The former are said to have been worked by Indians before the discovery of America, and the latter were worked under Spanish authority about two hundred years ago. There are old mines of "Chalchihuitl", and silver. The region is important from the fact of a surface showing of a mineral belt of veins or lodes of valuable ores and it is an interesting tract because of ruined and filled up old Indian and Spanish mines, that are being reopened by prospectors and miners that have crowded into the district within a year. However, the comparison of their heights, which is from two hundred to one thousand feet above adjacent plains and valleys, they are of sufficient altitude from which to obtain long views of a surrounding country and a person will be well rewarded for the trouble of ascending any of Los Cerrillos, in a sight of varied New Mexico landscape.) The area of the group, including ridged and gulched foothills, is 25 or 30 square miles. (The name is from the Spanish, meaning eminences, and seems appropriately given, for in a view that includes also the Placer and Sandia Mountains they appear best ordinary hills. Los Cerrillos is the name of a group of hills about twenty miles south-west of Santa Fe, that has recently become popular as a mining camp, and interesting historically, on account of old mines. It also contains some historical inaccuracies.Ī FIVE DAYS VISIT TO THE SILVER MINING DISTRICT OF LOS CERRILLOS, NEW MEXICO It is representative of the time in which it was written and reflects the ethnic biases of that age. Hyde.Įditor's note: This text is reproduced here for its historical interest. At the bottom of the pit is the new shaft started by D. This photograph is of the West Pit of Mt. West Side Plaza - Up Stairs, Santa Fe, N.M. (reverse) HENRY BROWN, PHOTOGRAPHER Stereoscopic Views of New Mexico a Specialty. If you have or know of other photos please contact the Amigos. Photo cards were issued under the name of Bennett or Brown as well as both of them, but scholars at the Museum of New Mexico Photographic Archives believe all photos were taken by Bennett.Īdditional early photos will be added to this photo archive as they are located and permission obtained for their inclusion. Henry Brown who had a photographic studio in Santa Fe, and the photos were reissued with different numbers in different sets several times during the 1880s. The exact date of the trip is not known, but was in the spring of 1880, as the photo of Carbonateville does not show even the start of the two story hotel that was constructed in May, 1880, in the foreground of the area photographed.īennett worked for W. Some of the stereo cards state that a five day trip was made to the district for the purpose of making these photos. These photographs of the Galisteo and Cerrillos Mining Districts were taken in the Spring of 1880 by George C. Photos of Miners in the Cerrillos Hills - 1880
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