El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-19

closed whereby the Excelsior Mimi
and Milling company acquired title
thirty claims in Indian Secret mimi
district. The amount paid for the pro
perties is said to have exceeded 81, 900
900. r. 7. Root engineered the dea
and an English syndicate is the pul
chaser. Later we will give revie'
of the work mapped out by the ney
ompany.-Mohave Miner.
Aqua F'ria ranch recently. He report
having struck very good ore on a CLAIM
which he owns, on the east slope of tn
Black Hills. The vein is two and
half feet between walls and the whole
of the vein matter carries value enough
to mill to very good profit, while the
best streak is fifteen inches in Width
and will plate $40 gold per ton. and il
getting higher grade as depth is at
| tanned. Some of the ore assays ovel
800 per ton.-Courier
| A mining man OF wide experience
said in the lobby of one of our hotels
the other evening that never before
had he seen such vast bodies Of ore a.
are blocked out in the White Hills
Ariz., mines. Regarding the values o.
the ores he said they ran away and
above anything Colorado has ever
seen. He predicted that White Hills
would in very short time be the scene
of the greatest excitement ever witness
ed in a mining camp on the Amer
lean continent.-Mohave Miner.
A. w. Tenant of Taos, N, M, says
in the Denver Times: "There is sec
ton of country down there that will
make another Cripple Creek in the
next two years. A wide extent of that
territory is rich in gold and copper,
and about Elizabethtown all the min
ing districts are resuming and quite a
boom is even now in progress. The
old districts are taking on new life and
several new ones are coming to the
front. He is confident that 5000 men
will be at work in the Cimarron and
Red river country by the 1st of June.
The gulches are rich in placer gold,
and men are just beginning to find out
that the sources of it are great fissure
veins, not yet scratched. They mark
the mountains in scores of places and
invite the atten tion of prospectors and
miners"
The Journal-Miner was shown some
ore recently which was good for sore
eyes, as the gold was sticking out of it
on all sides. The piece was about
three inches square by about six or
seven inches in length, and gold was
piece would go away up in the thou
sands of dollars per ton. 1t was taken
from near the surface from a claim
owned by Richard Crow and Andrew
Peterson, the claim being an extension
of the celebrated Grey Devil mine,
owned by T. E. Percy in Weaver dis
trict. Messrs. Grow and Peterson
have eight claims there which they
are developing, and if they can only
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sample they will have enough to make
them rich. The quartz is very similar
in character to that found near the sur
face in the Congress niue, and tends
to cotirm the theory held by many that
the Congress vein, extends for a long |
distance across the country, and that |
the Fools Gulch mines, as well as a |
NUN Der of mines in Weaver district. |
are on the same vein as the Congress. |
The ores of these various claims are |
very similar in character.
Government troops have just driven
,ut Of the Wichita, Kansas, mountains
party of miners who have been
the rich lodges for months
n open defiance of the Indian
police who patrol and guard that sec
ion.
The Indian police have routed these
miners number of times, but the
ichness OF the mines they are working
las led them.to return again and
gain. When the detachment of gov
rnment troops from Fort Sill swoop-
d down upon them several were cap
ured but it is believed that others are
iding in the businesses of the M oun-
aims, with an expectation of resuming
7ork as soon as the troops have with
rawn.
One of the party run in by the SOL
iers is William Cooley, an old Mon ;
ana miner, and he declares that the
reat Wichita mother ledge is a car
onate belt of unsurpassed richness :
remarkable extent. According to
is statement, it is from 500 to 1000 |
ards wide and fully twenty miles in .
,ngth.
According to treaty stipulations the
md is strictly for the use of the In |
ians, and white men who are tres
assers are liable to a heavy fine and |
Imprisonment. 1t is expected that the
riSOnerS scaptured in this raid will
e severely dealt with.
1t is said that the Indians have for
ears been aware of the existence of
MS great carbonate belt, and that
hey have guarded it with eternal vigi-
lnce from the cupidity OF white men.
here is great excitement throughout
nat part of the territory and it is ex-
ected that the government will be
ompelled to adopt extreme measures
hen the facts become generally
nown, for a great rush for the gold
elds is sure to follow.
The Wichita mountains are far in
ne interior and only a small force of
loops is stationed at Fort Sill. If the
1tiux of prospectors continue it will be
ecessary to mass more troops in the
egion of the gold fields.
Something to remember, if you re a
7eak and ailing woman-that there's
My one medicine so sure to help you
hat it was for years sold under a
ositive guarantee. It's DR.. Pierce's
'avOrite Prescription. In building up