Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-01-26
A MAGIC CITY,
Oreede Camp, the Mineral Wonder of
the Age, Within Eight Hours
Ride of Santa Fe,
Its Marvellous Riches and Wonderful
Business GrOwth-A Big Marx ct for
Santa Fe Products.

A wonderful mining camp is springing
into life on the line of the D. & R. G.
road within eight hours ride Of Santa Fe.
1t has for years been thought that there
would never be another Leadvlle, but
here, almost at our very doors, is build
ing to-day city whose mineral riches are
admitted by every one to excel those that
made the famous carbonate camp the ad-
miration of the world. This new marvel
is Creole Camp, ten miles from Wagon
Wheel Gap, and seventy miles west Of
Aamosa. About one year ago the first
discovery of mineral was made, though
only about six n onths since was its true
richness and extent proven up.
To-day, despite the fact that there are
two feet of snow on the mountains and
half as much in the eulch, where the new
town is located, the are 5000 people in
the camp and they are pouring in at the
rate of from 100 to $50 per day. Floor
space for sleeping accommodations, even
in tents and jarals, is at Il pr, MUM.
Buildings are going up rs fast rs five
saw mills can turn out boards and eastern
lumber by the train load is not sufficient
to supply the demand There are $50
carpenters at work, and, as ii by magic, the
new city is growing. At present 300
business houses are in course OF Construc-
ton and ffty-odd dwellings,, about half of
these being two stories in height and OF q
rather substantial and ornamental char
acLer, are also under way, Thus far the
camp has showed an unusual capacity for
handing the crowds and is getting in
shape thus early for the rush of humanity
that is sure to come in the spring. At the
present rate of growth even the most con-
sentative men confidently predict city
of 10000 population there before mid
summer.
And the cause of all this is silver, lead,
copper and gold which only a few months
of development has proven to exist 10
exhaustless quantities over the adj AGENT
mountains. The pay mineral extends
from the surface down as lar as shafts
have as yet been sunk. At present six
mines are chipping ores to Pueblo and
Denver and some thirty other properties
show good ore, and will begin shipping rs
soon as tramways can be built to convey
the ore from the precipitous mountain
sides to the railroad, 5000 feet below.
Daily shipments now run from ten to
! fifteen cars of ore that net 81 900 per car.
By July the camps friends say they will
be shipping $40 900 worth of ore daily.
In the past two months Creole has had
established there two banks, three news
papers, one of them daily, three water
an d electric light companies, an electric
railway company, tramway organizations
too numerous to mention and all classes
of business enterprises necessary to &C.
commodate modern city of Is 600 such
as Creole will be before the end of 1892.
As to the effect of this new city spring
ing up so near Santa Fe, much may be
said. Our fruit and truck farmers have
always enjoyed superior market facilities,
but here is at hand market that will
itself take, at extra high prices, every
thing the Santa Fe valley can produce,
and the fact that fruits and vegetables
ripen here from four to six weeks earlier
than in Colorado, will give our producers
a prestige not to be estimated by any
common standard. All products of the
soil, also fresh meats, and coal from the
great mines Of Santa Fe comfy can be
shipped out OF Santa Fe at 7 a. m. and
land among the thousands of consumers
at Creede city in eight hours time or less.
Santa Fe business men should begin at
once cultivatng close commercial rela-
tions with this marvellous mining camp.