Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-02-21
GOLDEN DISTRICT.
What The Miners and Prosecutors
Are Doing at Golden.
d1RklNG PLACER FIELDS.
Special Correspondence.

op''ihl correspondence,
Golden, n NJ, Feb. l6--In the new
placers mining district all the men
both in Golden and San Pedro. are
working in the placer fields Some
are making more than ordinary wages,
while others just manage to make q
fair Ewing for themselves and fami.
lies. Placers in the vicinity of Golden
have been very rich in different chan.
nels, and when one of these channels
are found they generally make good
many people happy, making for many
days and weeks extra high wages.
Since the men from both towns have
not claimed, or owned by some large
companies. they have in the past
month discovered some of these rich
channels. and quite large amounts OF
gold is dry washed every day. Sat.
urdays the merchants, there being
three in Golden and that many in San
Pedro, exchange this gold for their dry
goods and groceries, and every week
the money Is put in circulation, most
of II coming from the United States
mint In Denver. where most of the
gold Is exchanged.
Lumber has been arriving every day
in Golden from the Skinner mill at
San Antonito for the Gold King mine.
where :. will be used as schultz to
schultz the ore some hundred feet
dauy. xph tho n, Al
wagons and shipped to Cerrillos for
treatment The ore taken out of the
Gold King runs 90 per cent In copper,
besides So in gold, and by present de-
been opened up than expected when
first discovered. BY March | ship
ments will commence from the Gold
King and heavy improvements will be
made in the mine after that date. In
the Mckinley mine steady sinking has
been carried on since my last com
muniCation and at present the shaft is
over 100 feet deep. The ore found
while sinking is richer and in white
quartz, the ore being very free and
INV bOih WY todict III plOcl VI iHt
ore. The gold can be seen without
magnifying glass. Several tons OF the
ore has been sorted out and will be
treated as soon as the weather will
permit the mills to start up again for
spring work. The New Mexico Fuel
a Iron company, operating at Hagan,
in Benalillo county, have been putting
in some heavy hosting works to han.
die the coal from the coal banks OF the
company. The boiler and other ma.
chinery will be ready by Monday, and
a large increase Of employees will be
placed to carry on the development
work on a larger scale The town OF
Hagan will soon have a postoffice es-
tablished there. A boarding house
saloon and store have been there for
some time. Tho owners of the Baird
Mining company, limited, spent few
days In camp, taking up several sam.
pies of the cement to be tested in sew.
erai parts, am II the cement has
enough values in gold the company
will start their thirty-stamp mill next
summer
Mr. Carley, our townsman. who
spent two weeks in Santa Fe during
the opening Of the legislature, return.
ed TO his home and has been attending
to his mining interest in camp Mr..
Cartey has the welfare OF the mining
districts OF New Mexico at heart. al.
ways taking pains and time to show
the minerals OF New Mexico in any
place where they can be shown to min
ing men. In July 1897. he represented
the southern part Of Santa Fe county
in Denver, where the first interna-
tional mining convention was held.
There he showed the people the prec-
ious metals produced in Santa Fe
county. The next place that New
Mexico must exhibit the minerals and
other precious metals is 81. Louis, and
the sooner the minerals are gotten up
and leveled and ready the better the
display New Mexico will have. Men
who will take personal pains to get to-
gether the exhibit must be appointed,
and New Mexico will have as good q
mineral exhibit at the worlds fair as
any other state or territory.