El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13
Mines aud
Mining.

The April output of Cripple Creek
was 81, 400, 900.
Large deposits of petroleum are said
to have been discovered in the province
of Cautin, Chile.
1t is estimated that England's stock
of coal will last 200 years longer, and
North Americas 600 years.
A large deposit of tin is reported to
have been discovered in Honduras,
within easy access to a good Swsgon
road.
The visible supply of copper on May
l is reported from London to have been
26, 529 tons. decrease of II tons in two
weeks.
The gold output of New Zealand for
1898 is reported at 81, $780, SOL, against
$3.50 ,204 in 1897. The silver output for
1898 was e33, 107, against go, S72 In
1897.
At meeting of the Live Oak copper
Mining & Smelling company, held in
New York, it was decio ed to erect
teaching works at their mines, seven
mines west of Globe.-Silver Belt.
We learn it from good authority that
the San Juan mine in the Santa Eula-
liza district is shipping ore that runs
1900 ounces silver to the ton. The in =
dications are that there is yet large
body to draw upon.
Since the starting up of the new 300
stamp mill at the .Treadwen mine, in
Alaska, which makes $50 stamps in all,
it is necessary to produce an average
Of 3400 tons OF ore every twenty-four
hours to keep them going.
Reports from Calmalli, Lower Cali
fornia, are that all the miners have
rushed off to, the Santa Clara placer
mines, eighty miles south OF Calmslli,
and as a consequence the Calmsll1
mines have had to shut down.
About three hundred tons of zinc ore
is being shipped each month to Brus-
sells from the north shore of Lake Su-
perior. The ore is said to be very rich,
running as high as "a per cent. zinc,
and averaging above so per cent.
A report comes from London that
stock in the Stratton Independence,
Limited, the company which lately
purchased the Stratton mine in Colo
RADIO. is selling in London at 60 per
share, which is just twice it's par value.
The copper smelter of the LIE Roi
Mining and Smelling company of
Northport, Wash. is to be enlarged to
capacity of 800 tons per day. The
present capacity of the smeiter is 400
tons and the addition will be in the
shape of one huge furnace sixteen feet
long, of 400 tons daily capacity.
The Garcia Gold Mining company,
owner of the famous Garcia mine on the
Hasssyampa, near Wicker burg. which
closed down work for several months,
resumed work again on May l and has
quite a large force of men engaged in
developing the above property. The
mine will be thoroughly exploited and
developed.
1t is announced that subscribers to
the Amalgamated Copper company's
stock will be allotted only 20 per cent.
the company is S75, 100000, and the ap-
plications for stock amounted to over
S4OO. 900, 600. The applications from
Boston ard other New England cities
alone exceeded 5000, 900.
There have been frequent rumors of
the sale of the Azurite mine during
the past few days, but they have simply
been rumors, as the Azurite has not
been sold. 1t has not been offered for
sale, although two flattering offers for
the property have been made. The
company is determined to mas much
greater showing before considering a
sale.-Tucson Star.
Arizona has today in operation seven
distinct copper camps, being the center
Of nine well-known and extensive de-
COSTS of the metal, widely separated
oy distance, pet closely related in sue
cessful productivity. In addition,
here are as many more camps rapidly
being developed. which will undoubt-
sdly take rank perhaps before the sum-
ner is over, as producers, and will
swell the output of the
erritory.-Bisbee Orb.
An important strike of copper sui
ohUrets was made few days ago in a
nine owned by Mrs. f. o. Mackey and
others, situated. near Bloody Tanks,
A rizons. A 125-foot tunnel intercepts
The ledge 60 feet from the surface,
where the sulphurets were struck.
The tunnel has penetrated the ore for
2 feet without encOuntering the foot
vail. Several assays of the ore have
been made, the lowest showing 154 per
,ent copper. The ledge is evidently
yery large, es indicated by the crop
pings on four claims of the group
Florence Tribune.
The gold output OF the Trausvaal,
south Africa, for the month of April is |
eported at 460, 349 ounces, as against
ga, 036 ounces for the preceding |
month. This, instead of being de-
rease on March, is an increase, as
April only represented 30-day out
tut. as against q 31-day one in March. |
Taking Witwatersanda alone, the April |
utput was 439, Ill ounces, as against
- slsl f.