Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-11-12
new SHELTER At CBRRILLOS
The Fine Reduction Plant is Rapidly
Nearing Completion and Will
Blow in Soon.
1T is PERFECT In ALL RESPECTS
Some of the Substantial Reasons Why
the New Mexican is Confident
That 1t Will Prove
Success.

The New MEXICAN is more than pleased
to be able definitely to announce to the
miners of northern aud central New Mex
leo that the magnificent 80-ton smelter of
the Mary Mining & Smelling com pany,
at Cerrillos, is rapidly nearing compile
ton. All of the machinery Is on the
ground and most of it is in place. The
stacks and dust chambers are about COM
pleted, the sidetracks and wagon roads
leading to the works are ready for traffic,
and the buildings are up and ready for
the corrugated steel roofing. Hence
Manager Balue entertains no doubt
that he will be able to begin sampling
and reducing ore by the first of December
and possibly week sooner. Antonio
Windsor, contractor for the construction
of the superstructure, who was in Santa
Fe yesterday, shares in this opinion.
Fraser & Chalmers, the celebrated mining
machinery builders of Chicago, who pro-
vided the plans for the plant and have
put IN all the machinery, will start up the
works and supervise the operation of the
same until the management is satisfied
that the plant is perfect in all respects.
The New MEXICAN is confident that sue
cess will attend the operation of this
smelter from the day it blows in. This
faith is founded upon a knowledge of
the substantial nature and almost ideally
convenient location of the plant; of the
perfection of the new and modern ma.
chinery that has been put In; of the
boundless quantities of cheap coal, coke,
charcoal timber, limestone and iron ore
near at hand and easily accessible to the
company's sidetracks and wagon roads;
of the immense bodies of superior fiux-
ing lead carbonate ores, mineral that
will melt like butter, in the company's
mines at Magdalena; of the large bodies
of galena, lead and iron carbonate ores
at Cerrillos and in the neighboring San
Pedro district; of the mammoth lodges
of fine gold and silver bearing dry or
silicious ores in the Oochitl and at Dolo-
res, Golden and San Pedro, all naturally
tributary to Cerrillos by good down hill
wagon roads; and, last but by no means
the least most important factor in the
problem, on the knowledge that the DOM
| pHuy HAS bu PIC Cdpledl w uoCu any
emergency that may arise, and that in the
person of Captain Marion Balue it has q
manager of tireless energy, unfagginR
perseverance and rare executive ability
The successful operation of this smeltel
will certainly render it possible to mine
and treat at moderate profits all the dry
ores of the Cochiti and south Santa FL
county districts that run 500 per ton and
upward and it is probable that in shor'
time even lower grade ores from these
districts can be smelted at profit.
Az soon as the wagon road from
the Cochiti pueblo to Cerrillos is prop
erly repaired and improved, the Oochit
ores can unquestionably be laid down a
the latter point for not to exceed IS pei
ton or as cheap as to Thornton, which /
now the railroad shipping point for all o
the ores of the district mentioned. Itma1
be added that the ores of Dolores, g ol
den and San Pedro can be laid down il
Cerrillos for less than IS per ton. In
word, if the management of the Cerrillo
smelter pursues the liberal policy antici
pated, after the first of January the Go
chit and south Santa Fe county miner
will be saving from $50 to 800 per ca
in railroad charges alone and it is be
lieved that substantial savings will bt
made in several other ways.