Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-01-03
A MAGNIFICENT SHOWING
or Santa Fe County's Varied and Tnex-
haustible Mineral Resources.


haustible Mineral Resources.
The New York Mining and Engineering
Journal, an authority in its line, dis
courses as follows on the resources 0
Santa Fe county:
Cerrillos, ON the Santa Fe railroad jus
south OF Santa Fe, is an important mining
district. There are few in the United
States that have had 50 much money spen
upon them and yet show such poor result!
financially
The main reason why Cerrillos has no
developed faster has been that about
three-quarters of the mineral in the neigh
borhood has been covered by the Ortiz
Jnanna, Lopez, San Pedro and Canon de-
Aqua land grants, and yet in spite of all
the impediments of securing good titles
thus offered, Cerrillos would certainly
have prospered had the region to the
north of the town been developed as a
zinc or lead district from the start, instead
of working in the vain hope Of making it
gold and silver producer.
10 the north of Cerrillos, which is loca-
ted on the Galisteo river, within a semi
circle ften miles, there are upward OF
! 900 prospect holes, tunnels and mining
shafts. In nearly all Of these are found
creyices and veins of mineral, the vast
majority Of them being true fissures, the
others contacts. These veins vary in
width, from o mere streak to lodes four or
five feet in thickness. The predominating
mineral everywhere is galena and blende.
The amount Of gold and silver will proba-
bly, not average over Sc or So per ton.
The ore, which in most cases is a me-
chanical mixture of blende and galena,
should, Of course, be properly separated
as in western Missouri, and reduced for
lead and zinc alone. These works, while
having the vast supplies Of good and pure
orc at their very doors, would have cheap
fuel, for, after Trinidad, there.is no place
in the Rocky mountains that has as cheap,
abundant and good feul as Cerrillos.
Here there is found the best and truest an
thracite coal west OF Pennsylvania, and
the openings so far made show that it ex.
lists, together with the bituminous Goals,
over an area of forty or fifty thousand
acress. The soft coal makes even bet
ter coke than does that OF FL Moro and
Trinidad, and is the equal OF Connells-
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