Western Story Magazine, May 12, 1934 — page 135: what you’re looking at

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MIN ES AND MINING By J. A. THOMPSON This department is intended to be of real help to readers. If there: is anything you want to know about mining or prospecting, a letter inclosing a stamped and self-addressed envelope sent to J. A. Thompson, care of Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y., will bring a prompt authoritative personal reply. Letters unaccompanied by a return envelope will be answered in this department in the order in which they are received. But as space is limited, please keep such letters as brief as possible. P in northern New Mex- ico there’s a good gold- mining district credited with a six-million-dollar production in lode and placer that offers a mighty interest- ing stamping ground to the present- day prospector. Walter J. Burden and his partner, of Binghamton, New York, already have this par- ticular section in mind. And Wal- ter has written in for a little infor- mation. “My partner and I are planning a trip out West sometime soon to take our chances gold prospecting. We have in mind the section around Elizabethtown near Eagles Nest Lake, north and east of Taos. Any- thing you can tell us about the Eliz- abethtown district will be deeply appreciated, especially if you can give us the actual names of the more-promising smaller creeks and stream beds in that. area.’ Well, Walter, youre picking a mighty likely section of New Mex- ico to go gold hunting in. Incidentally, you can reach Eliza- bethtown quite readily by car. If you enter New Mexico from Trini- dad, Colorado, via the famous Raton Pass, stay with the paved highway about fifteen miles south of Raton. Then at the fifteen-mile point, in- stead of continuing on the highway which would take you down past Wagon Mound to Las Vegas, take the right fork, a graded road marked U.S. 64, through Colfax, Cimarron, and Ute Park to Therma. At Therma you swing up to Elizabeth- town. Gold was first located near what is now Elizabethtown in Colfax County back in 66. The initial dis- covery was followed by a stampede of considerable proportions, _The_, (LI