El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-20

Alaska's yield of gold this year i
estimated at $40, 600, 900 which is con
siderably more than the big territor,
cost the United States.
The Fortuna nine, twenty-eigh,
miles southeast Of Yuma, continues tC
yield its quota OF S100,OO0 gold month.
". The yield the past year has been
81, 900 900.
| Ex-Governor VIM. T. Thornton, OF
New Mexico. who retired from Office
only last week, has already returned
| to Sonora, which he visited last win
ter and is pushing his mining invest
| ments.
Yuma has suddenly become the most
| excited mine town in the west. No
| thing like the present excitement
| over suddenly found riches, and pros
poets of further finds, has bsen seen
since the palmy days of Virginia City in
the early seventies.
The blast furnaces OF Belgium turned
out in February SO, 44O metric tons of
%, $50 tons forge iron and 1920 tons
steel pig. The total showed an in
crease of 20, $50 tons, or 1876 per cent
over February of last year.
United States Consul McDaniels, at
Bahia, Brazil, reports to the state de-
partment that a company recently
formed has had an investigation made
of certain mineral deposits near Bahia,
with the result that manganese ores of
rich quality and in great quantity have
been found.
VIM. Church has sold his stock in
the Detroit copper company at Morenci
to Phelps, Dodge & Co, of New York.
Phelps, Dodge & Co., have always
been heavy owners OF stock 10 this COM
pany but Mr.. Church has always re-
tanned a controlling interest and
managed the Arizona end of the COM
pany.
Manager Tebbetts of the Duquesne
Mining company says there is a boom
in store for Arizona. w. A. Clark,
the great mining man of Montana is
largely interesting himself in the ter
ritory's copper properties, and other |
men with means are getting in there as
the local resources are becoming the
more developed.
A corps Of noted mining engineers,
headed by DR.. Clarence King, of New |
Y ork, and Louis Chevrillon, represent !
ing French capitalists, recently visited
aud examined the famous Carmen |
and worked with great success by the
)esuits during the last century. The
,orce in these mines will be increased |
Upon completion of the new shalt.
The Maxwell Land Grant company
s now constructing, at Blossburg,
,oking plant embracing seventy-five
,hree-fOot ovens in double banks. In
The center will be placed large bat
cry of boilers, to which the waste
gases of the coal will be conducted.
The power thus generated will be used
20 run dynamos, furnishing all the
power needed to operate the mines.
The coal and coking plant will be one
If the most complete in the United
States.
In the process OF extracting gold
rom its ores molten lead is used in
stead of mercury. The lead is melted
IN q shallow hearth and the powdered
ore is fed in at one end and carried
forward as q film over the surface of
The lead by means of an aRitator pass
ng over it. 1t is thus brought to the
other end, where it escapes through a
hopper. In order to prevent oxidation
with carbonic oxide from q gas pro-
1ucer.
Dispatches from Ottumws, Ia, say
hat 600 miners have struck against q
reduction from 10 cents to 80 cents.
The mines affected are those of the
White Breast at Keb and Chisholm,
Evans mine at Avery and Chicago and
Iowa mine at Cedar Mines. Other
operators will follow the cut, aud the
other men will doubtless 90 out. The
operators are worrying little, as they
claim they have been losing money on
account of the demoralized coal trade,
and eally do not care to reopen their
mines for time. The men are or
lerly.
A report reaches Denver of q big
strike in the Brick Pomeroy mine, To-
Gated three miles above Capital City
and under the operation OF the Pomc-
roy Gold Mining and Milling company.
The report, which was verified by sew
sral men who bad seen the ore, was to
The effect that an 1S-inch streak of
IN the lower level OF the mine, which is
being driven to intersect an ore chute
that shows on the surface. The char
acter of the ore is steel galena and
yellow copper, formed in white quartz
and pink spar. The value of the ore
is high in gold and copper, also good
per cent. 10 lead. The main part of
the chute has not yet been reached and
when this point is gained, it is hard TO
say what will be found, but suffice it to
say that the Pomeroy company Ia in
ful enterprises of Hiusdale, ere many
moons.
Both Matabeleland and Mashonaland
have magnificent coal resources, says
the South African Mining Journal.
The most westerly basin extends to
within 100 miles of the Victoria Falls
On the Zambesi, and the carboniferous
formation continues almost without
intermission to the meridian of Sails
bury. The spot nearest to Bulawayo
whore coal was known to exist was
some $50 miles distant down the
Khami River); an oxwa9on service was
organized, but was demoralized by the
tsetse fly. Surface specimens of this
coal were analysed by Mr.. Van Ness,
InlBulawayo. in 1894, and showed q
quality not far short Of Welsh steam.
The natural point Of attack for this re-
gion is from Gwelo. A northward
spur of the tableland forming the
great divide between the Limpopo and
Zambesi watersheds), juts forth from
that district almost to the Zambesi and
Ia an extensive plateu
known as the 'Mfunguhuei-the geolo-