Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-14
LIKES ROClADA.
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the summer.
What can one do while there
| Heinlin's ranch is only two miles
across the mountains, Bankers, and
Blakes, about the same distance. Gas
con, where the beautiful home Of Rich,
ard Dunn is situated, surrounded BY
magnificent old pines. Up the canyon
about six miles one car find some Of
the best fishing in New Mexico. A
great number of rabbits, squirrels and
birds provide for those that like to
take an occasional shot.
Last. but moi least, are the different
copper mines situate on copper works,
where one can easily spend more than
a day alone and still can not see all.
Perhaps the most prominent among
this group Is the Azure mine, altitude
$500 feet, situated five miles from the
Cutler house and Roeiada, owned
jointly by Mrs. Chas. Rudolph, Gov
ernor Hadley, Ashley Pond. Jra and
N. D. McCloskey. Here a %perpendic-
ular shaft has been sunk 100 feet, on
the bottom OF which leads a cross-cut
is feet; averaging vein and cross-cut
In the hanging wall 3 feet, for the pur-
pose of cutting another vein. One
vein is exposed. Twenty feet Of work
has been done so far. The mine is
dry and good air is supplied to the
seven miners below with q blower
from above. The ore is hoisted out
in regular ore buckets. The appear
ance of the vein exposed certainly in
dicates a large body Of copper ore.
The shaft, in fact the whole mine, Is
well and carefully timbered with 7x7
posts. There are now on the dump
about rs tons of ore and il Is the in
tention to 0 begin to ship ore reg
ularly to the Matt mill lin Las Vegas.
A mill at the mouth of the shaft is
contemplated in the near future. The
agent for this property is +. j. Cutler.
p. o. Rociada, N. M. This gentleman
is a practical mining engineer OF
large experience, and he has the
greatest confidence in the future OF
the camp. The few spare moments
Mr.. Cutler has he dev0tes to the
weighing and checking Of railroad
ties. The government has lately es-
tablished a station here, with Mr. Cut
Ter as superintendent. Railroad ties
are bought, but must be delivered
within tw~enty-four hours after being
cut. They are individually weighed.
In six days they are weighed again
and so on, and a strict record is be-
ing kept OF the shrinkage. etc. MIR,
Cutler stops with his mother and
while he may be a busy man in the
day time, we kept him busy at night
entertaining our party with the lovely
strains Of his violin.
There are other mines In this vi
cinity. The Zummach mine shaft is
60 feet. There is some gold and more
copper. The mines are owned by
John Brunton and Mr.. Beatty. Some
show up well at a depth Of only 10
feet. The Belle Barber mine, owned
by John Kelly, has a shaft down "a
feet. The White Elephant. owned
by G. s. Beatty is down rs fet, and
there are many Others which the
writer did not have time to visit.
During our hasty trip to GLASGOW we
had a good chance to prospect the
old and always handsome valley for
several miles. The wheat and oat
fields are simply immense this year.
In almost every field n a see the
self-binders at work and the writer
counted in one large field three self
binders gathering in the crop. Hay
Is grown in abundance all along the
valley, and there ought TO be enough
this season to supply all demands.
Las Vegas people should occasionally
take a trip up into this valley. They
are a part Of US. We sell them what
they need; we can at unusual advan-
tage handle their crops. The mines
are bound TO be a success, and the
camp is a large one and will benefit
Las Vegas. 1t does right now. They
want / b see us out there. Boom the
Rociada mines, talk to the farmer In
the valley. and encourage both. Their
success is our success.