The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-07
REOPENiNG OLD MINE. i.
Salt Laker is Bringing Out Property
at San Pedro, NJ. M.

For the purpose of securing men and
making necessary arrangements for the
reopenng of the properties OF the santa
Fe Gold & Copper company at San Pc
dro. N NJ Richard S. McCaffery OF
Salt Lake City, manager of the COM
pany. spent Monday in Albuquerque. ac-
comPanied by several men who are to
be i'm active charge of operations at the
mine says the Albuquerque Journal
For several weeks unofficial sta tements
have been current to the effect that the
properties of this company would soon
be reopened. Mr.. McCafferys presence
here gives these statements official con-
firmation.
1t is announced that one hundred men
Will be placed in San Pedro at once.
opening up the mine and repairing and
improving machinery and smelter, ana
that by Feb. ], 1907, four hundred men
will be at work IN the camp. This means
the practical restoration TO San Pedro OF
it's old time prestige as the chief mining
camp in central New Mexico, and a
general revival of activity in the famous
district which at one time was one of
the heaviest producers of both gold and
copper in the southwest.
Camp Once Famous.
In the early sos this camp reached the
height of it's prosperity. Six or seven
hundred men were employed in the mines
of the Santa Fe Gold 81 Copper company
alone, and hundreds of others were en-
ployed in the smaller properties In
those days San Pedro was the typical
western mining camp of song and story.
Men wore wide hats and red flannel
shirts. A gun was stuck in every belt
and not infrequently guns came out of
the belts, when things happened with
startling suddenness. 1t was the free
and easy, every man for himself life
which has gone forever from the west.
But the ore is still in the ground at San
Pedro and the property managed on bust
ness principles and with improved ma
chinery, will, it is prOphesied, be bigger
producer than ever before.
The Santa Fe Gold e. Copper COM
pany's holdings were closed down when
the great slump came in copper. The
the workings were closed up and prac-
tically abandoned, only a few men be-
ing left in charge to see that the ma
chinery was kept from destruction.
Will Work to Limit.
For some time past experts have been
at work in the ground and as a result
the old mines are to be opened and
worked to the limit. Copper is selling
now at % cents, and men who know the
market say it is going higher.
The significance of tle opening of this
camp to Albuquerque and central New
| Mexico can be realized when it is known
| that supplies for the mines, men to work
| the mines, fuel and practically every
thing but heavy machinery will come
| from this city and its surrounding ter
| ritory.
Locked away in safety deposit vaults
and other places where valuables are
kept, good many hundred shares of the
stock of this company are held in Albu-
qUerque The stock is now quoted or
| the Boston metal market at from 81
| to s..
The reopening of the Santa Fe COM
| pany's properties will result in the open
| ing of other properties in this district
and in attracting the attention of capt.
| tai to the district and to mining proper
! ties and possibilities through all this Sec
| ton of New Mexico
| With Mr. McCaffery yesterday were +.
| c.. Buell.. who has been in charge OF
| the properties at San Pedro since the
| shut down, and George o. Mars of Coio-
| RADIO. who is to be mine superintendent
| Arrangements were made Monday for
about one hundred men to be sent 10
| San Pedro at once.