Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-22

The city has two banks, an opera
mouse, long distance telephone con
nections; cneap coal, lumber and build
ing material and a building and loan
association.
springer Is also a prosperous town,
surrounded by a well-to-do farming and
stock raising community. The popula.
tion is Dos according to the census of
lsVo. 1t was formerly the county seat.
wnen Its population was somewhat
greater. Nearby are cement works and
SIX miles southeast are the Taylor min
eral water artesian wells, from which
the waters are shipped all over the
southwest. These are true flowing
wells, but $50 feet in depth. Springer
Is also the principal railway shipping
point for the great mining region about
Eiizabethtown. Ute Creek. the Cimar-
ron n Red River country. and main
talns a daily stage line connected with
these points. Springer supports two
weekly newspapers and has excellent
public schools. 1t is the fifth town in
population, but second in
and Importance in the county.
Gardiner, two miles from Ration, is
the headquarters of the Ration Coal &
Coke company, where 76 coke ovens
are In operation and the daily output is
81 to 20 a loads. Its population ac-
cording to the last census is 965, max
! ing 1t the second town in population in
Colfax county. Electricity is used in
mining the coal. and eight mines are in
operation. During the year ending
June 30, 1900. the Goa production
amounted to 399, 206 IONS and the out
put of coke was about 81, 900 tons. Five
hundred and twenty-seven men are
given regular employment in this in
dustry.
Elizabethtown Is an important min
ing center in northwestern Colfax
county, neal the Taos county line. Ii
has a population of SIT, according to
the 1900 census. il being the fourth
town in population in the county. Eliz-
abethtown is a typical mining town
that has seen its boom days, but still
has a great future on account of the
vast mineral deposits around about 1t.
Other important settlements of the
county are Catskill. with Gas inhabi.
tants; Cimarron. with 1853 people: Max.
well City. with 271 inhabitants; and
Colmor, with 232 people. That the
county Is rapidly settling up is shown
by the fact that many of the precincts
have doubled and tripled their popula-
ton the past ten years. Fol- instance,
in 1880 Black Lakes precinct had 81
inhabitants, in 1900 it had ZIG; in 1890
Chico Springs had l12 inhabitants and
in 1900 it had 2S9; Maxwell City in
1890 had 151 people, in 1900 1t had 271;
Mesa had IA inhabitants in 1890 and in
1900 It had 4S7; Dorsey had 81 people
in 1890 and in 1900 it had 217; Eliza
BEETHOVEN increased from 1913 to 577 in
habitants. The population of the other
precincts is as follows: Badly, Ill;
Cimarron. 1853; Rayado. 1876: Elkins.
so; Truchera. 1874; Pena Flor, 1852;
Ponil Park. SO; Cimilario, 100: Mar.
tinez, 32S; Ponil, 81; Colmor. 232, and
johnson Park. 11S.
Some Resources.
Gold and copper are the chief prod
ucts of the mountains about Elizabeth
town and Badly Mountain. The Moreno
and Ute Creek regions have been fam
GUS as placer gold producers for q
quarter of a century. The lumber in.
dustry is one of great importance to
the county, especially in the .Vasquez
and Catskill regions. At this writing @
single firm has a contract for supply
ing 1000, 900 railway ties from north
erh PColfax county. The Colorado
Southern has a line leading into this
timber belt from Trinidad.
In the eastern part of the county are
the Dawson coal fields which have just
been acquired by the Dawson Fuel
company, which is making preliminary
arrangements to work the large veins
of excellent coal upon an extensive
scale. Its capital is 81. 000, 900. and II
is backed by the same wealthy Penn
sylvania capitalists who built the e
& Northeastern railway and are