Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-12-27
GALLUP ASP|REs TO
Be P|TTSBURG
Of ROCKIES
COAL NINE PAY ROLL IS
A HUNDRED THOUSAND
Thousand Miners and More
Digging Out Black Diamonds
How a Cotton Blossom
Thriyed in a Coal Country.
(By II. A. HiIton.)

Gallup, N. NJ, Dec. 24.-West of
Albuquerque 15S miles at an elevation
Of $500 feet, on the east banks of the
Rio Puerco that flows into the Lit
tie Colorado, Is the town of Gallup.
II might well be called the Trini-
dad of New Mexico, and before many
years 1t Will be known as the Pitts
burg of the western Rockies. Gallup
Is mighty busy place Just now and
1t took the writer only a three-hour
ride around the camps to learn that
Gallup has now an average pay roll
from the collieries alone OF Sl00,0OO
per month. The busy hum of indus
try is humming around the three
properties of the American Fuel COM
pany at Gibson, Heaton and Navajo;
of the Diamond Coal company. the
Southwestern Coal company, Brown
Brothers and Ed. Queen. over a
thousand miners are at work in these
mines working busily to supply the
heavy demand for black diamonds.
The Gallup district coal is OF lig-
mite character and burns rather rap
idly but II Is q splendid grade OF lig-
mite and so clean that you can carry
lump around in your pocket and
hardly soil your clothes. The lump
coast, at Ell Paso and at other south
western points in Arizona and New
Mexico.
Gallup Is a division point on the
coast lines of the Santa Fe and has
big pay roll on the railroad side. AT
a guess II must run as high as $lO,-
600 per month. All branches OF bus
mess In Gallup are good at present.
Many new stores and residences are
being built. Among the new homes
lately finished is that of w. III. Morris,
the real estate and insurance man.
While in Gallup the writer had the
pleasure of attending the public
school entertainment given under the
direction of superintendent OF Schools
Twining He was for four years To-
Gated at Socorro where the schools
progressed much under his manage
ment, so that his removal to Gallup
was widely regretted. He has done a
great deal for the schools in Gallup
since taking charge. A large delega-
ton of teachers will go from here to
the territorial meeting in Las Vegas
after Christmas.
Miss Sitter is the capable assistant
to the superintendent
Mckinley County Cotton
Thirty years ago there arrived at
Wingate station an unassuming young
man, barely twenty years of age. His
name was @. N. Cotton, he hailed
from the great state of Missouri, and
he wanted to be shown" what the
country was good for. For several
years he held his wire job ana made
the acquaintance of many of the
Navajo Indians who blew into the
station. Among these were Chiefs
Manuelito and Mariano at that time
the big men of their tribe. Chief
Manuelito in particular was shrewd
old Indian not only great warrior
but great statesman, as attest the
treaties with Uncle Sam that went
through his grizzled old head before
they were signed. The chief took
quite a fancy to the young telegraph
operator and asked him If he wouldn't
like to open small trading store
our on the reservation and look after
his sheep and interests there. The
friendship that grew from that asso-
citation was valuable in more ways
than one. The operator is now one
of the leading business men of Gallup
and owner OF one of the largest job
binp houses in New Mexico whose
trade extends as far west as Needles,
Cal, TO Utah and Colorado and far
into southern New Mexico. His big
warehouse at Gallup covers acres OF
ground and his office force in opera
ton reminds the visitor of the chi
cago board of trade on busy day
And the coast bound traveller may
now see. made out of gypsum, a life
sized statue of Cotton's benefactor,
Chief Manuelito, as he looked a short
time previous TO his death in 1898.