Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-12-19
GRANT COUNTY
A Region of Untold Wealth. Opportuni,
ties for Investment.

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ties for Investment.
The county of Grant is situated in the
southwest corner of New Mexico, COM
prising an area of 1924 square miles. 1t
was organized in 1870 during the first
presidential term of the great soldier, in
whose honor it received its name. Grant
county is essentially mineral section,
though it has many fertile valleys, easy
of irrigation and accessible to markets,
that will grow all the varieties of cereals,
vegetables and fruits known to the soil
OF the middle states Stock raising is
also leading industry. and as breed
ing country has no superior in the terri
tory, an increase of So per cent. being
the usual amount reckoned on by the
stock men. The broad plains and we'll
watered valleys furnish feeding grounds
for the herds unsurpassed anywhere.
But while stock raising, agriculture and
horticulture yield ample returns to the
investor, as before stated, mining is, and
will be for years to come the chief
source of revenue for this rich and
picturesque corner of the territory.
Grant county over it's entire area and
from the four points of the compass is
ouC NdSJ bUOlO llOu6G VI W6dlLQ,
the extent of which can only be guessed,
as the county has never been more than
half prospected. The celebrated copper
mines of Santa Rita del Cobres are
located here. These mines were dis
covered by Spanish army officer in
1900 who four years later sold them to
Don F. M. Elguea who worked them ex-
tensively, shipping his product to the
City of Mexico, where it was coined by
the Royal mint, and highly priced for it's
extraordinary quality, which it is said
has no equal in the world.
For years this section has yielded an
immense output of gold, silver, copper,
lead, opals, turquoise, marble, and sew
eral varieties of valuable building stone,
found in all parts of the county
The Mogollon district employs hun
dreds of men and has every evidence of
prosperity, contributing largely toward
the annual output of the county which
amounts to 100000 in gold and $780,
600 in silver, the gold and silver camps
OF Lordsburg, Pyramid and Shakespeare
employ 100 men; Central City,
gold camp, works $50 men; Cooks Peak,
lead and silver, 200 men; Victorio, rs
men on silver; Georgetown, silver, 200
men; Oak Grove, silver camp, seven
ty five men; Tres Hermanos, silver.
twenty-five men; the Floridas, ninety
men on silver; Hadley, silver camp,
seventy-fve men.
The activity in the production of sill
yer ore indicated by the above statistics,
and carried on under the present de-
pressed condition of silver, gives fore
cast of what this production might be-
come under more favorable conditions.
Silver City, the county seat and chief
trade center, is built upon an elevated
plateau, surrounded on all sides by hills
and mountain ranges that afford COM
plete shelter for the town. and give it
climatic advantages enjoyed by few other
sections of the territory.
An abundant supply Of pure noun
tain water is furnished by plant locat-
ed about two miles from the town, which
also gives to the fire hydrants normal
pressure of la pounds to the inch.
Fine school buildings, including ter
ritorial normal school, many churches,
the Catholic Sisters convent and hospi-
tails, a spacious court house of native
stone that would do credit to any metrop-
oils, and many fine private residences
all combining to give the leading city of
Grant county metropolitan appear
ance, that comes as something Of a sur
prise to the stranger.