Show GOLD MINE COMES BACK BACI A I I 1 in the days when new mexico was a hinterland an indian showed some specimens of rock rack he had found on baldy falc peak t I 1 i white men who ho recognized them as copper ore and who guided by the indian found the ledge and located a prospect the men doing development work on thi copper prospect in 1866 found placer gold and traced it to its parent ledge the placers yielded and the gold mine min about but the rich ore was exhausted in a few years and for over 40 years desultory prospecting acting for other ore bodies was carried on without notable results in recent years prospecting based on the geologic relations of the old ore body resulted in the discovery of a new boda of rich ore which has yielded nearly in 10 months and is still producing A detailed account of this bonanza is is given in the aztec gold mine balda new mexico a report written by willis T lee and published by ohp IT S geological survey as bulletin N |