Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-06-30
MINING MATTERS.
Reports from various Camps -Itcms Of
General In8crcst to Miners.

General I%n5crcst to Miners.
The latest quotations are: Silver,
go; Copper, 1850; Lead, $40.
The Pyramid mill has been shut
down this week, owing to the disabl-
ing Of the boiler.
Frank Wyman, who is now connect
ed wish the Deming ore Company at
the Sampli1g works at Deming, was
in the city Friday in the interest Of
the Sampling company. Mr.. Wyman
says that Notwithstanding the low
prices of silver and lead there is a
large am cunt Of ore being handled
and the business of his company is in
creasing every month. While here he
made arrangements for the shipment
Of some ore to his company.
Silver got another hard hit CHS
week. The government Of India, one
of the largest silver users in the world,
has ordered the closing of the mlnts
to the free coinage Of silver. 1t is
understood that England, which
controls India, compelled the Indian
government to do this. The immedi-
ate effect was to cut down the price Of
silver and on Monday it fell to seventy
seven cents an ounce. The gold
standard people say this means the re-
peal Of the Sherman act and establish
ment of the gold standard in this
nvpfr, WAL ~ fhfc fs occnp,rIfeb-
2 ed the probabilities are there will
be a readjustment of party lines and
< the next president will be elected be-
E cause he is, or is not, a free silver man.
Col. Hatch of Arizona is said to be
/ doing more than all the other Ariz.
S onaAs in Chicago to boom the terri
tory. The colonel is not under pay
' from the territory, neither has he in
charge a territorial exhibit. He is at
: the head of the company that has
been working up the wood in the pet
V rifed forests. The wood is manufac-
tured into various articles Of use and
beauty at Sioux Falls and the colonel
has a large exhibit of it in the Liberal
Arts building and is selling large
= quantities Of it. or course he has to
keep explaining all about the petrld.
y ed forests to his customers, who also
! ask many questions about the terri.
tory. The colonel is well acquainted
with the territory and is able to an.
swer these questions in an intelligent
u manner. A prominent citizen Of the
T sister territory watched the colone.
% the other day and then went around
and Inspected the territorial exhibit
4 and heard the men in charge tell what
there was in the territory. He con
cluded that if the territory had made
no attempt at an exhibit, but haC
simply written ARIZONA" over th,
&c petriGcd wood exhibit the territor,
would have been just as well off.
1t will be remembered that a coup,
of the Hall brothers of Pine Cieneg;
disappeared several years ago. The.
started Off on a bear hunt and never go
back. Their wives and friends claim
= ed they had been bushwhacked ant
d killed near Ash Springs, between Dun
can and Solomongille. The countr
around Ash Springs has been HUNTED
over and over for some sign Of thel
remains, but until recently nothin
d has ever been found. A short tim
d agoa skull was found near there
There was a hole near the top of tn
"a skull, owe the right temple anothe
is over the roof Of the mouth. Tn
~ holes have the appearance of bein
~ made by a pistol or gun, and thei
~ position indicate the man was sho
. while lying down. Friends o. tn
Is Halls claim this is the skull Of n O
le the brothers. The skull was sent t
l. DR.. Clarke for examination. He pre-
Z nounced it the skull of a white mar
u who had been dead for eight or te
d. years. The lower jaw was gone, ais
nc the portion of the upper jaw thac hel
10 the teeth, so it was impossible to e
d innate the mans age. If the doctc
~ is right in this estimate of the tim
y, the man has been dead it eoul
40 not have been either Of the Ha
no brothers who were killed. If it wa
as not a Hall, the Queftion arises, wh
was killed at Ash Springs about tie
ls years ago?
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ay A petition has been presented
a the county school commissioner pra,
as ing for a division of this school di
u, trlct. The division will leave Lord