Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-13
HAGAh.
Lively Coal Camp the Industrial
Center Of SandOvai
county.
MINING REVIVAL IN THE SANDALS

HAGAN, N. NJ, May 5, 190S.-This
infant coal camp situated in south
Sandoval county at the junction OF
the Puert and San Pedro canyons,
where the water flows north towards
the Rio Grande, is now the industrial
center Of New Mexico. Hagan is To-
Gated in a valley that is about three
quarters Of q mile wide at the juno
fiOn of the above named canyons, and
within One-half mile of the mouth OF
the coal mine is an enormous big
spring that flows out from the sand
stones a pure cold water that is suf-
ficient to supply a town of four OF five
thousand inhabitants. At the present
there are employed at the coal mines
near Hagan sixty-fve men. They have
= fine steam hoist in operation that is
capable of hauling out of the mines
twenty-five cars of twenty-five tons
capacity daily. The drift in the
coal bed, which is ffty-two inches
thick, is now in the mountain over
600 feet, on an incline. Below this
vein is another coal bed nearly six
feet thick that is a good cooking coal.
The vein from which the coal is now
being takens is a splendid steam and
domestic fuel, burning to a sea ash.
There is at the camp enc general
store, one saloon. one barber shop.
The townsite has not been laid out
al yet, nor do | know whether there
will be n or not, but this viii be
determined within a week, as the cap
italists who have furnished the sinews
20 develop this great property viii
visit the place soon
The total area of Hagan is at least
six by eight miles square. with three
workable beds OF coal. The future OF
The place looks very promising, il be
ing situated at the base OF the Saadia
mountains and east from the range,
where large bodies of copper, lead,
silver, iron and gold are now being
mined. Hagan will furnish an ideal
place fer a smelter for these ores in
abe Sandia mountains. There is nov
enough ore in and on the dumps t
warrant the undertaking Of a concen
trating plant at this place.
The coming of a branch Of the Santa
Fe Central to Hagan has stimulates
the mineral prospecters in the Sandi;
mountains to redouble their efforts
while p~rospectors are searching tn
mountains Tor some veins of gold ore
from which the float recently foun'
shows great values. There is owe
eight miles of the branch railroa,
from Moriarty junction towards Hs
gan already graded and as much NOR
grading will take the branch read t
Hagan, which is now about nine mile
from Thornton, on the A., T. S. 4
railroad.
There is an oil well now being drill
ed about four miles from Hagan an
they have already struck oil, but a
to the particulars regarding depth an
quantity. it is not known only by tn
operators and owners, as the matte
operatives and owners, as the matte
is being kept a secret. However. tn
fact of there being petroleum in ths
vicinity is evidenced by the oil spring
nearby that has been known eve
since civilization was known in tn
Rio Grande valley.
With coal, iron, copper, silver, gol
and petroleum, all within a radius ,
ten miles, to say nothing Of the va
bodies of gypsum, fire clay, lime ston
where is there a place in the countl
like 1t?
LYNX.