Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-07-23
AT CAMP PEDRO.
A Readable Letter Descriptive of the
Stage Route Hither from
Santa Fe,
The Lucky and the llncoln-Plenty oil
Ore and Some Complications
A New Strike.

4 new stage route from business CEN
ter and long established town like Santa
Fe to a thriving community like San Pedro
is in modem times the precursor OF a rail-
road. This days ride OF forty eight miles
in Reaser's stage has therefore excited
new interest in the remarkable scenery
through which Patterson drives at rat
Ting gait over the mountain roads. Santa
Feans all know pretty well what lies be-
tween the capital and the now ancient
town OF Bonanza City or Turquesa. II
not they can see it all from old Fort
Marcy. The plain, the mountains, and
the ever changing sky. Except within
three miles OF Santa Fe there has been no
change since first rode over this road,
nine years ago. There are perhaps fewer
prairie dogs and empty beer bottles.
Bonanza City is desolation. The two
stores and saloon and the silent Con
zales reduction works show the ravages
of time, where the hillsides were short
time ago populous with miners and lively
with the sounds of their picks. The nu-
merous prospect holes are over5rown with
grass. But Laudenslager has ndobes all
made for new store to supply the dwell
lers at San Pedro. On toward Carbonate
vile over road winding at the the foot OF
the Ortiz peaks, we have q glimpse of
scenery toward the plains below that is
worth more than tho hundred holes
around us where men have sunk curses and
dlssppointments. But here we are at the
Cash Entry works, and change our re-
Elections on the possibilities OF mining
Somebody has just bought these works
and 200 or 800 acres around them for
have Just passed q new discovery, the
Eureka, near by, where rich Carbonates,
like the San Pedro novelties, promise q
revision OF old workings and q reviving of
hopes to faithful assessment workers
Carbonateville may yet replace its shanties
on their foundations and become the scene
of revery and crime for which it was once
famous. 1t had two solitary inhabitants
and store to-day as We passed. Its pop
ulation may increase 800 per cent in y
week without the aid Of census taker.
Through a narrow rocky detilea quarter
OF mile long we ride down hill toward
Cerrillos, two miles and n half to Ger
rilos.
railroad track is the base line from
which all the calculations and outlaws OF
this thriving town have been made. Two
or three streets north OF the track the
growth is limited by the cliffs that put
ont from the Carbonateyille hills. South
toward the river the ground broadens.
Here two business streets are well begun,
and fine plateau ascends from there to-
ward the Cerrillos mountains, which we
climb in our route toward San Pedro.
Santa Fe has many representatives
among the Cerrillos merchants and
miners. The portly host OF the Cerrillos
house welcomes the passengers Of the
new line with heartiness truly refresh
ing. Mr.. Hardness has his hands full to
take care OF the people that throng his
tables, and they all seemed to be hun
cry crowd, as if they had something to do
W. c. Hurt, with his more spacious store
than the others, greets one with the con-
iidence that he is we'll planted in a town
that will become the largest industrial
center Of New Mexico. Why should it
not? With two railroads, as it surely will
have, and backing OF the richest coal
mines, and copper, silver, galena, iron and
limestone deposits in the whole territory
tributary to the traffic Of the greatest rail-
road in this country. Mckenzie is ready
with his supply store to help the builder.
Bolander has put c. Z. Buchart there to
give the lines to the teamsters. Nesbit' s
and Oakland's saloons are always open
for the thirsty, and Editor Anderson
stands at the gates of the mining regions
to catch the latest news OF carbonate
strikes for the Rustler.
Our ride to San Pedro is through show
ers which covered the grand ConiCal peaks
of the hills with white clouds and
freshened the beautiful peaks and mesas
from which We saw valley scenes Of
wondrous beauty.
We reached Leadville at dusk, and here
we shall find enough to write about in our
next letter. II. o, LADD.
THE LUCKY AND LINCOLN.
Concerning these new famous proper.
ties at San Pedro it is simply impossible
TO get accurate nsws, though man may
be actually on the ground, For some
time past it appears that internal COM
plications have been on between the
manager, II. r. Wright, and the owners
of the Lucky, and when Wright, for him
self and others not OF the Lucky COM
pany, secured control Of the adjoining
claim, the Lincoln matters became still
more complicated. In the mean time q
big offer had been made for the Lucky,
and the Lincoln people, so it is said, some
eight or ten in number, thought to pool
their claim in the sale and come off with
a cool 10000 each. However, the own
ers of the two properties failed to reach
an understanding after number OF con-
ferences, and for the present no sale may
be expected.
Now the situation, so lar as diligent
inquiry will reveal, is such that the Lucky
and the Lincoln owners will 60 it alone,
each watching the other, with none too
friendly relations because of rather
peculiar turn which affairs have taken
This popularity lies in the fact that
Wright, who has been superseded as
manager of the Lucky by John King, has
sold the Lincoln to jeff. Reynolds, of Las
Vegas; W. S. Strickler and Mr.. Folsom,
Of Albuquerque, and Col. Johnson, of
San Pedro. Wright will probably be