El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-17

| George Fair, OF Roswell, has pulled
up stakes and started for the gold fields
of Bolivia, South America.
| Thirty-five men are employed at the
| coincidence" mine in the MOgollon
district, and the force is being increas-
ed every day as first class menoffer their
services. The ore Slopes are showing
up fine ore bodies.
| The Captain Jack Crawfords' Alaska
Prospecting ~ Mining company has
| been Incorporated at Trenton, n. j.,
with an authorized capital of $3.50, 900.
Capt. Jack CrawfOrd's name heads the
list Of the incorporators.
James E. Beveridge, whose manage
ment of a number of Bipgham's big
mines has earned for him most en-
viable reputa ton as a mining man in
| Utah, is en- route for the property OF
the u-American Mining company at
| Torres, state of Sonora, Mexico.
| The report of rich strike comes
| from the Buster mine in the Bradshaw
mountains While running crOSscut
| at distance of 200 feet there was en-
countered tale seam two feet thick
from which pure native copper nuggets
were taken. The ore in this mine is
copper sulphide.
| A company has been organized at
Pittsburg TO work the extensive sui
| phur deposits in Bs a California on
Hardy's Colorado below Yuma. The
ore will be barged up to Yuma on the
Colorado and thence sent by the
Southern Pacific. The deposit is very
large and runs 80 per cent sulphur
| Elk.
The San Francisco mint was closed
during the month of July for the usual
/ al raOnnnPd
astonishing amount of So 500, 900 in
| gold was presented for coinage. This
did not all come from the klOndyke
region, but the larger part must have
been derived from that source of sup
| ply.
Great excitement prevails in Trinity
| Center. Cal, and vicinity over rich
strike made by the Graves brothers
and Henry Carter in the drift claim OF
| Coffee Creek. In four days they took
out gold valued at SOS, 00O They ex-
| pect to take from $4,000 to $500, 600
out of the pocket. The gold is coarse
| and lies between walls of porphyry and
resem bles melted gold poured into the
seams.
Arizona produces more gold than
any other state or territory in the
Union, with four exceptions, which
are California, Colorado, Montana and
South Dakota. Her gold and silver
product were very nearly equal in 1896.
| it being 81, 604 200 in gold and s. ,413,
1913 in silver. She also produced more
silver in 1896 than any other state or
territory except Colorado, Idaho, Mon
| tana Ond Utah.
A very rich gold mine was found
lately by a common Mexican wood ped
dler near Corralitos while digging for
Il rhn
tos company heard of it by some means,
and Immediately purchased the claim
paying a good price for the same. 1t
| SAID to be fabulOusly rich in gold, and
| the ore is free milling so that there
will be no trouble in working it. 1t
| is thought to be the richest mine in
| that section of the country.
News has been received from Coffee
creek, Califor mia, that $40, 900 more in
gold dust aud nuggets, were taken out
recently from pocket, out of which
Graves Bros. took $4,000 on last
Saturday. Another eXcee dinghy rich
gold discovery is reported on Morrison
gulch. two miles from the scene of
Graves Bros. discovery. 1t is said that
SIS, 900 was taken out 10 one day, and
| that two miners are now taking out on
| an average of $40 to the pan.
1t is rumored that Jonn Brockman
has sold his interest iu the Pearce
mine near Wilcox, Arizona, for ST. ,OOO,-
900 spot cash. 1t is generally under
derstood that Mr.. Brockman owned
one-tfth interest in the property. AT
thi. price the mine would have u cash
value of $4,000, 900. There is little
doubt that the Pearce mine is the
greatest mining property in the world
and will from present. indications,
prove to be the largest producer of gold
and silver ever discovered, except the
Comstock.-Silver City N. M. Enter
prise.
A recent Hermosillo dispatch says a
party of California prOspectors, who
two years ago went into the YaQui In
dian country and discovered ricn gold
placers on Batopilas river, have Sc
cured title to the property and begun
work. Four members of the party
have alre ady taken out $40, 900. The
news of the bonanza is just received
here and there will be big rush to
the new Ell Dorado. 1t can easily be
reached from the coast by going up
the Yaqui and Batopilas rivers by
boat.
There are just as good mines and
there is just at good a country TO pros
pect for mines within ten miles of
Pre- scott as can be found in Northern
Arizona. The more inaccessible a
mine is the bigger the reports about
its richness: but, after you have swum
the river, crossed the desert and scaled
the glacier you find thai the reported
ia bulously rich mine you went to see
is nine times out Of ten, not SO good as
the one right at hand over which you
have ridden and walked for years, the
very fam iliarity of which bred in you a
Goa tempt which prevented you giving
the property merlted attentlOn-COur-
Ter.
News from Cochiti, N. NJ mining
camp says that Thomas Benson has
struck a large body of gold ore in a
tunnel on the Puzzle claim that ASSAYS
$1,000 to the ton. In Cartwright Bros.
discovery, in South Santa F'e county, /!
the whole breast of the tunnel by !
feet, carries gold value at from SO to
so TO the ton. In the Missouri claim |
in the recently discovered Vsllecitos
district. ten miles above Ojo Calieute, I
s feet of Old-copper ore, worth $40 to :