Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-04
SAN PEDRO BOOMING
The Santa Fe Gold & Copper Com
pany Getting An Entirely
New Plant.
The MONTE CRISTO MINE
Gold and Lead Properties Showing Up
Well, Real Estate Booming and a
Railway a Probability.

County Commissioner j. 7. McLaugh-
lin, of San Pedro, spent yesterday and
part of today in Santa Fe attending a
meeting of the county commissioners
and t%ransacting other business in town.
Mr.. Mclaughlin is a mining expert and
manager of the Santa Fe Gold and Cop
per Mining company, which owns or
controls all the copper claims in the San
Pedro district. MI. Mclaughlin speaks
very enthusiastically about the future
of the mining interests in that part of
Santa Fe county, and says that at pres
ent the conditions are very favorable
and quite a boom has set in at San
Pedro.
Mr.. Mclaughlin has about forty men
at work developing the property of the
Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining CON-
pany, and with good results. The force
will probably be increased in the near
future. Shafts 200 feet deep are now be-
ing sunk in the hillside. All the old
machinery of the company will be dis
carded and the most modern mining
machinery put in it's place. The ore
will be treated as a whole, according to
the method in vogue in the most sue
cessful mines in Montana. By that
method the ore yields four and a half
per cent of copper, besides a fair per
cent of gold and silver. There is a full
supply of good laborers in the district.
The miners receive $3.50 a day and the
shovelers 81. 50a day, and they will have
work all the veal around, as the mines
very seldom close down, and are worked
in summer as we'll as in winter. The
Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining COM
pany has plenty of capital back of it,
and is controlled by Boston capitalists,
mostly Standard Oil magnates.
The gold placer mines in the vicinity
of Golden, Mr.. Mclaughlin said, are
showing up well. The Monte Cristo
mine, of which Colonel j. A. Wood is
manager, is entering upon another pros
porous year. The scarcity of water at
the mine has been remedied by digging
two new wells and the addition Of new
machinery, which is expected at Ceril-
los today, will enable a larger force to
work day and night. A very large new
pump will be put in by the company
and a dynamo with a capacity for 200
sixteen candle power lights will be
placed in position this month. Greater
things are expected for the Monte
Cristo, although it is paying hand
somely already. 1t is owned mostly by
Kansas City capitalists.
At the San Lazarus placers new hoist
ing machinery is being put in, and as
soon as that work is finished the mill
will be moved to the hoists, doing away
with the necessity of a long trestling
and the running of cars over a long
distance.
Several lead mines in the vicinity of
new San Pedro are also being develop
ed, and are showing up well. The
smelter at San Pedro is running to its
fullest capacity, and there is every in
dication of continued prosperity at that
stable mining town. A boom is driving
upward the value of real estate, and
handsome sums have been made by
holders of land. Parties of newcomers
arrive almost daily, and there is a
scarcity of dwelling houses.
There is a fine wagon road from San
Pedro to the Santa Fe railroad, but,
nevertheless, Mr.. Mclaughlin thinks
that a branch railroad to San Pedro
may be a possibility of the near future.
OF course, the construction of such a
spur would be a great boon to San
trict and the south Santa Fe country
generally.