El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-15
in THE SACRAMENTOS
A Description Of the Regions And
the Workinqs.-The Copper
BEARING Stratum.-LoCatlo On
the Rich Streak.-Where The
Gold Is Found.

Special Correspondence OF the Herald.
| Back Cf Alamogordo, to the eastward
some three miles, one reaches the foot of
| The Sacramento range which Ia mostly
| limestone having few dykes and out
crops of porphyry, granite, gneiss, ira
| chyte, and other trap rocks. 1t Is
| bout fourteen miles back to the crest
of the range which tends north and
south, and the western slope is quite
rugged and deeply cleft with awild can
| ons which expose the various strata to
considerable depth. About half mile
up the range, running parallel with 1t,
is an oatcrop of a copper sbearing stra-
tuD, not ledge cutting the other stra-
! ia aud lying in a fissure, but one of the
regular strata dipping into the mount
ain east on an easy angle making tun
! nei the natural and practical mode of
development.
Now this stratum is granular
coarse quartzite often appearing rath-
er as conglomerate bearing small peb.
ples and again seeming to
be sort of non mica
ceous granite. Call it what you will
however, it has stringers of rich cop
per ores shot through it, appearing
sometimes as red oxide, again as grey
copper. and often as green and blue
carbOnates.
There are few locations along this
streak mostly, in the headwaters of the
Alamo, the Caballero and the Dry
canons, and their respective owners
are drifting into the mountain and
sacking ore for shipment.
The claim showing the most develop
ment work is the Copper King near
the old Alamo trail TO Wards ranch.
1t is owned by Messrs: j. e. Dooley, A.
Nj. Crozier, VIM. Levinson, and A. w.
Aubrey, who have nearly carload
sacked and being packed down the
trail to wagon road for shipment to
smelter. They expect to assort the ore
to about 80 per cent copper, bearing
some gold and silver also.
This has all been taken out in driv
ing the tunnel without any attempt to
work out the ore bodies further than
they were necessarily cut in doing this
work. Messrs. Price and Aubrey have
similar prospect on the head of the
Caballero, and some two or three
miles farther east Messrs. j. @.
Tucker, w. w. Warner and j. K.
Smith are taking out ore whict lies
somewhat differently as the stratum
insnteed of being solid is mostly tale
with the copper in small streake all
through it and showing tendency TO
develop large and continuous body
of ore as the tale pinches out. Some
of the samples are as high as 10 per
cent copper and bear q trace of
gold.
How large the ore bodies may prove
is as yet entirely undetermined as no
one has gone far enough in to hardly
reach even beyond the action of the
elements but the grade of the ore
thus far encountered is certainly most
encouraging.
On top of the ridge just east of Ala
mogordo and lying just at the foot on
the southeast of the sharp black point
which is so CONSPICUOUS in the range
above town is prospect of different
nature, called the Monarch, Jas located
by Messrs. Warner and Smith.
This is true ledge standing almost
vertically and having we'll defined
| walls, and bears zinc, iron, some little
lead and free gold. Only some twelve
| feet of shaft has been sunk but the in
dications will certainly warrant q con-
| tinuance Of work.
! Only one assay has been made and