El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-06
NUGGETS FROM
THE JARILLAS
One Weeks Clean Up at the
Little Joe" Yielded
$500.
VIRGIN GOLD
The Dull Yellow Metal, Together
With Many Rich Specimens of
Ore, Forms an Exhibit at Light
body's Store That DaZZles the
Eyes of Citizens of This City.

Eyes of Citizens of This City.
All day Sunday and today a group O
people was to be seen in front of the
large show window of Lightbody' g
store examining the alluring display OF
gold nuggets and gold dust from the
JRrilla placers, exhibited therein.
| A gold pan, with its bottom cover
ed with more than $500 worth of virgin
gold, and several walls filled with Sl0O
worth of small nuggets and of dust
formed the chief attr action for psssers
by, while on each side and around the
nuggets in the window rich specimens
of gold, copper and silver ore from the
| JarillRs were ranged.
| The placer gold, representing q
value OF more than 500, was washed
out in one weeks time from the ''Lit-
tie Joe" claim, owned by the Electric
Mining and Milling company of Texas
and ST. Louis, and the miners say there
is plenty more gold where that came
from.
The larger nuggets were taken out
in the bottles, valued at 500. was TAX
en- from the tailings by the Hatch
Duplex dry washer.
The camp is only one year old and
is as yet considered but prospect.
although it has yielded over 5000 tons
of profitable ore and $4,000 worth of
placer gold to date.
The ores from the lode claims, ex-
hibited in the window, would do credit
of from $40 to $500 per ton in gold,
from to 1873 ounces of silver, and from
5 to So per cent of copper to the ton.
Many persons have long been skepti-
cal in regard to the Jarilla placers, but
the display of shining yellow metal in
Lightbody's window has been effective
and residents of this city have had all
doubts removedfrom their minds. 1t
1s roughly estimated that not less than
2500 people critically examined the
placer gold display yesterday.
HISTORY OF THE PLACERS.
A. w. Clifford, manager of the Or
win Mining company, in talking to q
HERALD reporter said:
'Placer gold was known to exist in
the Jarillas twenty years ago. but 1t
was non-commercial, without water
and transportation.
Some 10 years ago parties operated
dry washer there, cleaning up $5 per
day per man, of exceedingly fine gold, |
but at the time water cost sS per bar
rel and the camp was abandoned even
after miles of ground had, been located
for the placers.
''Coarse nugget gold was not die
covered until July 4th last. and was not
fully credited, ,seyen by many miners
and prospectors in camp, until about
one month ago: when they began work.
ing it out on q practical basis. Its dis
covery was one of the accidents that
generally come with the development of
new mining camp. About the 1st of
q July A. A. Breeze located q fraction
of ground because it joined the Mamie
Baird. 1t lay down the eulch and no
lode could be found on it, and
some miners, making fun of him, asked
what he had located it for, and, intend
ing 1t as prospectOr's wit, he answer
ed, L located it for placer One of
the prospectcrs, who owned q claim |
near by, said nothing, but Immediately
got move on himself, prospected his
claim, and surprised himself and
others by panning free gold from eur
face ground. This move was followed
up the next day by Breeze finding $40
worth of nuggets in q pocket on bed
rock where it came to the sur face.
sThis excited Mr.. Bates, a miner
who had accompanied Breeze to wit
ness his location, and he offered to do
the assessment for q half interest
His name was added to the location
notice.
"The following facts might be WOW
ed into good story, by and by. when
In April last Heagan and Breeze, then |
owners of the Duplex-(a supposed |
lode claim which was recently sold for |
its placer value) we're, as poor pro-
spectors, doing their annual assess
ment, with dull tools, and GUESSING
their luck, because the ground was
hard, and wishing that some
one would come along and
offer them 500 for their claim. They
were working on top OF q bank about
10 feet high and when resting would
be splitting over into the ravine onto
ground that is now producing from So
10 $3.50, of coarse nugget gold pe-
yard.
"This proves the chances in mining
Ind also how little even old miners (
md prospectors know about ground in |
IN undeveloped camp