Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-19

have had nothing like careful prospect
ing. Veins of good mineral crop out
everywhere, so that the probabilities of
this particular region are indeed prom
Using.
THE LUMBER FORESTS.
The second item in the local natural
is the lumber supply, which
appears to be limitless. For years peo-
pie in the southwest have heard of the
great tracts of timber in the Sacrament
been rather of a vague and indistinct
nature. But now that the Eel Paso and
Northeastern road has not only reached
the big timber, but actually got up into
the heart of the vast forests, it is being
realized what a valuable country has
been opened up. Every appliance and
convenience for cutting and hauling the
logs to the big mill at Alamogordo has
been put into operation by the railroad
company, and the fine sawmill at Ala
mogordo, equipped with the latest and
most improved machinery of the CEN
fury, is handling 100, 900 feet daily of
lumber brought down in log form over
the tramway, known more Familiarity as
the Corkscrew road. The supply is SO
vast and the demand so constant that
a duplicate Of the big plant is under
construction, and there Is talk Of a tri-
plicate, SO great is the rush.
There is a large box factory connect
ed with the mill, and the call for the
boxes is so great that the entire output
of the mill might be consumed in that
industry alone; and then there are mines
in New Mexico and Arizona alone that
would use up the mills product if the
orders could be filled, to say nothing Of
the increasing demand from northern
Mexico for mine timbers. AS to the
duration Of the supply, it is figured that
the stumpage Of the Sacramento tract
south of the reservation amounts to a
billion feet. And yet this is but a
part Of the vast timber tracts extending
north beyond White Oaks.
SILOE0 AMI 0AANll AItlOIMs
Then as to the Growth Of crops in the
Sacramento country; the rainfall is SO
abundant as to dispense with the need
Of irrigation, and the soil Is exceeding
ay fertile; 1t Is the natural home of the
potato. The country is remarkable for
its wealth Of grasses, which will assure
fho hocf If n oirryirr on1 tho nnnnrfJnt-
ties to raise a wide variety of vegeta-
bles Is unsurpassed. The equable ma
ture of the climate suggests summer
homes for invalids, SO that ere long the
section ought to abound in health re-
sorts, and vie with the summer attrac-
tions Of other and better known parts
Of the country. In fact, the government
has just dedicated the Fort Stanton res
ervation for a consumptives' SANTA
rum for The benefit Of soldiers and sail
ors and government employees who may
be broken down with weak lungs. As
these patients are settled in this coun-
try, they will spread the reputation so
that other and healthy people will be
brought in more than ever, and that
the southeastern part Of the territory
will be settled up in short order.
OTHER RESOURCES.
Only one point in the mineral re-
sources has been touched, and there are
many others susceptible Of develop
ment, n%oticeably the slope of the great
White mountains; and across the valley
in the vicinity Of the Salinas there is
every promise Of extensive mineral re-
sources, and, in fact, ore. is already be-
ing shipped from there.
White Oaks has long been known
as a free milling camp, while 1t is
now known that the smelling or re-
fractory ores Of the district far exceed
the milling ores. The deposits at Mo-
gal will receive plenty Of attention
when the railroad reaches that section
and Is able to run branch lines into the