The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-09-05
REPORT RICH STRIKE
in NEW MEXICO Mines
p.
LAST TWO WEEKS WITNESS FAB.
ULous FINDS, ACCORDING
TO RUMoR.
District Is in Northern Part, Near Col
orado Lins-Rich Ore Said to Lie
Very Nesr tho Surface in Many In
stances

DENVER, Sept 4.--Four gold strikes
are reported to have been made in the
brthern part of New Mexico during
the last two weeks. The last one,
which was reported in Denver by tele-
phone a few days ago, is said to have
occurred in the Corabell mine, an old
prospect near the Colorado line. A
mass of ore 10 feet wide is said to have
been discovered here, worth $40 per
ton and at the foot wall 2-inch vein
which runs $1,000 to the ton.
The other three strikes are said to
have been found by means of the re-
cent rains in New Mexico. Barely be-
low the surface of the ground, ore has
been found running from 500 to $3.50
per ton.
The new camp lies SO miles from
Blanca, Costilla county, Colorado. The
nearest town is Cerro, N. NJ, from
which point the camp is four miles dis
tant. The gold is said to have been
discovered week ago by some men
who went into that country to fish.
They found the ore that had been
washed clear by the rains and had
some of it assayed and, finding it of
great value, tried for some time to
keep the strike a secret.
A. M. kearns, 327 First National
Bank building, and John Sanburg, 215
Jacobson building, who were in that
9 country on a surveying trip, stated
that they were the first men to come
out of the country since the strike and
that there are 1000 men in the valley
and on the mountain side and not a
house built for miles. On their way
out they met machinery being hauled
in, within a week of the time that the
discovery was first made and men were
coming all along the road, although
every foot of the land for miles had al
ready been staked out.
Mr.. Sanburg stated, on the authority
of John Erickson, who is reported to
have made a fortune at Cripple Creek,
that the new camp would be as good as
Cripple Creek ever was, within few
months. The strikes are all in true
fissure veins and the nature of the
country is very much like that of Grip
pie Creek, the porphyry bikes being
very plainly marked and being imbed
ded in the same kind of granite that is
found in the Cripple Creek district.
High Values Reported.
Everyone who has gone into that
country seems to believe that it is the
greatest discovery since the Cripple
Creek strike and many seem to be-
lieve that it will turn out to be the best
camp in the state" said Mr.. Sanburg
Erickson told me that the ore could
be reduced with very simple treat
ment. There are now 500 men camped
on La Tir peak and there must be at
least 1000 altogether in the district
Samples have been taken from all
along the outcrop and always with the
same results. High values in gold are
found at all times and there is some
silver mixed in with It.
1.-THE discovery was kept a secret be-
cause none of the prospectors will need
any help in developing his claim. It
was thought that if anything was said
1t would cause rush into the country
and the miners there do not want any
crowd until they have all the claims
they and their relatives can hold
"The ledge has been exposed for ages
for all that the new owners can tell,
but it never gave any appearance of
being mineralized The cloudbursts Of
that region uncovered a great deal
more Of 1t and the fishers became cur
ious as to it's composition. 1t can now
be traced for five miles and 1t is not
known to what depth the ore may
reach. In every place that it appears
it is about feet in width and heavily
loaded with gold"