Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-01

depth of slope is 400 feet. Nine men
were employed 200 days last year. This
is a new mine, which has been operated
in a small way only since July 1, 1898.
The coal is hauled in wagons to Gal
lup, where it is shipped to points in
Arizona, California and New Mexico,
and also sold to the local trade. The
mine is ventilated by an air shaft, and
has a capacity of fifty tons a day.
The Thatcher mine employs thirty
three people, and is operated by the
Caledonian Coal Company. This is a
new mine, that commenced to ship on
January l, 1899. 1t is situated three
miles east of Gallup, on a two-mile spur
from the Otero mine The capacity of
the mine is 800 tons of Ignite per day,
taken from a vein A feet 6 inches thick.
The total output for the last six months
was II ,311 tons, valued at SIG, 1857. The
depth of slope is LOO feet. The mine is
ventilated by an air shaft, and the coal
is hoisted by steam power.
The w. A. Clark mine, owned and OPP
Grated by Senator w. A. Clark, of Mon
tana, employs ninety men, and is locat-
ed five miles from Gallup. 1t was oper-
ated 270 days last year, and produced
46, 1856 tons, valued at $73, 15S.62. The
coal is a soft Ignite, taken from a vein
5 to Z feet thick. The depth of slope is
1,50O feet. A spur runs from the rail
road four miles west Of Gallup to the
mine. The capacity of the mine is 500
| tons per day. The property consists of
1880 acres of coal land, which carries
several seams of coal, only one being
worked at present. The w. A. Clark
mine is one of the best equipped in the
Gallup district. It has two 100 horse
power boilers, one $50 horsepower en-
CINE, and one twenty-five horsepower
engine, two Westinghouse electric
house generators furnishing "a 250-volt
current; one No. 6 Connerville blower to
carry off coal slack, n electric and one
steam deep well pump to furnish the
necessary water for the town of Clark
vile, located at the mines, and for
steam use. The mining is done by two
electric underwriting machines, which
cut 5 and 6 feet deep, and one rib-shear-
ing machine; also one Morgan-Gardiner
electric drill for shooting coal down.
Hauling is done, first, by horses entire
ly, and by a link-belt ten-ton electric
motor, which hauls out on the tipple
over a S per cent grade. The tipple is
the latest Mitchell patent automatic
bumper. The pit scales are 10 feet long,
large and strong, for pit cars of eastern
make. The mine is equipped with
shaking screens, which are used for as
sorting the coal into four different sizes
as desired, and for thoroughly cleaning
out all slack. The mine is ventilated by
various air shafts, raised through from
the vein of coal to the surface, a meth
Last year fifty adobe dwellings were
put up for residences for employees. A
large power house and "a store building
were also erected. The store is a two
story brick building. A large boarding
house is maintained by the company,
which is also erecting a brick building
for a free library. A large school house
has been built by the company, where
school is attended ten months of the
year by forty pupils.
The total number of men employed in
the Gallup district is 942, who mined
444, $50 tons of coal in the last fiscal
year, which was valued at $641 ,314.