Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-13
GOOD PAYING ROAD
A Pennsylvania Director Thinks His
Road in New Mexico Will Pay
Handsomely.
TELLS OF THE COAL MINES
Equipped to Produce a Thousand Tons
Daily-Believes That An Eastern Road
Will Build Into Lincoln Coun-
ty Soon.

Colonel Boies and party, of Scranton,
| Pa, who We're in Santa Fee after MAX
ing ar inspection of the FL Paso and
Northeastern railway and the coal
camp in Lincoln county, in which they
are stockholders and directors, left last
night for the east. Colonel Boies is
president of the Moosic Pottery Com
pany, and was formerly president of
the Boies Steel Wheel Company of
Scranton.
Talking of the Ell Paso & Northeast
ern railway and other interests in New
| Mexico, Colonel Boies said:
The railroad is building its machine
shops and round house at Alamogordo,
and these will bring many mechanics
and employees to make the town a thriv-
ing and growing one, especially when
| farm lands in the vicinity have been
| placed under water. Homesteaders
| even now are taking up lands in the
neighborhood.
THE town of Alamogordo impressed
/ us all with amazement, for it is a Won
derful thing to see such development
/ and settlement, and so many indus
| tries beginning on what had been a
| perfectly barren plain when we saw it
| before. We visited the two sawmills,
capable of cutting 10000 feet of lum-
| Der each shift. or 200, 900 feet running
double turn.
I'VE were particularly surprised to
observe the growth of 'cottOnwoods in
| the park, extending for a mile along the
| railroad. These trees have grown up
| within a years time, nourished by wa
ter from Fresnal canon which is used
to irrigate the whole town and vicinity.
Indeed, with the aid of this water sys-
tenn, proper irrigation bids fair, with
| in two or three years, to make the Dies
| ert a garden spot for miles around.
I'VE saw, of course, the water works
| of the town of Alamogordo i'm the can
| on. 1t is some five or six miles to the
| intake, whence water is brought down
| for domestic and public use i'm a 10-inch
| pipe. After surrounding great obsta-
| ClGS Ill us pdSSd6C uoWi III S"iSF sHAo
| pipe discharges into a reservoir having
a capacity of 50O,0 900 gallons, and which,
| at an elevation of 234 feet above the
| town proper gives abundant head for
| fire use, sufficient to flood any large
| building so far projected. This Is ex-
| cellent water for drinking and domestic
use.
-Four churches have been organized
and are building houses of worship; the
| Alamogordo National Bank, with a cap
ital of $50, 900, is putting up a marble
| front building. 1t is estimated that
| there are already in Alamogordo 1880
| ~people-just years growth.
I'VE have renamed the coal camp
| Captain instead of Salado, after the
| Captain mountain, because there is an
| other Salado in New Mexico. The coal
mines are being opened at three differ
ent points, from one of which three
thirty-ton cars were loaded the day we
were there. The necessary machinery
and loading tipples have been con-
structed with a capacity of at least 1000
tons per day at the first opening, which
is near Gray's ranch. There a station
and town will be built.
THE road is graded to the second
opening, and it will be possible soon to
move coal from there to the tipple at
No. |. We expect to have there an out
put of 1000 tons a day, or 300, 900 tons a
year, by the first day of January. 1900.
There is only "a Is per cent slope, and
with a rise so gentle, the coa can be
easily hauled out.
The new and busy road, besides this
probably vast coal traffic, has two other
great promises of success. The first is
the immense lumber market which Ala
mogordo, aided by the mountain lumber
branch, will soon become. The second
is it's possibility as a part of a distance
saving transcontinental line. 1t Is more
largely to the interest Of any one of
three other roads to extend to us than
it is to our interest to reach out after
them. We will make no extension, but
with no official knowledge, and with no
communication WITH JQeTn, l pTeulCl
that, within an extremely short period,
one of these lines will build. During the
summer and lately there have been sew
eral engineer corps through White
Oaks, but we do not know what road
they represent.
AT Jarillas we went into the Lucky
mine. There are two shifts, 8 150-foot
drifts. The vein is 16 feet wide on the
22O-foot level, and the assay shows cop
per worth $14 to $3.50 per ton, with a 4
per cent gold showing. We expect to
ship out at once $50 tons a day to the |
smelter here. In placer mines the yield
even from dry washing is rich.
I'VE are all of us more than satisfied
with the road and our investments. We |
think we have the best paying piece Of
property in the United States"
The special car Paso del Norte will
take the party as far as Chicago, from
it will be returned to Ell Paso,
bearing another Pennsylvania party.
This party will consist of John Welles
the capitalist of Wilkes
and a party of friends, including