El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-29
Mines and iIininS.

I dJ 1edTCc, bOculSe county, employ
sixty men and SHIPS to the Pueblo
smelters three to four carloads OF ore
per day. The rock is rich in gold and
silver, yielding 500 per ton.
1t is believed the copper production
of the United States for 1896 will
amount to 205, 900 gross tons. The
exports will be about 1901 COO tons,
| leaving So, 600 tons for home cOnsump-
! ton. The home consumption last year
amounted to 120, 600 tons
| Spokane Falls has a mining incorpo-
ration known as the Woman's North
west Mining aud Investment company,
which is capitalized for 81 ,000 900. The
women expect to handle mining prop
erty in British Columbia and as long
as possible will exclude men from the
affairs Of the company.
A Mr.. Eddy has recently arrived in
Oregon from Cooks Inlet, Alaska.
where he spent last winter in company
with thirty others. He states that
about POO men will winter this year in
the Inlet, and he believes the district
will develop into a good one. There
are six hydraulic plants now in oper-
alton and all are paying.
The future of Pearce camp seems
now assured. A well authenticated
report says IudI hill 10 W ne eTecGtu
at the mine in the spring. Good ore
bodies are being opened up in the
JohnsOnt'ittS mine and other prospects
in the vicinity, and valuable discover
les have lately been made at South
Pass. Numerous prOspectnrS are at
work along the Dragon range and the
inquiry for good copper or gold mines
continues active.-Valley News.
SANTA RITA.
More energy is being displayed here
now, than for years. About forty men
are reglarly employed in sorting
dumps, jfgging and exploring new ore
bodies of copper near the surface. The
old time vigor is being restored, and
the once famous copper camp will in all
probability take on a new lease of life.
The mines from which the Spanish
couquerors realized millions and from
which millions are yet to be extracted,
will in the near future resume a record
long forgotten, but never entirely lost.
COPPER FLATS
Contrary to pectations, the work on
the company buildings has been finish
ed and advices recently received are to
the purport that when the new smelt-
er is set up lively times may be expect
ed in this long OverwOrked camp. The
ores are equal to any and superior TO
most copper camps in the southwest,
and as the company understands its
business, and has unlimited capital,
there is no reason why the new camp
should not equal, if not surpass, its
more formidable anita gonists in the
copper field. The ore is of much higher
grade and exists in greater quantity
than in any camp in the west with the
possible exception of jerome in Arizo-
ma.
Negotiations have been pending for
some time past by syndicate of
wealthy mining men for transfer of
the valuable Johnson-Fitz claims in
Pearce district and has been culminat-
ed in the formation of the Gold Cliff
Mining company, capitalized for 81 600
900. Backed with cash and unlimited
means, this property is destined to
become quite factor in the mimi Q
world and certainly is one of great
importance to Pearce ard Cochise
county.
An idea of the richness of some of
the copper mines of Michigan may be
gained from the fact that they have
thus far paid their owners dividends of
fully 0,0OO, 600. The dividends of $50
share just declared by the Calumet g.
Hecia Copper Mining company for the
current year Is especially noteworthy
because it is the greatest dividend ever
paid by this remarkable property.
There are 100, 600 shares, so that the
total sum distributed among the share
holders was $2,5OO,OOO When it is
considered that the original value of
all these shares was just the last amount
mentioned, the tremendous earning
powers Of the property will be APP
preciated. The selling value of the
stock is about thirteen times its par