Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-19
JARILLAS WEALTH.
Turquoise Mines Developing Into Low
Grade Gold and Copper Propositions.

uraue uola anu topper iopoSi'ionS'
The story of the development of the
gold fields in the Jarillas mountainsi is an
interesting one. At first it was the find
ing of turquois that led eastern capital
lists to interest themselves in the Jarillas
district. But most of them withdrew,
finding that turquois mining was very
expensive and did not always pay. But
of late years more attention is being
paid to the development of the other
mineral resources of the district and the
result Is astonishing.
The Jarillas mining campis situated in
Otero county, in a small range of foot
hills, two miles wide and Is miles long.
For the past 20 years it has been known
that the J%arillas contained immense
deposits of low grade ore and that oc-
casional fine specimens of high grade
free gold ore and valuable specimens of
turquois were found, but the obstacles
to a full development in the early days
were a lack of fuel, water and transpor-
tation. Some Is years ago 5000 was
spent in the camp by prominent capital
lists in search of turquois and high
grade ore, but the attempt was finally
abandoned after the ~patenting of the
claims by Pittsburg people and two
claims by capitalists from st. Louis.
Tiffany, the .jewelry maker of New York,
entirely abandoned the camp after
spending a fortune. One claim upon
which he spent $50, 900 mining for tur.
quois is now considered the most valu'
able ground for low grade gold ore. II
tracite in which he found small seams Of
turquois yields about "a per ton in colo
and is considered a very promising eva
hide proposition.
The formation is lime and porphyry,
with immense iron blowouts from
| blanket veins. Thousands of tons of Q
desirable fuxing iron ore, carrying 81
per ton in gold, can be gathered from
the surface about these blowouts. ST
far the blankets are proven to be three,
varying in thickness and lying from 81
feet to a hundred feet below each other
The coming Of the Ell Paso & North
eastern railroad has solved the trans
portation and the fuel problems and i.
solving the water problem. Messrs. G
B. and j. A. Eddy have bonded a group
of forty claims and are prospecting il
earnest, maintaining a pay roll of abou'
rs, 900 per month.
Inclines and shafts to a depth of from
100 to 300 feet have shown the ore bodie,
to be continuous, permanent and profit
able, and now permanent improvement!
including a two and a half mile spu,
from the main line, ore bins, waite.
tanks, wines and buildings are almos
completed. Some thirty tons of ore i
being shipped to the FL Paso shelters a
present, while the ore bins are beins
filled with second class ore to await thu
nearer approach of the railroad. Will
the average of shipping ore nets $15 t,
$40 per ton, small pockets are encoun
tered that yield from 81 900 to $s, 900 pc
ton. The proven blanket ore belt i
only one mile by two miles, but ever
shaft sunk twenty feet shows ore. Ever,
foot of ground in this claim has been 10
Gated. About one hundred people ar
employed by the Eddy Brothers, VIII
have laid out a town site at the camp
The miners and their families at presen
live in tents.
The st. Louis Copper Company ais
owns several valuable claims in the dis
trict and has already opened a thirt,
foot breast of ore that assays from fiv'
to seventy-five per cent. of copper.