El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-18
Mines and
Mining.


will be In operation next week.-Ex.
The Fortuna mine near Yuma is nov
turning out an average of $50, 600 pei
month, clear profit of more than $40,
900.
The Humboldt, Nevada, sulphur
mines run 10 per cent sulphur. The
product in San Francisco is worth 81
per ton. About 1000 tons are annually
shipped.
The mines of the United States IL
1898 furnished 243, 069 metric tons OF
copper, or 55.1 per cent of the world
supply. Spain, the second In rank, re-
porting q total of 81, OFT tons.
Work has been resumed in the Trau-
guilty mine, Arizona, and the twenty
five miners are again at their posts AT
ter the temporary shutdown since the
tragic accident at the mine which be-
fell Richard Fisher.
In the Casas Grandes country there
Is now a big demand for pack saddles
for the transportation of ore. Many OF
those now in use are cumbersome con-
Germs which cannot be used to advan-
tage.-Mexican Herald.
Santa Rita Mining company at Santa
Rita near Silver City. N. M, is pro-
ducing a net profit of $500 per day. The
ore is concentrated and the concen-
trates shipped to Chihushua.-Mexican
Herald.
In anticipation of the completion of
the FL Paso & the Northeastern rail
road number of coal camps have
sprung up in the vicinity about the Sa-
lado coal fields and some two hundred
men are now at work on the various
holdings.
The American Society of Mining En-
gineers will assemble in convention at
Oroviile, Cal, next month, and the
citiz Ems of that place are making suit
able preparations to entertain the body,
which it is estimated will number
about 200 members.-Ex.
During the eth of August the
shipments of ore to the Ell Psso smel-
ter from Mexico were one-fourth
greater than that during any previous
month this year. A great part of this
ore is received from mines that ship
ped over the Sierra Msdre Line.-Ex =
change.
Heavy shipments of copper ore are
row being received at the Ell Psso
smelter from the Washington and
other camps in Arizona. The smelter
Arizoua copper ore to be delivered
this month aud they are making heavy
contracts for Octo ber.-Ex.
The Bonanza pocket mine at Sonora,
Tuolumne county, CAL, is credited
A single pocket contained more than
$500 ,00o, and one mass weighed $40. 600.
Most of the gold was taken out with
the use of hand mortars. The gold was
usually found associated with tellurides,
generally petzite.-Ex.
Reports have been received of the
recent discovery of very rich copper
mines in the district of Tlatlauqui, in
the northern part of the state of Pue-
bla Such is the abundance of the ore
that over q thousand mules are employ
ed continuously packing from the
mines of the ZaraRoza station of the
San Marcos and Tecolutla Railway
Elk.
The finding of q considerable body of
ore at the depth of 200 feet by the Lo-
we'll and Arizona Mining company on
their property about a mile south of
Bisbee, as referred to in the Orb two
days since. would seem to be of much
promise. Further development up to
this time has shown the ore to be in
even create quantity probably than at
frat uppose1.-Bisbse Orb.
There is still great scarcity of
pack mules in the Sonora mining dis
tricts and on this account shipments of
ore to Casas Grandes, especially from
the Pilares district, have been serious
~ delayed. Over 600 burros have been
sent to the Moctezuma district from
around Hermosillo, but they are not as
ss tisfactory for the shipment of ore as
the regular mountain mules.-Tucson
Star.
The discovery has naturally engaged
the serious attention of great consum-
ers of sulphuric acid. it being known
that the only other sulphur mines in
North America are worked with much
difficulty, and the less important ones
in Lower California, now exploited by
IN American Company. A syndicate
is said to be already organized to work
abe new deposits. Republics.
The Belt is somewhat extensively
ope ed, having a shaft 400 feet deep,
slopes and tunnels are shown. The
sale was made for good figure, at the
instance of Col. D. G. Throne, who is
known as the god father of the Belt,
and who says that the new owners will
shortly arrive to assume control and
g start the work of development on an
extensive scale. journal Miner.
The Minero Mexicano of Mexico City
announces the discovery of rich de-
posits of sulphur In the Ixtlacihuatl
mountain. in the state of Mexico, at
less than six miles from Amecameca
station, and easily reached by pictu-
rescue road The mines are under
stood to be abundantly productive, and
to yield on an average 40 per cent of
clear sulphur. The indications are
that the source is in the center of the
mountain. Monterey News.
George P. Blair, superintendent of
he Mammoth nina was in E1oropoa