Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-06-08
MOSTLY ON MINERAL
Substantial Basis 0: the Boom Now
on in Cur Mining
Camps
Rapid Increase of Railroad Business
Direct Connection Needed
Notes of News.

went on Il flying trip to look after some
100000 worth of ore which their mine
shipped to the shelters there last week.
They got what they went after, and
brought back with them Mr.. lily. Stevens,
capitalist and mining expert who comes
to represent big roll OF Pueblo capital.
new carbonate district, and report it it is
true that the ores now being extracted
the idea being that anotherru rush OF miners
and money would set i'll from Colorado if
Mr.. Stevens report was favorable and it
can not be otherwise Mr.. baldwin said
the fame Of our mines had gone abroad
and he found great many people at
Trinidad, Pueblo and on the cars eager
for information about them. While in
Pueblo the visitors were sought out by the
Daily Press reporter, and that paper Of
day before yesterday contains a long write
up for the camp.
REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT
under this caption, in the course of its
article, the Press says:
The Lucky employs about POO men,
and the product just nos amounts to
about four car loads a day, valued at
81 800 car load OF twenty tons. Besides
the Lucky, there are twenty ether paying
mines in the district, and rich claims are
being opened daily. The population OF
San Pedro is fully 5000, and people are
coming in at the rate Of 100 day. The
Santa Fe Copper company, in the same
district, has now in Its employ about 600
men.
Placer mining has heretofore been re-
tarded for the want OF water, but this
will soon be obviated by large supply
which is now being arranged for. Here
tofore, whenever there was rain storm,
nuggets Of gold have been picked up in
the road, and old Mexican women made
business hunting for them during wet
weather.
The Lucky mine is Il carbonate lorna.
ton, and the deposit appears to be mex,
haustible. San Pedro is only TWENTY-FIVE
miles from the Santa Fe railway, and the
company has agreed to have a branch
road in operation to the mines within
ninety days. BY the extension of the Rio
Grande road forty miles south of Santa
Re, very rich country, producing coal,
both anthracite and bituminous, cattle
and rich minerals, could be opened up,
and which would inevitably be tributary
to Pueblo The San Pedro country is well
known to numbers OF Pueblo people, and
is spoken OF by these in the most glowing
terms.
The owners OF the Lucky mine have a
bonanza, and they will work it to its full
est capacity. They expect to double their
present output in short time"
THE RAILROAD BUSINESS.
For weeks past the mines have brought
to Cerrillos from fifteen to twenty cars of
new business each day. On Wednesday
last, for instance, nineteen car loads of
stuff were handled there rs follows
Shipped in, two car loads Of hay, two of
oats, one car Of bran, one ear OF machin-
cry, one car oil merchandise, one car of
mining timber. Shipped out; Five cars
=,
one car of copper matte. Commenting
on this state OF facts the Cerrillos paper,
the Rustler, says: III the Santa Fe
Southern railroad-Or any other road that
contemplates building to San Pedro
desires to beat the A., T. x 5. i. to that
point they should commence work at Ger
rillos, and that, too, without delay. The
A., 7. Il S. F. is not likely to relnquish
5000 car loads OF freight year without a
struggle"
And there is logic in the argument.
There is every reason for believing that
this boom is on to stay, and hence the
people OF Santa Fe are beginning to Won
der what the narrow gauge people are 60
ing to do about it. Certainly Santa Feans
can see the importance of more direct
railway connection with that part of the
county. Less than forty miles Of new
road would do the business, and half OF
that distance the road would run over a
level piece of territory that would almost
carry train if the rails laid flat on the
ground. No rock work no grades and
little bridging. Surely the situation would
seem to demand attention, Tor if the 5000
or 1000 people now in these camps could
reach SO pleasant spot rs Santa Fe in
an hours ride or such 4 matter, they
would come here by hundreds to do their
local trading, or come i'll on Saturday
night and remain over Sunday, bringing
new business that would result in the
liveiest sort of times. The subject de-
mands serious attention at the hands of
every local business man.
Voc M pnotlar ttpnr ,,ipirr M ~ >,
it is. Cerrillos is all right, but Cerrillos
shouldn't get the swell head just because
the people of Santa Fe are trying to help
her hold that which Is properly hers.
Rustic ont your road supervisor and fix
the roads
MINER MENTIONS.
The latest gold strike at Dolores is il
what is called the "Rock Quarry claim,
formerly owned by Ben Stops, Of Las
Vegas.
G. G. Everhart and Vicente Mares are
building shop at San Pedro, and Ever
hart & Co. will open Il meat marke there
in next week.
s. W. Paxson has leased the Baird
mine OF the Robinson boy at Dolores,
ana has men taxing out ore Tor the 1rSt
run on the mill.
Engine Greenwood of the Alpine gold
mill, at Golden, is in the city on business
to-day. He tells cheerful story OF the
rush in all the camps.
Mr.. Houck left for San Pedro this
morning to put in branch drug store
there for c. NJ. Dreamer. The Santa Fe
man usually gets in on time.
Messrs. Sinner and Ash have had an
assay on their ore and an offer of $50 per ton
for it, This is new Cerrillos strike. All
the prospectors seem to be getting there.
Fred Helfrich, John Boyd and d.
Coykendall have struck rich two foot
lead OF oxide silver between the location
of the Black Hawk and San Pedro town.
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