Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-09-05

the company the grant sections the buyer
practically gains control and has the use
OF the governments alternating sections,
open to entry now, but which are not
more valuable than the grant lands which
the company offers the settler on better
terms than Uncle Sam can make.
SUPERIOR COAL FIELDS.
The A. x ?. company owns within this
grant the only coal field that is known to
exist between the Rio Grande and the
Pacific coast, south of the state of Colo
RADIO, and there is an almost unlimited
market for the coal products of the dis
triCt. 1t is pronounced the finest domes-
tic and steam coal that there is anywhere
in the west, because of it's richness in car
bon and its freedom from sulphur and
other foreign ingredients, conditions
which cause it to make quick and in
tense heat, and leave no clnker or other
residue except a little white ash, which
all sits through the bars, and leaves the
furnace as clean as though wood had been
used. The dimensions of this coal field
have notyet been accurately determined,
but 1t is known to extend for 80 miles north
and south and about 800 miles east and
west. The Atlantic & Pacific railroad
runs through the district form Albuuuer-
que westward and is easily accessible by
spurs or tramWays, from all points in the
coal fields. There are five distinct veins
OF coal known to exist, lying one above
the other, separated by strata of rock and
clay OF sufficient thickness to make each
vein readily workable; these vary in
t,rn 10 ~;
est being at the bottom, and increasing as
they come up. 1t is the opinion of coal
experts that there will be still heavier
bodies OF coal found some distance below
the level OF the valleys, but this is not
known, as there has never been any pro-
speeding done for the purpose of determin-
ing the tact-no shafts have yet been
sunk, and the mining thus far has all
been done by drifting into the hilsides.
The extensive district, including several
railroads, which must always draw its
fuel supply from the coal fields on the
Atlantic d Pacific railroad, will make
ready demand for all the coal that can be
taken out there, and its remoteness from
other coal fields places it entirely beyond
the reach ofinjurious competition. Gallup,
100 miles west of Albuquerque, on the
A. u L. road is the chief shipping paint
Tor this coal field at present. The annual
output is now about 500 900 tons and is
steadily increasing.
THE LUMBER INDUSTRY.
Within the A. & P. grant are thousands
OF acres of the best pine lands in the
west, and the numbering industry is not
only now, but must ever be, a very import
ant and profitable one. Practically there is
no competition in this field and the lumber
ranks with the best produced in Michi-
gan or northeastern Texas. On the line
of the road, at Flagstaff, are the mills of
the New Mexico u Arizona Lumber COM
pany which produce over 1900 900 feet OF
lumber annually, and recently the Nit
chell Bros, lifelong lumbermen from
Michigan have purchased 300 900 acres of
these pine lands and are now engaged in
establishing, at the new town of Mitchell,
l2O miles west OF Albuquerque, the largest
numbering plant in the west. Among
other enterprises they are laying out and
have now nearly surveyed the line for
new railroad southwest from Mitchell
which will circle 100 miles of virgin pine
to be found in the west to-day than in
these pine lands? Is it any wonder that
over 100000 acres Of these lands have
been sold by the company in the past
few years?
TO BUILD UP THE SOUTHWEST.
The olicy OF the A & p company is to
dispose OF its lands to men who will dev-
elop them, thus improving and developing
the country, and building up permanent
traffic for the railway. For these reasons
these lands, which are destined in few
years to be very valuable, are disposed of
now at prices which are merely nominal.
For illustration, grazing land, in compact
bodies OF say not less than the railroad
sections in four townships, aggregating
as, OSO acres are offered at 81 .25 per acre.
The price OF timber lands, situated in To-
calities where the company will entertain
proposals for their sale, will range
from S. to 500 per acre. Agricultural
lands along the streams, where there is
sufficient water supply for irrigation, will
be sold at from $3.50 to $40 per acre.
owing to locality, ahul dance of water
and proximity to railroad. IrrigabIe lands
will be sold in quantities to suit purchas-
ers. Easy time of payment will be
given purchasers and detailed informa-
ton may be had by applying to Gen. j.
| Williamson. A & P land commissioner,
Rialto building, Chicago, or at Albuquer-
que.