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Show OLD MEXICAN MINES. H , tjlfia'i M Roellscovorod After Dolnrr Lost for H Throo Hundred Yonrfl. H Tho rind W4 Aectdeiitatly Mads 'by H American l'riispectore Njae the I'ucb- H lo ut Cocbltl nnd handl H In Nw Mexico. "H All Now Mexico and nonthorn Colo- -''' f rndo nro excited over tho rediscovery f near Sauln Pu of rich gold mines that H vvero worked by tho Spaniards! more . thnn threo centuries ngo nnd vvero lost ' during thu Pueblo insurrection In jr.Pn, H wlien tho Indians, oppressi-d beyond " H endurance, suddenly tirosc, mashocrod l H tlio priests, destroyed churches rind, H drovo tho Inst Spaniard out, of tho v H country. Tho Spanish masters bad ' H compelled tho Indians to vvorlc In thu H mines, nnd that labor was so hateful ,- H to them and it.t result i soumliigly so, H useless they attached no vnluo to t H gold, according to tho Sim PrnncUc'o ' Kxniulner thai wlien they bud ox- gH polled tho .Spaniards they filled .up t)io - ,B shafts and (impels, removed Iho debrin H and utterly obliterated nit trnccs'ot H mining. All tho whl to men who know iflU tho exact locations ot the mines vvero t killed during tho insurrection, nnd, H when Do Vargan reconquered NeV H Mexico tn 10W notio of his men could H find t)io mines. Men have, spent thole M money and their lives In senrchlocrfor H Oiom, and SQ-liittlelias Won tliifwatrcti) " ' flH that the hlstory'uf them has como to v M bo regarded as more legend and fabli! H Hut the old Spanish pcoplo ot New '" M Mexico havo nlwaya stoutly. nr.terU'el M that tlic Pueblo Indians have prc.orvcdvl M In their traditions tho secrets of tin; M mines, and that they know to tlds day. i H the locations ot tho old vvorklnrs. So r H Jealous of this lcnowledgo are the In- ' H dlatis that they punish with death any- H ono of their number who bo much as H hints at tho location of n mine to an , M American or Mexican. The richest .of- M thu nncient mines vvero known to be in '' H tho vicinity of tho Cochitl nnd Sandla '( H pueblos, and thu present inhabitants' H of those villncrcs nre biipposed to know ' H tho exact locations of tlio old works. H Tlio Samjia Indians have a deeply worn ; H trail in the mountains that is hupposed ''- M to lend toward thu inlnob, but they x H guard it very carefully tl H Tho mines ot Cochitl havo been re- , M discovered, not with tho nsslAtanco of . ludlnnKiior t'iroiii'h irnuiilonnl Infor- B mallon, but by plain American pros- v. M pecttng. The Indians could fill up tho - -x M old hhutts, but thoy could not couci'nl ". B tho eroppIugH of mineral vcliis. Two' ' y' M men of .Iouioa nnnnsl L'aglo and Dor-' ' H key, havo bcun knocking alKiut in tho". ' M moutitulna near thu ('oohlti pueblo fov B nbout four years, nnd lut.t fall they . M ntumbled upon rouiu cropplugs that ' " , M assayed high, fllhcf Jirospcctors heard' tr M of the find nnd went Into tlio district r ' H mid now they havo f. -vnda mlrieirnlr . M bolt lln.1 has set I' ' e utry wild with j H etcltnent. T'o- v.-insj uro truo lis- n M sures lu porp'r, ry, running north and M south nloii' tho slope ot tho Jcmoa M mountains, parallel with tlio trend of, M "the range. Tho rock trlven hiifh asiays M in gold and silver, and mill runs on M average lots from elght-f-jit veins havo M returned ono hundred ami fifty dol- M lnrs a ton. Tlio load has been traced H in nu unbroken lino fir cbf'it miles H nnd claims nre Ktnlied onl for rive miles. M There nro Mivcrnl purnlh ' vo.ns, nllof 4 H them nswiying lilgli. f t 1 ni uors who M havo heou in tho Coolihi , ini declare H that tlio striko lartho b.';r;,'. m that lias ( M been made in fifteen yehn. courso , H I tlio usual ennipnr!-.on vMth tha Coin- j H stock Is made, none timts to tho ills.- M parngumout of thu luiui Tue- iVehltl, Indians view with woi.dcr end be- ,B wlldormont the pro.'cv. r.f pros- H lectors throujli the.r mu- , tit plaza M and havo not yat qultog.it it tln-ougli M their heads that till their precautions M to conceal tho old Spanish mluef) havo H licen In vnlm M |