El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
Mines aud
Mining.

]. L. Mott is working over batch
county. with an old fashioned rocker.
He claims there is over 5000 in the
ptle.-Tucson Star.
tween the Silver City Reduction
Works and the Pinos Altos Gold Min
ing company's Office, at Pinos Altos, Is
completed and working to perfection.
Silver City Enterprise.
chihuahua is enjoying copper
boom. The appreciation OF this metal
in value is causing many prospectors
to discover copper in the regions west
Of Chihuahua. A mine has been dis.
covered tYenty-three miles east OF
Conchss which runs As per cent copper
and 81 ounces silver to the tOn.-San
Antonio Light.
The Dos Cabezas mines of Moctezu-
ma district, Sonora, are again turning
roe Harper, one of the owners of this
rich property, reports having just OPP
ened q new route from his district to
Casas Grandes, which greatly i'm
proves transportation facilities
to railway connection.-San An
tonic Light.
The Yuma Sun, points moral and
adorns aO.tale when it says:
"Too many mining men make the mis-
take of running their neighbours prop
erty down. Such jealousy is short
sighted. What helps one mine helps
the whole district in which it ia locat-
ed, and every individual should pull
| together for the good of the COM
Inunfty .''-Bisbee Orb.
Some very rich cinnabsr ore was
brought in from Messrs shape and
Golbv's nine this week and there can
be no doubt this property will develop
into big thing. The greatest quick
silver mines in the world are giving
out. and if this find proves anything
like it looks as far as investigated,
silver mines there is.-Marfa New
Era.
The American Mining company u.
B. Haegin's company Is pushing i'm
provements rapidly at Ell Orc. The
new 1OO-stamp mill will soon be flush
ed. This will be the most extensive
plant in the republic and will be capa-
BILE of handling 200 tons of ore in "a
hours. It Is claimed that there is
enough ore in sight on the property to
keep the mill busy for Is years.-Sau
Antonio Light.
! Professor E. T. Dumble. the Reolo-
gist, has returned to Sonora to explore
and test the Barranca coal field in
the interest OF the Southern Pacific
| company. Ell Trafic0 states that the
exploration force numbers two en-
gineers and more than fifty workmen
of various kinds, with q splendid out
fit of tools and implements for the
work in hand. 1t is anticipated that
about fifty laborers will be employed
several months in sinking shafts rum
ming tunnels, etc.-San Antonio Light.
Malcolm McLeish. of Denver, who
spent several years in Arizona work
ing the tailings of the Vulture mine at
Smiths mills on the Hssssysmpa, on
Monday purchased q lar~e dump Of
moth mine, which 10. located at Gold
field, fifty miles east of this city.
There are 30. 600 tons of tailings in the
dump at the Mammoth and the num-
Der of tons is constantly being aug
mented by the operation OF the mine
and mill there.-ArizOna Gazette.
Dell Devices was in town q couple of
days this week from the quicksilver
belt. He says that the Maria Mining
Ecompany has quite force of men at
| work doing the necessary assessment
bat they strike good ore in every hole
Tidy dig; that the explosion of dyna-
nh is heard on all sides. Mr..
D4wees' company has just brought into
Mfrsshon about 5000 pounds Of pure
q6Cksilver. recently smelted at their
ldnes.-Alpine Avalanche.
r The production of copper in the
United States In 1898 was 243, 914 gross
tons. worth s64. 244, 1926. The signif-
canoe of this statement will perhaps be
more clearly appreciated when 1t is
considered that it means that this
country is now producing two thirds
were able to spare to foreign consum-
ers about 139, 900 long tons. 1t is not
80 very long ago that our imports and
exports of copper about balanced each
other: now the movement ia all one
way, and it is of great Importance in
adding to the prosperity of the coun-
observation-disclosures Mining Journal.
A headlight reporter met Mr.. G. o.
Newton last Saturday at the Harvey
house and was by him shown number
of large specimens of wolframite taken
from ledge owned by Mr.. Newton
and Mr.. William Neven situated in the
Gage station and only twenty miles OF
Deming, Mr.. Newton said that he
had done some extensive prospecting
and development work on these
claims and that he was now
satisfied that there was an ex-
tensive lead of this valuable metal OF
which his partner aad self were the
discovered In the Dragon mountains
and these are the only two places 80
far known where it has been found in
the'United States. WOlframite is an