Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-26
BLAND STILL ALIVE
Situation In the Cochiti At Present
Is Quiet, But Good Work Is
Being Done.
THREE SAW MILLS KEPT BUSY
The Bridge Across the Rio Grande Will
Be Completed By May IA Big
Demand In the Oochiti for
Good Lime.
Snecial Cor. New Mexican.

special Cor. new MeHlCdfl,
Bland, N. NJ, March 24.--Pending the
experimental tests of ore at the Star
mill and the installment of the great
electric apparatus at the Albemarle, the
saloons and gambling houses are not
reaping such harvest as two months
ago. This is the meager basis for the
croakers wall, BLAND is dead" But no
man with sense enough to seek shelter
in hail storm can come here and see
the great ore bodies and talk with such
men as F. Milton Johnson, V. V. Clark,
George Buck, S. w. Young, Thomas
Flynn, A. B. Conrad, 7. H. jerks, Geo.
c. Smith, William Bletcher, T. J. Will
son, Robert Douthitt, and men of that
stamp. without reaching the conclusion
that enduring riches serve as the foun-
dation for this camps present and fu-
ture. And the quietude of the camp just
now is good thing rather than other
wise, for 1t is driving the croakers and
backcappers out to other fields, scat
tering them, and leaving room for far
better class Of citizens.
THE LUMBER INTERESTS.
There are three sawmils in the dis
trict at present, and notwithstanding
their efforts lumber has often to be
shipped coming by team from Thorn
ton station. DR.. R. B. Benham has the
largest mill, cutting in Media Dia can
on, and employs about thirty men. Jo-
seph Routledge has two mills in Pine
canon. below Bland, and gives employ
ment to about twenty men. The Navajo
company's new mill will be in place in
two or three weeks and fifty men will
probably be put to work therein and
thereabouts. Several Santa Feans have
recently purchased under the govern
ment land and timber laws a tract of
about 1000 acres in Media Dia canon,
which carries some very good timber.
THE RIO GRANDE BRIDGE.
Bland will be much more accessible to
the outside world after May l, by which
time the new county bridge across the
Rio Grande, just east of Cochiti Indian
village, will have been finished. This
structure will cost about $4,000, and Is
being put in by the Pueblo Bridge Com
pany. +. M. Roush, of Beatrice, Neb., is
in charge of the work, and is now plac-
ing the iron tubes in the river bed which
are to serve as supports for the iron
spans. The bridge is to be 800 feet in
length. On the east side are three 150-
foot spans, a similar span on the west
side, and 200 feet Of trestle work con-
Meeting them. Tubular piers feet in
diameter are sunk 5 feet, and inside Of
them three heavy pilings are driven as
deep as possible. The bridge is of the
Pratt truss combination pattern, and
promises to be a very substantial struc-
ture, the truss timbers being Oregon red
fir, 4x12 inches and 3S feet in length.
THE BLAND"
This ia the name of new hostelry to
be thrown open to the public on Monday
next. Messrs. Marrinan & Mulligan
have taken great pains in building and
furnishing their house, and everything
about it is neat, convenient and spic
brand-new. The building is 26x50 feet,
two stories in height, and contains
twenty-five rooms. 1t is just such
public house as Bland has needed for
more than year.
DEMAND FOR LIME.
Reports touching the discovery of
good lime rock near Pena Blanca are
lacking of confirmation, and the pros
poets are that the Cochiti ore mills will
continue to receive their lime from AL
buquerque or Santa Fe. There is a de-
mand here for about three car loads per
month, and this will be steadily in
creased. Some excellent lime has been
brought from Santa Fe, but for some
cause or other a sufficient supply is as
yet lacking to meet the demand. This
seems strange, too, when one considers
what quantities of lime rock abound in
the foothills near Santa Fe.