El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-07
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
Valuable Statistics and Various Notes
of Interest to Miners.

' dludDlt OIdtlS Jus GbtiNt al fOho -NoINc
of Interest to Miners.
There are nearly 500 names on the
payroll of the Copper Queen company.
Ore said to be rich in free gold has
been discovered at STEMS Fass in
Arizona.
The United Verde copper mine at
jerome, produces about $4,000 pounds
of copper daily.
The CimarrOn mine Of Telluride,
Colo. has been smut down, aud the
entire force discharged.
Some of the business men of Needles,
Cal, are making move to secure a
1O0-ton smelter at that point.
J. b. Freeman, president of the Ari-
IONA Contra bank, has made a fabu-
lous strike at Rands burg, the ledge
running one-fourth pure gold. This
amounts to several thousand dollars to
the ton.-tlegstatf Democrat.
A roller and cyanide process has been
started in operation in FOOLS Gulch,
Ariz. At depth of 600 feet the mine
shows excellent results. At the Con-
gresS nine a new roasting process for
drying the ores has been put in opera
tion with the cyanide works. This is
the third of its kind operating in the
United States. From the Granite Reef
mine, two miles west of Congress, come
reports of a new strike. Strikes of
rich gold ore are reported from Ante
lope Hill.
Howell Hines. of Cleveland, Ohio:
who has recently cleaned up several
million dollars in the sale of mines at
MinaS Prietas, near Torres, in the stale
of Sonora, Mexico, has for some weeks
hopr in Chorlfc
A. Sirringo, of Santa Fe. with view
to investing in the Cochiti district.
AS result Expert Mahar, of Los
Angeles, is now making d thorough
inspection of the district. If his
report is favorable Mr.. Hines will
invest something like a quarter Of
million dollars in mines aud mills at
Cochltl.-Santa Fe New Mexican.
The gold production of the world is
going up with rapidly. Beginning
with 1891, the starting point of the
Increase. we have the figures:
1891 ......... ....... Sl30, go, 600
1892. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l46, Sl5. 100
1875 .................. Iol' 20 'ooo
1894 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50, $40, 100
1895 2O3, 00O, 600
The figures for 1896 caunot be had
for some months, but it is practically
certain that they will not fall below
1925. 600, 900, and they may reach $780,
100000
Cyanide is seriously invading the
field of colonization. Mines located
at considerable distance from rail
road neccessitates the cost OF transpor-
tation of the chemicals used in chlOri-
nation which has hitherto been high,
and at least until the use of chlorine
becomes q practical success, cyanide
has the advantage in this respect. In
many instances as high as 30 pounds OF
chemicals are used in the chlOrina
ton process, while only ,! pounds of
cyanide were necess AIRY to treat one
ton Of ore. If there is silver present
the cyanide has the advantage that
part of the silver is recovered. With
am lgamatiUu cyanide enters into
competition Only in the case of very
finely divided gold which is saved
more or less successfully in pans. The
cost Of cyanide varies largely with the
character of the ore. There are great
number ofmillS which crush and cy-
anide ore for less than 81 per ton
exclusive of royalty paid the company
that OWES the patents. No company
has yet been able to reduce the cost OF
tailiDgS to the minimum reached in
South Africa-59 cents per ton: but
one plant operating under exception
a cost 90 cents ton. In general the
tailings plants working in this country
do not obtain a high percentage of eX-
tractiOn.-Ex.
L. S. MINERAL STATISTICS.
The Engineering and Mining
Journal contains statistics of the min