El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-10


the owners of the land came down from
q ranch nearby and took possession of
the water, and have caused the railroad
some trouble, but Mr.. Ramsey thinks
he can settle the difficulty by digging
q we'll on the railways rignt of way and
thus avoid conflict with the owners of
the land over the water supply. This
station is destined to be of importance
as it is the Sabinal Junction and will
be the base of supplies and point of
shipment of the Sabinal MINES and
smelter which are seven miles away in
the mountains, and the people of Sa-
binal are only awaiting the opening of
the road to freight Traffic to begin
work on a large scale. Prospectors are
now hocking to that section and many
new mines will be developed in the
near future. The smelter at Sabinal
has been running for a long tine, but
Ahumada, on the Mexican Central road
has always been the SHIPPING point and
as that is a long distance away, the
mines and smelter were badly handi-
capped In their operations. The Cor
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gion and some of the mines in that.
section have been profitaoly worked
for two hundred years and are still
great producers of silver and lead ore.
The owner Of the land at Sabinal juno
ton, or as it is now called KilO la, has
told Mr.. Ramsey that he intends to
build large ranch building near the
station and move many families to that
locality. The site for a town is pretty
one and if sufficient water can be found
it will become one of the most inter-
estlng locations between Juare and the
Corralitos river. 1t is located right at
the foot of the hill where the track be-
gins winding and climbing to the sum-
NIT before dropping down in the Cor
ralitos valley, and this fact will make
the station Of some Importance to the
railroad as it will here be necessary to
tighten heavy train bound south, or
increase the loads of a north bound
train.
From Sabinal the track climbs to-
wards the summit and the engine puffs
forth great volumes of black smoke.
At kilo. 1873, siding has been put in
that is called San Pedro Junction, and
this will be the point of shipment for
the Corralitos mine and smelter, which
can be plainly seen from the road i've
miles away, but high up in the noun
tains. A branch road 10 the smelter
is in contemplation from station 1873,
and this would bring the Corralitos
mines at San Pedro 10 direct rail com
This station is not q pretty location,
neither is there any water there, but it
Is not far from Sabinal Junction, and
will probably never be more than
junction. 1t was at this point that the
steel and tie gang were camped and
when this reporter reached there it
was veritable city of box cars and
tents. In the morning and evening the
scenes around camp were a busy one
and picturesque. In the camp were
at least five hundred people all told and
they were composed of all classes, ages
and sex. The box-cars were used for
telegraph office, engineers quarters,
quarters and living quarters for those
who had not families along The
overflow of population were furnished
tents in which to live and in this way
all were sheltered from the sun and
weather. AS the work train rolled in
from the front of an evening the men
began dropping off a hundred yards
before they reached camp and grand
rush was then made for the cars or
tents, and as the supper gong sounded
there was q great scramble to get to
the table, where there was plenty of
food well cooked for all. The air there
10 cool and braciug, as the elevation is
], 900 feet above sea level. The nights
Ire cool and one requires light cover,
while there Is only small amount of
humidity In the atmosphere and very
i tile parapirstion, no matter hoy hard