El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-05


The Cedar Valley Mining company
have just shipped twenty tons of con-
centrates to the Arizona sampling
works.
Bell and Stephens are running their
mill on ore taken out in development
work on the Pacific and Nina Graz de
properties at Pinos Altos.
Spiller & Mclean are working eight
men on the Pacific Gold company's
claim on the Pacific vein. The mill
near Silver City is run internationally
crushing and concentrating the ore
produced.
The Graphic smelter, SOcorrO county,
is again in full blast after few days
idleness, on account of cracked water
jackets. Its output is from twelve to
fourteen carloads of bullion per month,
of twenty tons each.
A few men are employed asserting
and washing the old dumps at the
Alhambra and Black Hawk mines,
situated at Alhambra. Enough ore is
being recovered from these old waste
dumps to make it a paying PROPOSE
ton.
The Yuma Sentinel says Con Cromin
came in from La Fortuna Monday after
few days visit to that fourishing
camp. He reports that few days ago
at the 300 foot level new chimney of
ore, the richest yet discovered, was
struck.
The Confidence mine in the Mogol-
Ion mountains is in bonanza every
shaft. drift and Slope being in ore.
The breaking of cam shaft caused
the hanging uD of one five stamp bat
terry at the mill but the other % stamps
are running steadily.
Messrs Bell and Paul are going to
erect small smelling plant upon the
old Doyle claims, between Apache and
Rector's camp at Hachita, which they
have relocated. The mines have a
good showing of lead ore and will pay
with smelter upon the property.
Messrs. Crawford and Woodward are
employing four men on develOpme Mt
work on the Big Casino in the Bald
mountain. This mine has bee n
producing about 100 tons Of ore per
month, but shipments are temporarily
suspended until new slopes are open
| ed.
Reports from Peralta canon, Cochiti
district, have it that regardless OF
snow in that vicinity, the regular
amount of work is going on. The Gil
max, we are told, is showing up well
and from present indications will be
come the leading mine of the southern
end OF the CochiUi mining district.
In the San Carlos reservation, Ari-
IONA, since the segregation of part of
the land, considerable prospecting has
been done and several mining camps
have been started. The ore is mostly
copper carrying gold In one district
where large bodies of galena ore have
hapO 6iSonUPrad tbarn
OF work having been done centuries
ago.
1t is stated on good authority that
| La Campana gold mines, situated about
eleven miles below Ell PlomO. Sonora,
Mexico, the property of Brewster Cam
| erOn, L. H. Manning and Leo Gold
smith of Tucson, have been exploited
by a syndicate of Englishmeu, who will
erect sixty stamp mill and operate
the property, the original owners re-
| tanning an interest.
The Tunnel in the Hope Prospect
mine, twelve miles east of Alpine, has
| just been connected with the shaft.
Hhe shaft is 90 feet deep, and the main
tunnel is 300 feet long, with side tuu-
mel of ITO feet. About SO, 600 worth OF
| Y Ork has been done on this mine and
| now the owners have got it to q point
splendid prospect and we expect grand
| results.
The Elnora mill in the White Signal
| district started last week and the ma.
chinery is running smooth as clock
work. The bins are all filled with ore
and plentiful supply developed in
| sight. The sta rting of this mill will
| lend an impetus to mining in the dis
t.ict. 1t is confidently expected that
this property will soon rank as one OF
the principal gold producers of Grant
county.
! The adit level upon the Copper
! Queen mine near Silver City has at
| tained length of 40 feet with a YER
teal depth of about 500 feet from the
surface. For $50 feet the ore has been
continuous without break. The ore
! body is from three TO five feet in width
aud will average over $50 per ton
three-fifthS of the value being gold
Supt. Geo r. Brown is very much
elated over the results of his develop
ment work.
There is considerable stir about the
old copper properties in the vicinity Of
| Paschel and Whitewater in the Burrc
mountains. AT Paschal Thoma:
knucky is working Is men and making
regular shipments to the Silver City
| Reduction works. Between PaschaI
aud Whitewater James Woodward re
Gently started work on 10 different
claims. 1t is understood that he ha:
strong capital backing him and if the
properties develop satisfactorily exten-
| sive operations will soon be in progress
upon these mines.
! A process of extracting gold by
which every particle OF the metal in
the ore is recovered is stated to be in
successful operation in West Australia
1t is called the atomic process. Colo
quartz is crushed into small Jumps and
Is then put into closed chamber
subjected to the heat of furnace, tC
the action of water and of hydrogen
gas. This eliminates sulphur and re-
duces all oxides to the metallic state
After being heated the material is
suddenly cooled by jets of water; ar
operation repeated several times till
the quartz crumbles to powder at the
touch OF the finger. 1t is then thrown
into tank and the gold is separated
by washing.