Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-12-20
PROSPEROUS San PEDRO.
Business and Industrial Affairs Substan-
tial Improvements-Perso
Mention.

Social Correspondence OF the New Mexican
SAN PEDRO, Dec. 10, lS9D.-There have
been many imp. ovements in San Pc
dro within four months. 1t is not
dead town in any respect. Houses OF
wood and adobe have taken the place of
tents and begin to mark the lines OF new
streets on the new town site. Prospectors
on the hill sides have gone into more or
less substantial winter quarters. Stores
have been built filling the gaps on the
business streets. Many of them are well
painted and glazed and have good stocks
of groceries, dry goods, drugs aid hard
ware. There are boarding houses, res
taurants and saloons of more respectable
appearance than in midsummer.
Two or three new stores are noticeable.
Goodman, Zeiger & Co. have large
stock Of general merchandise, a branch
Of their mercantile house in White Oaks.
DR.. Lane has neat drug store we'll filled
with medicines, and very convenient
office on the corner fitted up for a post
office. H. Pullman, OF Santa Fe, has
charge of large liquor store, opened here
bv J. Il. Bartsch, and we'll arranged
shoe store is Oh the principal street. M.
Tanuehaum has held fast to his old store,
enlarged his front, opened bakery ana
kept his goods on a lively shirt into the
hands of his customers, Myers u De-
Laney have done good business at e
former stand of Chevez Il Co., and Oh the
LIST OF January vii, run stage every
other day TO and from Albuquerque. The
stage lines have resumed also between
Cerlos and San Pedro. Valentine
>Hi has daily run with mail from Ger
rIlos, giving about Ill hour and hall IN
San PeirU before the stage leaves to meet
the Santa lie train.
There are well founded expectations of
buster times here. The Santa Fe Copper
company is nearly ready to resume its
force of 400 workmen, and Tamony has
been fitting up the companys boarding
house at the mines, expecting within ten
DAYS to board seventy-hve men.
The new 1OJ-ton water jacket smelter
is ready for firing up. 1t Is massive
work, connected with masonry OF Stag
blocks neatly cemented for its fue. OI
the same material is a new building for
the cumpanys Offices, With tiuted iron
70 If, and containing six large and well
lighted offices.
TIE most interesting work done in the
extension Improvements of the companys
works is the new Halliday tram, which
extends from the smelt-r grounds to the
al ,f tIan ba
side Of the mountain. A very solid tres
tie work has been erected, over mile
long These tresIles are from 10 to l0U
feet apart, from thirty to fifty feet high,
AID four feet wide. They support the
wheels on each side, upon which runs ali
endless cable ~ 400 feet long. To this
cable are firmly attached, by clamps
COM ected with steel rods five feet long,
iron buckets, which by bends in the rods
hang directly under the rope. These
buckets, which will each contain loo
pounds of ore, have swinging bottom,
with self adjusting weight to close it, and
fastener. The e are 10 Of these buckets
for ore AMI twenty OF a different pattern
lur water, moving C 'ntinuously up ant
down the tram AMI passing around the
great horizontal wheels at each end OF
the line. Tney are imp id and filled b,
automatic feeders, and the ore below
conveyed by rail train TO the roasting
beds, While the water is emptled into
tanks at the upper terminus on the noun
tam. The enlir, work j, operated by
sravitatlon, cas- ly accomplished since
there is fall from the mine to the smell
TER of 500 feet. A telephone runniI G
ong the t,estle c. meets the works be.
,ow With tie brakeman above. The opera.
ton OF this tram is perfect, and will do
e work of eight or ten mule teIms, sav-