Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-28
BIG SAWMILL
IN OPERATION
THIRTY CAR LOADS or LOG &c
BE USED DAILY IN ALBuQuER.
oUE-DuKE CITY NOTES.

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ALBUQUERQUE. N M. Oct ~.
Yesterday afternoon the biz sawmiii
of the American Lumber company was
put In operation for the first time IN
the presence of a large number q the
prominent men 81 Albuquerque. The
mills ran through the afternoon with
ont d hitch, WORKING like q clock and
turning out fine. clear pine lumber
renly for nae. The first train q logs
consisting of thirty ears, came ~ from
the timber tract In western New Mex,
leo Saturday. From this time on the
woods viii furnish thirty cars q day
10 tie mills until the FIRST OF the year,
when the night shift Will be put on,
when sixty cars Will be sent N each
day. The mills when running twenty
hours will turn out 1000 feet 81
lumber every day and will run with
ease one hundred million feet q year.
Even at this rate, there IL enough
timber on the tracts now owned by
the company To keep the mill running
from thirty to forty years. The e
min here IL as perfect as could be
bought. No expense has been spared
10 make II 80. and the management
has cause to feel proud Of the result
The construction has been rapid, since
1t has been just six months from today
since The first sod was turned for the
foundation Of the mill and the big mill.
pond, which has a capacity TO float six
million feet Of logs. There Is o SPLEEN
did water system In connection with
tho mill, with two pumps capable of
throwing three and u half million gal.
Ions every day and which a be used
to supplement the city water aystem
Iii case Of need.
we are thoroughly pleased with
the result Of the first run said Gen,
araI Manager Ira b. Bcnnett 10 a rep
rescntatlye Of The Optic today. .The
min seems to be perfect, and while
II will take q day or two To loosen up
things, we will be running full force
by the end Of the week, As Don as
We are enough lumber ahead we will
commence the construction of a bOs
factory and planning mill. which will be
built entirely Of lumber manufactured
here, Each OF these buildings VIII b
almost as large as the sawmlll an
when completed will employ tire
hundred men. We expect to hay'
these plants In full operation BY tn
middle Of January"
The company has completed twent,
miles OF standard gnage railroad Int
the forests from Thoreau. whore cor
ncction Is made with tho Santa r,
and this road. which IL called the Znn
Mountain railroad. IL equipped wit
tWo iO'ptiitliNNH anu bHN nuhdt WI hS
gIng cars. the best that could be -
! Ycured These cars will DO kept 0
: the move all the time. More have Doe
ordered. and when the mills are rni
ming full force there Will be sixty 4
the cars always on the road, All loa,
Ing IN the forests Is done by tenn. TIL
American Lumber company has bee
proposed, organized, financed and pu
In operation In a little less than tw
years. which is a remarkably shor
; time for an enterprise Of Its magn
J tude. II Is one OF the big enterprise
Of New Mexico. and II means muc
to the development OF Albuquerque.
> r.. O. Stanley. a prominent mimi
man Of Taos. N. NJ, died here las
night Of pneumonia which he contrac'
I ed durinr hia visit III Tho fc~rriforIn