El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-02
MINING NEWS.
Claims and PROSPECTS, Appear To Be
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| Several hund red miners are at work
at White Hills and sooher prosperous
camps in Mohayescountysao :ai..oH'
The HRed Bandanar' made rich
| cleanup, at Elizabethtown, N. M.
Hover a gallon and a half of amalgam
was procured, Which restored nearly
| S3O0Oii5aSi" -
| d. The projected improvements in the
railway shops at Ration, the erection OF
the coke ovens. and the handling OF
| the Blossburg output of coal here, will
| add largely to the population of Ration
during 1S97.-Raton Range.
Advices from Globe state that camp
has never been so prosperous as now.
However, there will not probably be
any further increase in the number OF
men employed till the extention of the
railroad is at least commenced.
Twenty teams of from six to fourteen
animals each are now engaged in haul
ing ore from Washington camp and
Harshaw to Crittenden. They are
kept busy every day and transfer a
great many pounds of high grade ore.
Phoenix Gazette.
The Tucson Mining and Smelling
company shipped recently through the
Consolidated National bank, via the
Southern Pacific, twenty tons of copper
bullion, the product of four days run
of the smelter. j. Francis, the man
ager of the smelter, is always on the
lookout for copper ore, and pays cash
for every pound that is shipped to him.
F. R Nellis has bonded thirteen of
his Canyon copper mines for 1884, to
a strong financial company of Boston
This company will at once expend a
large amount of money in the develop
much to this section of the country,
and in all probability marks a new
business epoch in Coconino county
Williams News.
The Anaconda company will make a
better showing than ever in its history
this year, says the Scientific Press.
Its output of copper has been material
ly increased since August and for the
first ten months of this year the pro-
duction of copper exceeds that OF the
whole of 1895 by 1000, 900 pounds. The
output for the year will approximate
$50, 900, 900 pounds. bstone Pros
pector.
In carload lots, lead is distinctly
frmer in New York at 50 Oo per 100
pounds. Yet the National Lead trust
makes the market quotation 81 IS,
which means loss to the mines of 80
ranted steal. The shelters of the
country, in justice to their customers,
should take action against this rob-
berry, which falls with especial force
upon the silver lead districts. Denver
News.
Denver mining sharks have again per-
petrated big robbery on New York,
Chicago and Kansas City capitalists.
Six months ago it was announced rich
zinc and lead mines had been discover
ed in Trego and Logan counties in
western Kansas. Shares were sold
and taken up eagerly by capitalists in
the places mentioned. Kansas City
people finally sent Professor Hawarth,
of the state University, to the alleged
mines to make an assay. He has re-
turned and reports that only trace of
mineral can be found and that the
Denver sharks after robbing the east
ern capitalists, deserted the field.
1t is predicted that Alaska will with
in a few years, be one eff the most
productive gold mining sections in the
world, says the Two Republics. AS a
basis of the prediction figures are pro-
duced showing the annual increase of
production, Notwithstanding the ex-
Il
machinery and supplies into the mining
region. From a very small beginning
a few years ago, the output last year
reached So, 10000 This year it will
amount to So, 900, 900 and it is confident
ly predicted that next year it will
amount to S12, 100000. Heretofore it
took from Two to three months to
transport machinery and supplies into
the Yukon valley, where the mining
is being principally done, but now
routes have been opened by which the
mines may now be reached inside of
twenty five days, the result of which
has been a great stimulus to mining
operations, and an increase of
1000 in the population of the mining
region.
Whenever a man feels himself failing
in health, when he feels that he is get
ting old too fast, that his vitality is low,
and that he is losing flesh. ne should