El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-15
MINING NOTES.

There are 800 stamps at present in
Yavapai county, 245 dropping in Pima
county.
The new Empire smelter at Rollin,
near Crittenden, will give great
impetus to mining in the southeastern
portion of Pima county.
In the Osborne group of mines near
Vulture, body of gold rock yielding
$50 per ton was discovered and it bears
every evidence of extent and perma-
hence.
The Arizona & New Mexico Co. 5
smelter at IvanhOe is running at full
blast again upon the copper ores of the
district. A large part of the ore
reduced comes from leased mines Of
the Santa Rita company.
The Commonwealth Mining Co., at
Pearce, Cochise county, Ariz., employs
sixty men and ships to the Pueb bio
smelters three to four carloads of ore
per day The rock is rich in gold and
silver, yielding 300 per ton.
The mill of San Juan Mining Co in
Lower California, which has been shut
down since July, will start up again
about the first of January. Develop
ment work has been prosecuted con-
tinuously and supply of ore is now in
sight sufficient to keep the mill running
many months.
The smelter and sampling works at
Salt Lake all report falling off in the
tonnage during October, aud without
Improvement in the metal market
large number who are dependent on
the mines and mills for living mus
content themselves with short ratiOns
during the winter. The most nota BILE
dminutOn in the output is reported at
Bingham, where for days not a single
car of ore has been hauled out. Yet in
few of the mineral fields has there
| been proved up so many valuable big
properties during the past few months
as in Utah. All the while the block
| ing out of ore goes forward at all the
camps, and it is admitted that they are
| today capable of producing more under
favorable conditions than ever before.
The mining industry of Arizona Is in
! healthy condition and until such
time as the world will need our silver
at re nunerative price, our gold aud
copper mines will yield a wealth OF
metal to enrich the producers and give
| profitable employment, says the Pros
pectOr. Copper is constantly finding
! employment in new avenues OF
manufacture. a recent writer on the
present status of electricity" says
that among the various branches OF
manufacture it is exceptional to find
one where electricity is not used in
some way. The capital invested in
electric lighting in the United States
alone is computed a over $500, 900, 600.
! The electrical apparatus used in min
| ing is estimated a 500, 900, 900, and the
value of the electrical elevator indus
try will not fall short of $4,000, 0O0
| The most important of all the electrical
| industries, however. is that of the
electric railways in which there is said
to be invested over 500. 900, 900, and
this field is by no means developed.
The telegraph is one of the oldest and
important fields for the EN- ployment Of
copper and its demand to replace steel
wire is constantly growing.
The Eagle Pass Guide says: Mines
and mining in the state of Durango are
now receiving a good deal of attention
from outside investors. They could
hardly turn their eyes toward a more
promising state. 1t is proverbial thai
all mining is more or less lottery; vel
there are mining properties of proved
value, many of them, within easy dis
lance by good wagon roads, of the
International railroad in Durango
One mine. yielding an average of only
sixty ounces of silver per ton, is pros
pering, despite haul of forty miles tC
railroad. There are others within
half a days haul of the railroad whose
average assays show much more silver
than the above, and they lack only
adequate capital for their development
to yield large and certain returns.
In the PanucO de Coronado distric
about thirty-fve miles northeast O
Durango city mining camp has beer
formed. st. Louis capitalists are a
the back of this They have acquired
valuable properties and, such is theil
confidence, want more in the same
neigh borhOOd. They are only abou
fifteen miles from railroad transporta
tion by good wagon road. A genera
feature of the silver mines of the Panu
co district is that to a moderate depth
the ores can be treated by what i,
know as the patio process-crushipg
and amalgamatiOn by quicksilver,
Deeper, they become refractory, but d
the same time more valuable. Sui
phiGes predominant, and shipment "a
crude ore to smeiters at Velardena OF
Monterey is decidedly advantageous
This holds good of many other district:
adjacent to the railroad in the state o
Durango.