little silver. The ore is very much
oxidized and contains a great deal of
iron. A small amount of tellurium has
been encountered and it is believed that
development will show this class Of ore
in good quantities with depth.
1.-The veins are strong and we'll defin-
ed and all the work so far on the Bak-
ing Powder and other claims shows in
creased width and richer ores. The
depth reached on this property is about
100 feet with a vein to 10 feet wide.
This property 10 being worked under
the personal supervision OF W. w. Ed
wards Of Eel Paso.
Immediately south Of the Baking
Powder is my own property now being
worked under lease and bond to W. M.
Nealand, Gre e.-lville, Tex. The shaft Is
down about 70 :eet with crosscut of 16
feet f: ON the Pudeside foot wall and
the hanging Wall has not been struck
yet. The ore assays 81 at the foot wall
and increases in value toward the
hanging one.
Immediately north Of the Baking
Powder is the property of Mr.. Graham.
He is down probably 40 feet, and ev-
erything on his prospect is exactly like
the others.
"The Baking Powder Is probably the
most advantageously located of any of
the claims as it is crossed by another
phonolite dixie running easterly and
westerly. This dixie is of the same
character and the ore and contact are
exactly the same as the one previously
mentioned. On this cross dixie about
two miles to the eastward of the Bak-
ing Powder is the Rosedale mine, a
we'll developed property. Within the
past three weeks seven feet of gold ore
running over 5000 to the ton has been
encountered. The mine is being work
ed under a bond and now, since this
strike, the owners are trying to break
the contract. This cross dixie is located
for about three miles west of the Bak-
ing Powder.
"Out about two miles and half on
this dixie to the west Of the Baking
Powder is the Golden Rule claim, a
very promising prospect, now being
worked under lease and bond by j. G.
Easley, formerly sheriff of Clear Creek
county, Colorado. A 1900 foot tunnel
on the vein is the plan Of work started,
and this tunnel is now in over so feet.
and it will gain a depth Of $500 feet on
the vein. The ore so far and on the
surface groupings Is the same as that
prevailing in the entire district. This
extensively planned development can
be watched with much interest.
parallel with the north and south
another phonolite dixie called the Red
Wave dixie and with exactly the same
characteristic. Some very fine ore has
been found upon it particularly on Nc
Wilson's claim and it, too, is located for
some distance.
"Still another and a fourth dixie, par
allels the east and west or cross dixie
before mentioned. 1t Is about mile
east Of the Baking Powder. On this
dixie and about one mile east of the
Rosedale mine is the White Cap prop
erty. The shaft is down about 100 feet
and it is entirely safe to say that there
is 10 feet Of $40 ore in that shaft from
top to bottom.
"Of the many locations along these
four dikes, the work all shows gold, and
the veins are Of good size. While they
will not all probably make paying
mines, there will no doubt be developed
some wonderful properties along them
The veins are large, and they will un-
doubtedly be low grade mines, but
there will surely be considerable rich
ore struck.
"The future of the Rosedale camr
will depend upon the large bodies Of
low grade ore, for which there Is every
reason to think that plenty will bt
found. The ore is susceptible of the
cyanide process OF treatment and car
! be mined and treated for 81 per ton