Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-06
4ursDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1897
THE HopEwELL MINING oAMe


THE HoPEwELL MINING CAMe.
Knowing that our highly-esteemed
fellow citizen, Ex-Mayor Edward
Henry, has mining interests at Hope
we'll, and that he recently made an
irapection trip to that camp, an OPTIC
reporter called upon him at his office.
yesterday morning, for the purpose OF
obtaining some reliable information
relative to the present and the future
mining prospects Of that particular
locality, where SO many Of our citizens
have interests.
Mr.. Henry has no hesitation IN say.
ing that the prospects at Hopewell are.
and will continue to be, particularly
encouraging for many reasons, the
principal OF which Is the fact thai
Miller & Thomas have recently, at
z sat expense, fitted up a new stamp
m Il with entirely new and improved
machinery for crushing aud pulverIzlng
ore, an i~nexhaustible supply OF which
is found ia the immediate vicinity.
Everything about the mill, except the
building, which has been thoroughly
overhau ed and repaired. IS new; new
boiler, new engine, new crusher. new
machinery.
While Mr.. Henry was at Hopewel',
eight wagon loads OF new machinery,
recently purchased IN Denver, were
brought into town to be placed in the
new stamp mill. The arrival OF this
machinery made the citizens OF Hope
we'll feel that tie SUCCESS Of their camp
was a fixed fact, an assured reality,
aud that brighter and better days are
speedily coming to them. The shouts
Of the people and the thunder-like ex-
plosions of sticks of giant powder pro-
duced the impression that the "Giori
Gus Fourth had come q few days IL
advance of the regular time.
This machinery is for treating tn
pre-, after it has been pulverized. or, il
other words, it consists of an e%ntirel,
new and complete outfit for separat
ing, and securing the gold, from th'
puIverized ore, by means of vats ane
various other appliances that a person
who is moi familiar with mining and
mining terms cannot describe or even
mention. All that machinery is now
being put 10 place by an expert from
Denver, sent there for that purpose, IL
will, as Mr.. H. understood, when at
Hopewell, all be in place and 10 run
ming order by the 10th Of this month.
The process that will be used for
separating the gold from the ore will
probably be what is known as the
cyanide process, or more properly,
..the slow cyanide process so-called,
because tina pulverized ore remains
much longer in the vats. (say nine
or ten days,) instead of only one OF
two days, as formerly. BY the ''quick
process" 1t is claimed that. by the
ssslow process" a much larger per.
centage of the gold can be secured
than by the ..quick process"
An assayer by the name Of Sterling,
who has been q resident OF Hopewell
for some time, has been experimenting
with this new process, and a letter re.
ceived from Hopewell yeste rday brings
the information that the .new cyanide
process is a grand success, and that
MIR. Sterling has, by this process, sue.
ceteded ia SAYING S3H per cent. Of the
ore value, and at a cost of only ~ 60
per Ton, and no has stated, SO says Mr.
Henry's informant, that he can handle
ore that s.runsn only $S or SO so per
ton az q profit.
The last evening Mr.. Henry spent at
Hopewell there was /. very enthusiastic
meeting of the citizens held in the
postofice building. As the stamp mill
was then a fixed fact, the meeting was
called for the purpose of s.comparing
nobss s." as we say, and for having an
earnest, but friendly interchange
OF opinion as to the
best method Of advertising
or, as some persons called it, .boom-
ing" Hopewell camp. Mr.. F. G. Erb,
formerly the Atchison railroad agent
at Bsrnal. (now Chapelle,) was unan-
imously selected as the chairman for
the occasion. A great many sugges-
lions we're made as to the best way TO
ssboom the camp" but the general
opinion seemed to be that the best way
to boom Hopewell IS the truthful way.
or that no overstatements should be
made, that 'sthe truth, the whole truth
and nothing bnt the TRUTH" should be
sent out to the papers at d nver and
elsewhere, for the reason that over
statements, which Is but another name
for untruthful statements, always re-
act and do more harm than good.
MIR. Henry thinks that Hopewell
camn il attracting a o. eat deal more