El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-04
MINING NOTES.

! The Las Amarillas mines Sonora,
are producing from $40, 900 to S12O, 900
gold monthly.
| The mineral company, Guadalupana,
of Rosario, St, is progressing we'll
with its work. Valuable ores have re-
Gently been discovered.
| The rapidly increasing trade with
! Washington camp and Duquesne calls
for the immediate building of a wagon
road over into that region from No
gales.
Some valuable coal deposits have
been discovered in the town of Jiquil-
pam de Juarez, state of MichOacan.
A railroad thither has been projected
from ZamOra as a result of the ind.
1t is assured that powerful mining
company of the capital of the republic ic
will purchase the mining concern
La PframicIe, situated in San JOSE,
de Garcia, ST., for 81 100000, (siI-
ver.)
The Southwestern Coal and Iron
ore per day to Ell Paso and two cars
per day to Pueblo from San Jose
station. The iron is taken from the
Iron Bottom mine, owned by the COM
paDy.
Prescott Courier: a five foot vein
of ore has been struck al a depth of 235
feet in the parallel ledge to the Con-
gress main ledge. The ore is valued
at 500 per ton gold. a cyanide plant
OF 100 tons per day capacity is now
being erected at the mine.
The Flor de Maria mine, in the
Sierra de Moctezuma, district Bravos,
Chihuahua, is being worked with good
success. It's ores run from 40 or 80 ounces
ton tn Of
1t Is situated very favorably for tran
sporting Its products, being p or 80
miles east Of Moctezuma station on the
Central road.
Every freight train northward car
ries large quantities of merchandise
purchased from Nogales merchants for
the Empire smelter at Crittenden. and
the Holland and Duquesne mines at
w ashington camp. and several pack
trains also on the road to the camp.
several carloads are shipped each
Teek.-Oasis.
Al Shultz has opened up another big
BONANZA upon the Inez mine, formerly
lnown as the MOnteZuma. He has
1000 tons of high grade lead caroonates
On the dump and another thousand
ions blocked out, beside good
prospect of undeveloped ore. He is
working % men and has big stake in
sight.
Arrangements will soon be made to
start the furnace of the Arizona and
New Mexico Smelling com pany, which
S controlled by the American Zinc and
lead company, of Canon City, Colorado.
The washing out of the track Of the S.
;. X n. K. r by floods last summer,
hut off the transportation and supply
If fuel and caused the closing down of
he furnace.
The new fifty ton water Jacket fur
,ace for the Silver City reduction
works has been received, and will be
'ut in place Immediately. This will
louble the capacity of the works which
an now handle one hundred tons of
re per day. This new reduction works
S growing in favor with the miners
md those who send one bath OF ore for
rial become permanent patrons of the
oncern.
The Treasure Mining company of
}enver } will soon start sinking the
b aft below the 300 foot level on the
Atlantic vein. About 30 men are
mplOyed at the mine and mill and the
property is paying handsomely. The
anne company will also start sinking
Glow the 400 level on the Deep Down
Elm, which runs parallel to the
atlantic and about 60 feet distant.
he properties will be worked from
eparate shafts on each vein.
The steamer AL HI, from Alaska,
rought down 265 passengers, seventy
We of whom were miners returning
'om the Yukon country. They evident
: had poor luck, as only seventy
ounds Of gold dust was reported in
be crowd. Returning miners from
Alaska say that next year
Ill be the banner year, as thirtytwO
ew stamp mills are to be erected next
eason. The weather is reported as
cry cold at Juneau. The Treadwell
hines, on Douglass island. have been
breed to shut up few stamps on ac-
cunt of the scarcity sof water caused
V the cold weather.
Even Georgia has been visited by
now storm, and Judging by the dis