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Western Story Magazine, May 12, 1934 — page 135: what you’re looking at
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# What This Page Shows This is an advice column titled "Mines and Mining" by J. A. Thompson, appearing in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine. The page presents a reader's inquiry from Walter J. Burden of Binghamton, New York, asking for information about gold prospecting near Elizabethtown in northern New Mexico, followed by Thompson's detailed response providing travel directions via Raton Pass and historical background on the area's gold discovery in 1866. The column solicits questions from readers interested in mining and prospecting.
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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