El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-30
Mines and
Mining.

latest report from IeSOrO, Utah.
The Florence Tribune reports con
siderable mining activity in that vicin-
ity.
Ponciano Falomir, of Las Cruces, bal
sold a mine he owned in Mexico fol-
S1O. 600.
Day and night shifts are working or
the Torpedo at Organ, N. M. and
gasoline hoist will be placed in a few
weeks.
s. W. Sherley of Las Cruces. N. M.
sold his interest in the Sampson led &c
and properties in the San Andres
mountains.
A steam hoist will be put in at the
Modoc at Organ,:N. M, this winter.
The double comp artment shaft on the
mine is now down 40 feet.
Casey Bros. have sold the Casey
group of four gold claims in Dos Cabe-
zas district, Arizona, to r. B. Sheldon
of Riverside, CAL, for 100000.
The yield from the Klondike region
has thus far reached about S11, 600, OOO
this year, aud it is estimated that 1t
will reach SlS, DOC, 600 for the season.
G.. A. Hubbard, recent purchaser of
the Hsrqua Hsla mines, Arizona, has
a large force at work putting mines
and machinery in shape for extensive
development.
The Yellow Aster Mining pany
of Rsndsburg, Cal, has now 157 men
on the pay roll. of whom 1877 are en-
ployed in the mines and 20 in the mill.
The pay roll exceed $4,000 per month.
In ventilation of deep mines is re-
commended an exhaust fan in the up
asst shaft, supplemented by electrical
ly driven fans underground aud the
discharge of rock drills.
At the Intersection of the Galena and
Jordan lodges at Bingham, Utah, 1O0,-
600 tons of lead-silver ore were taken
out in the early history of the camp.
These ores sold for $4,000, O00.-Ex.
"The highest mine in the United
States" is probably that near the sum-
NIT of the Sierra Blanca, near Gar
land, Colo. The mine is IA, 400 feet
above sea level.-Silver Belt.
The shaft on the Zonia mine, in
kirkland valley, Yavspai county,
Arizona, is Town to a depth of ITO feet,
and the showing of ore is said to be
very satisfactory and encouraging.
The copper mines of Pima county,
Arizona, are now making a daily u
put of more than 20 tons of metal pro-
duct. This means more than $4,000
daily, or $500, 900 neutrality-suspicious.
Star.
During the past eight years mines
owned by J. r. De Lamar, at De La
mar, New, have produced Sc, 323, 900,
out of which dividends amounting to
81. $50, 900 have been psid.-Miniug
Journal.
The capacity of q blast fornace de-
ponds largely upon he quality OF
fuxes necessary, the fusibi1ity of the
blast. A large body of fine material
lessons the capacity.-Ex.
The secretary of the Interior last
week decided that a United States pa
tent may issue covering both q quartz
and a placer claim, reversing the rul-
log of United States General Land
Commissioners Best.-Ex.
A rich strike is reported from the
Helvetia mines, thirty miles south of
Tucson, Arizona, in consequence of
which the stool of the company is said
to nav advanced So per share.-Ex.
Some ores and also MATES are roast
ed without salt. the silver combining
with the sulphur present in the form
OF a sulphate, which is soluble and is
leached out with water. This is the
principal feature of the Zievegel
process.-Ex.
Ores which contain as high as 10 per
cent sulphur should be roasted before
This is a matter of judg-
ment or the part of the smel;er. ~for.ores
high values in silver lose
silver in the roasting process.-Ex.
PROJECTORS have recently arrived in
with specimens of platinum
and aluminium bearing clay from the
Grand Canyon Of the Colorado. A che
mical analysis gave a value of $500 per
ton in platinum and % per cent in alu-
Chloride, Arizo Ia, boasts of the great
est strike of gold ore ever made In Mo-
ave county. The Minnesota shaft at
q depth of $50 feet has opened out into
a body of ore that assays 20 ounces gold
aud 300 ounces silver per top.-Tucson
Star.
The Portland mine at Cripple Creek,
Colo, has been making an output of
$50 tons a day, and 1t is the purpose of
the company to double this amount
after sinking the shaft from the 300
foot level 20 100 feet. An early in
creas in dividends will be the result.
The Ontario mine, at Park City,
Utah, which recently resumed opera
tions after a long idleness, has produc-
ed 1874, 600 900 and paid $4,000, 600 In
dividends. Forty-ive hundred gallons
of water per minute flow through the