Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-02-18
GOLDEN DISTRICT.
What the Miners and PTospectors
Are Doing al Golden.
WORKING PLACER FIELDS.
Special 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 a
fair living 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
combined in exploring the only fields
not claimed, or owned by some large
companies, they have in the past
month discovered One 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
u II NOIAllDk III IA AANth oNaAtE
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 it will be used as a schultz to
schultz the ore ONE hundred feet
down where the same can he loaded on
wagons and shipped to Cerrillos for
treatment. The ore taken out of the
Gold King runs % per cent in copper,
besides Sc in gold, and by present de.
velopments a larger body of ore has
been opened up than expected when
first discovered. By March l 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
m~unication 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 ant
the gold very coarse in most of the
ore. The gold can be seen without
magnifying glass. Several o of the
ore has been sorted out and will be
treated as soon as the weather will
permit the mills to start up again fol
spring work. The New Mexico Fue.
& 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, ant
a large increase of employees will be
placed to carry or the development
work on a larger scale. The town o
Hagan will soon have a p~ostofice es
tablished there. A boarding house
saloon and store have been there fol
some time. The owners of the BairC
Mining company, limited, spent a few
days in camp, taking up several SAN
| pies of the cement to be tested in sev
eral parts, and if the cement hal
enough values in gold the compan!
will start their thirty-stamp mill mex
summer.
Mr.. Carley, our townsman, witt
spent two weeks in Santa Fe durinl
the opening of the Legislature, return
ed to his home and has been ATTENDING
to his mining interest in camp. Nj
Carley has the welfare of the mininl
districts of New Mexico at heart, al
ways taking pains and time to SHOW
the minerals of New Mexico in an!
place where they can be shown to min
ing men. In July. 1897, he represented
the southern part of Santa Fe count!
in Denver, where the first interna
tional mining convention was held
There he showed the people the prec
ious metals produced in Santa +,
county. The next place that New
Mexico must exhibit the minerals an
other precious metals is 81. Louis, ant
the soone the minerals are gotten VI
and leyeled and ready the better tn,
display New Mexico will have. Mel
who will take personal pains to get TO
gether the exhibit must be appointed
and New Mexico will have as good
mineral exhibit at the worlds fair a
any other state or territory.