Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-07-07
MINING MATTERS.
Reports from Various Camps-Items of
General Interest TO Miners.

toi Ooplel Aosovi A4Jdus OstOs
The great silver convention has
been brought to a successful issue in
Silver City this week. Silver is six
cents higher than it was a week ago.
The silver mines at Georgetown
have shut down and there are fears
there will be trouble made by tho
Nexicsns who have been thrown out
OF work.
James Beresford Gregory was In
from Gold Hill to see how Lordsburg
celebrated the Glorious Fourth. The
professor Informs the LIBERAL that
he has made a end Of some exceedingly
rich ore near the claim owned byS d.
Brough, which vas spoken of in a re-
cent issue Of the LIBERAL. Some
specimens shown carry free gold. II
there is any ore in a camp the profess
or is the man to ind it.
Silver revived from the drop it
made last week and climbed up to
s%eventy-three cents per ounce. Mon
day was the date for the secretary OF
the treasury topurchase a portion Of
the $4,000 00 ounces under the Sher-
man act but the price was a little too
high to suit Secretary Carlisle and he
concluded not to buy. The law will
compel him TO buy that amount Of
silver this month, but be can buy it
any time he wishes to, during the
month.
There are Others besides the "gold
bugs" Of Wall street and the eastern
bankers who have taken advantage of
and have benefited by the recent
huctuati ons Of silver. On the 18th.
the day the price of silver began to 60
down bill, some silver ore was un-
loaded at Socorro, by the Rio Grande
smelter, and OF the same day the
sacks were shipped to the owners. On
previous shipments it had been the
custom Of the snlelter people to make
their returns on the same ,day the
sacks were shipped back. This time
they did not do so. The ore sample
was assayed Thursday and the returns
were made on Friday. 1t may be a
coincidence that the ore was unloaded
the day that silver started down hill,
was assayed the day it reached its
lowest netch and the returns were
made at 1t lowest price after the price
started upwards, but such coinciden-
COS arc peculiar. The smclter com
panY was demonstrated with but the
answer given was that il was the Gus.
tom of the smelter to mako its re-
turns of the ore the day the sample
was aslaycd and no returns could be
corrected. As there wasa lceway o!
Gye-days between the day the ore was
received and the day t|he-returnS were
made it would probably be asking toc
much to have the sample assayed On .
day when the price Of silver was above
sixty-two cents.
Walter c. Hadley, one OF the best
known mining operators in southern
New Mexico, vas interviewed in 81.
buquerQue last week on the silver
question. Ashe has had considerable
experience in silver mining his ideas
on the subject may be of interest. Ii,
said: 81 think l can say, without ;
suspicion Of boasting, that l have
been the heaviest producer Of silver
ia the territory. l still have large in
tercsts in that line, and am Of course
anxious to see the mining industry
prosperous. But since the enemies @
silver have succeeded, through TIT
most gigantic combine tho world ha.
ever seen, iu,hammerlng silyerdown t.
such a low point, L. hope it will g
down to % cents, ereven 10 cents, a
such a fall in price seems to be tn,
only thing that viii bring the people
TO their senses that are acting Will
the mouometallists, but are not q
much interested as those who are at
tempting to squeeze the people of thi
and other countries for their own per
sonal gain. l am aware that man.
men will be thrown out of employ
ment and a certain |stagnation in bust
ness will result from the closing dow.
of mines ond smelters, but a still
lower price for silver seems to me t
be the only thing which win show th
advocates Of a single standard tha
there is not enough Of the yello'
metal to answer for the demands Of
constantly growing volume Of bus
ness In this country. therefore loo
for a better financial system throug
what seems to US uow a hardship"
Last Saturday Henry Ross wer
down to the slaughter house after d,
livering water and found a Mexica
making a fire under the boiler Of Oh
steam pump. There was no water !
the boiler and a good.fre would ha,
ruined it. Luckily Henry dlscovere