White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1900-11-22
The Bethlehem Steel Company PurCh-
aSeS Thousands of Acres in
the Captain Mountain
Iron Fields.
Furnaces and SmeIterS Will be Put in SOOn--
New Era of Development of Our
Mining Resources in Sight.


sponsible for the following:
1.-The directors of the Bethlehem SteelCompany, who
control the gigantic steel works at Bethlehem, Pa, that
manufacture the best plate in the world and who
have millions of dollars invested in that plant and employ
almost 5000 men, have made heavy investments New
Mexico which may be the beginning of industrial
in New Mexico. Headed by Garret and r. P. Lnderman,
Of extensive coal mines in Pennsylvania and both
onaires they have purchased 1000 of coal lands
near CAPTAIN in Lincoln county, and 1000 of iron
lands FIVE miles from the coal mines They have
menced work the coal deposits and have made traffic
arrangements with the Ell Paso Northeastern railroad
also built by Pennsylvania capital to transport the coal
Ito Ell Paso.
More than this expert is the ground, Archi
bald Mccullough of Buffalo, to examine the iron property
and to report upon the advisablity of erecting smeer
and furnace the ground The Bethlehem Steel Com
pany ships much of its iron from Cuba where it
large iron mines, and from Spain The New Mexico
iron property will give it for its and
less extraordinary traffic arrangements be made the
Likelihood is that with time blast furnaces and perhaps
rolling mills will be built right in the vicinity of Captain
and industrial town of 10000 to 10000 inhabitants be
called into life in that section which will be rival to the
Colorado Fuel Iron Company, and to Pueblo, Colorado
The steel company has been awarded a contract to
furnish $9OOOOOO worth of plate to Uncle Sam,
which will keep busy several years Besides
lit millions of dollars worth of commercial steel
and machinery.
The Lndeman coal mines at Stockton, Pa
closed down long ago because they had become
hausted Improbable to work. and then they have
been looking for coal properties well for iron
lands that will rival those owned by Carnegie along the
shores of Lake Superior. They evidently believe they
have found them in New Mexico and that millions
of daars to be spent in the territory and employment
given to hundreds if not thousands of
At the time Detroit capitalists have obtained
lease of 5000 of coal lands in that section and
at work investigating their worth They have found
as good coal is of the other mines and pre-
pairing to develop it. The machinery has been ordered,
and coal will be shipped at an early date
1t is wonder therefore that the Rock Island and
other railroads headed for Ell Paso by way of Lincoln
county, for unless all indications fail that will be the in
tions in New Mexico too which will profit by the good
fortune of Captain. There undeveloped coal fields
and iron properties in almost every county and these will
attract attention the Captain properties have
been made profitable and it is wild dream of the mag
nation to a second Pennsy ylvania, second Ptsburg
and Bethlehem in the Southwest the course of
time"
! The EAGLE representative sought an interview with
John A. Haley who member of the New Mexico Iron
Mining Co, stock company owning iron lands in the
Captain mountains and when asked if of his companys
lands had been sold to parties mentioned purchasers of
Captain mountain iron lands in the foregoing article he
said; -