El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-18


steadily row and turning out about IL
tons OF bullion per day.
1t is rumored that the Commonwealth
| MIuing ana Milling company lately re-
fused an offer of $1,000, 900 for the
! Pearce mine. 1t is claimed that there
is in sight in the mine S32, GOO, 900 worth
of ore.
| The White Hills Mining and Milling
company has filed an increase OF capital
stock from So, 900, 600 to $4,000, 600. 1t
was originally incorporated by IL. L.
Root, Il. ". Moore and Il. NJ. Kenne-
Idy. Il operates in Mohave county,
Arizona, and its principal Offices are IN
| Denver.
q. w. L. Muir is driving down the
shaft on the Little Giant, which pro-
perty is owned by himself and Mr.
He'll of the Ell Paso Union clothing
store. They have 4 good lead of free
| milling gold ore from surface down,
| which assays $34 per ton.-Repub-
lican.
An agreement having been reached
| by the owners of the principal mines
| near Le2dvi;le to resume pumping,
which was stopped last winter while
| the strike was on, the unwatering has
/ begun this week. This arrapgem ent
viii result IN the employment of two
| thousand men within six months. 1t is
thought that by the first of August the
| upper levels will be sufficiently dry to
permit the introduction of men. More
| than 5000 acres are included in the
rich territory. the development of
which by deep shafts will be vigorously
epushed.
TIE Willow Creek Gold Mining &
| Milling company, organized for the
purpose OF purchasing, leasing, ac9uir-
ing, owning, selling, working and OPP
Grating mining claims and mia es of
gold, silver, copper, nickle, and all
kinds OF mineral and quartz, has just
been chartered at Santa Fe, n. NJ. The
capital stock is $780, 900. The incor-
porators are Thomas Robinson, b.
Gre sham and J. w. Galley, who wilt
act as directors of the corporation for
the first three months. The principal
place of business is given as Elizabeth
town, N. NJ.
\ dispatch from Cerrillos says that
in opening new shaft in the CarIey
Amanda mine, a piece of quartz was
taken up at a depth Of Il feet which is
a inches long. IL inches thick and 6
inches wide. Itweigh5 % pounds and
is estimated to be worth $1,000, being
almost mass of free gold. The re-
peated rich strikes lately made in this
claim has given great stimulus to
quartz mining in Santa k'e county. The
Carley Amanda people are said to have
$40 600 in free gold in quarts sacked
and stored away in the adobe homes,
and their deepest working is less than
10 feet.
IL is ia the Tres Amigos mine, where
with limited funds and pains in their
backs the boys have kept on gu city
working and have just uncovered the
richest gold ore tnat has ever been
found in the district. TIE ledge prop
er is about four feet vide, al good
grade gold ore, but six inches Of 1t is
extremely rich, the most conservative
estimating it as averaging 30 cents per
pound, or 81 900 to the ton: others esti-
mate it at double that value. 1t is now
uncovered for about four feet in the
tunnel, is in front, above and below
snd seems to be steadily continuous,
put lit continues that rich for even a
lit lie time. 1t VIII certainly create an
excitement. Fix.
The Red River Mining s. Investment
Is recently chartered New
Mexican corporation. The object of
the inc 7rpUraJiOl i for the purpose of |
acquiring by purchase, lease, discovery
location, grant or Otherwise, tunnel /
sites, bitches, water-rights, etc, and !
OF conducting general mlniug bust |
ness. The capital stock is 81 900, 900 .
and the affairs OF the company for the
first year OF its existence, l. to be und=r
the direction and control of three di-
-e-tOrS who are named as follows: G.
q. Nance, Z. L. Smith and G. G. Cot
ION. The operation aud business of
5he company are to be carried on in the
counties Of laos and Co.fax, territory
Of New MeNico and the principal place
II business of the Goa pany is given as
Red River, N. NJ.
LAKE. City, May "a. Dimon, hun
er and trapper in the Rat Root Val
ey, Mimi, brought in Il fine showing
II placer gold, some of the specks
2eing as large as pinheads, which he
avs he washed from q shovelful of