Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-06
NOW FOR A SHELTER,
This Paper Presents Interesting
Facts on the Subject.
PUSH THE PROPOSITION.

III is true tnat the number of diVi-
d~end-paying mining companies in New
Mexico at present is limited, but the
number of mines that could produce
largely under improved conditions of
transportation is considerable. and as
a whole but few western states or ter
r~itories surpass us I'm the low cost of
extraction, the mining of the ore.
Whereas, the scarcity of water, at and
near the mines, in a good many places,
dOes not afford us the chance to mill
the low grade or complex ores on the
spot, there is at least the saving of
expensive pumping. To bring such ore
to the water requires railroad branches
narrow, broad gauge or tram lines.
Ore bodies which await such transpor-
tation in New Mexico would be regard
ed as great bonanZas in Colorado.
where nearly every dump has a rail
road at the foot of it. Then there is a
very low tariff from Colorado to Mis-
souri, river points, whereas the haul
from New Mexico requires the pull of
cars over w ranges. the Glorieta and
the Ration. before a Colorado point can
be reached. Zinc ore or zinc concen-
trates are hauled from Leadville to
New Orleans or Galveston at a lower
tariff than we can ship to Colorado.
The Santa Fe can get to said seaports
from here only in a very roundabout
way. This. of course, cannot be helped
at present. Nor do we consider the
rates on ore from New Mexico to Colo
RADIO excessive. Since the formation
of the trust. ore from northern Arizona
and northern New Mexico goes to Col
orado, and everything south of Albu-
Querque to FL Paso. Now, what we
should like to see is the abandonment
by the Santa Fe of the cheap haul of
ore over the two ranges to Colorado
or the shipment of the anne to Ell
Paso. and the Capitalization of the
smelling of New Mexico and northern
Arizona ores at albuquerque, with
freight rates hat would pay the o
handsomely and yet enable us to COM
pete. The Citizen proposes to insti-
tute a thorough examination of the
producing capacity of the various min
ing sections of the territory and what
is required to make such capacity
available. Dur friends in the south of
the territory. Deming and Silver City,
will gladly give us the preference
where they do not require the ore for
their own works. Silver City will al
ways be a good point for the reduction
of the copper ores of the vicinity and
: Deming will become quite an ore mar
: ket with the new mines being tapped
| by the Deming-Bisbee line. We would
= expect to get a share of the ore, though
2 not in copper. The Organs will give
us ore. So will the Magdalenas. What
, the Santa Fe carries to Eel Paso she
: will probably not handle again in the
B. form of bullion. The fact is the New
= Mexico ores can all be reduced cheaper
in New Mexico han anywhere else
and we claim the most central loca-
ton on the lines of the Santa Fe; cox
: ing coal is near, steam and other coal
1 in plenty. For all these indisputable
facts The Citizen will call for a smell.
| ter until we have one, and not only
that but also a refining attachment, sc
= that we can help other plants to sep
1 arate their precious metal from the
lead and send their pigs to the st
Louis market and make pipe or Other
articles of lead manufacture at home,
1t will require money, money, money,
4 but it will make money, money. money.
for the miner, the smelter, the mer'
chant, the manufacturer, the foundry
the workman, and the railroad.
il FL Paso gets its coke and coal also
9 from the Santa Fe, although Beau
mont oil may break into that business,
n As such coal and coke pass by Albu
q querque it is ~undeniable that Albu'
querque is a better smelling point for
= ores that now go by or through. The
. old story of the railroads preferring a
long haul is only conditionally true
; We do not believe the Santa Fe ever
made a dollar on the haul of ore at a
low rate over the Ration and Glorieta
ranges. Just as copper ores tributary
: to Las Vegas can be most economic
y ally reduced at Las Vegas, so al anc
:, will he treated nearer at home the
u mineral products of central and south
ern New Mexico. The Santa Fe must
know as well as we that a healthy
mind can only dwell in a healthy body
that the prosperity of the railroad Is
dependent upon the prosperity OF TINS
, great realm which she may justly cal
her own, so dependent are we upoI
" her.
We ask the management to give thi:
matter the consideration which it de
" serves. Our territory received a grea
d blow in the demonstration of silver
as the ruins of so many formerly pros
"a porous mining towns plainly demon
10 strate. They are not seen from tn
u passenger cars, but they are there al
the same. And now the manipulation
of the trust propose to doom to penur!
T. our lead mines. Only a few days ag'
70 the FL Paso Times published an inter
20 view with Mr.. Earle, the manager o
'e the trust at FL Paso, in which it wa
stated how much ore had been cor
e. tracted there. chiefly lead ore, which
smelted in bond, so as to compel on
s. miners to compete with the labor O
r Old Mexico. These are all facts, so
n emn truths. Let us all act in uniso'
e and change the state of affairs for Tn
better. If New Mexico pulls as on
n man we shall draw the wagon out Q
~ the mud. If not we shan stick. Iher
he is no other choice.