Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-03
GOLDEN DISTRICT.
A Resume Of Operations In a Good
District North Of City.
THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE.
Special Correspondence.

new year of 1903 rather quiet and with
no excitement to spe,,k of. The old
year of 1902, for the frat eight months,
was very prosperous for the district.
There has been plenty of work for
everybody residing in the district. be-
sides giving work to hundreds Of peo-
pie outside of the district. The new
year is not so prosperous as 1t might
have been, although the indications
are that before the year is out It will
bring more prosperity to the miners Of
the district. The many Of
claims in camp have not lost faith. and
every claim in the district had the as
sessment work done on it to hold it for
The next twelve months. The many
new discoveries of copper made in the
last year is very encouraging, and they
will be the making of a large boom
when the warmer days of the year will
enable the prospectors 70 commence
shipping the ores to some smelling
plant. The Cerrillos smelter, which
has beer enlarged, and is a first class
smelling plant, will be the means of
opening a very large scope of country
that lies north Of Cerrillos, which has
been waiting for the smelling fac!li-
ties to treat the large bodies of lead,
silver and zinc ores. of which the dis
trict has been so famous, for the past
twenty years. Several claims have
done on them shows large bodies of
ore. Every owner Of claims has in the
last twelve months applied for patent.
and are keeping the same clear of any
law suits. Taking everything into
consideration south Santa Fe county
will have a very prosperous year in
1908.
While in the Dolores district no
heavy development work has been
done In the past year, yet some very
large contracts were let on sew
eral mining claims, which have devel-
oped some large, rich bodies of min
eral never before found in the district,
and the day is not far off when the
Dolores district will have a reduction
plant in operation. extracting he gold
out of the mountains of the old Ortiz
grant. One company alone has mined
pacity smelter, and keep it grinding or
smelling for a hundred of years, and
as the owners of several claims in the
district are. men of capital New Mexico
viii see another large plant in opera
ton before many months have passed
in the vicinity of Dolores.
The prospects of the Albuquerque
Eastern railroad coming within a few
miles of the new placer district Is one
of the greatest needs of the present to
enable the miners to put their ores in
the several places where shelters are
in operation, and which can handle the
lead as well as the copper ores of the
district.
The town of Golden, being situated
as it is on a level country between the
Ortiz range of mountains and the Tuer
to mountains, where an abundance o
water is found at a depth of twent,
feet, and only six miles from the I'm;
de Cato coal fields, is the coming tow
of the new year for Santa Fe county
and while the population is now onl.
220, 1t looks as If before the year is on
il might reach 1000. The Santa F,
Central railroad and the Pennsylvania
Development company are enough T.
assure better times for the camp
have a direct line into Golden, they d.
expect that a spur of the road will b'
run close enough to help boom thu
camp.
The lay of the country, from Stan
ley, on the Santa Fe Central, to tn
Una de Cato coal fields, has been al
easy grade all the way between tn
two mountains, and the abundance o
water will be one of the main point
TO have the spur run close to Colder
The Baird Mining company, the II
dustrial Placer mining company an
the Interstate Placer Mining compan,
who own all the cement beds east c
de Cato, which deposits are extensive
1y large and carry some fair values {
placer gold. All of these companie
have lone assessment this year an
several small plants have been built I
test the cement and find out If possibl
the cheapest way of treating the or
The Baird company have been keel
ing the whole country busy inishin
this years assessment, and the thirt,
stamp mill on the company's groun
rnndu "a run The well Whic