El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-29

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The director of the mint has request
ed D. H. Kedzie, of the Liberal, to
gather the mineral statistics of New
Mexico for the year 1896
George Marsh, the late excellent 10
cal reporter of the New Mexican, has
struck it rich in his gold mine at Co
chita, and has quit his job as a news
gatherer at Santa Fe.
A new thirtyton cyanide plant was
put in near Seymour, the first part Of
this mouth, with which to work the
tailings from the Vulture mine, of
which there is said to be nearly 10000
tons.
The United States assay Office a Idaho
has not heard from all mines but only
smaller ones are missing. Estim atipg
these the mineral output for Idaho for
1896 was: Gold, 81. 275, 60; silver, So
rs, S48; lead, 5000, III; total, $13, 49,
$50.
The Mineral output for Montana for
the year ending Dec. 81 has been very
large. The gold outputs are figured
to be about 225, 900 ounces, valued at
81, 800, 900. Silver $4,000. 900 ounces;
Lea Lead ,c 2, 100000 pounds; copper Pa
600, 900 pounds.
The Alpine, Tex, Avalanche says
that John F'inkey, an old prospector
who has been in this part of the country
some time, has struck it rich down near
the Rio Grande south of Alpine. He
has found a quicksilver m: .le which as
says $40 to the ton.
The prosperous Mexican mining
company the ''Cinco Senores'' has in
hand the respectable sum of S35O,OOO
The month of December produced
500. 900 clear profit to the sharehold-
ers. A large number of the shares are
held in San Luis Potosi
AS an instance of the growth of the
Jerome mining camp, Arizona, it is
cited that within the past few months
building sites have been sold to the
amount of $14, 055 and that on nearly
every lot sold there has been erected
a building which is at the present time
occupied.
In the year 1853, when California was
the Eldorado of the world, the gold
its maximum, with a product of 500
100000. The gold mined in this coun-
try last year is estimated by the
Engineering and Mining journal at
S57, O00,000
Statistician Yale of the mint gives
the following estimate of California
bullion: Gold, ST. O0O,OO silver,
S25O,OOO. No fl cures on lead or copper
yet compiled, but total in either case
comparatively trifling. Oregon, gold,
81 100000; silver, SIS, 900. Washing
ton, gold, 400, 600; silver, 100000.
The Boquillas correspondent of the
Eagle Pass Guide writes: For a while
Boquillas will boom. The wagon road
is complete, and Caples & Ross will fill
ore hauling contracts.
d. E. Lindsey and Tom w. Peak
have contracts for buildings for the
Kansas City Smelling company, on the
Texas side of the river. They are
rushing things through.
Four tons of high grade copper ore
from the Ellis and Baxter mines, was
brought in on Soto's team. Between
thirty and forty tons of this ore is sent
to the smelter monthly. 1t is under
stood that the owners have refused a
cash offer of $50, 900 for the property.
1t is situated in the foothills of the
Sierraitas about twenty-five miles
south of this place.-Tucson Citizen.
The mineral output of Colorado for
5he year 1896 is as follows, according to |
,he returns from the'smelter's refneries |
md mills: Gold, 1878. 497; silver,
S18, 607 ,O67: lead SO, 967, 314; copper, |
1902, 597. Total $50, $50, 575. The out
put for 1895 amounted to 1913, 324, 45S. |
The increase in 1896 was principally |
silver. The gold output was about the |
anne as 1895. The output of Cripple |
Creek is about S,O00,O00
A gentleman who seems to be in close |
ouch with the Santa Fe officials stated |
his morning that the copper mine and |
m elter at San Pedro would resume
work on the 1st of February, and that
Mr.. Higginson. assistant to President |
Ripley, of the road, told the people of |
Jerrillos and San Pedro, while there
he other day, that the company would |
extend the Waldo Madrid |
Dad through to San Pedro. Our in
ormant also stated that the railroad
company officials had looked over the
San Pedro camp thoroughly, and had |
selected grounds for depot and
buquerque Citizen.
The mining fraternity will doubtless
re interested in the fact announced by
he London Times, that an English
indicate has recently taken up an
ore atomic reduction process The
utcome of this undertaking will I'M
oubtedly have an important bearing
n more than one industry. Those
oncerned in mines are aware that one
f the greatest difficulties of a mocha
ical nature which miners have to deal
With, all things considered, is the
rushing of quartz, especially of re-
FACTORY ores, which, owing to the
he presence of iron pyrites, rendering
be metal excessively hard-to deal
nth which enormous labor and expen- 5
es have to be incurred. The new in
ention, it is claimed, does away with {
II the crushing and stamping and pull
erizing, within an hour enabling a
inner to reduce the hardest quartz to
be condition of sand, and even of fine
our, without slime, and perfectly free
'om the various deleterious substances {
-hich are the enemies of the gold |
liner all the world over. An extra |
rdinary point in this invention is that l
Experience has shown that if, under it's |
peration, the ore fails to break into l
articles within an hour, it may be &C. c
opted as proof that it contains no
fetal.
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