El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-12

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The Colorado State Bureau of Mines
has issued an order prob biting the
use of iron or steel tamping bars ir
mines of that state for the purse OF
driving powder into drilled holes.
The car at the incline at the Clifton
mine in Arizona, broke loose the other
day and dashed down 1000 feet onto
the rocks. Isabella Vega. young
Mexican woman, was aboard, and was
mangled beyond semblance to a hu.
man being.
The purchasers OF the Silver Trial
mine, Hassayampa district, have order
ed from the Gates Iron Works, San
Francisco, concentrating quartz mill
of 90 tons per day capacity, which will
be erected upon that mine as soon as
possible.-PrescottC Courier.
Mohave Miner: William Sweeny
reports that he has enough ore in SIGHT
in the Oro-Plata mine to net him S2O,-
600. A very small amount of develop
ment work has been done on the mine
and as it is further exploited we may
look to see bonauze opened np.
Messrs. Bell and Paul are going to
erect small smelling plant upon the
old Doyle claims, between Apache ard
I:ectors camp near Hachir*. N. NJ,
which they have relocated. The
mines have good showing of lead ore
and will pay with q smelter upon the
property.
Not a passenger train arrives in
hlngman without bringing mining
men from all parts of the globe in
quest of good mining properties, says
tina Miner. Miners are also fiockiC o.
into town on their way to the surround
ing camps. A rush is pretty sure to
come within the next few months.
When the Cliff Mining & Smelling
company, of Grant county, N. M,
starts up its smelter it will have the
next largest blower and the tallest
stack In active operation in the United
States. General Manager Mack in
forms us that the extreme CAPACITY of
the stack is 125 tons every twenty-four
hours.
Phoenix Gazette: c. M. Hast, of
the Winifred Mining and Milling com
pany is running a five stamp mill.
using crude oil for fuel. This is the
first experiment of the kind in Arizona.
but one mill in the Hum bug district
and another in the White Hills are
run by gasoline. All are being oper-
ated successfully.
w. -. onandIer Is working eighteen
men on the Mountain Key in the Pinos
Altos district on the 100, 200 and 300
loot levels. Mr.. Chandler informed an
Enterprise representative that he
would commence pumping below the
5Oo foot level about February Is and
that all the old levels down to the 700
would be opened again before long.
Rumor has had it for some time that
experts would soon arrive in Bland
from Los Angeles to investigate th,
mines of the district with view tt
purchase. This is now supported by
substantial information to the effec.
that certain Los Angeles experts will
arrive in the Cochiti district within
the next two weeks at the very long
est.
j. B. Gilchrist, formerly superir-
fendent of the S. @. & n. r r f
Hanover, has returned from Colorado
and will take charge of the new
company which has leased and bonded
The Guadalupe, Chino and two other
copper mines owned by the Santa Rita
Copper & Iron Co. The new company
contemplate very extensive deveIon.
ments upon the property.
Robert LIE France. Charles Depew.
Ev. Harris and DR.. Guthrie, a choice
lot OF old time citizens, have returned
TO Grant county after trying their
ortunes at Cripple Creek and other
celebrated camps. They believe that
Grant county offers more good OBJ
oortunltles than any of the more fam
'us camps OF the west. They are all
GOOD citizens and are welcomed back
again.
On Saturday night last, Alexander
the old time mining operat-
Or from Georgetown, while at work at
he Atlantic mine, at Pinos Altos, made
mlsstep and fell into the main shaft
II the Atlantic, which is over 300 feet
n depth. After falling twenty feet he
,lutched the bell rope and held on.
langllng In the air until Mine
W. T.Climo went down
ma extrlcated him from his perilous
position.
The Golden Giant company at Pinos
Altos has thirtyfve men emploved at |
he mine and mill. The mill las been
epalred and put in good shape by the |
lew mill superintendent, D. V. Col. |
nan. who has made very satisfactory
mill run during the month: TIE mil |
$ kept running one shaft, there is |
bout go tons of ore on hand and it is |
that when tho $50 foot level |
re opened the mill will be run day and |
light.
The Cochiti was never before so much |
N the end of the tongues of nearly |
very BODY Interested in mining, nor
vas so much ever before said about it |
the papers throughout the country.
avs the Bland Herald. The fact is |
bat the Cochiti mining district is an |
mineral ce ter, which be-
ONES more apparent as its magnitude |
no richness become better known and
Understood. 1t is but partly exploited,
till rich in the precious metals and full !
t fortunes for men of sense and |
sand"
The mining world has been set bv
ne ears by the developments in the
lennedy mine in Grass valley, Calf
Ornla, says an exchange. At a per-
9ndicular depth of over 2.10O feet a
ody OF rich ore, fully thirty feet in
'idth, has been discovered. In magni-
lde the ore body will compare favora-
ly with any yet found, and the great
epth at which it lies explodes a long
herlshed and heretofore believed in
4 II bile tradition nf tho Soor.l b..