Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-06-06
NEW SHELTER FOR GRANT COUNTY
The San Francisco Smelter Company Pro-
pose to Establish Such One.


The following letter received by the
Bureau of Immigration in this city
shows very plainly what the magnifl-
cent resources of the territory are.
Grant county especially seems to be In
the swim. The Bureau of immigration
pamphlet on Mines and Mining of
which many thousand have been dis
tributed is evidently doing the right
kind of work. Investors of capital are
sending for copies daily and some days
twenty copies and more are being sent
out by the bureau to single applicant
cradle interest TO the miners, mine
owners, and mine investors of New
Mexico and especially of Grant county:
Santa Rosa, Cal, May 2S 1901.
Max. Frost, Esq,
Secretary of the Bureau of Immi-
grafton, Santa Fe, N. M.
Dear Sir: Your kindness of the 23d
received today. We thank you very
kindly for sending the pamphlets as we
think they will be of material assist
ance to us in placing our propositions
before the people.
1t is our purpose to establish and op-
crate smelling plant at point IN
Grant county, N. M, beginning with a
50-ton stack, and increasing our capac-
ity as the supply of ores increases, to
1000 or more tons per day. You see
our plant will be no small industry.
The saving to the mining industry af
that part of~the territory will be eror-
nous. and will be a great stimulus to
increased activity among miners.
We have not yet fully decided on the
location of the plant. We have the
promise of ore at Lordsburg, but we
fear the water supply, and their ability
to give us the necessary encourage
ment in the way Of subscription to our
capital stock We will not ask for a
bonus as is always done by a manufac-
turing industry, without giving any di-
rect interest in return, but intend to
give them an interest in the plant by
issuing to them shares of the capital
stock at a reasonable figure, which will
be Il handsome investment to them, as
we'll as material assistance to us.
We think Deming would be good
point for us, as it is a larger town more
centrally located to the active mines
in the northern and eastern part of
Grant county, and nearer the mines IN
western Sierra county
The railroad facilities are better, aud
from what we can learn, there Is
abundance of water.
You, perhaps, know the situation
much better than any of us, and could
perhaps give us valuable information.
AS you are interested in the develop
ment of your territory, and such is the
nature of your business, we would like
to enlist your assistance, and the assls-
tance of your bureau in this great
work.
Any communication you can send to
the business men of those places and
that county, recommending them to
give us encouragement, will be appre-
ciated. I will be in Deming and Lords
burg for several days after the first of
June. Would like to hear from you
that will assist me in looking
over the field and getting the people
interested.
Two of our men looked over the field
in general way, some time ago and
from their reports, and your report in
your official pamphlet, we think there
is great future for that part of the
county, and wide field for our enter
prise.
A word about our stock. We are in
for 100000, with $12O,00O
stock sold at $40 or par value. We give
a bond on first mortgage real estate
in San Francisco, guaranteeing abso- |
lutely the face value of the stock. These
securities are held in trust by the Cali
fornia Safe Deposit and Trust COM
pany of San Francisco, for the benefit
of the buyers of this stock. The stock
Is worcestershire, and the buyers can
not under any circumstances loose
their investment, and the promises of |
profit are very substantial. Very truly
yours, P. U. M. & s. CO.,
S. M. ROHR, Pres.