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Show Mineral In New Mexico. In tne days when New Mexico was a hinterland an Indian showed some specimens ot rock he had found on Baldy Peak to white men, who recognized recog-nized them as copper ore, and who, guided by the Indian, found the ledge and located a prospect. The men doing do-ing development work on this copper prospect in 1SS6 found placer gold and traced it to its parent ledge. The placers yielded $2,230,000 and the gold mine about $1,150,000, but the rich ore was -exhausted In a few years, and for over forty years desultory prospecting 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 body of rich ore, which has yielded nearly $250,000 la ten months and is still producing. |