El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-16

The Batopilas stage recently brought
into Cbihuahua S84 900 worth of gold
and silver bullion.
The Two Republics says j. B. Hag-
gin IF San Francisco has refused ST.
500 600 for bis Ell Ore mine in Durango.
An American capits lit has been in
vestigatipg the marble mountain In
the suburbs OF HermOsillo, Sonora,
with q view to investing.
Ell Mundo aIMexico City newspaper.
announces that the gold production OF
Mexico for last year vas S6. S61, $50.
gain Of more than $500 600 over 1896,
and of more than 81, 600, 600 over 1890.
1t il reported that Ex-Governor
Thornton of New Mexico has conclud-
ed to com plete the purchase of the
San Miguelito nine near Nacosari. So
nora, bv the payment OF the addltlona'
S15O,O00.
Down in Guerrero J. F. Bowling VIII
has been prospecting in that state for
last two years, has finally located come
valua hle placer claims and has taken
out a large lumber of announcements
for quartz claims
I'D. Whitman writes the Denver,
Republican that .rerfe"t mining
titles can be obtained in most districts
in New Mexico as in any portion of
Colorado, the ColOrs do talk to the con
trary notwiths landing.
Tho old Spanish land grants claim
ing the greater portion of both the
Amizette mineral district and the Red
River gold region in New Mexico have
been cut down 40 as to leave the miner
al lands within the public domain.
Durinp the past year there were 588
mining elp ims or applications for min
ing concessions in the nine districts OF
Sonora The following shows the num-
her for each year in the five years and
shows great increase during that time:
In 1899. 1922; in 1894. 1913; in 1895, AL;
in 1896: SIT. and in 1897, 588
The first of Is car'oads of new ma
chinery for the Bland Milling company
in the Ccchiti district has arrived. 1t
will be follOwed'by one or more cars
daily until the whole has been receiv-
ed. The arrival of this machinery
marks a new era in the G chitidistrict.
New Mexico. The camp is coming to
the front.-Ex.
Two smelters for the DragOons will
soon be in active operatiOn OF which
we have mentioned from time to time.
Machinery for the M1dOle Marcn 20.
ia arriving arda smelter for the Golden
Stats Co. on the same copper belt and
close by, has been ordered and ground
being graded for it's erection. Mining
in the Dragons is active.
Legally acquired miping property in
Mexico, and that which may be ac-
uuired in accordance with the mining
laws of that republic are declared by
article of the mining code to be ir-
revocable and perpetual as long as
the federal tax has been Daid, in &C
cordanoe with the regulations OF the
law by which said tax is established
that is, the tax must be paid quarterly
or annually in advance.
One of the largest and richest silver
lead ore deposits ever opened uD in
Mexico is that of the Pilares de Tie
IRA. ten miles east of the main Yaqui
river In Sonora. and about lis miles
southeast of Bisbee, Arizona. This
great deposit lies in contact be-
tween lime and porphyry, and is about
one mile and half in length by half a
mile in width. Such ore as is shipped
ia packed on animals FORTY miles
across the mountains to the Nacosari
wagon road. from whore it is shipped
by freight teams to Bisbee, IS miles,
and theme by rail to Denver, where
it brings from one thousand to twelve
hundred dollars per ton in American
money s.. w. Bullion.