Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-11
MINERAL NEAR FL PAso
New Mexico Clay for Manufacture of
 Fire and vitrified Brick


 While was mayor of the City of | Santa Fe. N. M.." said I. Sparks. | lat Hotel Zeiger, now a resident of | Gallup. New Mexico. "I made a study | of public utilities and underve.ope | natural resources of New Mexico. and subsequently put the results Of my observations into use. | found that in | the vicinity of Gallup. New Mexico. | there is great deposit cf superior 1 1, fire-c'ay from which could be manu- factured superior quality of fire trick and yitified brick.
 We have organized company called the New Mexico Fire Brick | Company, and have erected a plant at Gallup. On about so acres of lani adioining that little city and are man. luiactlring fire brick. Senator Thomas B. Catron is president and am vice president.
 Coal on Same Land
 "On the same land is a stratum of coal which We use in burning the fire.
 rick. The fire clay stratum is about eight feet thick. We have submitted the product to number of shelter dompanies and blast furnaces experts and all agree that we have the finest clay west of Pittsburgh Pa. The ma terial stands higher fusion point and has a greater abrasion and acid re- sistance quality than any other fire brick made this side of Pittsburgh. ~ Experiments have been unsuccessful ly made throughout the west, notab y in Colorado. to so mix the ingredients
 Tn what was called proper proportions that the product would make a per. feet fre-clay.
 ITO illustrate. beauxate contains say so to S5 per cent aluminium. It was thought by chemist that by using teauxate and sufficient quantity of sil- yer. mechanically mixed. to make the proportions correspond with the nat. ural fire-clays of Pittsburg and burn ing 1t, tie result would be the same as in the case of the c'ays mixed by nature. The experiment proved a fail ure.
 Cannot Initiate Nature
 Tn it's subtle alchemy, nature mixed the ingredients chemically so skillfully that it cannot be initiated. in the Gallup fire-clays nature has done this very thing. 1 have been all through Arizont. visiting the var ious sme'ter introducing our Gallup fire brick. and am gratified to say that l have proved to the managers that right here in the province of Fl Paso. so to speak we have natural flre-clays equal to" the famous clays of Pittsburg.
 !. We have a macninery pant al ? ready that puts cut 30.000 fire brick { day, and will enlarge its capacity el as the southwestern market demands. , The market for this material is very
 great throughout tho south. south
 west and west, being used for lining I copper furnaces, blast furnaces, etc. !. We make a superior quality of silica , brick. We have se'ected Fl Paso as he central headquarters for distrihu- f ton. and W. J. Johnson, our general 2 agent, has already moved here to es- tablish his offices
 ll Tn my visits throughout Arizona, , have found the most optimistic feel I mining and commercial enterprises , ng existing everywhere regarding f Cr this year. Everyone comedies the Y future supremacy of Fl Paso. We all $ wish to get into closer touch with
 your wonderful city. 1 only wish that f Fl Pasoans understood the wonderf Il f undeveloped mineral resources exist
 ing up In our section of the country,
 nd | be ieye the day is not ar dis , tant when railroad will bring Cal
 up into direct connection with the
 reta southwestern metropolis.
 Had Survey Maac
 Several years ago the Phelps. Dodge Co. had Chief Engineer Camp : beil make a survey northwest tnrous
 western New Mexico which would
 pass through the Mangas valleys and
 Oak Grove. on northward through Gal lup to the immense coal fe ds uth of Durango. Col. Already they have
 built the road from Whitewater to
 Tyrone, and | am told that they will
 lereafter continue the railroad north
 ward. passing not far from the great
 Nogollon ssilvergold district 1n to
 the biggest coal basin in the west.
 This line will open up what, in the - opinion of the U. s. Geological Sur yey, is the most extensive coal fields 2 on the North AmerI,an continent. lThey estimate that the field contains : 200, 900 100000 tons of ccal. This lies northward of Gallup. Gallup is a won. lderful little city and is one ship lping coco tons of coal day. most Of | 1t going westward, but a good amount ! to El Paso, which Is it's growing mar lket.
 l. New Companies Formed Three new coal mining companies
 near Gallup are now developing and E will enter the field as competitors for ( the southwestern market between c. now and next fall. Gallup has over e 5000 inhabitants, immense stores and l. a trade extending south nd north and !, west for hundred of mics.
 'i Cattle, coal mining and fruit-rais e ing are the chief resourcesf The en