Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-08-06
LIVELY SAN ANTONIO
Every Day Brings New De-
velOpmentS in the Coal
Situation at
CARTHAGE AND SAN ANTONIO

Special 0rroap1ndcncc.
San Antonio. s.. S.. August "A
corporation known as the southern
Coal company has recently boon or.
uniEoI io operate the mines at Car.
thnra chat Chappcllo and bis naao-
cla.es expected to got
Thus f1r tbo Chappollo and Osrood
ouwd have secured about tom acres
of c01l land to furnish tonnage for
tho.r railroad
In addition t0 ttia tdoy have nloi.
o. U reported iu thD lH Cruces
land office some twrntyHpyen de-.
cnmfory safHmenfs. covering 800
acres each U thg names oft nH many
claimants 0Hch and every ono OF
whom swoarH that Doc has opened a
valuable coal mime at iho time Of or
before nl.ur hIB doc.umtory state
mout
n Wow of tho fact that mo- ono Nv.
ue Iu thp Vicinity OFF Carthage has
over auDn ans of these twenty
valuable coal mines. tho transaction
looks llkD o. e.autic fraud, in viola
t.un of thc United states coal land
uv.
CbnppDur admits ihat 20 win take
tF0 years Io open up ncw mines at
Carthage. and what ho expects to DO
with aIH railroad in tho meantime is
a myatory. ns all tho available coal
f1r immediate shipment from tho
Carthage mines is now In strong
hands
Notwithstanding tho efforts OF
United states government official IN
pilutnr a foreign corporation to tho
Carthage nold. and hiB systematic
assistance during tho past year In TAX
ur .D'oH into me camp whom on his
official visits. tho whcle scheme 10
rohhIe oio coal ui Carthage fur tho
profit of the Colorado corporation has
proven a total failure
a Denver paper romarka That Chap
roIio Thought hr was nt lla1t.nFa.
Colo, where ho haa o. local reputation
Tho srcrrt of me rccont contest FOR
tHo nUsaoHHI0n of tbc Carthage field
urs partly Zoo the superior stoaming
quality of the coal. which has always
r.ton 20 preference Boo the nouthom
markets. and partly in tho fact that
tho freight rate from San Antonio to
El paa1 or nomluF is ti 40 90 si.ib
loss per ton shan from the Trinidad
district
The ahWy Go nu large contracts
parity with Carthage coal iH factor
In getting contracts that zach of tho
largo coal producing companies do
Giro Co control exclusively.
The Victor Fuoi company figured
That by putting n railroad hoi woon
me mines and their market. and by
making the charge Tor hauling the
coal down Dom eight 90 Cen miles by
uil. ihg same a8 tho present wagon
haul or giG0 per ton. they could
freeze 1ut tho operators at Carthage
ruin their business both there and 40
San Antonio and force them to soil
f1r such price hs the goner0HItY of
me inventors of the scheme might
dictate
N|| INI.'N .N NNII''lN.. |N. l"NN
chat Now MoNc9 Do not Colorado. and
that me coal wns ns necessary Tor
Ihe railroad as thg railroad was i1r
fho suBl
They pretended chat they didn't
want tho developed miHas fhnt have
been shipping 300 IONS per day which
at "a fair rate OF nfty cents per ton
from Carthage to San Antonio would
produce revenue of $4,000 per
day. or $4,000 per yoar or about
half tHa cost of the road
Tho sincerity 0f thlH claim ia shown
hy tHa desperate TlmTeio they mado
t1 secure tho Hilton property when
moy heard 10 was about to be F0lt 10
people who were uUt only able t0 hold
It. bat alr1 t0 build their own road to
"a connecting point % necessary
F h perfectly apparent that tho
OsF1od Chlppeilo crowd VII n0i very
soon f0rFet fho surprise party Civ
600 flr fhcIr heuen, ht Carthage.