El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-26

extensions att81nS q thickness OF over oO
feet, while the other claims mentioned
vary from Z to 10 feet.'' 4
"The whole district is mineralized
and shows immense out groupings OF
iron under which it is probabl-
explorations Will develop large cop
per deposits carrying fair percentage
of the precious metals."
Twelve assays from the above re-
port give from to 48 per cent copper.
trace to ] OF. in gold land from l to 80. IL
OF. silver per ton.
s'The Jarills group is by far the
most important as presenting immense
bodies of aurifer0us copper ore OF q
character which will smelt with the
fiuxes available, producing q rich matt
or black copper. Claims in the Nogal
district, both copper and gold, are
we'll worth prospecting for the purpose
of procuring gold bearing ores to
smelt with and hux the copper ores OF
the Jsrilla camp
The following from their supple
mentary report based on copper mat
at 8 cents per pound when copper was
low might prove of important interest
to those men contemplating the
building of smelters in Ell Paso as
showing what competent men after
due examination think of the possibi-
lities of this section for supplying
smelters with ore.
"It might be we'll to supplement our
general report by statement embody-
ing what we estimate can be done with
the Jarilla and Nogal copper and gold
ores, provided suitable smelling plant
can be erected at central location,
and we therefore submit the following:
If we assume general average OF the
ore from the Jarilla and Nogal dis
| tricts, sent to the smelter. as contain-
| ing, copper 10 per cent, gold O.4 o., ell
yer 5. OF. troy per ton, we would
have as the result of smelling 100 tons
OF such ore, after allowing 1t per cent
| for loss in smelling, about II 900
pounds Of copper, or say "a 600 pounds
of so per cent matt, which would con-
| tain, allowing for loss:
Gold, at 500 per o., about 500.
Silver, at .55 per o., about $500.
To produce this result would cost
about as follows:
Mining 100 tons of ore at $3.50 per
ton. SAOV
Smelling 100 tons at So per ton.
with cheap coke). ........... 300
Freight on 100 tons ore from mine
to smelter, at so cts. per ton... 80
Total $500
"Seventeen thousand pounds of cop
per should be worth at least cents
per pound, even in the matt 1--WE have
sold at 81 cents) which would be 1880.
Adding to this the gold and silver
value 5000. giving q total value OF
So .26O, less the cost $500, leaves Sl76O
MS the net value of the product at the
smelter. Freight on matt, from
smelter to New York. say S17 per ton
S289, leaving net profit OF S!4 IL
per 100 tons of ore. It will be safe to
assume an output of at least 100 tons of
ore per day, without calling for ex-
tended development work: therefore
81 ,471.OO would be the daily profit.
Allow for incidental expenses, say 10
per cent, or Sl48. and we would still
have net profit of 1928 per day on
100 tons of ore. Equivalent assuming
only 300 working days per annum, to
1896, goo per year. AS soon as deve
lopment work has opened up sufficient
stopping faces of ore. the out put can be
very largely increased, but to what
limit, it is difficult to state, as 1t
oepen1s largely upon the smelling and
transportation facilities. We believe.
however, with such facilities proper
tional to the mining that very large
business can be esta blished and sue
cessfully operated"
The president of the G. b. Blair Co.
of N. Y. in commenting upon the above
report made by their experts says:
'As to the estimated results of an out
put of 100 tons of copper ore per day,
the basis was simply taken as unit,
and the companies operations will in
no wise be limited to SO small an
amount OF ore per day. The best in
formation which the company now
has ia that thousand tons per day can
be easily gotten out"
A word TO the wise of sufficient. The
reader will observe that the above Is
not the saying of some poor struggling
prospect,r or claim owner anxious to
Ill hnl hlrf
big people, cautious monied men,
eastern capitalists, after supposed due
and careful examination.
If were to express one half or one
fourth as much in favor of the camp
when visiting Ell Paso or other places.
would expect the man to whom L
might Sbe. talking to whistle with a
''smile that was childlike and bland"
and call the bouncer, or say "this is not
our day for listening to fairy tales. !"
Again, the Ell Pasoan can form some
idea of the Importance OF securing
the smelling enterprises DOW knocking
at her door for admission If your
business mems club or board OF trade
we're fully organized l would advise
them don't sleep night or day until
you secure every smeiter lying around
loose looking for perch to light upon
for enterprises that employ men by the
hundreds and cause thousands to be
employed at the mines getting out the
ore are not picked up by every grow
ing city land enterprises that can make
from $500, 900 to 81, 600 900 annual
profit are not to be sneezed at.
II these prominent eastern capital
lists figure on 1896, 900 profit on 100
tons per day and say that the ore pos
81 bilities are 1000 tons per day it
would mesn,ten times the above men
toned annual profits, or 50, $50, 900.
astounding but bear in mind they do
not originate with me. I have simply