El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-30

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The largest pay roll in Arizona Il
that of IT, Copper Queen company al
Bisbee. 1t contains over l, 100 names
at least 500. COO being paid out monthly
in wages.
The Oasis learns that the new 500 I'll.
P. hoist at the Grand Central shaft has
| been set up and works to q charm. 1t
was made in Chicago, and is one OF
the finest pieces of machinery On the
| continent.
The Evans-Van Heck Mining CON-
pany at Evansport Arizona, near Cliff
ton, is running at full blast ten
s'amp mill. They are treating fifteen
to thirty tens of ore per day which is
free milling.
The Prospector says water has
been struck in the COmmOnwe alth
mine at Pearce at depth of 315 feet. 1t
is not known whether the volume Of
water will interfere with work without
putting in pumping machinery. The
water was struck but few days since
and it is not known Whist the company
cont emplate doing to handle it.
Special Ageot 81. o. Flipper of the
court of private land claims has re-
turned to Sarta Fe from the Yaqui riv-
er region of Sonora, Mex, and states
That hundreds of miners, attracted ny
the glowing ta}es of gold discoveries
are now =truegline to get over the line
into the United States. having found
that they could not shovel gold by the
ssckful and make a fortune in a day
San Francisco Examiner.
The Mineral Wealth says: OF great
Importance to residents of Mojave
county is the news that a large melter
is to be built near Barstow, Cal, on
TT e line of the Santa Fe Pacific.
Freight rates to tn smelter from Mo
jave county will not be over 81 per ton.
With smelter at Barstow AID
liberal railr DAD like the Sar to Fe to
make liberal rates, Mojave county will
forge to the front with giant strides, as
the miner al resources OF the county are
unsurpassed.
The Mohave Miner says: There is
excitement in Utah over gold discover
les in Washington county, few miles
north of MOhave county, Arizona, line.
Three pounds of rock found by Fiob-
be, Nevada, miner named Holly, yield
ed at the rate of so 600 to the ton. 1t
is said the 10 ators are taking out gold
by the sboveiful. There is no need of
going to frozen Alaska with such bo-
rs zss lying at our door. The new
camp is located near Gunlock and min
ers are focking in from all points of the
C :mpaSS.
On the Confidence mine in theMagol-
Ion district60 men are employed and
there is an opening for 20 more, good
miners, who can find employment. One
hundred tons of ore per day is being
VIII of md Gh a mil m
Whitewater, where thirty stamps are
running steadily night and day. The
pipe line for water power is being built
as rapidly as possible butt will proba-
bly, be six weeks or two months ere it
is completed. It will be a perfect and
piece of work when inished
and will make the Confidence mill the
stamp mill in the territory.
The latest in fo- nation beariug upon
the project 10 construct the large mill
at Allerton. received by the Bland, N.
NJ, Herald, is to the effect at r. w.
Woodbury., who has been in New York
for some time past, has finally COM
pleted the organization of q company
to carry out the project, which will re-
suit in the INN ediate expenditure of
at least S150,O00. Besides a 5O-ton
custom mil, with a capacity for en-
larging to 2lO tons, large town is to
be built by the company near the pres
will DISCONNECTED with Bland and the
mines by an electric tramway.
A dispatch from Denver, Colo, says:
cate, Limited, of Great Britain, has
instituted suit here against VIM. G.
ashford ard Daniel E. Heating Of
Prescott for $4,000 damages. 1t is
averred that the defendants sailed
the Jersey Lily group of mines in
Yavapai county, Arizona, thereby de-
ceiviog Expert Chas. Roepellas as to
heir value, and on his favorable re-
pot the plaintiffs paid the defendants
company, and expanded S25, 900 more
in developing the property and ascer-
tanning its tue value. The Jersey
company also sues B ashford and Keat-
ing for $50 600 damages, and asks to
have certain contracts entered into
with defendants declared void"
A prospector named Reagan and his
pc rtner II abe an strike of exceedingly
rich gold ore near Santa Rita last
Saturday. Sampl' of the ore we
sent to this city to be assayed and gave
returns of eighty ounces gold per ton.
Specimens, now to be seen at Ernest's
road-house below Santa Rita, are liter
ally covered with gold aud will run
away up into the hundreds of ounces
per ton The vein lies on the south
west slope of Santa Rita mountain,
about a mile and half from the Knee
ing Nun. Tie old Mexican traditions
are to the effect that rich gold ore
was found in that vicinity and worked
more than a century ago. There is g
Mexican ramed Galivaa now living at
Santa Rita who is over one hundred
years old. He has always insisted that
the Spanish worked some fabulously
rich gold mines in that vicinity when
he was bOy.-Euterprise.
Rich Mexican Ore Discovery.
Word comes from Casas Grandes,
Mexico, that rich vein of ore has
been struck near the old Guayanops
mina, on the Garcia lands, fifteen
miles from the Mormon colony of Chui-
chuDa AID abOut Vontv-jVa miles