Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-10-04
PEDRO POINTERS.
Ex'Snsivo improvements in ProEress-
That Temporary Shat Down
Camp EchOoS'

From all that can be gathered, the stop
page of operations at the Copper COM
pany's mine is simply business move
which everybody looked forward to rs
necessary, and consequently no one is
complaining about it. The market price
OF copper has gone down peg or two OF
late and the company deemed it adyis-
able to cease working the men until tho
new machinery could be put in, whereby
the output could be very largely increased
without materially increasing the cost.
This broughtaboutthe shut down, which,
at most, can only continue few weeks,
II that long. In the mean time, extensive
Improvements are going steadily
forward. The new 100 ton smelter
arrived at Cerrillos yesterday, aud the
huge air comprossors and Ingersoll steam
drills are also on the side track there and
will be transferred to San Pedro as soon
as men and mules can do the job. The
cable for the tramway was loaded on to a
flat at Cerrlllos yesterday and started for
Pedro. This is 10 easy task-the trans
porting OF this cable over the mountains
for the thing weighs seven tons. Ii will
probably be ten days before the steam
drills, air compyessors and new smelter
can he got over, for all are very heavy
pieces OF machinery. At the works new
buildings are going up and everything is
life md activity, all OF which tends to give
currency to the opinion that the present
shut down is for onlya short period. Only
Il few OF the company's employees have
left camp, rs all expect to resume work in
4 short time.
Manager Raunheim will arrive here to-
night from Montana, and will meet here
his son Morris, and Mr.. Barton who
came in from Pedro last night. Mr..
Raunheim is detained at Antonito to-day
because OF the fact that the D. d. r. &.
runs only tri-weekly trains to Espanola.
He was not notified at the Denver end
OF the line that the running Of daily
trains had ceased, and he took the
narrow gauge under the impress
sion that he could hereby reach
home quicker than via La Junta.
With men like Raunheim time is money,
and it is an injustice that he should have
to lay over q day and q night at Antonito
when business here dsmands his urgent
attention.
A. II. Reynolds, cashier for the Lin
coln-Lucky company, writes his brother,
Jefferson Reynolds, OF Las Vegas, as fol-
lows, from San Pedro under date OF the
LIST instant:
II have just been through the mine
again with VIM. Shannahan, and it does
really look so we'll and he feels so good
over it as developments progress that l
must write you about it. He has lost his
walls. 1t is going down in great shape
and pitching back, too, SO far as indiCa-
tons 90, so he thinks more Of it than
ever. Then, another thing, In. blasting
out for the whim, they struck three feet
of first class sand carbonates on the side
and have opened it up in another place or
two back OF that still. Everything is look
ing fine here
The Weekly Outlook is at hand to-day
chock full of readable matter about San
Pedro, but scoring the people because Of
their failure to patronize it. Among the
good things it has III the line of news is
this:
"Cornelio Montoya and PARTING Nieto
are the fortunate owners OF mine half
mile north of this camp. The discovery
is q recent one, and q shaft has been sunk
to the depth OF five feet, all in solid min
eral. The ore is heavy iron pyrites,
crops five feet above the surface and is
eight feet in width. The ore is identical
with that OF Pinos Altos, i'll Grant county,
and closely resembles that of the Skill
corn mine at 200 feet deep. 1t is neither
a pocket nor slide, butts soldly massive
fissure vein, and will eventually prove one
OF the chief attractions in the camp. The
property will be opened up immediately,
and work will be pushed vigorously"