El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21

If Jesus ever got chance he would
th row YOU"
Bob and his friends were immensely
pleased with the proposition that the
in fine condition for showing. The vein
or ledge was two or three feet wide,
running we'll in gold as well as silver,
with fine coloring of copper
along the silver hclorides
Ingersoll wrote back his opinion of
the mine saying that others might do
as they liked, but as for him, he had
all he wanted Of this earth in the
Ivanhoe mine. With such attractive
vein exposed in q 1O0-foot shaft and
some advantageous drifting, Bob did
not know but that the whole country
around there was gold, silver and cop
per. But the gold mining boom went
farther on. The railroad crossed the
river again and ran toward Silver City
with a branch up to Lake Valley,
Hills boro, with its gold. Then there
their millions of silver to add to Lake
Valleys millions. This caused the
portion of country where the Ivanhoe
was located to be neglected., and In
gersoll's mining stock went down and
down and down. The mine now goes
begging for buyer at 10000. Ex-
perts say that there ia ore enough in
sight to pay for the mine and a mill to
work 1t.
The only way to the outside world st
present is the wagon road across the
Rio Grande to Eagle, thirty or forty
miles away. This is a promising sec
ton, and there will be railroad made
through here later. 1t lies near the
continental divide. The head waters
of the ella are only ten or twelve miles
away. A number of mining men
a. & IT,
was anxious to get In there again, but
there is round-robin claim or location
society which cuts people out. An IL
lustration of this ia shown in this Incl
dent:
In the early days a Californian had
prOspected in this section. He. made
q little money and went back to Cali
fornia and remained four or five years.
He again felt drawn to the old early
ground and found that much of the
property in the neighborhood of this
Ingersoll mining district was open for
location. He remarked to some of tine
boys who were loafing around the camp
waiting for capital to come In and de-
velop their mines that he thought he
would go to California and bring back
some money. He went and returned
in a short time with his money aud his
capital. They put up for the night and
in the bright and early morning they
set out on burros to look out for some
particularly developed mining prop
erty that was for sale very cheap, and
proceeded to locate some more. They
were we'll pleased with the developed
property, but could not locate any new
claims, for they found locating stakes
all around them. The Round Robin
Locating club had been at work, in an
ticipation of the California capital
coming In, to which they might make
sales, and had located all the ground.
The California mining promoter did
not remain long, but his swearing
heated the atmosphere from Cripple
Creek to Pinos Altos, in both of which
places he was we'll known. He was de-
termined to get even, and succeeded in
having himself elected to the New
Mexico legislature. Then he had
law passed preventing the owner of
any mining claim from relocating his
claim. But last year this law was
dubbed silly and was repealed.
1t Is said that Ingersoll was more
than generous to his friends whom he
had induced to 90 in with him in the
mining deal. When the stock went
suffered from his Representations.
Ingersoll was interested in other
parts of New Mexico in the ranch and
cattle business. He had quite q man
sion in the northern part, not exactly
in the skies, but sort of "star route"
building. He was indeb to q friend,
Colonel Dorsey, whom he had defended
in those celebrated mail contracts.
which some one remarked might be of
some use to him in the future, mas
much as he would be called upon to go
over q star route that was pretty hard
to travel some day. he made nothing
of bis mining ventures in this locality,
yet some day some one may profit from
his pioneer work. Denver Times.