Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-12-12

Eighteen mi ca OF smooth and well
travelled road, all down grade. stretch
es out between Hillsboro and the near
by discovered gUld fields A mile down
the valley from Hillsboro the road
rises and for a distance OF three or
four miles winis around over the riv.
erward foothills OF the Black Range
OF mountains, Issuing onto a ope OF
grassy plain. Prospect hoes and some
worked paying mines. with surface
improvements, dot the hill sides. The
trail passes by the Hlllsboro placer
diggings. The driver points them out
and the fever OF the epidemic gold
craze scars higher as the conveyance.
which IL carrying you to the newly
found hldorado swings along after a
pair of good horses. The distance may
farther than eighteen miles. but
the drive Is made in three hours
He Eats Breakfast.
After n hurried breakfast OF short.
cut steaks. freshly laid eggs. toast and
coffee, served with cream fresh and
thick, our patty, consisting OF Il. NJ.
Evens of Parral. Mexico: Il. J. Nor
ton. mining expert OF El Paso; A.
Alien. recently OF the Colorado Fuel
& Iron company. and the writer. the
later riding horseback. left Hillsboro
for the digglngs. II was . o'clock
when everything was pronounced az
ready and the start was made. At ~
o'clock the river was crossed without
! incident ana the driver made direct
| for the camp OF +. Trujillo In Caballo
canyon.
The First Gold.
The Trujillo claim and a claim To-
| Gated in Apache canyon by Bernardo
| Silva, we're the first claims located,
/ and are supposed 10 be very rich, Mr..
/ Trujilo was In camp and willingly
showed the gold In the sand In its ma
tive state. The writer saw gold blown
from the sand. PANIED from the sand
in water and dry PANIED. The dirt
PANIED In water, some five or six
pounds, taken from the ridge
twenty OF more feet above the bottom
OF the canyon, produced thirteen col
ors. The dirt from the floor OF the
canyon PANIED dry. produced three
very small colors. On the hard bot
tom OF a gulch, a few yards from the
main canyon. a native, after scraping
and blowing few minutes, uncovered
several rather large fiaky particles OF
the yellow metal, and this last demon
stration OF the presence OF gold was
repeated several times for the beneht
~ the visitors.
That part CT Caballo canyon. where
gold Is found 10 be quite plentiful, Ia
about GOO yards long with small trtbu-
tary gulches.
The New Town.
small town of some hundred wa
CONS with open air camps. three stores
and like number OF saloons, has
sprung up at the mouth OF Apache
canyon on the banks OF the ITO
Grande. The number OF people on the
fields today OFriday, December ~
does not exceed 900, but the crowd Is
swelling. New arrivals are coming
most every hour. The writer met two
gold seekers from Alabama, one from
Mississippi, several from Mexico and
several from Colorado. and still anoth
er from San Francisco.
The majority OF the claim holders
and nj ieast thre efourths OF the peo
pie in the fields are natives from the
Rio Grande valley And II Is amonl
. this latter class that the real golt
craze exists.
The $50 Americans in the camp are
, almost universal In their belief tina
the new gold discovery is frijolt
, proposition, out II Is yet early to con
denim the new Eldorado. SO far yer,
, ittle prospecting has been done ant
, there Is no telling what development
will reveal. Three surveyors are II
, the field and Locating continues.
, The Gold Fields.
, On Friday the writer rode over thu
{ fields In company with Fred Grayson
cattleman femiliar with the lay g
, the land and able to converse will
, the natives. by riding along the bas
= OF the Caballo mountains a fine vley
= Of the whole Ct rntry supposed to b
I fertile with gold was had. A narroy
. strip OF rolling sand hills three mile
and half wide lies between the mour
tains and the river. Monuments do
=. this strip OF land, one pile of snow e'
cry twenty acres or such a matter 10
: at least Ave miles north and five mile
south of Apache canyo.-, but over a
!, this scope of country, on the day @
! the writer's visit had any gold. of an
9 considerable quantity. been found an
place other than at Trujillo's cam
y and at Silva's camp.
i Silva. like Truiillo Is very cleve
native He was most courteous an
I demonstrated that gold could
/ blown from the sand on his claim 1
!, Apache canyon. The fakes of NETS
were very similar to those exhibite
9 taken from rrujillo's claim. possibl
a little larger and n triie more plent
ful. The sand and formations In bot
= places are about the same.
Z, Is OF Geyser Formation.
:. j. Macy, Who has been mining
{ New Mexico since 1899. Is on the feel
{ In the interest OF company. NJ
II Macy is a prospector OF considerably
J. experience and talks intell'gently o
, everything pertaining to mining II
y has studied earth formations and ha
. formed his opinions In regard to III
u formation of the new gold field.
;, He said: IL have located a larg
body OF land for my company In tn
. BASIN"
IL will be well TO explain that mes
9 the head or Apache canyon Is a basil
OF near 500 acres. Surrounded on a
sides by hills Il has no outlet excep
e ing a wide creyasse In the rocks O
n the lower side. This crevasse Ia q
!. narrow is ten feet wide In one plac
r the rocks steering straight up Mt
feet above the rock bottom. Tn
4 crevasse Is impossible by horse. b,
through II escapes the water thl
f.lN a. .enl. oil a