Common miners' wages are two dollars and a half per day. Owing to the uniform mildness of the climate, labor can be performed uninterruptedly throughout the year. There is a growing demand for labor, and the laboring miner can find no better country in which to live. To the capitalist, there can be no better section of country in which to invest. The richness of the mineral will compare favorably with any mining district in the West.
Labor is at a fair rate.
Railroad communications are rapidly increasing. Good mining property can be obtained from many of the locators at reasonable prices. In 1680 a visitor to Los Cerrillos might have seen drudgery and servitude of mining for poor pay among those who broke the rocks with unwieldy stone hammers, wooden wedges, and levers. In 1880 he can see numerous new mines upon the sites of old ones, and elsewhere hear the pick blows, the scrape and ring of shovelful, the clinking hammer strokes on drills, and the booming of blasts deep in the fissured hills where work in hopeful earnestness is carried on. The prospectors and miners of this district are generally well pleased and reasonably expectant of rich returns for their outlays upon claims, as no silver district heretofore discovered discloses such a great number of true fissure veins in so limited an area of country.