Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-25
MINING ON Big SCALE
Industrial Placer Mining Company
Doing Extensive Work in South
ern Santa Fe County.
The COAL OVENS A? WALDO
The Artesian Well Now Down Over 400
Feet-Enormous Flywheel at Electric
Power Works At Madrid-0ther
Oerrillos News Items.

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Special Cor. New Mexican.
Cerrillos, n. NJ, January 24.-Fifty
coke ovens are in operation at Waldo
station, one and a quarter miles down
the valley from Cerrillos. A population
Of $50 is gathered about there aF.i tiiir-
ty men are at work, drawing good
wages. Native laborers are employed
about the ovens. Ramon Sandoval is in
charge, and Jose S. Gonzales is his as
sistant. The present output is three car
loads of coke daily The men work un-
der the task system, and generally fin
ish their tasks in six or seven hours,
when they knock off and get pay for g.
full days work This is a humane con-
cession to the laborers, which they ap-
preciate, for the lot Of the coke oven
men is not a specially happy one. Only
coal screenings from the mines Is
used for producing this coke.
INDUSTRIAL COMPANY.
From all present indications the In
dustrial Company, as 1t IS called, oper-
dllIlS OI ullt pIttTi AIM Solu-DCeti lli6 Sc-
| ment deposits out at Golden, is des-
tined to be one Of the biggest Of the
many big new enterprises now building
| in south Santa Fe county. The placer
proposition has been tested thoroughly.
and machinery for extracting the gold
| from those vast gravel beds has been
ordered, and now the New York and
Rhode Island people who are back Of
1t are pushing investigations into the
cement deposits. w. G. Swartz analyt-
| ical chemist, of 1852 Curtis street, Dem
yer, and, by the way, relative Of DR..
w. S. Harroun's family, is on the
ground with a complete laboratory. The
company has already two good wells,
but is sinking others. To-day an i'm
mense manila cable 1000 feet long and
II inches in diameter reached here for
the use of this companys well-boring
department, and is now at the depot
awaiting the coming of freighters from
the mines.
A JUST PRIDE.
If there Is any one thing that the
Cerrillos people are agreed on as good
worthy, prosperous and deserving to be
fostered, it is the local school system.
Aided by the right sort of a school
board, Miss Sue Mead, the principal.
has organized the several departments
upon a plane the n ,yil, coulparsgwfth
that of any city II ahs vest ghN'e is
a total enrolment OF eighty pupils. The
assistant teachers are Misses Nellie and
Mae Sullivan. The high school now has
eight pupils in attendance. Parents
here generally express much satisfac-
tion over the progress their children are
making.
A BIG FLYWHEEL.
A down-country paper grayely de-
Iscribes the big flywheel at the electric
power plant as Weighing 10000 tons"
There are some big things hereabouts.
but none 80 heavy as this. Let's see
7O, 900 tons means 14O O00, 900 pounds and
to transport this amount OF freight
would require thirty-five cars carrying
40, 900 pounds each. That flywheePs real
weight is 10000 pounds. 1t Is in eight
sections, and when it strikes its real
business gait 1t will revolve at the rate
Of ninety revolutions a minute. In 9TH
er words, the outer rim of this wheel
will travel at a speed greater than q
mile a minute.
NOTES BY THE WAY.
The we'll here by which the Cochiu
Gold Mining Company hopes TO develop
artesan water to-day reached a depth
of 410 feet. 1t will probably be sunk to
, a depth of 1000 feet.
. Citizens of Cerrillos and south Santa
/ Fe county desiring extra copies OF the
] New Mexican can hereafter procure
them at the drug store and stationery
establishment Of ]. Ross Forsyth.
Ex-County Commissioner w. G. Rog-
ers is working gold mine In northern
; Sonora, Mex, and Is reported as doing
! well.
/ Kinsell & Closson are enlargfng and
. making many improvements In their
s already spacious livery establishment.
: They turn out nobby set OF driving
rigs.
Sam Laird, who went to Cuba az
General Wilson's orderly and made a
good record, is clerk for Agent Herman
3 at the Waldo depot.
General Manager r. B. Thomas, Of the
:, Magdalena Mining and Smelling Com
6 pany, will arrive tomorrow from Mag.
; dalena. Everything Is being pushed en-
: ergetically toward starting the srneltel
: plant at the earliest day possible con.
;. sistenlt with good business management
/. w. H. Hunter, the hustling live stock
y dealer has gone to Las Vegas to buy
It car load Of cattle for supplying the min
!. ing camps hereabouts with fresh beef
s He will return in day or two. accom-
:, panied by Mrs. Hunter, who comes t
y select a dwelling, the Hunters f1avint
decided to locate in Cerrfllos.
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