Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-11-15
GREAT OPPORTUNITY
New Mexico Should Make An Ex-
hibit Of Resources At The
Paris Exhibition.
VAST MINING POSSIBILITIES
Professor ]. 9. Carrera Speaks Of The Mag
nifcent Mineral Resources And The
Manufacturing Possibilities Of
New Mexico.

Professor j. C. Carrera. a mining en-
gineer at Las Cruces, and one of the
delegates appointed by Governor Otero
to represent New Mexico at the Paris
exposition, has undertaken single-hand-
ed to see to it that the territory will
have a worthy mineral exhibit at the
exposition. He has visited a number of
mining camps, and although he has met
with but little encouragement thus far,
will not relinquish his purpose of Sc
curing a good exhibit. He receives no
remuneration for his work, and pays
his own expenses, excepting that the
railroad companies have generously
given him transportation. lie desires
the cooperation of all people having
considers it very important that the
territory bring before the investors of
the world its great mineral resources.
New Mexico can produce as much in
minerals as any commonwealth in the
Union. From his long residence in the
west and the nature of his profession,
Professor Carrera fears no contradic-
ton when he says that there is no
greater mineral wealth. in the south
west, nor in any other part of the min
ing world, thar in New Mexico. But the
| territory unaided cannot develop this
| great wealth. Outside capital must be
drawn hither, and no better opportunity
is afforded to show the capitalists of
the world what New Mexico can pro-
duce than by making a good mineral
exhibit at the exposition, for it is by its
mining industry that the territory must
become known to the world. Thus far
the mineral exhibit from the United
States promises to be a mere Colorado
California affair, and unless New Next
co makes a special effort the visitors at
the exposition will not know that there
is such a territory. The unfortunate oc-
currences in France recently have
caused n or two intending exhibitors
from this territory to withdraw their
exhibits. Yet, out of 1000 exhibitors
from all parts of the world who have
been awarded space at the exposition,
only seventeen have withdrawn, and
those seventeen should reconsider their
only hurting themselves by their with
drawal and not the exposition.
Professor Carrera also believes that
an effort should be made to collect a
fund~to defray the expense of sending a
New Mexico exhibit to the exposition.
In speaking of the mining industry,
upon which Professor Carrera can
speak authoritatively, he says that New
Mexico is to-day riding on a wave of
great prosperity. All the metals except
silver maintain a price in the market
that means a great profit to the miner.
Gold, copper, zinc, lead and iron are
found in many parts of the territory
They occur in such vast quantities that
the territory can scarcely touch them
with it's own capital, and needs foreign
millions to develop them.
Take, for instance, certain mineral
deposits in different parts of the terri
tory which are attracting no attention,
but which should cause the investment
of millions Of dollars in erecting manu-
featuring plants and transportation
lines, and which. If properly developed
and worked, would make New Mexico
the banner state of the Union as a man.
ufacturing center. The United States
spends $2S, 900, 900 annually for different
co If CT nf Sn6n urhirI a,,n ,,,a - $500 II
in England, Yet in New Mexico exists
the raw material in vast quantities to
manufacture those salts. A vast de-
posit of this material, thirty miles in
length and two miles wide, is basking
in the sunshine at the foot of the San
Andres mountains in Dona ANA and
Otero counties. Along the eastern Dor
der of this unique deposit lies "a deposit
of gypsum forty miles long and ten
miles wide. Centuries of production to |
supply the world would scarcely indent
the appearance of these vast deposits.
Take again the vast deposit of alum,
extending from the Colorado river to
Bernal creek, cropping cut all along !
that distance. OF course, to handle such |
vast deposits commercially takes ener-
gy, capital and brains, and there is no
better place to interest these three than
at the Paris exposition. Why should not
New Mexico avail itself of the oppor-
tunity to give the European investor a
glimpse of the vast and the
vast possibilities of it's magnificent do