Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-02
BY FIRE
The New Milling and Reduction
Plant Of the Woodbury. Com
pany in Ashes.
BLAND TO Be INCORPORATED
Water Works to Be Built as Soon as the
Incorporation Goes into Efect-Iu-
dependence Day to Be Gensr-
ally Celebrated.

The new milling and reduction plant
of the Cochiti Reduction and Improve.
ment Company, at Woodbury., Cochit
district. was totally destroyed by fire
on Friday night The fire was caused
from stroke of lightning. The loss is
about 100000, with no insurance. The
plant was owned and operated by q
Denver company. the officers of which
are: r. w. Woodbury., president; w. c.
Wynkoop, manager David Moffat
treasurer. The mill was a new one
scarcely running perfectly as ye,, al
though some bullion had been produced
by the reduction of Iron King ores.
Only few days ago Mr.. Woodbury. ar
rived from Denver with an expert mill
man who was engaged in making i'm
portant alterations on the machinery at
the time of the disaster. The plant will
undoubtedly be rebuilt as the same
company owns the Iron King mine, and
now has blocked out therein sufficient
ore to run such mill for more than a
year.
BLAND ITEMS.
s. H. Mulligan has again assumed the
management of the Bland house.
James Gillen has been to Elizabeth
town looking after his placer claims,
and brought back with him handful
of gold nuggets.
Prof. r. w. Bullock, son-in-law of j.
c. Creager and wife. drove into Bland
after trip of several days on the road
from Alamosa, Colo.
Bland believes in good roads, and
must have 'em in her business. A gen.
eral call for all taxpayers to do their
annual road work has been issued
j. Fl. Pegue to-day assumed the re-
sponsible position of manager of the W.
l.. Trimble & Co. stage line between
Thornton and Bland, and will also give
portion of his attention to the freight
ing business from Ortiz to San Pedro.
Independence day will be celebrated
by addresses on Wednesday afternoon
by Rev. G. s. Madden and others, and
at night ball and supper will occur at
Woods hall. A basket dinner will be
given by the Red Men at the beautiful
ly shaded grove short distance above
the Crown Point mine.
j. N. Griffin, young colored man
who was employed for time in the
Myers restaurant, has established a
weekly newspaper in Albuquerque late
ly The publication has been named
the Albuquerque American. Griffin is a
first-class compositor, having learned
the business in Illinois.
Bland will soon be an incorporated
town, and this insures water works.
Two weeks from this date. as per au-
thority Of the county board. an election
will take place for town marshal and
a board Of five town trustees. Phil J.
Barber. c. P. Jones and B. D. Wilson
are designated as election Judges.
A thirty-day contract has been let by
the Navajo Gold Mining Company to
George Buck, Charles Shipley and one
,ther to drive drift on the vein in the
Lone Star mine. The work was begun
in the lower level. 800 feet from the
mouth Of the tunnel, and the contract
also calls for a drift 5x8 feet in the
clear.
With the beginning of this week it is
expected the Star tunnel will have been
lriven distance of over 900 feet Small
quartz stringers have been encountered
Turing the progress Of the work in the
past few days, and the indications are
the big lead in short time. 1t is under
stood the work of stopping. to connect
the working tunnel with the lower level
in the mine, will begin within three
weeks.