Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-11-26

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large scale for years and valuable i'm
provements are constantly going on
Over $1,000 was put into improvements
about these mines during the past year
| They are operated under lease by tn,
| Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, ant
the we'll built and comfortable town OF
Madrid, made up exclusively of coal op.
eratives and their families, has a pop-
ulation Of 1000 to 1.5O0
COLFAx COUNTY MINES.
Very extensive properties are opera
ted by the Ration Coal and Coke Com
pany near Gardiner, about miles from
Ration, in Colfax county. The most
perfect machinery of all sorts is run
nlng here. There are numerous veins.
the strongest being to feet thick. All
through this quarter of the territory
are found good coal deposits. They be-
long to the southeastern Colorado coal
zone so near at hand
RIO ARRIBA COUNTY.
Crossing westward over the main ver-
zebra Of the Rock mountains many evil
dences of coal are found east of En-
budo in southern Taos county and be-
yond the Rio Grande. in Rio Arriba
county. In the Monero and Lumberton
regions, is another vast coal field which
has as yet scarcely been touched, al
though number of companies have
been working there for eighteen years
or more. Here the veins are 3 to C feet
in thickness. Thence toward the south
west coal groupings are found for hun
dreds of miles, and no doubt extend
through to the Gallup fields
ON THE SAN JUAN RIVER.
On the San Juan river and in the vi
cinity of Aztec are perhaps the largest
and richest coal areas yet untouched in
the west The veins are from to Is
feet in thickness and the coal is of
high grade of bituminous said to be first
class for coking purposes. AS in Santa
Fe county several veins Of natural coke
have been encountered in San Juan
county.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
In Socorro county also south and west
of Magdalena are extensive coal meas
ures, and further east, in Lincoln coun-
ty, we enter the newly opened deposits
about White Oaks and at Captain. The
veins are 3 to feet in thickness, aver
aging nearly feet.
THE CAPTAIN DISTRICT.
Although opened scarcely year ago.
the pits about Captain, owned by the
New Mexico Fuel Company, John A.
Eddy and others, have proved very
profitable. Over $3.50 has been spent
in Improvements here during the past
year and nearly 100000 worth of coal
has been mined and marketed, mostly
in Texas, Mexico and Arizona.
PROMISING INDICATIONS.
In western San Miguel and northern
Santa Fe county are excellent indica-
tons Of workable coal deposits Within
30 days Of this writing 24-inch vein of
fine bituminous coal has been discover
ed practically at the surface within 3
miles Of the city cf ss4stta Fe, asd it's
development is now being vigorously
pushed.
COKE PRODUCTION.
The coke production Of the ter"itory
for the year ending June 30, 1900
to 42,SO3.3O tons, of which
u, ,95S.5O tons were produced at the coke
ovens at Waldo, in Santa Fe county,
and the remainder at Gardiner. The
coke runs from IS to 81 per cent in fixed
carbon; II to 13 per cent in ash per
cent in moisture and O.75 per cent in
volatile matter. It takes about 1.5,,
tons of coal to make ton Of coke
PETROLEUM.
In this connection 1t may not be amiss
20 refer to the very promising prospects
If opening in New Mexico at an early
lay several very great petroleum pro-
lucing districts. Within few months
past active systematic work has been
lone by many prospectors in the search |
sor oil lands. Their efforts have been
by the great success which |
las attended the working of oil fields in |
Colorado, California and Wyoming. The
'esult thus far has been highly encour-
lging and the chances are that heavy |
capitalists will soon take the matter in |
land and begin development work in |
several different localities throughout |
he territory.