San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-11

premises, so as to guard against chol.
era. All the street car stables have
to be moved ont to the suburbs, and
yards and water closets cleaned out
and fumigated.
MINERS AND MINES.
There nave been q number of
miners in the city the past week. On
Monday last Major Jules A. Randle
received some very rich silver lead
ore from the Don Julio mine, which is
situated in the Rosario noun tain near
Salinas. We saw some of the ore aud
it had threads of native silver run
ming through 1t. The ore that those
sam Piles came from will assay
Capt. John Rossiter was in the city
this week. He informed US that they
are getting out some rich ores from
the mines that assay as high as 4, 900
ounces silver and 81 per cent iron.
The proprietors of this mine will send
several samples of the ore to the CO.
Ium bian Worlds Fair at Chicago in
1898.
The Rosario Mining company was
organized by Major Randle about
nine years ago. There are several
| Iuthce Ill bbdb lhouhtoih anu bhC1 .
owned by parties in Texas and Colo.
RADIO. The Major owns q fourth in
terest in all of them. About two
years ago, when the property was not
producing anything, and it was diff.
| flcult matter to raise any money to
develop them, he persuaded his
father-in. law, Col. A. H. Miles, and
sister in-law, of Colorado, to purchase
about one-fiith interest in them
which they did and for q while II
Il oked as though they made bad In
YES tmont; but recent development Is
turn out that 1t was q good one. The
past months they shipped several car
loads of ore 70 the Monterey smelters
which Melted them handsome pro-
| fit.
RAILWAY NEWS
All the railroads that center in this
city are crowded with business.
Neither the Mexican National nor
the Monterey and Mexican Gulf
Railway have cars enough TO
move the freight that are
brought to them. The Gulf road
is chuck full of freight at all the sta
lions between here and Tampico wait
ing for cars to move, them. They
have twenty.one car loads OF bullion
in the city awaiting shi pment to Tam
pico. There are 400 bars to the car or
total of l6 400 bars.
The steamship Tangier arrived off
the Tampico bar Monday and dropped
anchor, She will not be allowed to
come in for some days on account of
quarantine restrictions, She has 1000
tons of steel rails on board for the
| Gulf railroad.
A telegram was received from Tam
pico Monday that there was twenty
feet of water on the bar. There is
every reason to believe that there
will be twenty feet four feet Of water
on it between now and the first OF
January, 1893.
Mr.. J. o. Mealy, who has been
| the train dispatcher of the Texas
Mexican end the northern division OF
the Mexican National railway for a
number of years has been promoted
to superintendent of the middle di.
vision of the Mexican National with
headquarters at San Luis Potosi. We
have known Mr.. MeaIy since he be.
came connected with the road, and
we always found him strict but cour-
teous with all that he had business
dealings with. He Is very popular
with all the railroad men. The Mex
lean National railway company does
not keep any other kind OF men
long.
Col. J. A. Robertson, the popular
General manager of the Monterey and
Mexican Gulf railway returned from
New York Monday morning looking
we'll. AS he had basket full of
letters on his desk when we called
to pay our respects to him, we only
stayed long enough to shake bands
and say howdY. EDMOND.