El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-22

A lot OF II tons OF ore from tne 1rAue
Dollar mine, near Boise, Idaho, sent to
a smelter, netted Sl2 600. of which
SIS 900 was in gold and S24 900 In sill
yer.
The Silver City smelter has been in
operation little over year, running
day and night. 1t has put in circula-
ton something like $25, COO month in
Silver City.
1t is reported that Sr. Juan Pedrazi-
nv has sold his rich Ell Carmen mine
near Querobabi, Sonora, for 81 600, 600.
He also retains few shares OF stock
in the mine.
The new gold mill at Bland will use
about ton of salt day in extracting
gold. The salt used will be brought
from thes alt lakes east of the andla
mountains, and costs Sl2 a ton deliver
ed at the mine.
Yuma Sentinel: The price paid for
the Pearce mine of COchise county,
was 1865, ZOO. The owners took that
much out of the mine in just three
months and ten days, beside paying all
the expense of doing it.
At Yolotla, about forty miles from
San Nicholas, rich strike has Just
been made in la Americana. The
ores are sulphides in a quartz gangue
in which the gold does not occur In
very free condition, but is amenable
to treatment by the cyanide process.
More prospecting is goirs on this
summer in Arizona than ever before
at any time of year. The Phoenix
Herald truthfully remarks that the
mining world is waking up to the fact
tha at Arizona is a great and rich min
nranfipal1U nn6PVel-
oped.
The mines which are worked in Ia
mauiipas are exempted from the tax
of one per cent on the value of the
metal which they produce. All mines,
the working of which shall be com
menced within a period of i've years
viii be entitled to the same privilege.
Trader.
The ore being shipped at the rate of
o carload daily from the Sau Xavier
mines, under the management of Cen
eral L. H. Manning, is treated at the
Ell Paso reduction works and yields a
profit over expenses though but Sec
ond grade, and shipped mainly for the
purpose of ascertaining by actual tests
the true method of treating it.
In the miners drilling contest at
Prescott, Ariz,, during the celebration,
they had single and double-hapded con-
tests. The drillers were to occupy
fifteen minutes on large granite rock
The greatest depth of hole in the
double handed contest was 33 inches
and took first prize, $500: the third
prize was won by the men who made
29.7 inches and took $40. In the single
handed contest there were three prizes
TO be competed for: 500, $40 ard $50
First was taken with 17.5 inches: sec
ond, 16 9 inches, and third 16 inches.
A prominent mining engineer, who
has returned from Guerro, gives the
Trader the following authentic report
'In the district of Nina, at the San
Felipe mine, there has just been made
a wonderful strike, The first 115 tons
yielding l 500 ounces of bullion whic h
gave at the mint L 400 ounces of fine
gold. The extra ton, ireights, treat
ment, mintage and other charges
against this product did not amount to
$40, goo in silver. There are about 15C
tons more Of the same class of ore on
the dump: this has TO be freigh ted
about ten miles to the mill which has
five stamps and plates. The owners
are going to erect at once a large
mill, using the profits to pay for
same