El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-12
Mines and
Mining.

4 Mining.
1t is reported that the placers Ia
Lucas Canon, Orange county, CAL, are
being profitably worked.
The Denver Mining Record states
that the New Orleans mint is running
to its full capacity, coming oliver.
The weekly output is $4,000 silver
dollars.
One of the recent American VEN
In Trenton, N. j., of the Mexican Lead
company with an authorized capital of
81, 900 900 to operate lead and other
mines in the republic of Mexico
Elk.
The Jerome Copper company is sttll
driving in It's tunnel with two shifts.
They have struck q flow of about three
miners inches or 5000 gallons per
hour. The Walnut Springs flows
about four miners inches.-Jerome
News.
The directors of the Black Hills Cop
per Company, whose properties are in
the Verde district, Ariz., with Offices
in the Douglas Block, Los Angeles,
pany's stock to SO cents q share.-Ex-
change.
The Leadville (Colo.) Miner says:
skilled miners, and skilled mining
labor is not a drug on the market. Man
ayers and.superintendents within the
past few days have been forced to GO
on the hunt for men,
The Chihuahua (Mex.) Enterprise
says: 1.-THE July output of Cripple
Creek was 81, 900, 600. The Santa Eu-
lalia district here at chihuahua beats
Cripple Creek It would be interest
ing to know what the output of the
Santa Eulalia district was.
While the existence of oil in Cali
fOrnia has been known for many years,
it is only within recent years that the
industry has grown to considerable
proportions. and petroleum mining in
California is now attracting more at
tention than at any previous time
Denver Mining Reporter.
The New York financial Record
says: "There is at the present time an
actual scarcity of copper"
The present average production of
copper in the United States Is $4,000
| tons q month. The latest published
| figures show that there is practically
| not a ton of free copper in this country,
| and there are orders ahead.
1t is estimated by the Scientific
| American that the worlds production
of gold for 1899. If Australia and South
Africa maintain the rate with which
| they began the year, will probably
reach $40. 600, 900 or $50, 900 900 more
than in 1898. The estimates for the
| three principal countries respectively
| are, South Africa, S1G6. 1000, 600; Aus
tralia. SIS, 900, 900; United States, S74,-
900, OOO.-Ex.
Silver mining is again receiving at
ing Reporter says that many silver
mines in the State of Colorado are at
the present time paying the owners q
much better profit under the leasing
system. even at present prices of silver,
| than was realized by direct operation
when silver was worth S1.29. The diff
ference in price is partially overcome
by more economical methods in handl.
ing and treating ores, and the balance
Is the price paid by the miner for the
satisfaction of "bossing' himself.
The quickest trip from London,
Eng, to Dawson City, Alaska, was
South Africa. He left London for
Southampton by train, caught an At
lantic liner, in which he crossed the
ocean In little over elk days. The
trip from New York to Vancouver was
made in four days, From Seattle the
trip to Skaguay was made In less than
three days. Close connections were
made with the White Pass and Yukon
Railroad and the lake and river
steamers, and he was landed In Daw-
son seventeen days from London
Oregon Mining Journal.
Il. Speaking of the deposits of wolfram
made this year in the Dragon Noun
tains, Ariz., the Republican says: "The
discoveries of the Wolfram are now
owned by two companies, which will
consolidate. There ere about thirty
other claims taken up, and q company
is being formed which will do the de-
velopment work on them. This COM
pany is backed by q rich New York
firm which is one of the few in the
VI 1ted States to deal in
wolfram. The three compan-
concentrating the ore. There are
thousands of tons of low-grsde wolfram
near the surface, which could be mined
at profit if plant were installed
Electricity is one of the most promi-
nent factors in the economical produc-
ton of metals. Another instance OF
dispatch from San Francisco which
states that on Saturday last deal had
been closed by which twenty-seven
mining companies, owning property in
Nevada, all embraced In what is known
as the Comstock group, have contract
ed for electrical power, and it is be-
lieved that quite number of mines