Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-03-20
VERGlNG ON a BOOM
Fair Statement Of the Industrial SitQa-
tor in South Santa Pe
County.
Builders CIamor for Town Lots Wills
and Furnaces Busy-CoaI
Output.

! South Santa Fe county continues to at
! tract attention from all clussse OF investors
and settlers, and matters are now, with
! the opening of spring, beginning to as
sumo that state of activity which NAV
truthtully he characterized as verging on
q boom. People right here within the
| shadow Of the Cerrillos and Ortiz mCuu.
talns do not apparently comprehend what
is going on in their midst. In the first
place, everything is based upon the per
manent foundation OF supply and demand,
and the industrial riches which have
started this activity continue to increase
in extent and value with each stroke of
the pick and shovel, 50 that there can be
but one outeome--the whole region must
90 forward
At Cerrillos nearly $4,000 tons of hard
and soft coalwele mined last year, to say
nothing of the copper, silver, gold and
iron. Since January lst last these prod
ucts have made new business" for the
railroad amounting to an average of
twelve car loads per day, and the supply
OF cars Is not equal to the de-
mand. Everybody is busy, and
new corners are constantly arriving
and joiSlng the throng of wealth
producers. 1t is fact that lodging
rooms have been held at a premium "A
Cerrillos for months past. Every house
and shanty is occupied even the stables
have been converted into human habita-
tons, and still hundreds OF people have
lived there all winter in tents and beneath
wagon covers. These are the facts that
investigation will verify, and they mean
something. One OF the greatest draw
backs the town has to contend with.
however, is the dilatory policy of the
Santa lie men who own the bulk OF the
real estate covered by the two town sites
There is some building going on now, but
not near so much AZ would be if different
tactics were pursued by the Santa Feans
who own the land. People come to
Cerrillos to locate and actually beg for
the privilege of buying building lots.
This IS not All occasional occurrence, but
even rendering the money, but to he put
OIL with some excuse or other, legitimate,
perhaps, but stiff unbusness like md
serving to work detriment to the pros
perity OF Cerrillos. This should not be.
The New MEXICAN for one wants 10 see
the little plttsburg prosper as she de-
serves, and these facts are related in hopes
that different policy will henceforth be
pursued in reference to this matter.
THE MILLS AND FCRNACEs.
The settled weather OF the blythesome
spring time finds the miners and the mill
and furnace men of the southern part OF
the county as busy as any set of men ever
were. At the San Pedro copper mines
and furnaces on Friday last sou EMPLOYEES
got their regular monthly stipend as usual.
amounting to about $50 900 for the
months work. At Golden the Martin
mill and the A pine mining property re-
sumed work yesterday with an ADEQUATE
force of men under Brydon 4 Greenwood.
Since the weather opened the Ortiz and
other mines at Dolores have resumed the
taking out OF ore, and +. Z. Sluder has
taken charge OF the Dolores stamp mill
and will start 1t up on these ores this
week. At Dolores also, where Milton
Fisk's Wlsswell mill plant is on the
ground and the building is up, work was
again commenced Yesterday, the boilers,
settlers, etc, having just arrived. Mr..
Fisk is in hopes Of having the plant N
operation by April /.
coal PRODT'CTTOk-- Nuu ,t,,D
A. NJ. Anderson, OF the Cerrillos Rust.
Ter, who is here to-day, tells the NEW
MEXICAN that from the most reliable data
obtainable the coal output OF Cerrillos as
$4,000 short tons for last year. He has
just made up statement TO this effect
and forwarded it to the government Stats
tician at Denver. He says there were
800 cars of coal shipped out during the
year 'SS and about $1,000 tons OF coal
were converted into coke. For the pres
ent year he predicts these figures will be
more than doubled if the activity during
the past three months is any criterion.
Heretofore it has been contended that
the Cerrillos coal belt lay entirely south !
OF the Galisteo river, but developments of
the past ten days would seem to in
dictate that such is not the case.
A new find has Just been
made which gives evidence OF proving
bonanza for Messrs. H. b. Cartwright
7. b. Ward, the miner, both of Santa Fe.
Mr. Cartwright located 100 acres of land
east OF Cerrillos and Mr.. Ward went to
thereon with the result that
he has opened two veins Of fine quality
Of coal, one full four feet thick and the
other only partially developed, showing
three foot Vein which which resembles
Other parties had previously
this ground, but had en-
'ountered a superficial vein OF shale and
had abandoned it The present find is
below this shale and bears every evidence
II permanency. This coal is one and u
quarter miles east OF Cerrillos and is lust Il
1alf mile from the A., r. x S. i. track,
making it specially desirable because of
lie short haul to the railroad.