Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-16
sP&N' MINES WORTH
NJ IONS OF
DOLLARS
Famous Mining Expert Says
Property of Lost Bullion
Company Is Very
Rich.
WAS WORKING OF
ANCIENT AzTECS
Prof. Linderman C0ntradlCts Gov
ernment's Witnesses Against
That Concern and Case
Is Greatly Com
pliCated.

Denver, Colo, August I6.-"In my
judgment the value of the property
of the Lost Bullion Spanish Mines
company is upwards of $4,000, 900.
There is from 100000 to $500. 900
OF ore in sight, and the ultimate pos
sibilities of the mine are immense"
Almost everybody was prepared to
hear that the evidence submitted by
the defense in the Lost Bullion case
would consist of such statement
But exceedingly few outside of those
In the secret expected that it would
be made by Prof. Karl Linderman,
of Boulder. ~
If any mining engineer in che west
ts worthy of the steel of Waldemar
Lindgren, of the United States geo.
logical survey, it is Prof. Linderman
From the point of experience and
scientific knowledge, it will be very
hard for the United States attorneys
to discredit the witness. Educated
at Saarbruecken, Germany, with all
the proverbial and almost exaggerat-
ed thoroughness of Germans, he is a
mining engineer of position and
achievements. 1t was he who discoy-
cred Lnderman's Lake in Alaska It
was he who devised the scheme for
draining the workings of the Santa
Rita old Spanish mine in New Mex
Whitney, then secretary of the navy.
By this means many hundreds of
thousands of dollars were made for
the investors. He has studied the
history and characteristics of cid
Spanish mines. sc
He has discovered and managed
mines all over the world, whose earn
ings have become a matter of history.
1t Is said that he built the firstshouse
In Denver. He came here in 1858,
and testified yesterday that he built
the first ore mill in Colorado. He
has mined and studied the mineral
cgy and geology of the rich districts,
not only of the United States, but
South Africa, Australia, Saxony and
Austria
His appearance is typically Teuton-
10. except that his stature is small.
His manner on the witness stand is
earnest and sincere to the point Of
enthusiasm. And he gave it as his
opinion yesterday that the property
of the Lost Bullion Spanish Mines
company is not a natural limestone
cave, but a mine, formerly worked
ny the Spaniards.
He gave his reasons for his belief.
His testimony In part was as fol-
lows:
Work Done by Humans.
The prosecuting from one vein
having been done by human hands.
Also l saw that the passages had been
filled in with broken rock and masses
of ore. The regularity OF the pas
sages was another fact that convinced
me that 1t is an old Spanish mine,
also the rich mineral condition of the
walls The filing that is in the mine
Is made up of rock and ore that has
fallen from the veins above.
"The so-called stalactites accord
ing to the witnesses for the govern
ment, are not a regular stalactitic
formation. but the crystallization of
lime that could be formed In from
six to so years, not from 400 to 500
years, as the government experts
have said. OF this I have seen proofs
in certain mines in Colorado.
The rock wedges that held up the
arches and rock, preventing them
from caving into the Slopes In some
cases showed that they had Deen
beveled off so as to slip in"
Worked Long Time.
Regarding the time he had spent
on his examination of the property
Prof. Linderman made an important
point for the defense. One of the
claims on which Mr.. Franklin has
laid most stress is that the govern
nent engineers only made a cursory
investigation into the property of the
Both waldemar Lindgren
ami James c. Climo admitted that
they had taken less than a day to
examine the alleged mine.
lrof. l4ndCrman, on the other
hand, said his investigation had taken
him days. He said he had spent six
days on the surface and three look
ing into the underground part OF the
property He took upwards of 200
samples, and made "a assays, each
of them an ore reduction from 10
samples.
81 never before saw limestone
caves Of any size. All the others I
have examined, when they were nat
urai caves, were small l never saw
a limestone cave in which the floor
is level as in the case in the Lost
Bullion mine. Even though this
were a cave, the fact would not pre-
clude the existence Of minerals in 1t.
Gold and Silver Found.
Gold and silver have been found
frequently in limestone" Prof. Lin
derman added. This Is in direct op-
position to one of the points made
by the United States.
In Lake county, Colorado and
other districts i'm this state, and near
Helena, Montana, good values have
been obtained out of a formation SIM
liar TO that of Bear mountain.
From one assay l found three
colors OF free gold In the pan" Be
ing shown a map. he declared that
ne had made it, and that IL repre-
sented the property Of the company.