Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-05-18
COYOTE CANYON ORE
WILL RUN $1,000
IN GOLD
OXendine Mine Is Two Miles
From Soda
Springs.
MANZANOS ALIVE
WITH PROSPECTORS

G.. Oxendine, the discoverer of the
recent rich strike of gold in the Man
zano mountains, said this morning,
when asked what the ore from the
new prospect would assay, that It
would run close to $1,000 a ton.
Il want you to understand that
was not working on a grub-stake
when / discovered that gold, too"
continued Mr. Oxendine.
Il have been living in New Mexico
Tor twenty-five years, twelve of which
l have spent prospecting In the He'll
and Coyote canyons district, and
have never accepted a grub-stake yet.
The way that l.. G.. Rosenfield became
interested in the property was that
gave him half of nine claims for
money enough to prospect them.
Altogether l have fourteen claims
in the district and on two of them
We found ore. l have one shaft 1873
feet deep that shows a large body Of
ore running 212 per cent copper and
about 50 in gold, and then Mr.. Ros-
enfield and myself have the new pros
pect that unquestionably is the great
est find ever made in the district.
Formation Iron Quartslte.
The new prospect is about two
miles from Coyote springs and north
of Coyote canyon. At the place
where the shaft is sunk, the noun
tain dips east and the rock forma-
tons dip in the same direction At
forty-siX feet we encountered a vein
or iron ore about four feet in thick
ness. We hadn't cut entirely through
this, when we encountered the iron
quartsite showing of gold. Where
we struck it the vein was only about
an inch thick and half an inch wide.
In distance of eight feet it has Wild
ened to three feet in thickness, anu l
believe that we have struck it rich.
Assays Vary.
Regarding what the ore will as
say" continued Mr.. Oxendine, II
would not like to say. We have had
number Of assays made. and they
vary; some Of them are low and some
of them are high"
1t was at this point in his conversa-
ton that Mr.. Oxendine stated that the
ore would run more than $1,000
ton. The reporter asked him If IL
would go 800 a ton, and the old
miner didn't wait to take a breath to
say that it would go more than
$1,000.
Claims Being Taken Up.
According to Mr.. Oxendine the new
strike has taken a large number of
excited prospectors to Coyote canyon.
He said that people were out there
stalking out claims before he had the
assays on his ore, and that they have
been coming more and more every
day since. A large number are
in the canyon and the hills
are full of men armed with picks and
shOvels. The country for miles has
been staked off and a genuine mining
boom has struck the district
That gold should be found in the
vicinity of Coyote and He'll canyons
Is no surprise. For years gold mug
gets, some of them large enough for
watch charms, have been found in
the silt and gravel of both canyons
and even several miles from the
on the mesa, where the
decay of the mountains has been
washed by rains and carried by foods.
That this gold was originally a part
OF the mountains has been known,
and 1t is believed that there must be
more in the place where IL came
from. Mr.. OXendine's success comes
after twelve years SOf tireless work