Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-12-30

these stones the purest and best mined in
the world. Garnets nearly as fine as
rubies are commonly found.
The mining propositions arc not only
various but profitable. Gold and silver
lodes from foot to thirty five feet broad
are open; placers run from % cents to
$3.50 per cubic yard; and the coal veins
are from five to ten feet thick. Metallic
and magnetic iron arc found IN paying
quantities.
DOLOEEB.
The recent invention of a new dry
washer promises to bring the thousands
OF acres of placer ground into usefulness.
During the past three months there has
been quite an excitement around Dolores
over this invention. A leading Denver
paper recently announced that this Sec
ton babe fair to rival Cripple Creek in
the quantity of its placer gold product.
The difficulty here has been that water
has not been available from washing out
the dirt. The new dry washer was, how
ever, recently given a test run of six
hours and made clean up of $17 for
that time. The gold varied in size from
q pin-head to the bigness of a pea. One
of the nuggets was worth dollar, and
others 60 to IS cents piece. just after
the recent freshets the idle men in this
section made good wages cleaning up the
natural RIFLES that occur in the streams.
In one day $50 was taken out of one of
these holes or rifles below slight fall.
This is only an example of what is being
done daily in this section. There are
oy-t o,lr 81
fields. All are making good wages. Mr..
7. f. Moore is introducing the dry washer
mentioned above and is the largest
operator in this section at present.
H. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Santa, Fe, as the territorial capital, is
the headquarters of all the federal off
Gals. The legislature, the supreme court
and all territorial boards meet here. Be-
sides the San Miguel college and tho
Loretto academy, the city con-
tains public high school, the Methodist
mission school and the Presbyterian
select and mission schools, and the Ra-
mona, st. Catherine and Government In
dian schools
There are four excellent public schools,
one in every of the four wards, which are
numerously attended. There are several
private schools, among which may be
mentioned the kindergarten. Iu all the
various establishments there are from
1900 to 1000 scholars.
Owing to various causes the commerce
of this city is SO great and steady that
the two railroads entering regard the
tracks Immediately tributary thereto as
| &ho hair
THE SANTA FEE WATER WORKS.
1t is not alone in schools, churches and
public buildings that Santa Fe rivals her
neighbors; she is progressing materially
in the matter of irrigation. During the
past two years there has been built at
the mouth of the Santa Fe canon one of
the best reservoirs in the world. DR..
Banter of the American Health Resort
Association, says: at is worth travelling
miles to taste this pure water that comes
down from cut in the mountains" The
dam is thrown across the canon so as to
impound the greatest possible amount of
water at this point. 1t is of clay with
three cores OF cement, which are also pro-
tected on each side with sort of armor
of triple pile sheathlng. The dam is of
puddled clay $50 feet thick at the base
and 100 feet high in tho deepest part of
the canon. II is built on bed rock, and
the cores are keyed into the same. The
old town reservoir and dam farther up
the canon is utilized as settling basin;
and from above this dam four by six
| foot tunnel is taken under the reservoir,
and delivers all rolled and muddy water
below the spillway. This spillway is a
| notable feature. 1t is at the southern
end of the dam and ten feet below its
crest. The surface is such that the water
shoals for considerable distance above
It Is built in the shape of semicirce
drawn around chord of 600 feet. The
as nearly as possible half of a great
| funnel. No matter therefore how
violent the flood may be, the
waste water is gently poured over the lip
of the spilway and gradually debouched
into canal. At present this water is re-
turned to the river, but the plan is to
take it by seven mile canal southwest to
the Arroyo Hondo, natural storage
basin, where it will. be used to irrigate
| $4,000 acres of beautiful, level mesa. The
water for use is delivered through water
tower on the inside face of the dam, 80
constructed that water can be drawn off
at any level. 1t is then sent outside the
dam in pipes, delivered to an erating
fountain, and thrown sixty feet into the
| air. Thence it comes to the city supply
pipes. Water in fire MIGRANTS is under
IA pounds pressure to the inch.
This dam up to date has cost over
$26O,OOO, but it is only the initial project
of vast scheme Of reclamation. In ad-
dition to the Arroyo Hondo works, men
toned above, tho same company propose
to store the Nambe waters and irrigate
$4,000 acres more.
Preliminary surveys have been made
on both these projects, and the active and
actual work will be we'll under way by the
opening of spring, but not sufficiently ad
vanced to deliver water for irrigation.
cERR11Los AND SOUTH SANTA FEE.
This town is known by the soubriquet
of"the Little Pittsburg," which amply sets
forth its characteristics. It is on the line
pal market for all southern mining inter-
ests of the county. The Cerrillos mining
district is famous as silver producer.
Besides this it is the depot for the coal
mines before described. This camp has
had its ups and downs, but is flourish
ing place now. Besides coal and precious
metals it is surrounded by iron ores and
limestone quarries. Petroleum has been
discovered. handsome school house
has been erected; and the town generally
is on the high road to success.
Near Cerrillos are the famous turquoise
mines owned by the American Turquoise
company, from which Tiffany d Co., New
York jewellers, receive the turquoise they
use.