El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-28
ACTIVITY AT NOGAL.

ined and is believed to be one of the
finest mining propositions in the south
| west.
| ACTIVITY At NOGAL.
| At Nogal we found tn t another mine
of great local reputation, the Helen
Rae, had just been sold for a round
sum to Mr. Richards and Dolph, of
Scranton, Pa, and thorough and steady
development on the Helen Rae will
commence at an early date. This is
also described as an excellent mining
proposition. Nogal is putting on an
air of activity and life again. The
sales of these properties, the going and
coming of capitalists and prospectOrs
and the prospects of the building of q
Nogal, and the town bids fair ID be
prosperous and active henceforth.
THE SALADO COAL FIELDS.
| On the 18th very careful and ex-
haustive examination of the extensive
| SaladO coal fields was had, and every
man in the party, and some are old and
| experienced mine operators from Penn
| sylvania and West Nirgiania expressed
himself more than pleased and agreed
| that the coal, both in quantity and
quality, surpassed the most anguine
expectations. WhaG their opinions are
worth may be determined from their
| L
dou btedly some of the best and most
successful coal operators in the country
among them. [ give the names of the
party and their positions, that people
may judge.
w. A. Lathrop, general superintend-
ent, Lehigh Valley Coal company.
Wilkesbarre. Pa.
G. d. Simpson, Scranton, Pa, who is
| the heaviest shipper of anthracite in
PaDnSylv
Colonel H. NJ. Boies, of Scranton,
Pa, who is heavily interested in coal
| lands'in that state.
George w. Dickinson. of New York,
for many years connected with the
Union Pacific and Northern Pacific
railroads.
Commodore c.. c. w. Lowry. of New
York: B. S. Harmon. of the law firm of
Strong, Harmon & Ma thewson, New
York, and Mr.. Glllem, a New York
capitalist.
C. b. EDDYIN CHARGE.
The party is in charge of c.. b. and
John y. Eddy. 1t takes four carria ges
and three camp wagons to carry the
party, tents, cooking outfits and camp
utensils. but under the efficient super
vision of Mr.. L FL Bartlett of Silver
City, formerly of the enterprises in the
PecOs valley, the party has made the
trip so far with not an accident of any
kind and without missing square
meal. At night when camp is reached
tents go up like magic, camp b edste ads
are put up, camp tables and camp chairs
are forthcoming and soon the whole
party is around a fire and after dinner
songs are sung, cigars are smoked.
stories are told aud water is consumed
There are many good singers in the
outfit including one jolly chap, who
has lovely tenor voice, and VINO is
Joy to the party. nOtw IthStaudiug he
says. he is not cut out for a tenor and
Notwithstanding the fact that there are
10 ladies in the party to admire him
and extoll his voice.
THE MESCALERO AGENCY.
Just now the party is resting half
day at the Mescalero agency where
that wonderful and energetic army o.
ficer and bundle of nerves, Lieut.. Vie
tor E sStottler is Indian agent. He
received US with open hospitality.
There are some men in this party who
have studied the Indian quest on and
know good deal about the Indians of
the west and southwest and who also
are members of Indian rights associa
tions and the like in the east and they
are SIMPLY delighted with our host and
his manner of handliog the MescalerO
ApacheS. This is putting il too mild
though. They one and all applaud to
the echo the model little story, they
forced Lieut.. Stottler to tell of the
sheariug of Poor Lo," as in fact they
have approved everything they
have seen on this, one of the best, |
if not the best managed and conducted |
Indian agency and reservation in |
Uncle Sam domain.
Lieutenant Slottler deserves and in |
fact is acquiring national reputation |
&C MI In
dian agent and is solving part at least |
of the Indian problem. The Mesca-
lerO Indians are rapidly i'm proving and |
are fast becoming advanced, so as to
make them good citizens in few short
years and this highly gratifying state
of affairs is all due to Lieutenant SLOT
tier.
THE RETURN TO Ell PASO.
The party camp at Tu!arosa tonight,
thence goes to FL PasO via Black noun
tain gold camp. II aching Ell Paso on
Sunday. The party will spend one or
two days at E! Paso and then return
east in their special car newport
which is now in Ell PasO awaitiog their
return.
AT Salado the party was joiued by
Judge A. b. Fall and Hon. George
Carry. Today Judge Fail is plotting
a portion of the party on 80 mile side
and fine agricultural valleys Of the
Sacramento and White mountains.
The party did not take this trip to
Inaugural the building Of the Ell Paso-
White Oaks abroad, but representing
themselves and other capitalists, coal
operators aod railroad ui!ders, the
trip was taken to satisfy themselves as
TO whether in their opinion the re-
sources of the country will Justify the
in of iS
clus' on they have come to, one can
Judge by the following remark, one of
he leading members of the party made
yesterday. The man is the principal
'ailroad man in the party and knows
What he is talking about. He said
This road will be self-supporting in
me year after its completion, without
ZOE siderirg the coal at all, but wi