El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-07

The wages of the miners employed
by the Commonwe alth Mining company
at Pearce are to be cut to 500 per
day. Pearce has been S. camp.
The Bisbee Lyre states that on the
Copper King of Arizona mine, No. l,
shaft is now down 260 feet, aud iudica'
| tions are improving with every blast
| let off.
Ell Concrete of Guaymas says tina. a
letter from Moctezuma district states
that ore worth $4,000 per ton has been
taken from the "Cinco de Mayo" mine,
in that district.
Prospector: 1t is stated that 1,O0C
pounds of bullion is the result of six
teen days run On the Commonwealth
mill at Pearce. AS record producers
Cochise county mines are entitled tC
the bun.
Mohave Miner: J. r Halsey receiv.
ed return from shipment of ore tC
the Pueblo smelter that shows Mohave
county mines are the banner producers.
II gave 1866 ounces silver AID II Oun-
ces gold to the ton.
Citizen: Ed Hughes is in the city
from his famous Backbo ne mine in the
Santa Ritas. Within the psst week Ed.
uncovered a magnificent body of high
grade copper ore. There is, he says.
money in it, no matter which way you
look at it.
A Denver man who has just returned
from Old Mexico is enthusiastic over
the mining outlook in that country.
He says: There is a great deal OF
American capital being started in
Mexico. l think this the best time
there has ever been, or probably ever
will be, for American capitalists to 60
there to NINE"
L. J. Court of Prescott, Ariz., has
the gigantic idea that the Grand Canon
of the Colorado is a great sluice box,
and proposes to locate 300 miles of that
slit in Arizona, stretch steel cables
across, suspend ground sluices with
copper plates attached and o casio nall y
pulling up the aforesaid plates scrape
off gold, and ''set' EN- again"
Ell impartial OF last week says that
there had recently returned to Minas
Prietas from the new placer mining
field on the Yaqui river an American
with several thousand dollars in gold.
His accounts of the new discOve ries
has caused great excitement in the
camp, aud many were preparing to go
to the scene of the new discoveries.
Prospector: Jerry Sheehy and Pat
rick McCarty were the fortunate dis
coverers of the gold mines found at the
head of Post canon, which are now
bonded for $4,000, 600. Once more
there will be small Klondike in the
Huachucas. To Judge from the many
recent d scoveries of gold it is liable
to become the cheaper metal.
Bisbee OBJ: Winnineham, Dillon &
Nichols of Jerome, have bonded the
Winningham group of five mining
claims to Galveston parties, who pay
$50. 900 in eighteen months and six
months $4,000. Winningham is to re-
ceive 800 monthly until the bond eX-
pires. The Galveston men must do
Ger tain work continuously for two
years.
Phoenix Herald: A gentleman who
arr ived in the city this morning from
Harqua Hala states that the company
who have leased the Bonanza mine in
that district, have closed down the
cyanide works, having worked up the
taillngs, and on the first of the month
their lease expires. so but little work
is being done in the mire What will
be done at the expiration of the lease is
not known.
Yuma Sentinel: G w. Norton came
uOWn IFOI1 1OudWh Ou OuSl-
ness connec'ei with the State of Ari-
IONA Improvement Co. He brouPh t
down 124 pounds of gold bullion, the
esult of six days ran of a fve-stamp
mill on King of Arizona ore. The bull
lion was shipped to San Francisco ard
was worth between eight and ten
thousand dollars.
At Central, N. NJ, the drift On the
300 feet level of the Texas mine has
attained a length of $50 e. from the
shaft While there are several knife
blade strata OF rich ore, and one ore
streak large erOugh 10 pay, yet these
different strata of ore have not con-
rentrated as fast as expected. The
whole We 10 is very loose and TO feet
In width. 1t is probable that the ore
will not concentrate till the vein be-
CONES more compact. On the Rio
Grande there are two carloads of lead
car donate which will soon be slipped
TO the smelte:.
Col, H, S. Eivay, resident OF the