San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-06

ulstrlcG winch ylelus Sl ,oOO, In silver
| to the ton.
Mr.. ]. n. Steel who spent four
months in the Odento (the tooth
mountains discovered valuable
mine in said mountains. He brought
a sample of the ore in with him and
had it anylized and il showed 10 OF.
| of silver and 33 per cent of lead to the
ton.
Capt. w. H. Wentworth chief engi-
neer of the Monterey AMI Mexican
Cult railway is In receipt of speci-
men of very rich silver and lead ores.
from the mines in the Cerelvo dis
trict that he is interested in.
Two other parties received ores
from new mines that have been re-
Gently discovered, which showed a
large percent of silver, lead and
iron.
Col. B. F. Larve, of Villaldama, re-
ceived last week from his prospectors,
very rich specimens of silver, lead
and copper ores. His Shipment of
ores for May to the Monterey smeIters
was 100 tons.
Messrs. Pedro, Maiz & Co. of this
city, received some very rich speci-
men of silver, lead and copper ores
from their mines. Prof. A. A. Mer-
lett of the firm of Merlett & Co., as
sayest and chemist, assayed q lot of
ores last week, that was mined in the
Saddle Mountain, six miles from the
city, which produced 120 OF. of silver
and IS per cent of lead to the ton. 1t
has always been thought that the
ores found in the state OF Nuevo Leon
were all low grade ore, and especially
in the vicinity of Monterey. But your
correspondent has been informed
that such is not the case; that high
grade ores do exist in the surround
Ing mountains. Mines have been
discovered in the adjoining noun
tains that yielded from $50 OF. of sill
yer to over 400 to the ton, and As to IS.
per cent of lead and copper
There are mines In he CerIo
de las Mitrias which were
marked last winter that yielded 25 or.
of,silver to the ton. Recently, several
specimens of native silver have been
found in said mines. Lead mines,
have been discovered near Santa Cat
arina, which turned out ores that
carry as much as $50 ounces of silver
to the ton.
There are now about $50 mines,
being worked in the Monterey dis
trict, where two years ago there were
only few, and none of them yet de-
veloped. But there is ore enough
now in sight to warrant the owners of
them in saying that their future looks
are very bright, and that every oDeo of
their mines has q silver lining.
Thus it will be seen that Montere
is destined to be, in the future, If she
is not now, the Leadville of Mexico.
A few days ago Major Jules A.
Randle received specimen of ore
from the Rosario mines, near Salinas,
which assayed l42 1-2 ounces of sill
yer and II 1-2 per cent lead. The ore
assayed was taken from the Gallina
portion of the vein, which shows o
very large per cent Of iron ore. The
iron in this ore makes this class of
ore valuable, as the smelling COM
panies want such ore to smelt other
with, and they will smels all such
ores free of charge.
Since Monday morning the national
flags as the CONSIDER flags have been
at half mast on account of the death
OF the Finance Minister nj. Duban.
Mr.. J. G. Ray who has been local
agent for the Mexicans National Ry.
resigned to take similar position TOR
the Monterey and Mexican Gulf Ry.
at Tampico.
Mr.. G. A. Parker formerly with the
Santa Fe Ry will be appointed COM
mercial agent for the National in this.
city.
Col. G. A. Merriam, of San Antonio,
late superintendent of the s.. A. p.
Ry., arrived here last Friday, and
spent Saturday in the city.
Col. J. N. Galbraith, superinten-
dent of the northern division of the
Mexican National railway, came in
Saturday night, and Sunday morning
they took trip down the Gulf rail-
way with Col. John Grace, general
superintendent in his special car.
Sunday morning your correspon-
dent met Col. j. A. Robertson, the
general manager of the Gulf railway
at his office. In reply to the question
"How are they getting on with the
| work on the jetties at Tampico, and
how much water have they on the
bar?nhe replied that the contractors
| were getting along very nicely, and
| that there was about 10 or ii feet OF
water on the bar. They were pushing
| the work ahead, and there is every
reason to believe that by the time the
| jetties are finished they will have
| 20 feet of water on the bar.
The following miners and ore men
| left their autographs at the hotels
since our last letter: B. +. Larue, Ed.
Goreman, E. M. Taylor, M. Dagolla-
do, j. II. Steel, friedrich Russell, w.
J. Carpenter, j. M. Puctte, G. F. Ko-
keretz, A. B. Barton, n. M. Stukes'
and Jules A. Randle.
EDMOND.