Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-20
That Santa Fe County Mining Town
Is Coming to the Front
Again.
ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR TOWN
The smelter Is to Begin Operations Soon
and Will Treat Ore From the Magda-
lena As Well AS the Oerrillos
District.
Special Cor. New Mexican.


Messrs. Thomas and Russell, the new
owners of the smelter plant, have gone
to Magdalena to place their Hardscrab
BILE mine in touch with the plant here
1t is understood that they will get ou
as quickly as possible a thirty-d day
smelter run, about 1000 tons, and viii
then start the smelter, buying up al
ores offered by miners of the Cerrillos
district as rhey may be offered, but
depending largely upon their owr
mines product for the bulk of the raw
material. The first thing that the
Thomases did after taking charge of the
smelter plant was ito erect a 40-foot
Flagstaff, which may be considered to
indicate that they are firm believers in
American business methods, the flag
and prosperity.
MAY STRIKE OIL.
Excellent indications of petroleum
We're encountered to-day in the we'll
which is being drilled down in the edge
Of town here by the Cochiti Gold Min
ing Company. Cerrillos is quite elated
over the fact that the Bland country
hasn't all the good things on earth, and
must come over here for water. This
we'll Is being put in to supply the elec-
trio power and light plant which the
Cochiti company is busily engaged in
perfecting at the Madrid coal camp, two
miles south of Cerillos. A first -class
drill outfit, with twenty-five horse
power engine, Is at work, and has ca
pacity for sinking 1000 feet. At a depth
of $40 feet the we'll is 7% inches in di-
ameter; has encountered numerous wa
ter-bearing strata and the precious
fluid now rises to within IA feet of the
surface. The men in charge feel quite
confident Of developing an artesian flow
When the sand pump came up to-day
bearing evidences of crude petroleum
there was a happy feeling evinced by
the local public, and the old residents
began to talk. 1t was recalled that
twenty miles southwest of Cerrillos, at
Una de Cato, is a petroleum spring;
struck in a town we'll few years ago
at a depth of 60 feet, and that in 1880
prospectors for coal near here devel-
oped a strong flow of natural gas one
half mile south Of town at depth of
$40 feet. Undoubtedly both natural gas
and oil are among the probabilities of
natural wealth which nature with so
lavish hand has grouped about Ger
illos.
THE ELECTRIC PLANT.
The electric light and power plant,
with capacity of 1900 horsepower,
will be in operation in sixty days. The
this illuminant. Along the thirty three
miles of poles which will convey this
powerful industrial agent to the Albe-
marie mine and to the water pumping
a telephone and telegraph line, which
will connect the Albemarle and Bland
with Madrid and Cerrillos (and Santa
Fe over the existing wires) and a
DIduCIl ItICpllOIlt IlIC 10 Sloo w no Auii
from the main line, two and a half
miles SOUTH to Thornton station, so that
these several towns and camps will all
be brought into more neighborly rela-
tions.
A SAD ACCIDENT.
David Jones met with sad accident
the other day that Is likely to prove IA
tai at any hour. While working in the
hard coal mine at Madrid he was caught
against beam, thrown down under
the cars and his back broken. Two doc
tors are in attendance, and the patient
shows remarkable nerve, but scarcely a
hope is entertained for his living long.
He is we'll known in Santa Fe. His wife
and three children have many sympa-
thizing friends here.
NOTES BY THE WAY.
The Galisteo company has let to a
Las Vegas firm contract for $4,000 feet
of lumber for it's big machine building
at Camp Dolores.
The months old granddaughter Of
Richard Green, daughter of George
Green, died on Wednesday. The funer-
al yesterday afternoon was largely at
tended. Rev. Mr.. Hodgson conducted
the services.
William Hunter a hustling live stock
man from Las Vegas, sees the sign of
the times for Cerrillos, and Is here to
engage in business, selling horses to
freighters and ranchmen and filling
beef contracts at the numerous mining
camps. He has leased dwelling, and
will soon bring his family here. Alder
man Dillon, of the popular third" and