El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-01
Mines and
Mining.

A 1901
w. Grove, mining man from Silver
ton, is guest at the Exchange en-
route to Arizona. He says the mining
industry at Silverton continues encou-
raging in spite of the low price of sill
yer, and large forces of men ere en-.
p!oyed on the many properties sur
rounding Silverton city. A notable
feature of the work there is the trolley
ways for carrying cars from the mines
into the valley to the railroad or bins.
Some of these trolley wsys are five
miles long, and when a grip breaks the
car shoots down the steep at the rate
of $50 miles or more per hour and ends
In q smash up. Notwithstanding the
danger, at some of the mines miners
20 aud come In those ore cars, saving
a long and very tiresome climb. There
has been only little snow in that
country ss yet, and 1t has mostly melt
ed.-Albuquerque Democrat.
The Quinsera mine Of the Alamos
district in Sonora, is powerful silver
bearing lode. known as the "Quintera"
lode, and today is the only one in that
standing the completely of the ore, is
worked profitably. With q general
course nearly due north and south, and
dip of 16 degrees from the vertical to-
wards the west, this lode traverses the
crest of the Quintera mountain.
Thanked east and west by higher and
more rugged peaks, this mountain
forms the divide, or pass, over which
Q bride path connects the mining
towns of the two leading mines, viz,
Aduana on the northern side, where
81 Of he inf
mine are situated, and Prcmotorios on
the opposite side, with the reduction
works of the Alamado and Trito mines.
-Chihushua Enterprise.
A. Ellitt, of Colts, Kan, who has
spent every winter in Phoenix for the
last six years, has lately returned to
that city. Mr.. Ellitt will be remem-
bered as the discover of the Dream
mine, about sixty miles southeast of
Prescott. This mipe was discovered
ten years ago by Mr.. Ellitt while lying
in q trance at hotel in Wetmore, Kan.
The circumstances of the discovery
have been extensively published and
have attracted the attention of the
British and American socities for psy-
chical research. Mr.. Ellit did not see
the mine for more than four years af-
ter he dreamed about it. Very little
work has been done on it, though
when Mr.. Ellitt was last in the ter
ritory he procured q lot of ore from it
and took 1t east with him. It was all
very rich, one sample showing $50, 600
q ton.-Tucson Star.
w. Wright, the president of the Red
River Mining company, arrived from
Philadelphia last week and started
three shifts of men to work on the
Stella group, which comprises six
claims. AS this property is in dispute
pitched battle was anticipated
However the workers have not been
interferred with so far, and it is
thought compromise will be agreed
on by the claimants. This property Is
considered q shipper. There has been
about 500, 900 expended in developing
it, and when the present dispute is set
tied the company propose putting in q
concentrating plant.-Mining News.
An important sale of placer mining
property on the South Ponil was con-
summated last week. The property ia
what Is known as "The Wallace
placers", embracing some ten thousand
feet of the South Ponil, and is consid-
Hutchinson, Kansas, was the pur-
chaser. The deal was made several
weeks ago by D. B. Merry. but the
money was not paid over till last week.
Exchange.
The finding of a 800 gold nugget the
other day on the Gillen placers on Ute
Creek, on the other side of Old Badly,
brings to the mind of the old timers
similar finds on the same property. In
1894 q 6-ounce nugget, and in 1895 a IL
ounce nugget were found there. In
the early days Maxwell took $50, 900 off
bench above what Ia now the jackson
place. Some good pickinRs in these
acknowledgements Democrat.
Advices from the Grand Reef mine
report q continuation of development
work on the property and the opening
up of some very good looking veins,
Col. J..W. Payne, general manager of
the mine, recently paid visit to Los
Angeles and purchased from G. B.
Boothe Smith Vale sinking pump,
which has just been shipped to Will
cox.-Tucson Star.
temporarily stopped work on their TO-
foot tunnel, on the Sunset, on Co.
manohe creek. They have the track
now laid and are awaiting the recep-
ton of the car, which Is in transit, to
continue operations. The Sunset is
one of the best properties in COmanche,
and more will be heard from it in the
future.-EXchange.
A cyanide plant of sufficient capacity
to work 160 tons of tailings per day is
being put In by La Fortuna Mining
company, near Yuma, for the purpose
of extractin gthe gold from the immense
pile of tailings which have accumulat-
ed during the two years in (which the
twenty stamp mill at that place has
been reducing the rich Fortuna Ores
Exchange.
The Frazier property, near Amizet-
te, which consists of group of six