Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-06-19
A MINERAL EMPIRE.
Precious Minerals and Vast Coal Fields
in South Santa Fe County,
A Full and Clear Account of the Rich
Ore Bodies, Extensive Development
and Mining Work In all Directions
In that Section.
Special Correspondence New Mexican.

Special Correspondence New Mexican.
CERRILLos, N. M, June 19.-Althougl
many descriptive articles have been writ
ten and published in reference to th'
mineral resources and mining advantages
possessed by southern Santa Fe county
this part Of New Mexico still app )ars tt
be imperfectly understood or appreciated
by the general public at home or abroad
With the view Of placing more accurate
and exhaustive information before tht
public than has heretofore appeared, thu
result of long and careful investigation
of the surface, rock formations, and min
eral deposits Of the country south of SAINTS
Fe for distance Of fifty miles is hereiI
presented.
The most valuable deposit of the pre-
cious metals, coal and building stone IL
central New Mexico commences abou
sixteen miles south of Santa Fe and ex
tends southerly about thirty miles, EN-
bracinga
QUARTETTE OF HUMMING TOWNS,
Cerrillos, Dolores, Golden and San Pedro.
Although located in the same general
mining belt, each Of these towns repre-
sents in their location very different geo.
logical surroundings.
Cerrillos, the most northerly OF these
towns within the belt, is located about
twenty-five miles south of Santa Fe, on
the line of the A., T. & S. F. railroad.
This town is excellently located for per-
manent shipping point, and also for smelt-
ing, or ore reducing plants of all kinds.
The Galisteo river which runs through
the town in southerly direc-
ton, also forms dividing line between
two remarkably distinct sections of the
mining belt, both several miles in ex-
tent.
The section bordering the river on its
north side shows up in the form of sue.
cession of high hills and mountain peaks,
interspersed with deep ravines or ar
royos, and occasional table lands of con-
siderable extent.
The rock formation OF this section, is
nearly all eruptive in its character, and
all of the numerous crevices, or veins,
that are found penetrating it are filled
with ore bearing vein matter, which in
many places is verv rich, in
GOLD, SILVER, LEAD AND ZINC.
Some of these veins have been extern
siveIy developed and worked, proving that
they extended to great oepth, ana pUs-
sess the precious metals in paying quanti-
lies rich in workable values.
The country rock formation from Ger
rillos to a distance of five or six miles
north of the town, is very generally
of the porphyritic, and grant,
toid classes Of eruptive rocks, with some
remnants or fragments of the old sand
stones and states, that once formed part
Of the coal measures, that still show for
several miles from the river at Cerrillos
toward the south, and that on the south of
it contain as valuable coal leads as are
to be found west of the Mississippi.
The remarkable feature of this part Of
the Santa Fe mining belt, Is, the close
of q section OF the old sand
stone coal measures containing large work.
able leads OF superior coal, and an extern
sive area Of eruptive rock of recent date,
containing the precious metals in large
workable quantities. Nothing but the
narrow thread-like stream of the Galisteo
river, here divides these two widely sepa-
rated geological formations in point of
time, as we'll as the character of the val
liable minerals produced from each. No
where else has nature provided fuel in
the shape of
THE FINEST OF COAL
side by side with rich smelling ores. At
no point in the country can ores be treat
ed and prepared for market in the form
of bullion, 80 cheaply as at Cerrillos.
Every kind of fuxing material needed
for smelling purposes, is to he had in
abundance within three miles of that
place.
Development OF the measures within
from three to four miles south of Ger
rillos, have proven that the coking and
hard Goals can be mined in any quanti-
ties demanded for consumption at small
expense.
THE CASH ENTRY.
Three miles north Of Cerrillos, the Cash
Entry Mining company during the past
five years, has done an extraordinary
amount of development work. The min
ing properties of this company have been
explored beneath the surface in places to
a depth of 900 feet. Under the system
attic management of Mr.. E. HUM, during
the past three years, this underground
exploring work has been carried on con-
tinuously, until now through a complete
system Of shafts, levels and drifts, ex-
tending for hundreds of feet horizontally
and perpendicularly, all connecting with
convenient and amply large working
shafts to the surface, extensive ore
bodies, rich in silver, gold, lead and zinc
have been blocked out and are now in