El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19


, Prescott, will have a mill on the Etta
mine on the Verde river. running by
| the fifteenth of February. Mr.. Riley
had charge of the mill for Clarke "
Giroux during its recent successful run,
when forty-six and half pounds of
! gold retort were taken from els tons
| ore.-Arizona Republican.
William McFarlane, who has the
contract to build the fortystamp mill
| at White Hills, Ariz., says that the
| machinery and material necessary for
the construction of the mill will weigh
500 tons. The new company will furu-
ish all the teams in the country many
months hauling, judging from the vast
quantity of freight arriving daily,
The Lottie, (Ariz,) mill is running
night and day with its ten stamps and
four Triumph vanuers. They stopped
saving free gold and make concentrates
altogether. TIE concentrates run
very high, from $3.50 to S400 a ton, and
they make large amount of concen-
trates, The water gives trouble in
| sinking the shaft, but the ore is good
Marines and Raul have struck eight
| inches of the richest gold ore ever I'M
covered in the ChemehueviS mountains
in the BlackeyeG-Susau mine. They
were to abandon work on the claim
| when the fud was made. The boys
are over-joyed with their good luck.
They are having three tons of rich ore
packed in Franconia.-Mohave Miner:
w. A. Clarke, the millionaire of
Butte, Montana. who owrs the United
Verde mines at Jerome, has secured
the Pride OF the West, a copper pro-
perty of great promise and large
force of men VIII be put at work i'm
mediately. This claim was recently
| bonded for $50, 600 but the sale did not
go and MIR. Clark secured the proper
| ty.
South of Crittenden, the Empire
Smelling company, has purchased a
| tract of land from r. r. Richardson,
on which townsite has been laid out
and large smelter has been built
| The new town is called Rolin. The
company has bought the Hard she'll
mine, twelve miles away, and the Flux,
but two and half miles distant, and is
| building or grading roads to each
| mine.
At Harshaw, Frank Powers is ele-
waiting new concentrating mill, the
machinery of which is the best attain
able. To give an idea of the extent
of the plant which is being placed in
| the Worlds Fair mine, four carloads
of machinery and six of lumber have
been received. The property is a sill
| yer mine, very rich, as it assays from
5000 ton upwards. He recently refused
$50, 600 for the claim.
The Annie, (Ariz.) is running its ten
stamps and three six-foot vanners
steadily, and they are piling up concen-
trates in great shape, waiting for the
roads to get good. Judging from the
| looks of the ANAL gam on the plates, the
product will be a big gol1 brick. A
rich strike was made in the bottom of
the shaft at depth of POO feet. The
ore is sulphuret and shows free gold.
The north stope is getting better every
day.
| The Mohave Miner says: j. w
GerritJ has become the owner of the
! ORC Plata and MaripoSa mines in To-
to Basin. The mines are the best pro-
! ducers of gold ore in MOhave county,
showing up au almost unbroken chute
! of ore several hundred feet in length
, The last shipment of ore from the mine
gave u result of seven ounces per ton in
gold and nearly one hundred ounces in
silver. In the bottom of the drift at
| the one hundred level the ore body
samples seven ounces gold and one hun
! dred and thirty-eight ounces silver for
| distance of sixty feet. Another lift
will be taken, as soon as the slopes on
, the lover level are wei. in.