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; 4 he Pinos Altos Mining Company,’ under charter granted 
xy the Legislature of New Mexico. This company has 
h ee lodes, viz., the Pacific, Atlantic, and Bear Creek, 
nd it now has a steam mill in the town of Pinos Altos 
June, 1867) which drives three batteries of five stamps 
ach. When all three batteries are kept at work night and 
ay, they crush twenty tons of ore in twenty-four hours. 
the average yield of ore extracted from the Pacific Mine is 
‘om eighty to one hundred and fifty dollars per ton. Ore 
an be selected from the lode, which will yield one thou- 
and dollars per ton. There are now within a radius of six 
niles from the centre of the town of Pinos Altos over six 
mndred lodes of gold and silver, as I have been informed by 
xc od authority. 
_ “The population in October, 1866, at the time of renewing 
perations by the Pinos Altos Mining Company, did not 
xceéd sixty miners. They now numbered from eight hundred 
‘© one thousand, and have erected, and are now building, some 
rery comfortable dwelling-houses, and some very commodious 
tores at Pinos Altos. It is my opinion that before six 
ars shall have passed away there will be a town at or 
this place larger than Denver, for it may be doubted 
f there is on the known surface of the earth an equal 
u mber of square miles on which may be found so 
jany rich and extensive veins, both of the useful and 
» precious metals, as at and near Pinos Altos, New 
— ico.’ * 
The history of the Pinos Altos miners is the history of 
the others in the neighbourhood. In 1862 an act of 
sachery. was committed by the troops which brought the 
; : ‘New Mexico” (a pamphlet), by Charles P. Clever, Delegate from New 
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