Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-19


 the oldtimer in New Mexico good to travel about a bit among the mining camps of Santa Fe county. which make up what we used to call the cerriilos district Cerrillos. Madrid, San Pedro. Golden and the smaller camps, two years ago considered as dead as the pruyerbial door nail. are pretty lively just now, and there is every in dication that they are coming back not only to their old-time yigor and hustle. but to bigger era of wealth producing than they have ever known. The reawakening of these camps in general. IL covers them all. Proper ties which have been lying idle for years are being opened up and worked with energy that cannot but bring re- suits. for every man who has worked in this district knows that the mines are there and that there is ore in them It has just needd the right kind of development to get the right kind of results, and that development is coming if it has not already arrived.
 Take Madrid for instance. Less than two years ago Madrid was aban- doned, shut down and considered a dead one. Experts had said that the coal mines were done for: that they couldn't be worked with profit. and that the machinery had just as well be pulled out. But some Albuquerque men seem to have taken a different View of it. George Kaseman and w H. Hahn, of Albuquerque, and Super intendent Lamb, in charge of the work here, are the men. It is the same everywhere I go in New Mexico. fint Albuquerque men in the lead in every movement for the development of the territory. This, however, is one of the big enterprises of the territory: one that has required nerve and busi- ness judgment and the success of the enterprise is a considerable testimo- nial to the ability of the men behind it.
 Six coal mines have been opened up. Three are anthracite, two bitumin- ous and one blacksmithing coal Today Madrid has begun to look as it did in 1901. More than 100 miners are now at work in the ground and by autumn the camp will be almost as populous and quite as prosperous as it has ever been. The store, which is under the management of w. H. Cham berlain, another Albuquerque man. is an index to the prosperity to the camp. When it started the first months bus mess was s147 Now the business runs over s4,000 month. Two clerks are employed and this force will have to be doubled right away The curious formation of the coal veins in the Madrid camp has frequently attracted the attention of geologists. Contrary to all theories for the formation of coal veins, the anthracite here lies above the bituminious and vein that on one side of the canyon it bitumin- ous, will show up as an anthracite vein on the other side. Superintend- ent Lamb, who makes no claim to be- ing a theoretical geoIogist, but just a plain mine superintendent, gave his theory of this the other day One side of the canyon where the anthra- cite vein is found he says, shows evil dence of having sustained he&Ty flow of lava, evidences of which are still plain. The intense heat from the lava, together with the tremendous pressure, he says caused this vein of coal to change from bituminous to anthracite. Where the veins join there is quite a distance that is semi anthracite and is of no use.
 Cerrillos also gives evidence of the general prosperity of the district. The Santa Fe rock crusher now operating here and employing about 100 men, has served to add some life to the town, while the Teopening of many of the old mines near by and the de- veiopment of new ones. make the out look very encouraging There is a good deal of hard work going on around here The price of zinc ore and the new processes for extracting it have given much encouragement to reopening of the mines in this section of the district, for mines that used to lose money are now able to make money, in spite of the high cost of pro duction The old Fairyiew mine, now