El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-30

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A forty-stamp mill is being erected
bv the Excelsior Mining company in
Mob ave county.
The freight reports show number
of small shipments of ore from Tucson
during the past few days.
Much activity is being shown
throughout the territory in mining.
and particularly in the neighborhood
of Yuma.
The Commonwealth Mining company
at Pearce, Ariz., has just shipped five
cars of ore to the smelters at Pueblo
and FL Paso.
1t is reported that the property of
| Frank Flanagan in the Sierrettas is a
very large one and that some splendid
copper ore will be shipped shortly.
The Development company at Chic
ride, Mohave county, are putting IN
concentrating plant which will be the
most complete of it's kind in Arizona.
The copper industry of the United
States is rapidly increasing. Every
copper plant in the country is adding to
| ling its output of ingOt copper.
A prospector named Kent was re-
Gently in Phoenix with a sample OF ore
from a claim in the Harqua Hala dis
trict which ran 1000 ounces in silver
and carried twenty to forty per cent
lead.
The great state of Colorado has fgur-
ed up the results of the Leadville strike
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the mine owners. the miners and costs
to the state, $4,000. 900. Good done to
anyone, none Questions settled definite
ly, none.
The amount of lumber imported into
Kingmau from the mills of San Fran
cisco mountain is truly phenomenal
| New buildings are going up all over
the county and the mines are using up
| thousands of feet monthly in timber
| ing up the openings.
During 1896 the Arizona Copper COM
pany produced 7,572,376 pounds of cop
per and 1879. 1852 pounds of matte. The
company expects to soon have its con-
verter in position when it will produce
copper bullion exclusively, the matte
| being all turned into bullion before it
is shipped.
A special from Price, Utah, says the
town of Vernal is in a state of excite
ment over the discovery of placer
grounds six miles from that place. The
discovery was made by t. A. Robinson
and the three Ashton boys. 1t is six
miles south of Nernal on the Fort Du-
chesne road. 1t assays $500 in gold.
Every man in town has gone to the new
field to locate.
A member of the United States geo.
logical survey who took part in the
recent examiu alton of the copper belt
at Butte, Mont, says: 1t is still an
open question with us as to whether
the amount of copper washed away in
the water from the mines of Butte dis
trict is not equal in value to the total
output of all the mines of the district if
it could be saved"
The sale of Helen Rae group of mines
near Nogal was consummated last week
and development work on the properly
will begin at once. These claims have
produced some of the richest ores ever
snown in this region and we predict for
the new owners results which ought to
satisfy them, provided INTEL gent man
agement characteriZ yes the work OF de-
velopment and operation.-W Oaks
Eagle.
Congress camp is the pride of all
Arizonians, and it is destined to become
one of the greatest gold producing
mines in the world. During the past
year the working force of this camp has
been nearly doubled and The pay roll
now contains the names of four hundred
miners. Being so easily &c ,essible it
probably receives more attention from
tourists than any other camp in the
territory. Elk.
The production of aluminium in the
L 1r-%
300, 900 pounds against an output of
900, 900 pounds in the previous year,
8l7, 800 in 1894, 312 900 in 1893 and 1885,
600 in 1891. The uses of this new and
valuable metal are extending the de-
mand quite as fast. a dozen years
ago the price of aluminium was nearly
S. pound. Last year the price aver
aged 40 cents a pound and is still fall
ing.
Pick Il Drill: 1t is reported that
William Styles and Felix Mayhem. of
Casa Grande, have sold their recently
discovered copper property few miles
that a smelter will be placed upon the
ground at once. a part of the pur-
chase money has already been paid and
the remainder will be forthcoming
soon. The mines in the neigborhood
of Casa Grande are rich, and are at
tracing great deal of attention of
late. 1t is understood that the Silver
Reef properties have just changed
ownership for a consideration of s75,-
900.
The Mexican Central is building a
side track at Chihuahua for the accom-
mediation of the Mexican Ore Co. 1t
is laid through the middle of the COM
pauy's yard and will greatly facilitate
the loading of the ore into the cars.
The Mexican Ore Co. It's receiving NOR
ore than they can'get cars for trans
portation and the company's depot is
not large enough to hold all the ores
that are continually being hauled in
by the big freight teams from the mines,
and it has become necessary to unload
it in the vacancy between the yard and
the brewery At present the company
is shipping from five to eight cars per
day and would ship many more if the
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