Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-21
MANUFACTURING
ENTERPRISES
Socorro Has Several and Is a Town
with Solid Backing and Bril-
liant Future,
LARGEST MILL In TERRITORY
Timber Peak Mining Company Carrying on
Extensive Work-The Fire Clay Com
pany Operating Successfully Under
Receivers Management-Th
Brewery's Operations.

Socorro has more manufacturing and
Industrial concerns than any town of its
size in the territory. One has but to view
the many concerns now in operation, to
be convinced that the town has a future
which will be backed by the solid indus
tries of agriculture and mining, and
that the plants for reducing agri-
cultural and mineral products into
useful commodities will be located in
the immediate vicinity of Socorro.
The Crown Mill Company is one of
the large institutions which has kept
pace with the times and has been an
important factor in bringing the agri-
cultural resources of the Rio Grande
valley to the front.
The mill was established in 1893 by
John Greenwald. In August, 1898,
the plant was sold to the Crown Mill
Company, and the company now pro-
poses to enlarge right along and build
up a splendid institution. The output
Of the mill is rs barrels of flour per day,
and it is kept running constantly on
home wheat. Concerning the growth
of the wheat industry, Mr. Greenwald
said to the New Mexican reporter:
THE increase in wheat raising has
been enormous. When | first built the
mill, we only had wheat enough on hand
to run the mill for a period of three
months. Now the mill is being u
night and day half the time, and days
all the time.
The mill building is 30X40 feet in di-
mcnsion and a large boiler room in ad-
dition, is attached to the mill. The new
warehouse to be built will be Il brick
structure, the flour and bran rooms
occupying 40X40 floor space, having a
capacity of ten car loads, and the wheat
warehouse is 4OX60 feet and will hold
100, 900 pounds of wheat. The rock is
now being hauled for the building,
The mill used is the Great Western.
which is manufactured in ~Leavcnworth,
Kas. Mr.. Greenwald is enthusiastic
about the water of the locality and
states that the mill boilers can be run
for a term of six months without clean
ing them. He is an old time mill man,
having operated mills all overthe United
States. and is in Il position to know what
he is talking about. The Crown mill
flour is shipped. all over the United
States, but the principal market is
found in New Mexico and Arizona. The
machinery in use is the best manufact-
ured for the purpose of turning out a
fine grade of flour and there is no wonder
that the Crown product is Il prime
favorite with housewives.
A. Cortesy, secretary and treasurer of
the company, is a former Santa Fc man.
Concerning the agricultural Possibilities
Of the region he said: IF a canal were
constructed from the Rio Grande at
Alamillo fifteen miles distant from So
zorro, along the fiat close to the Magda-
lena mountains, terminating at San An
tonic, it would be possible to irrigate
thousands of acres of land and open the
agricultural resources of the valley to
something magnificent The milling
plant occupies four acres of ground, and
the railway runs along close to the
building, A new office will be built.
ON A PAYING BASIS.
The Socorro Fire Clay company is now
operating on a successful basis and
promised to be a permanently paying
concern. 1t was establish in 1890, and
in 1892, went into the hands of IL re-
ceiver, G. II. Curtis being appointed to
the position. Under Mr.. Curtis careful
and conscientious management, the
affairs of the company have prospered.
AT present orders are in for 500, 900
brick, the building boom in Albuquer-
que giving an impetus to the work of
the Clay company. The brick for the
new opera house and buildings for the
Western Brewery & Ice company are
being furnished by the concern. The
working force now numbers Is men and
the Improvements for the new year will
inclIde charging the plant and the
of Il greater number of
men.
The machinery used includes the Fry
Acme bricking machine, manu-. |
featured in Bucyrus, Ohio, "a pugg from
Wallace Manufacturing company |
and a 9 foot dry pan for crushing the
They are the best manufactured.
The machinery has a capacity of 20
900 brick per day. The price of the
is 1885 per thousand for fire brick,
Il. o. B. cars at Socorro, and 50 per
thousand for common brick.
The drying tunnels used are eight in
number and they have a capacity of ten
,ars each. The cars hold 600 bricks
each. The two kilns have a capacity of
10000 and $4,000 respectively. The