El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-28

| J. f. Johnson has located several
lead claims near the Ben Nevis mine,
in the Organ district in Dona Ana
county.
1t is reported that Chris Wiegand of
| this city has bonded the Gypsy Queen
mine in the Golden district to an
| English syndicate for 90 days for $780,
O00.-Optic.
1t is reported that large body of
| high grade ore has been encountered
Homestake, =" White Oaks district, and
that milling will probably be resumed
very soon.
Ed James is increasing the storage
capacity of the Wing stamp mill. He
will have the new ore bins and the
roadway leading thereto completed in
| few days. The concentrater recent
| ly ordered is en- route from Denver
Black Range.
r. L. You-g district attorney for
Dona Ana county, who holds some val
liable mining properties hereabouts,
was a visitor here Friday. He was
accompanied by r. G. Hatton, of Las
| Cruces. They went to Nogal and b.
| nito.-W hite Oaks Eagle.
4 Two gangs of workmen have just
begun digging in Colorado the longest
| tunnel which man ever attempted to
| construct. This tunnel will be driven
| under Pixies Peak, and the main bore
will be twenty miles in length. 1t will
| require seven years for its compile ton.
| 1t is reported that Messrs. Callahan
| and Kline, two Americans interested
in mines near Ameca, have been as
sass.nated, Kline being shot and killed,
| while Callahan received several stabs
| with knife. Several men have been
arrested, and it is suspected that they
are complicated in the crime.
| Prospecting is going on in the noun
| tains east of La Luz and some beauti-
iul specimens of onyx, terquol7e, iron
and copper have been found and
| brought to this Office, says the Tularo-
sa Chef. One of our informants tell
us that there is a large vein of high
| grade iron ore within ten miles of La
| Luz.
| y. B. Laird has purchased the old
| Willis, now called the Cirque Senoras,
mine, on the west side of Hanover
| gulch, N. M, and ia company with
| George Knox has started work upon it.
| \ good body of copper ore was open
| ed, at the bottom of an old shaft 50
| feet in depth. A sample lot of 10 tons
4 W
ton Works this week.
| The Treasure Mining company at
| PinoS Altos have decreas ed the force of
men at work in the m ne until the new
| machinery being put up in the mill IS
| in place, as the mine produces ore too
| rapidly for the storage capacity Of the
| mill, when the mill is not crushing.
| The development work being prosecut-
ed in the mine continues to show up
very good ore bodies. The mill will
probably be ready to resume operations
| within ten days.
| According to the message of Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico, there were ap-
piled for ) 500 mining titles under the
| new law of 1892 up to the end of 1896
| OF these >, 1873 were in Sonora. The
| ;otal expectations of mineral of all
| kinds, Including gold silver, copper,
lead coal, marble, act, for 1896 81
| reach 81 600, 900. OF the nearly So
| OOO. 900 of gold exported, Sonora fur
nishcd 3.227. S3S. The gold and silver
production of Sonora for 1896 will show
at least So, I43, $50.
There is more productive a9G paying
activity in the mines OF the camps in
| the Hanover. N. NJ. district and vIcini-
| " than in any other camp of the south
west. New strikes, of good ore in pay
| ing quantities. arr of weekly occur
renee. The latest strike was made
about ten days ago by |. Maytield. The
mine, upon which the ore was found,
is an old abandoned claim located about
| half Il mile east Of the store. The ore
| is lead carbonate and shows a body of
| from three to five feet. 1t is supposed
10 run 10 to 80 per cent lead and 10 to
! II ounces in silver per ton. Several
prospect holes have been sunk. along
the trend of the ore deposit, and for a