El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-14
THE JARILLAS
Proving Up of Placer Finds on
Business Basis-The Testing OF
Dry Washers-JdriIla Prosperity
Will Be FL pdso'S profit-HOW
the LILLIAN Wild Cat" Was Nam
oecial Correspondence of the Herald.

of the placer finds on a practical bust
ness basis. 1t is no longer a question
of doubt or expectation. Work ha
proven that we have coarse place.
gold in abundance that will yield hand
some profit by dry washing saying moth
ing of the fine gold that can not bs
saved until we have water for slincinR
Four dry washers are now on the
ground being tested. The Arizona dry
gold washer which so far has not done
satisfactory work: two shufett dry
washers, doing fairly good work, while
the best results are obtained from 8
crude machine made in camp by an old
placer miner, Chas M. Pearse. Up to
Thursday night last, about fifty yards
machine, yielding $3.50 in coarse and
nugget gold. In this yield were twen-
ty odd nuggets worth from so cents to
So each, sufficiently large to make hand
some scarf pins or charms, and were
quickly purchased or spoken for by
citizens of the camp or visitors at prices
beyond their real value. The first
choice was given the Orion
ed several handsome mug
gets for personal friends to take back
to New York State as proof of what is
liable to happen to the man WHO fools
around the grass roots out in the wild
and woOlly west, round about Ell PasO.
On discovery of placer gold, channels
are located by following the wssh and
panning the dirt every ten to fifty feet
and when colors are found in sufficient
mum beers, they go down to bed rock, in
expectation of finding coarse and mug
get gold. So far these channels have
stood the panning test and we give the
name of claims, name of owners and
amount of ground owned by each along
these channels: The Duplex, located
as lode claim, owned by Hagan s.
Breeze, has 600 feet of the channel;
Hagan's interest has been leased by
now being worked by himself and
Breeze; the Triangle, fraction, loca-
ted for placer, owned by the Electric
Mining & Milling company, $50 feet;
the Little Joe, located as lode claim,
owned by the Electric Mining g. Mill
ing company, 700 feet; the Land Mark,
owned by the Electric M. & M. Co.,
600 feet; the GoOdenough, owned by L.
L. Jackson and T. S. Robinson, 800
elan Mining Co., 800 feet: the Lillian
Wild Cat. owned by Mrs. 81. S. Church,
700 feet; the Blanket, owned by VIM.
Church of Denver: Mrs. E. F. Pearson,
of Boston and A. w. Clifford, Of camp,
600 feet.
This gives in round nunb ers about |
five thousand feet of tested ground |
along the channels, varying from ten
to fifty feet in width and from two to
ten feet to bed rock, which is proved
oy the past ten days work, to contain
rom 81 to So per yard of placer gold.
Interested readers good at figures
IAN make their own calculations as to
low many yards of available dirt and
The length of time necessary TO work it
,ut with q given number of dry wash
,rs :how many men would be employees:
What the gross product in gold would
,e at 81, 81, or IS per yard; how much
# this product would find it's way into
81 Paso and who of Ell Pasoans would
,e benefited.
The heavy rain of Thursday night
topped dry washing for q few days,
Tut the boys are hard at it again this
morning and the reward is about SO
'er day per man, working under some
The work of the past
en- days is the proof of the milk in the ,
ocoanut, and is sufficient to satisfy
ny and all doubling Thomsses, and ,
rom this on will be an importan.
actor in the building up of our camp
t will bring in placer miners with
means who will lease or buy claims
long the placer channels and work
hem out. The marketing of the
FOQuCt WILL buV0F6lS6 bQ0 camp, ,
7hile the present channels last and !
his will bring in people who will :
respect for other channels and fin ally i
will dawn upon mining capital that I
be vein In the Jarilla mountains from
7hich this gold came, is worth spend
ng money to find, and they will take
old and go down three or four hun
red feet. run drifts and cross cuts,
nally proving up permanent and
rOhtable mining camp, employing
thousands of men and making fortunes {
Or those who dare to take the !
hances. t
Some thOughtless person on the spur I
the moment might imagine that the /
ardware, grocery, and dry goods mer- t
hants, the BARRIERS. butchers, and t
akers, the banks, hotels and saloons,
r the lawyers, doctors and druggists
f FL Paso might be benefited by such
condition. Even S. j. King the T
email purchasing agent of the south q
,essern Mercantile company at Ell s
'aso. or Ed Kurmeirer the smiling G
manager of the same company a Jaril- s
\, might tell you that every thousand
len employed in the Jarillas would
lean 800, 900 worth of business per
lonth to and for Ell Paso, and that
hen the camp gets to producing T
LAGER gold by the pounds. .pecks +
nd bushels, that it would go to Ell
aso for deposit and investment, but
lis opinion would come from their @
nowledge OF present conditions based e
4 facts and don't count. Any thought e
Il Ell Paso business man knows that v
liners DON need the necessities and b