El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-27
!. Mines and
Mining.

rero, has been redenounced under the
name of San Angel.-Monterey Globe.
G. W. Ribbons, superintendent OF
the Dos Cabesas mines, is getting his
mill In running condition. The mine
is gold producer and shows indica.
tions of richness.-Tucson Star.
The total output of the Hillsboro
mines for the year up to December 1O
was 9,575 tons. For the week ending
Decent Der the output was 425 tons,
which shows a slight increase over
previous week.-Mrs. Vegas Optic.
Intense interest is being taken in the
mammoth copper, gold, aud silver de-
posits on Gun Creek, twenty miles asst
of payson. The Lodges are from fifty
to seventy five feet in width, and cap
ped with iron. Copper is the most
predominant value of the ore.-Tucson
Star.
The Lone star owned by Lindsey and
Anderson is bonded to Peoria capita
lists. Ore at the bottom of 165 It.
shaft, assays from IS to SOP cent
copper and the ledge is about feet
wide. This is ore of the most promising
copper districts of Southern Arizona
Tucson Citizen.
The San Pedro mine of the Corrali-
tos company is turning out and ship
ping something over forty tons of ore
per month. The Candelaria mine of
the San Pedro group is turning out q
large quantity of valuable ore from the
5OO-foot level, and ore bodies of the en-
tire group appear to be practically in
exhsustible.
| Maurice j. Cons, the enterprising
mine owner, is working eighty men in
Las Catalanas mine near Suauui Gran
| a tn L
1zing handsome results. Near La Bar
| ranca the gentleman is developing an
other mine, in which he has cut ten
foot vein of ten-dollar gold rock, which
can be readily and cheaply reduced by
cyanide process.-Oasis, Nogales.
On the Texas mine the cross cut is
being driven from the shaft to cut the
vein on the 500 It. level. The mill is
running steadily aud making q good
grade OF concentrates. The Grand
Central, owned by the same company
and adjoining the Texas on the same
vein, is being developed from the 300
#. level of the Texas shaft. The de-
velopment work ia showing up ore
equal to the most sanRuine anticipa-
ton of the owners.-Silver City En-
terprise.
It is noted that in 1891 copper WAS
Is cents q pound, against Is cents now.
On about twenty large properties the
paid in capital is not much greater
now than it was seven years ago, but
the selling values of the shares of
practically all the copper properties
quoted in Boston ia now $l72, 4O1 700,
as against $50, 237 900 in 1891, gain of
240 per cent; all this with practically
no enlargement in the mum Der of divi-
dend paying properties.-Tucs Star.
The Rio Concho Mining Company
WILSON begin to work the rich gold
placer deposits at San Domingo. They
have $4,000 pertenencias denounced,
and have put in already 1921, 900 in
machinery, pumps. roads, buildings,
etc. The company will work the
placers by hydraulic mining and is
ready to handle 5000 tons of earth q
day, which is expected to give about
forty cents gold per ton. The works
are lighted by electricity and about
$50 men will be Observation-Disclosures
Enterprise.
b. P. Ewing of Kingman, was re-
week. He states the Temple Bar
Placer company, eighty miles north of
Kingmsn, owns 1000 acres. The
gravel is all the way from fifty to three
hundred feet deep. The company has
a large pumping plant in operation. A
months run yielded 100000. A 40
stamp mill is running af White Hills,
fifty miles north of Kingman, and pro-
ducing considerable silver bullion
Chloride, twenty miles north of King
man, is working 300 men, Coconi-
NO Sun.
A narrOw-gange railroad. seventy
copper mines OF the Arizona Copper
Company, at Clifton, with the South
ern Pacific railroad at Lordsburg, New
Mexico The various mines-Long-
fellow, Metcalf, Coronado and Queen
are conn ected with the railroad by
twenty-inch tracks, The cost of re-
ducing the ores of these mines has been
minimized until ore carrying three per
cent copper may be profitable worked,
much richer than that. The Arizona
Copper is the third largest producer In
the neutrality-suspicious. Star.
A strike of gold in the Strickler tun-
mel being driven through Pixies Peak
to increase the water supply of Colo
RADIO Springs, has caused the most in
tense excitement. A splendid vein
bearing large quantities of sylvanite
has been encountered by the cOntrac-
tor, George w. Jackson, and samples
from the find assay up into the
thousands. Today pieces OF the ore
were roasted and globules of gold were
apparent in the rock The fine
is of the lmost Importance to
that city, as the riches will revert to
the city of Colorado Springs. Experts
who have examined the property say
millions of dollars worth of gold are
contained in the vein encountered
Bisbee Orb.
The Old Abe, having reached
depth of 1850 feet, finds it necessary
to add new hoist to their plant. the