Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-10
Los CBRRlLLoS LETTER
The Town Appears to be in Good
Health and Merchants Are Expect
ing a Prosperous Year.
COAL MINING AT MADRID BOOMING
Twenty Thousand Tons of Coal Taken
from This Rich Mineral Section
During the Month of March and
Placed Upon the Market.

Special Correspondence of New Mexican.
Cerrillos, N. M, April 9.-On the train
last night, leaving Santa Fe, among
others were Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Fl. Wallace
Judge Andrews, Judge Laughlin, and
Sheriff Kinsell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace were on theiI
way to Washington, where he will do what
he can in securing good, stiff tariff on
wool. Mr.. Wallace said that he con.
sidered tariff that would raise the price
of wool five cents pound in New Mex.
leo of greater Importance to the people
of the territory than new governor, and
therefore he would make the trip even if
he knew his commission as governor
would reach Santa Fe Saturday morning,
but he rather felt that should the com,
mission come it would be for the other
fellow. However, he had out rod and
lightning was liable to strike most any.
where. Judge Andrews, who halls from
Murphysboro, ILL.,, and is an inspector
for the general land office, was on his way
to Las Cruces to visit with the officers in
the land office in that place, and from Las
Cruces would 60 to Roswell. Judge
Laughlin, by this time has reached Lin
coin, where he will hold court for two
weeks, and Sheriff Kinsell stopped in Ger
rillos to visit with his family anl look
after business interests.
Cerrillos appears to be in tolerably
good health in every way. The mer-
chants all expect a good year, and while it
is quiet now, after the wool season begins
business will hum. The big smelter is
still one of the possibilities of the future,
bat sit is to be built" soon.
The rich mines in southern Santa Fe
county are attracting widespread atten-
tior, and prospectors and mining men
are coming in to look over the field.
There is some talk of more rich strikes
in the San Pedro district, and many
more will be made this year. The click
of the hammer and drill and the dull
boom of the blast are no unusual sounds
in the mountains, and are substantial evil
dences that something is happening.
From all that can be learned, this part
of the county is saving considerable
wood and keeping mighty quiet about
IL.
A visit was paid to Madrid this after
noon, and the camp is in business up to
the neck. The superintendent stated
that during the month of March 10000
tons of hard and soft coal we're taken
from the mountains and placed on the
market. When asked how much truth
there was in the report that the coal in
the mountains around Madrid was play
ing out, and that that camp would be
abandoned in a few years, he laughed and
said.
"We are pulling the pillars in the
White Ash mine, for the reason that the
lead is faulty and it is easier to reach the
coal from another level. In the mine
opened last summer we have 100000
tons in sight. This we know to a GER
tainty from bearings made, and by the time
that vein is exhausted we only have to
run lower level to find as much more.
No, Madrid coal is not playing out by
long shot,"
Now, 100000 tons of coal is quite
little stock and after trying TO reduce tons
to ounces and multiplying by millions,
give 1t up and decide that the people of
Santa Fe were not 10 danger of freezing to
death for possibly two years.
had conversation with Mr..
Charles Rutter, general purchasing agent
for the Colorado Smelling company at
Pueblo. Mr.. Rutter is visiting the various
mining camps of the territory, and in his
trip has picked up much valuable informa-
tion. He considers the mining industry
in New Mexico as yet in its experimental
stage. There are vast bodies of ore in
every part Of the territory which, with i'm
proved methods Of reducing and smelling,
will provea source of incalculable wealth.
II all the reports of rich strikes are true,
and be has no reason to doubt them, in
short time New Mexico will become the
greatest gold producing country on the
continent. Well,::here's hoping that day
ia not far distant. O. l.. R.