El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-27

Inc mines OF buIue, Mont, use u
500 900 pounds of powder yearly-the
Anaconda mine nearl two thirds of this
amount.
In Southern Oregon fifteen years
ago it cost more to pay the freight
than the supplies now cost at the
| mines.
Business is rapidly reviving at No
| gal. The American mine is setting up
| large amount of new machinery
preparatory to increase the force of
workmen on that valuable property.
A great body of ore has been struck
| in the west drift of the Amarillas on
the 500 foot level, which is being run
to connect with the Grand Central
shaft. The Grand Central shaft is con-
nected with the 400 foot level of the
Amarillas now.-Phoenix Republi-
can.
! Beach mining in Alaska, or washing
| the beach sands which every tide re-
places, and which are apparently in
exhaustible, pays from St to $40 per
| day per man. These rich beaches
are not common. 1t is only an
occasional spot where they pay as stat
| ed.
The Alaska Treadwell has been
|
and curtail production for some weeks
on account of scarcity of water.
| This company is about to install q
5000 horsepower electric plant, to cost
1925, 900, and is now sinking 1000-foot
shaft
Col. Turner, of the LIE Roi mine at
| Rossland, B. c., in denying that the
property had been sold to the Rio
Tinto company of Scotch capitalists,
said that negotiations had been opened
and they had been given a verbal offer
of the mine for $1,000, 900, but so far
had not come forward with forfeit.
On the Golden Gate mine, at Mercur,
Utah, Capt. J. r. De Lamar has block
ed out ore estimated to be worth seve-
raj millions, and in doing this he has
expended nearly 100000 without tax
ing out dollars worth of bullion.
The erection of mill and accessories
for working the ore will bring the
expenditure to some 5000, OOO
y telegram from San Diego, Cal,
announces that Col. E. B. Sebens, of
Denver, Col, has closed deal by which
an English syndicate purchases the
Hedges, near Ogilby, on the Colorado
desert, for S 800, 900. the new company
to take possession within sixty days.
! San Francisco parties do not confirm
| the statement.
At the Anaconda copper mines in
| Montana, the St. Lawrence shaft is
down l, 300 feet, the Never Sweat ! ,43O
feet, the High Ore No. l l 200 feet, and
High Ore No. 2 1000 feet. The work
OF connecting all the mines of this COM
| pany underground, is nearing compile
ton. Compressed air will be used to
| transmit ore from where it is mined to
| the station.
| Last week a big mining deal was
closed at Pinos Altos, through which a
| party of San Francisco capitalists came
INTO possession of the Bell & Stephens
mining property at that place. We
were unable to obtain full particulars,
| but it is nderstOod that the price paid
| was S140, 900, including the mills, water
rights, etc. We will publish the deal
in full next week.-Silver City Eagle.
| One of the largest mining suits ever
| brought in any American court is that
| Of the Montana Ore Purchasing COM
pany against the Boston and Montana
| Mining company to recover the sum of
81, d., GOO, the alleged value Of ore
taken by the defendants from 300 feet
of ground lying west of the defendants
property in the city of Butte, and
known rs the Barus mine.
| The Mammoth (Utah) Star is trying
|
| tionality of the new mining law passed
| by the legislature over the governors
veto. The two main grounds for OBJ
| lection are that all locations must be
recorded with the county recorder in
stead of or as well as, the district re-
corder, and that the assessment work
| must be done within ninety days OF To-
| cation.
| The iron industry in the eastern part
of Cuba overshadOws all other inter-
ests. Two American companies in that
| vicinity employ 400 men, and ship to
Pennsy lvania mills nearly $4,000 tons
of ore per month. The ore is very rich.
From 1928 TO 1910 Cuba also shipped to
| this country over S., 900, 900 worth of
| copper ore, but this branch of trade
| has lapsed considerably. American
capital was busy in the development of
| numerous new deposits of Manganese
ore when the revolution broke out.
A correspondent writing from Pearce
to the Deming Headlight, says: This
camp is going up hill very fast. A
new steam pump has just been put in.
The Commonwealth Mining company
is breaking ground for the erection of
mill: the FitZ johnson company is
working ten men at Tomalson Hill:
Martin, Masters and Barrett have struck
rich ore on their claims on Tomalson
Hill: Martin and Masters also have six
claims in the Dragon mountains, sig
miles from here, the ore from which
runs high in gold and silver. What is
needed here is good smelter."
The library of Copper Queen compa
ny is the pride Of Bisbee, and is ap-
preciated by the miners employed here
as the librarians report for February
shows that the number who have sat
at the mems tables to be 2,935 for the |
month, average 100 per day. AT the
ladies table forty-two. There has
been added 10 the library during the |
last year 151 volumes of the latest pub
locations, making the number now in
the library J. SOB. The works are all
well selected, and the con- pany de-
serves the thanks of the city as we'll as
the employees for this gift.-Orb.
The greatest mine owners and invest
Ors in the world are the ROthschilds.
Among those they own are the Alma
den miues of Spain and the Idria of
Austria which gives them control of
the quicksilver market of the world.