Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
SOUTH SANTA PE
That End Of the County Will
Soon Be Livelier Than In
the 'o0s.
SMELTER THE CHIEF CAUSE
The Increased Output Of the Oerrillos Coal
Mines Under the New Manager-Ths
Production and Improvements to
Be Augmented Steadily.
Special Cor. New Mexican.

Special Cor. New Mexican.
Cerrillos, N. NJ, January 2S-Many
very strong companies, backed by un-
limited outside capital, are now oper-
| ating in south Santa Fe county In
fact, there has never been a period, not
! even in the so-called boom days of the
| sos, when such an aggregation of money
| and brains could be found here as at
present, all working zealously to COM
mon end-the industrial development of
| a vast region so rich in its variety OF
mineral wealth that one who writes Of
| the facts as they actually exist is often
| er than not accused of stretching the
bow Of truth. But the doubling Thorn
| asses and the croakers have had their
day and their say, and personal inspec-
tion and investigation is all that Is re-
qured to convince any fair-minded man
| that the riches are here, and that men
| of capacity who will dig out fame and
| fortune have at last got substantial
| foothold in the several camps and dis
trcts.
AT THE COAL PITS.
The handsome sum of 81 900, 900 is the
price at which the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company recently acquired from
| the Atchson, Topeka & Santa Fe COM
pany the coal mines and plant at Mad
rid, three miles from Cerrillos. The
buyer assumed control October 5 last
and installed H. ]. Elliott, an old and
faithful employe from Colorado as
manager. Besides increasing the out
put Of coal each month, Mr. Elliott has
been engaged in making many improve
ments at the plant. Old buildings have
been torn away and new ones erected;
obsolete machinery cast aside for larger
and more up-to-date patterns and the
great steam hoists, air compressors,
ETC., have been concentrated nearer the
Cook & White and anthracite pits. At
the former mine mule power Is to be
entirely done away with, and instead Of
hauling up hundreds Of feet Of incline
trains Of eight coal cars a7,h. as at
present, the ''pioka' Will be snaked
OUT by steam twenty al a time Some
what similar improvements are golus
an a { the anthracite mine near at hard.
1t ls
Mn fNgpRlss --Gt{r
70 see tllc train ieads d mack diamonds
, fron gtle 7.iye glide 5.oqe the ngoua-
taih hundreds 81 feet abo,3 Jou. goirAr
from the mouth OF the ut to the break-
ar Nesting igainst the mountain size
| 10 the height Of eight sbcries Dumped :
iii the top, th, coal drops from story
to story, passing through ponderous
crushers, and finally glides into the
freight cars Of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe on the track far below, COM
ing out in the shape Of nut, egg or any
size required.
Since taking hold Manager Elliott
has increased the output by over 1000
tons per month, and Is now shipping
10000 tons monthly.
Further description Of this enterprise
will be given in these columns when the
many improvements now In progress
shall have been finished.
Madrid is a typical modern coal VIII
lage, neatly and compactly built up OF
one and two story frame dwellings; has
two churches, Catholic and Methodist;
good school; and population OF 800.
Upward Of $50 men are at work In and
about the mines.