Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-12-30
THE CERRILLOS SMELTER
Carefully Prepared Description of the
Splendid New Plant by New
Mexican Scribe.
PERFECT IN ALL OF ITS DETAILS
Promoters Have Reason to Be Proud
of their achievements -Accumulat-
ing and Sampling Ore and Will
Soon Blow In.

Three attaches of the New MEXICAN ca
gerly availed themselves of the Christmas
holiday to pay visit to Oerrillos for the
purpose of personally inspecting the new
smelter Of the Mary Mining u Smelling
company. The trip not only proved
most pleasurable but highly instructive.
Manager Marion Balue cordially greet
ed the scribes and escorted them through
the substantial and perfectly equipped
smelling plant of his company with evil
dent pride and pleasure, patiently and
satisfactorily answering the multiplicity
OF leading questions with which he was
piled as the little procession of pencil
pushers passed along. Certainly he has
good cause to be proud of his achieve
ment in having successfully promoted
and personally supervised the construc-
tion of this fine plant. 1t is modern in
all respects, and, being equipped through
out with the very latest and most i'm
proved machinery and appliances made
by the famou mining machinery manu-
featuring firm of Fraser q Chalmers,
and built according to the plans of that
firm, it is probably the most perfect es
tablishment of the kind anywhere.
Smelters are like bicycles and typewrit-
ers in at least one respect. The latest
built is the best.
This smelter is almost ideally located
on the side of hill north of the busting
village of Cerrillos and makes most i'm
posing appearance from the streets OF the
town and also from the windows of the
many passing trains on the Santa Fe
railroad.
The buildings are all reared from broad
and dee plaid foundations of solid ma
sonry, are CONSTRUCTED of the very best
material, and are covered with corrugated
steel roofing. They consist of com
modious two apartment structure for
business and assay offices; large sampling
works, equipped with 40-horse power
engine, a crusher capable of breaking 100
tons of ore per day, an automatic samp-
Ter, scnles and other kindred appliances;
extensive bins for storing ore, coke, coal,
lime and charcoal; the smelter proper,
consisting of feed floor just below the
sampling works and ore bins, and floor
below, where the Stag and bullion will be
drawn off the structure being large
enough to accommodate three 100-ton
stacks; and, finally, an engine and dynamo
room, 40x64, and boiler room, 34x40 feet
These buildings are 80 constructed that
all the ore, hux and fuel can be handled
by gravity frcm the time these materials
leave the sampler, cars and wagons above
until they are drawn off in the form OF
Stag and bullion below, and, as has already
been intimated, they have been built large
enough 80 that the capacity of the plant
can be multiplied three times by the addi.
ton of more stacks and blowers.
The boiler room contains two new
boilers of the best make, having com-
bined capacity of 120-horse power, and
the &C joining engine room contains an
S0-horse power Corless engine, and g
blower with pressure of Ii pounds pei
sq uare inch. In this room will be located
the electric plant as soon as it arrives
from Denver, and this room is also de.
signed to accommodate two more blow
ers. The steam pipes leading from the
boilers are all covered with asbestos to
hold the heat.
So far only one er-jacket furnace
with smelling capacity of from so to
100 tons of ore per day, has been put 10
but others will be added when needed
The furnace is perfect in all respects
It will be charged from the feed floor
which is 18 feet above the crucible ant
bullion we'll, by means of scales ant
other appliances built expressly for thu
purpose, and the sidehil and guch below
afford a natural dump for the Stag.
None of the fumes from the stack vii
be permitted to pass out at the top there
of, but will be forced by the powerful
blower through 242 feet of dust chamber
and thence out at the top of fiue, th'
distance through the dust chambers ant
up to the top Of the fue being 356 fee
from the furnace. The dust cham Der
proper are built of masonry on leve
with the bottom of the furnace, are 2lt
feet long, and have ten iron doors on tn
side. The object of this feature of tn
plant ia to preoipitate and rescue sucl
values as would othcrw wise pass of in tn
fumes.
The smelter is approached from th'
Santa Fe railroad by two side tracks, ont
of which runs between the samplint
works and the smelter building and is de
signed to bring in ore, fux and fuel, am