Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-07-03
ORE WORTH
$4,000 A TON
Phenomenal Gold Strike Made Recently Near
Golden by Isdor SiIbsrman Of
New York.
SPECIMENS OF ORE HERE
The Strike Was Made on the Aazleton Group Owned by
the Milwaukee PeOple--Mr. SHERMAN Also Some
Time Ago Struck Pocket Of Rich Gold Ore
In the Same Vicinity.

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| The old saying i'll mining parianct
| that the tcnderfoot prospector strikes
| :. rich quite = often as the practica
| miner has again been verified Less
! than year ago, pale faced New 1orR
| youth, Isidor Silberman, arrived in Col
den, southern Santa Fe county, to visit
his uncle, L. D. Sugar, manager of the
Hazleton group of mining claims.
Chiefly for health reasons, he was CIV
en- pick and shovel and was set to do
ing assessment work. Starting in on
an abandoned short tunnel on one or
the company's claims known as the Las
Vegas, he worked vigorously for sever
al months when one day about SIX
months ago, a single stroke of his PICK
revealed fourteen inch streak OF de-
composed quartz bespangled with gold.
The young New Yorker did not have to
be told that it was the real stuff He
let fall his pick, snatched up chunk
of the cleaning quartz and hatless ana
coatless ran for mile and half
across arroyos and sandy wastes to
Golden where he laid his treasure be-
fore Mrs. Sugar, Mr.. Sugar being away
from home. Four days thereafter the
mine was secretly worked and the find
proved to be a pocket soon worked out
but yielding $4,000 in almost pure, ma
tive gold. To discover the main vein
was then the task of young Silberman.
He prospected the surface for three
months and finally determined to start
another tunnel higher up in the noun
tain, in which he worked until last
Monday when at ten feet below the
surface he spied a piece of wire gold as
large as knitting needle protruding
from the quartz wall in front of him.
1t was short and exciting work to get
in on this quartz vein and with every
stroke Of the pick new and rare riches
We're exposed In the upper left hand
corner of the tunnel, four by six feet,
the vein is IS inches wide where first
struck and so inches wide in the lower
right hand corner. A few feet farther
in the whole face of the tunnel came
the same rich quartz, glittering with
wire and nugget gold, some Of the lat
ter being rare specimens Of crystallized
gold hitherto found only in several in
stances in the southern Santa Fe min
ing districts. Mr.. Silberman exhibited
at the Claire hotel yesterday several
specimens which We're very beautiful.
One was nugget as large as a cherry
stone: another about the size and shape
of large pecan appeared to be one
fourth pure gold. He says that when
working the mine the wire gold would
catch in his shoes and he had to be
careful lest people would see them
when he came out of the tunnel and
that this quartz will return $4,000 to
the ton and upward as the discoverer
phrased it. He said he knew nothing
about practical mining, but he crum-
pied up quantity Of ore in his hand,
it is very soft, and from the gold thus
obtained he thinks it will yield at least
an ounce to the pound, $4,000 to the
ton. Upon examining the strike, Man
ager Sugar sent Mr.. Silberman post
haste to Milwaukee, where the Hazle-
ton Company stockholders reside, to
tell them in his own rather boyish way
the story of the discovery. He left
for Milwaukee last night. In the mean
time, Mr.. Sugar is endeavoring to as
certain the full extent Of the vein and
to place the mine in readiness for in
spection by a committee of stockhold-
ers who will accompany young Silber-
man on his early return from the east.
The mine is on the north slope Of the
San Pedro mountains near the well
known Old Timer mine and adjoins a
property owned by Hon. F. A. Man
zanares; w. c. Gortner and others of
Las Vegas, in which. in sinking a we'll
for the Monte Cristo Placer Company
few years ago the drill of the Harold
Well Boring Company penetrated sc
feet of gold bearing quartz at a depth
of 600 feet, and particles of gold as
large as grains Of wheat were brought
up from the depths of the drilling bit
This find will do much to attract new
attention to the golden riches Of south
ern Santa Fe county.
Don't spoil your disposition with a
bad dinner. Visit the Claire and bt
happy. Special dinner July 4.
Teamsters and teams wanted to work