El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-17
Ell 7Aso DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY II, 1899.
Mines and
Mining.

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The branch of the Merida & :valls
dolid railroad to Tunkos will shortly
be inaugurated.-Ex.
| The survey of the railroad from Qua
dalajara to Colima has reached Jaco.
tepec on the shores of Lake Chapala.-
Elk.
| The Mammoth is making $3.50 day
from the fifty-stamp mill, work, and
royalty on cysniding.-Mining Re.
view.
The King of Arizona company will
drill 1000 feet for water. They are
down $50 feet now. Thirty men are
at work on the King-Mining Re-
view.
Epes Randolph and E. S. Ives have
purchased G. E. Eichelberger's interest
in the King of Arizona mine. The
consideration was not made public.
the mine on a large scale.-Yuma Sen
tinel.
Clack & Poland, lessers, take $40. 600
per month out of the Orc Plata mine,
which is owned by G. w. Gerritt. It
takes but fourteen men to do the work.
The Orc Plata was sold cheap about
three years ago by the former owner.
who thought 1t was worked Out.-Yuma
Sun.
On the 2OO-foot level of the Lone
Star, near Mineral Park, the vein was
cross-cut, and q rich body of ore, the
exact sizs and grade of which have not
yet been determined, was struck. j. p.
Finnegan, and Darius and Fred Brown,
James Bone AMI Scott are the owners.
Yuma Sun.
Yuma Sun: The big mining deal
which was cOnsummated at New York
City q week ago, by which the extern
sive copper possessions at Jerome, of
G. W. Hull, passed into the hands of
Frank Farrell of Ansonia, CoDnecti-
cut, l.. J. Grenlich of New York, and
several other capitalists, promises to
make Jerome the largest mining camp
in the west.
dent of the Copper King of Arizona
mine, near Bisbee, Arizona, writes un-
der date of December Is, 1898: "Our
mine at Barrett promises to equal the
Queen mine at Bisbee. We are timber
ing double-cOmpartment shaft down
120 feet wholly In ore of high grade.
The foreman reports enough ore al
ready in sight to run three more 30
ton smelters. This mine needs no
geles Mining Review.
Two Mexicans have discovered .
very extensive quicksilver zone in
about ten miles in length and 200 feet
in width in the ore belt. The assay
from the groupings above ground, gives
from two to four per cent of quicksil-
YER. The discoveries have put the
matter into the hands of w. T. Prit-
chard for the arrangement of matters
with the department of foment0 and
for the purpose of procuring capital to
start the wOrk.-Globe.
In the Mounta Lion claim, q proper;
ty belonging to o. 81. Briggs. William
Corson and others, q vein of rich ore
has been struck, assays from which
about fifty feet, and the claim is locat-
ed near the "Old Sandy Bob" stage
station on the Tombstone road at the
foot of the grade on the west side of
the Mule mountains. The owners feel
greatly elated over their strike, and
think they will soon open up q good
paying property.-Bisbee Orb.
Under the concession lately obtained
by Sebastian Camscho metallurgical
reduction works of q capacity of three
hundred tons daily will soon be erected
in Lerdo. There will be other similar
works erected in other parts of the
State, but of smaller capacity, under
the same concession. The latter covers
not only reduction works. but also the
right to run telephone lines between
the works, and gives the concession
ARE exemption from taxes for twenty
years besides many other material ad-
vantages. Herald.
Arizona continues to stand fifth in the
line of gold producing states and terri
tories. We are only excelled in this
line by California, Colorado, Montana
and South Dakota. The time is not
far away when this territory will stand
at the head of the line. A rather sur
Of booming that has been done, is that
Arizona has produced fifty per cent.
more gold in the past year than Alas
ka, and yet Arizona has gone about it
In quiet business-like way without g
particle of excitement and no misre-
of any kind; without q
rush either of capital or miners. More
han that Arizona has merely begun |
,he development of her gold mines
Tombstone Prospector.
Tuesday evenings stage from Orc |
Blanco brought the news of q big strike |
It the RagDaroc mines. A tunnel at |
he foot of the mountain has been run |
n 100 feet, where the main vein was
truck. The ore is high grade, free
yold. They are not through the vein
ret. This gives depth of 500 feet.
The deeper workings go in the district
he better the ore is. This company is
successful. There are plenty
more good mines in this district All |
hey want is to be worked in business
ike way. Tucson gets all the COM
nerce from Orc Blanco and there ia
more coming from other directions not
ret fully developed. The year 1899
much for Tucson and Pima
Star