Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-02-19
THE DAWSON
COAL FIELDS,
The Townsits Company Is Erecting -Four Hun
dred Dwelling Houses at the New Camp
in CoIfar County.
THE CERR|LL0S SMELTER
This Fall the Consolidated hlnlng and Smelling Com.
pany at CerrIIos Will Commence tho Construction
OF a One Hundred Ton Concentration
Other Mining Notes.

: George r. Caldwell writes as follow
in the Rocky Mountain News of yestel
day:
, The smelter of the Consolidated Min
t ing and Smelling Company at Cerrillo
has been blown in. The smelter is @
100 tons capacity, and begins work on
regular daily ore supply of 80 tons
which will speedily be increased to tn
full reduction capacity of 100 tons tn
general ore bulk coming from the com
pany's mines at Magdalena, silver, leat
and zinc rock being treated.
The company is Franklin, Pa, syn
dicate, incorporated for over $1,000, 900
and with present Cerillos reduction
investment of $75,0O0, Denver machin
cry being practically used throughout
the plant.
| This fall the company Will begin the
| erection of a 10O-ton cOncentratOr. to
| cost $4,000. and will also build a ten
| mile railroad into the Cerrillos mining
| district. at an expenditure of $4,000,
this road to develop extensive company
claims and also to bring heavy custom
ore tonnage to the Cerrillos smelter.
The company has in addition the ac-
tive contemplation of the building of
branch feeding smelter railroad into
the San Pedro district, IS miles distant.
and to the Pecos mining fields, 13 miles
away, these two lines aggregating In
cost 100000. This great syndicate has
for it's manager, r. B. Thomas with E.
S. Wells as smelling superintendent
both Pennsylvania experts in their
business.
All told, the Cerrillos investment of
this Pennsylvania syndicate will reach
100000.
Cerillos is to derive considerable cash
benefit from the construction of the
Santa Fe Central railroad, the line of
this road passing near the town.
The Santa Fe Central starts from
Santa Fe, and will run 116 miles south
east to intersect at Cameleon with the
new Rock Island-El Paso acute, this
new Santa Fe branch passing through
portions of Santa Fe, Valencia, Berna-
lilo and Lincoln counties, and develop
ing wide region rich in coal, gold,
"copper" lead, stock and agricultural
possibilities.
Preparatory work on this line is
about completed, and actual construc-
tion will begin March i, with a mid
summer active Rock Island connection.
The Santa Fe Central will connect
with the Rio Grande at Santa Fe, thus
giving Denver and all central and
southern Colorado points a new and
important traffic feeder.
The Fraser Mountain Copper Com
pany composed of New York and New
Jersey capitalists, is pushing its devel-
opment work on the Rio Hondo in Taos
county. William Fraser, the manager,
and the original locator and former
the property. The company is erecting
large reduction works. The mill build |
Ing is to be 1O0x170 feet and four stories |
high. 1t Is to contain four Pelton wa
ter wheels, an air compressor, an elec- |
tric light plant, five double decker Will
ly and Bartlett concentrating tables, |
also crushers, six sets of rolls and ore |
storage bins. Water of which there is
an abundance will be used for power.
The plants capacity is to be 200 tons
lay, but Is to be enlarged later on to
100 or 700 tons a day. Over 5000 feet
If iron pipe are being laid to bring the
water to the mill. There will be double
rack gravity tram 1900 feet long and
If IS per cent grade of which about
300 feet Of tracking has been laid. Ten
leavy freight teams are hauling the
from Tres Piedras. to the
Mill and mine. The ore body is over
90 feet in width and carries from IS to
Z in gold besides a good per cent Of
copper. About 5000 feet of tunneling
las been done for development purpos-
8 and millions of tons of ore are In
light. This mine and mill when in full
peration will employ from 200 to 500
nen. This is to be by September or
october 1 of this year.
At the Dawson coal fields In Colfax
ounty, the Townsite Company is erect
ng 400 dwelling houses and q number
store buildings. Two hundred coke
vens have been completed and the
lectric light plant Is in operation.
Wires are now being strung along the
treets of the town. Sixty men are at
-ork opening up the coal beds. A coal
pple has been finished. The ties are
own for the tramway. The coal Is al
lost on top of the ground. One vein,
'hich cropped out Of the ground. has y,
cen faced up and measures twelve I
set in thickness. Timber and water
re ample and the country round about d
a rich horticultural, agricultural and ,
razing section. The Colorado and I
outhern railroad has a number of sur
eying parties in the vicinity and in
lie Ponil Park and Castle Rock coun- q
" with the expectation of extending
he line from Catskill, beginning at
to Dawson. The proposed
will run into the finest virgin !,
mber lands on the Maxwell land 4
rant. From Dawson the road Is to be 3
.tended into the Moreno and Taos
alleys. The grade for the Dawson
ranch Of the Rock Island has been c
,mpleted between Dover on the Santa
E line. eight miles from Springer, and
awson. and track laying has cUm-I 9