Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-05-17
MINING MATTERS.
Reports from Various Competitions ~
General Interest to Miners.

00aeNAA AutoNehN TO MAuerAs
The latest quotations are; Silver 92k;
copper 1900; lead SSH.
Con. Ryan shipped a car load Of ore
from the American Flat and Crown Point
mine to the international smelter at Fl
PasO this week.
Muster Mechanic Wallace Of The Arizo.
ma & New Mexico company is writing y
very interesting series Of the articles for
the Clifton Clarion on concentration.
A carload OF machinery for the new
Humboldt mill arrived Wednesday, and
another car is expected every day. Saper-
intendent Potter says be expects 70 have
the mill running in about four weeks.
Shakespeare, and indeed, all the camps
near Lordsburg, Pyramid, Leitendorf aud
Gold Hill have an unssvory reputation
where ever known, not only among iuyes-
tors in their unsatlstactofy properties, but
among %luiners aud mechanics, for whatever
poor devil Of n workman has the bad
luck to end himself IN need OF work in
any Of those camps, has ultimately gone
away from them more in need than ever.
The majority o: the enterprise" have
been operated upon borrowed labor. The
usal plan is to defer payments as long as
possible. Pay day never comes, but some
day the collapse Gomez, as each bubble is
pricked, and the workmen 90 away poorer
by the clothes they We worn out and the
time they've lost. There's an uncovered
stamp mill a monument in Shakespere to
this practice. The Humboldt Mining
Company was an exception TO this rule Of
non payments. and it is a pity that 1t met
With such poor luck (for It was all left 10
lutkA in its Mil. Such, however is life,
especially in the far west" where we
trust 10 luck, Had the head Of that com
pany been a reader Of the Engineering
aud Mining Journal. it u is doubtful if he
wonld have made any ssch gorgeous blum
der.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
of May 4th contains the above written by a
special correspondent" of that Journal
II the correspondent wrote at long range
he undoubtedly called on his imagination
for facts. II he WAS here he was we'll
stuffed by some accomplished b%ackcapper.
He never got such Il statement Of factr
from any business man nor honest minrt
in this section. According to him there.
is but one company, the Humboldt. that
makes a practice Of paying its bills for
labor, etc the rest oil then working on
borrowed capital, running up to the limit
and then beating every body. We are
glad the correspondent admitted there was
one debt paying company in this section,
1t is true the Humboldt company has al.
ways paid ITS way, bnt it is 10y no means
peculiar in that. Thcre are but two out
hts ia this section which have neglected to
pay their men, and one of these has s'ncP
laid nearly everything 1T owes. The
mines at Pvrnmid and Lrltendorf, 10th
the same camp, and Shakespeare are most
" large bodies Of low grade ore, and get
for years mrn have made "a good living
working these MINIS. If u compan,
could not make money there it was surely
not the fault OF the mines but of the com
Dany. The remarks il regard to Gold
Hill were especially uncalled for. There
are but two companies there. The Ruby
company has not been working very long,
and the fact that It is working as many
men as there is r0om for in the mine dis
proves Of the statement as regards that
company. The Standard IS as solid u
company as there is in the territory. Ev-
cry dollar used by this company in devel.
"puIent and budding was supplied by III,
Fosters and they have meyer missed "a pay
day. A bill against that company is as
good as the money in the bank. The
mnnes owned by that company are al
good ones, and that the property Is we'll
managed is shown by the bullion ship.
ments, which are frequent as the expires,
Office books will show, and by the fact thai
the mines nov show larger ore bodlr'
than ut any time in the history OF th,
property, which fact thu LIERAL ascertain.
ri a few weeks ago by a p%ereunai iusprr-
tiou. W. aie sorry the Journals CORES.
pondent made this u%ncalled to- and ua
true attack on the camps adjacent to Us,
and we hope the paper will correct the
correspondents mistake.
Quito: The wool clip IN the country
tributary to Las Vegas is now beginning L