Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-08-08
SAID OF SANTA FE.
Santa Fe as She is and an Outsiders 8
Hint as to Her Early
Possibilities.
A w-Loving PeopIe-Mineral Wealth
A Fruit Raisers' Paradise-Su-
peri0r Climatic Attractions.

dustries, one scarcely knows where to
begin. So great are the inducements for
people to come here that we wonder that
Santa Fe is ouly town OF between 5000
and 5000 population. Lying in this
county south of Santa Fe are the mining
camps of San Pedro, Golden, Dolores
and Cerrillos. At San Pedro are the
great copper mines of the Santa Fe Cop
per company. These mines appear to
be a mountain Of low grade copper ore.
The
LINCoLN-LUCKY NINE
is here also, which has furnished Pueblo
smelters with 80 much Of its fine ores,
and in this vicinity are many good pros
poets which will become paying mines at
no distant day. Golden is placer camp
and placers have been washed here for
fifty years by the Mexicans in the prlni-
tive methods of batello, or wooden fan,
and after a rocker is used water is OBJ
tanned by hauling it with burro and cart
from some distant well or spring 1t is
this lack of water which prevents this
camp from being one Of the best in the
west, as nuggets of gold weighing $50
ounces have been found. Dolores is
gold camp; both leads and placers are
found. The ore usually is low grade and
in large deposits, though some smaller
veins show very high grade ore. Lying
west, north and east of Dolores are
THE GREAT COAL FIELDS
of Santa Fe county; immense deposits of
fine anthracite coal are found here as in
Pennsylvania. Coking coal is found in
abundance. A few miles west are found
what are termed the oil fields, though no
developments have ever been done.
Springs and pools of water are thicklv cov-
cred with crude petroleum. Samples of
this oil have been tested and found to be
of good quality. The village of Cerrillos
is located on the Rio Galisteo in the midst
of great mineral belt. To the north are
silver and lead mines, some of which
were worked by the Spaniards with slave
labor more than 200 years ago.
Several silver mines are being operated
quite extensively in this district, among
them tho Cash Entry and Central mines.
All these mining camps are tributary to
Santa Fe, but the people here, as a rule,
have done little toward bringing the trade
to this point. The extreme southern por-
ton of the county has some OF the finest
ranches in the territory. An abundance
of water is obtained by digging wells from
eighteen to thirty feet deep. The valley
of the Rio Santa Fe, in which the town of
Santa Fe is located, will some day be the
garden spot of New Mexico. Here is the
FRUIT GROWERS PARADISE,
such luscious pears, peaches, apricots and
all varieties of small fruits as the orchards
around Santa Fe produce can not be ex-
celled anywhere. Almonds and English
walnuts grow to perfection, and with all
this Santa Fe has the most perfect climate
on the continen nowhere can any town
boast of such even temperature, blankets
are necessity for covering nearly every
night in summer as well as winter, and
to all who are searching fora home where
health and comfort can be had we say
come to Santa Fe. The people here are
the most orderly, quiet,
LAw-BIDING COMMUNITY
we have ever seen the per cent OF crime
is very low, house breaking and robber-
les are almost unknown. Santa Fe and
vicinity is vigin field for the historian
and antiquarian. Her old houses, churches
and records; the ruins of the cliff dwell
ers and of ancient pueblos will be inter
esting to many people. If Santa Fe
should ever awake to her possibilities
and spirit of enterprise be aroused in
her citizens, it would become the first
city in the southwest. Artesian wells
should be sunk, reservoirs built and the
water stored that
NOW RUNS TO WASTE
down the Rio Santa Fe six months in the
year. Orchards should take the place OF
corn and wheat fields, railroads should
be induced to extend their lines here and
the town incorporated, and advertised and
with the thousand and one attractions
she has town property would cease to
sell by the acre for the same price that a