El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-11

parties. Judge O. T. Porter, of Hack
| berry, and Kean ST. Charles negotiated
the sale.
At the Valparaiso mine, Jackson,
Amador county. they are working ore
| in au arrastre and are about putting
up small plant to roast the ore at
the mine to avoid having to ship any Of
| it.
Sixty tons of ore were shipped to
| the Kingman sampler last week from
| the ORC Plata mine. 1t is one of the
best properties in Arizona and only
needs to be Systematically developed
to be a steady producer of rich gold
ore.
Southern Grant county is prospecting
equally with the northern portion in
the industry being displayed in mining.
| Cooks Peak, Tres HermanaS, Flori-
das, Hachita and other camps tributary
to Deming are coming rapidly to the
| front these days.
| The Bueuavista mine is now paying
a dividend of $500 per share and eX-
pect to pay $500 per share next month.
! This makes six dividends of SO 90 each
paid by this mine this year or a total
of $500 per share. The Carmen mine
has declared dividend of $500 per
| share.
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany of Butte, Mont, reports that its
| net proceeds of the mines in 1896 were
So, 375 900, and the gross ST.. 315 200.
The working expenses were $4,000
900. 1t is said the output is the lare Jest
of any mine in the world. Its net
proceeds of the year before were ST.
$50, 900.
The Alaska Mexican Gold NJ ming
1rr, f. oil 70. h.
month of April as follows Period
since la st return, 30 days; bullion ship
ment, S33, 1853: ore mllled, Ii, 2U5 tons;
sulpnurets treated, 437 tons; of bull
lion there came from su phurets
SI4, 666; gross expenses for period, $22,-
63S.
The Vancouver (B. c. city council
has sccepted the smelter ana refinery
offer of j A. Evans q Co., of London,
20 eXpend 5000, QUO on plant to treat
LEAD ana copper ores. In return the
The smelter Is to b. OF QUO tons capa-
clty. L he matter will probably be con-
tirlned by the tax payers.
s. L. Parks is in from Crittend den.
He sta, es that the Empire smeIter has
been running for seven days with much
| success, running eighty TONS through
per day. Inc Ola r1uX and Hardshell
mine are furnishing The ore. About
100 tons are being delivered per day
at the smelter. These are lead, silver
and gold ores, 90 that tneir lead bullion
! will b. high graae.-Cltlzen.
Jimmie Stevens brought to Solomon
vile last week some specimens OF ore
fr. N MS copper property ON the reser-
| walton strip, commonly known in the
Deer Creek Coal fields. This ore is
very high grade-irom 80 to ~ per cent
III copper-and Jimmie says he has d
| booy Of 1t sufficiently large to attract
some of the Dig 'uns when the strip is
| finally thrown open for settlement
| Bulletin.
A mining deal which may mean
quite little for the town OI Bisbee
was cIose d here DAY or SO since, be-
| tween the agent of an eastern company
GA the one SIDE and Thomas Higs ius,
johnny Keatlng, "A. L. SOwIe and d
| mum Der OF other parties on the OLLer.
the paroles named above all have
Claims adjoining the Copper Queen
| claims on tne east and southeast, auo
they nave bonded them ali together
| for d year ana half.-IOmbstone
| Prospector.
The Arizona Copper company is now
working mUre men and producing
more copper tLan at any time In the
history OF Clifton. wnIcn has been
for twenty years. The worn Ut
err ctiug two immense new
| fire pr oof buildings is now ing push
ed, one to be used as power nous e for
| the entire plant, and another for the
Bessemer cOnverterS, which are to Ue
put in just as soon as The building Can
be completed.
A report comes from DeadwOod, S.
OAK, that mining deal Was concluded
May "A by tie transfer of thrGy-five
mining claims and several fractions To
the Pierre syndicate, composed of
number of eastern capitalists. The
ground is adjacent to Lead City, anu is
rich, the one having the same charac-
terlstics as the Homes axes ores. 1t
is the intention tc erect 2UU stamp
mil on Belle tourche river. The deal
involves the expenditure of 81, 900, OUO.
The Engineering and Mining Jour
nal has just com plete Its anuu al state
ment Tor 1896 and 1t Is prOba BILE the
most accurate and comprehensive
statement yet published In that con-
nectlOn. 1t indicates an increase of
al bout $40, OOO, 900 In The mineral pro-
duct OF the United States in 1896 over
1895, of which increase S1l ,S3U, l67 was
our silver pr duct. The Engineering
and Mining Journal has done a great |
service to The business of the county
in securing these statistics.
The Twin Buttes mine has been
sold. 1t is StaLed on good authority
that tue sum of SIO5, 900 IL deposited In |
an eastern bank, aud information WAS
receiv. d yesterday by wire that the
deed would be taken up GA the 18th of |
this month. This is the rich copper
group of mines of Baxter, Irish and |
Ellis. L he shaft is Gown 100 feet and
a fine body of high grade ore laws at
the bottom. The safe of this porpertv
means much for Tucson aud tue Olive
district, for dozen other sales will
follow in quick successlon.-Star.
One of the best items from Lead.
vile, from which nothing but good
news comes, Is that the Blmetaliic
smelter will start in few DAYS. 1t
was closed down last summer when the
strike had reduced ore production. /,
was then treating 4UO to quo tons of ore