El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-06

cars of ore to the smelters at Pueblo
and FL Paso.
The copper industry of the United
States is rapidly increasing. Every
copper plant in the country is adding
to its plant and in many instances
doubling its output of ingot copper.
A prospector named Kent was recent
ly in Phoenix with a sample of ore from
a claim in the Harqua Hala district
which ran 1000 ounces in silver and
carried from twenty to forty per cent
in lead.
| During 1896 the Arizona Copper COM
pany produced 1872, 1916 pounds of cop
per and 1863, 1852 pounds of matte. The
company expects to soon have its con-
verter in position, when it will produce
copper bullion exclusively, the matte
being all turned into bullion before it
| is shipped.
| The gold find in the Short Horn
mountains, located about twenty-five
miles north of TacDa station, on the
Southern Pacific railroad, is exciting
| high grade boom. which is liable to
establish the biggest mining camp in
Arizona in the Short Horn district
Star.
1t is said that the Colorado river
| ranges from the Grand canon to Yuma
| have not been prOspected at all. and
some miners look for some startling
! discoveries at an early day. The big
| gold strike at Yuma has stimulated
greater activity in Yuma county than
ever before known.
| 1t has been suggested that there are
| some blind gold leads in the mesa lands
surrounding Tucson, as colors OF gold
| can be found in many places. Why not
| iDVaSti catpc The satpa renarlx made
| d few weeks ago concerning una and
behold rich gold vein has been dis
covered within the limits of Yuma city
and is now being developed with every
| prospect of proving rich gold produ-
| cer."Star.
| The production of aluminium in the
| United States last year is placed at l.
100000 pounds, against an output of
| 900, 600 pounds in the previous year:
S17. Geo in 1894 3I2, 600 in 1898 and 16S.
600 in 1891. The uses of this new and
valuable metal are extending the de-
mand quite as fast. A dozen years ago
the price OF aluminium was"nearly
IS pound. Last year the price aver
| aged 10 cents pound and is still fall
ing.
Moons mining district, forty-six
miles from Phoenix, is looking up. The
Osborn" mine has about 81, 900 of de-
|
than 10000 worth of ore in sight. On
the B q n. B. group much work has
been done showing gold, copper and
silver in paying quantities, say p per
cent copper and $50 per ton in gold.
The Syracuse, owned by Carlisle, has
twenty sacks of ore going 20 per cent
in copper and so per ton in gold:
good showing. There is good road
from Phoenix to this district.
A placer miner brought in from Will
low creek few days ago, three mug
gets worth so 80, SIC and SO, which
were picked up on top of the ground
Willow creek flows from northeast
erly direction through the northern
suburb of Prescott and has never been
considered placer gold stream al
though nuggets have been found on it's
banks and in its bed from time to time
The nuggets recently found were ex-
posed by action of flood water without
doubt. There are many promising
gold quartz claims near the head
waters of Willow creek.-Courier.
Ed Showerman and George B. Option
had mill test made recently of ore
from their God King mine at Stanton,
says the journal Miner. The test did
not prove satisfactory, as far as saving
the values were concerned, but demon
strated the value of the ore. They
saved $3.50 on the plates. The con-
trates were shipped to smeltsr with
out sampling, but samples of the tail
ings assayed S17.9S. By proper treat
ment whereby the values in the ore
can be saved. the property promises to
become a good producer, They have
already had very hattering offer for
their property, but prefer to devolpo
it further before placing it on the
market.
y rich strike has been made in the
Aztec mine eight miles south of Pres
colt owned by the Sun Dance company
OF Chicago. Superintendent l.. A. |
Davies had a sample of the ore assayed
which went hundred and seventy four
dollars in gold and two hundred and
fifty ounces in silver, or a total value of
three hundred and forty dollars and
sixty cents per ton. The pay streak is
fourteen inches wide The mine is |
located in an old district. This dis
covery in connection with the strike of
three hundred dollar ore in the Monte
Cristo mine on Groom creek only a few
miles apart has created considerable |
excitement in mining circles in that To-
cality.
Application has just been filed by B. |
L. Ryan Of Denver for a patent on a |
new method of freeing deep mines from
water al small expense and If the !
half that is claimed for it can be accom-
pllshed by the new system. it will |
create a sensation in the mining world |
and render profitable the working of |
many mines thai have been abandoned |
because of the big cost of keeping them |
freed from water. The power to oe en-
ployed in the system is compressed air, |
but the details of its action and the |
simple machinery used is a closely |
guarded secret, and will be such until !
the discovery is fully protected by let
tiers patent in this and foreign ccun-
tries. Mr.. Ryan claims that he can
free the deepest mines from water and
keep them dry at greatly reduc ed
cost from that of any other known pro-
cess no matter how great may be the
inflow.
One of the leading and most reliable
consulting engineers in London saws