El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10
Mines and
Mining.

A rich silver bearing vein has been
discovered on the north slope of the
AyctOchi mountain, located in the
municipality of Teziutlan, capital OF
the district of like name.-Ex.
Ten silver mines, producing an ore
of very high grade, have recently been
denounced on the east slope OF the
Tolalpan mountain, belonging to the
district of Chiautla.
The Cochiti district is again at the
front. An ore body thirty feet wide
and yielding S12 in gold has been un-
covered in the Bull of the Woods mine
near Bland by Henry Lockhart. The
Crown Point Mining company also has
opened up on the Glence during the
week q foot of ore which runs fifteen
ounces in gold to the ton.-Las Vegas
Optic.
| Captain POlhamus this week receiv-
ed a very Astteripg assay on SAMPLES OF
ore taken from the RefugiO mine in the
| Mesquite district. Mr.. POlhamus had
some men doing assessment work on
the property and sent some OF the rock,
without any particular selection, to an
assayer at San Diego. The returns show
values in free gold to the amount OF
S876. 10 per ton.-Yuma Sentinel.
My experience has taught me that
in the majority of cases failures in
mining ana milling are caused by try
ing to make an ore 1T q process, in
stead of in the first instance, installing
q process to suit the ore; and that q
mie fit manager is extremely liable to
install miefit process, says Chas. Tay-
| lor in q paper on mine management
and mismanagement," in the Two Re-
publics.
Four Mexican residents of Ell Paso
have discovered and located what bids
fair to be one of the most valuable COP
per silver mines in the state of Chi
huahus. The great lode. eighteen
feet in width and carrying on the ssur-
face As per cent copper and thirty-one
about twenty-eight miles east Of Ortiz
station on the Mexican Central raiz
road.-Exchange.
Reef mine show An increase of rich ore
as depth is attained. The big ledge
has been penetrated to q depth of 467
feet, and q tunnel is being driven to
strike the 400-foot level. Both drift
ing and sinking are being vigorously
prosecuted, and the promise of the
mine is steadily growing greater. The
policy of the owner Is developing the
mine on q grand scale before erecting
l
A man recently returned from the
new strike in the Graham mountains
says that some development work Is
required to see whether the property
| ia the bonanza 1t 1s believed to be. A
popularity about the find is there are
no traces of q ledge on the surface
from where the rich float was found
and it is believed that q little work
will develop its whereabouts. The
float or slide or whatever tie surface
rock is termed covers considerable
area and wherever found runshigh,-
Exchange.
| J. Shepherd, . prominent real estate
and cattle dealer OF Denver, Colorado,
south, expected to leave the oity last
night for Guadalajara, whence he will
travel on horseback to look up an old
mine in the mountains. He will be
accompanied by q guide to whom the
place is we'll known, an Interpreter and
two rurales. The mine is an old one
that has been filed up and that was
hundreds of years ago, and has quite .
romantic history connected with It,
Elk.
Sabinal is still short OF teams to haul
ore down to the Sierra Madre rail-
road, as are also the mines in the
CapOlin mountains q few miles west OF
Sabinal. The Santo Domingo mine Of
the CorralitOs company, occupying the
great contact between the lime and the
quartz porphyry of the Sabinal noun
tains, is shipping from thirty to forty
ing richer with depth and is now
showing goodly percentage of copper
with indications that IL will pick up
considerable gold.-Monterey Globe.
It is reported that the Cripple Creek
mills have forced com binn ton and
agreed on fixed charges for the treat
meut of ore. The schedule is said to
be: Up to one-hsH ounce, 81 per ton
one-half to three-quarters, SO: three
quarters to one ounce, 49,; 800 to $25
ore, $40; S25 to $50 ore, $11; $50 to $40
ore, sl2; $40 to 500 ore, sl4; over 800
ore, S15 For the past year the mills
have been treating ore, including
freight, as low as SO per ton, and some
of the smelters have handled Cripple
Creek gold as low as $40 per ton
Denver Mining Reporter.
Ell Cielo fs the name of an ancien,
mine situated about half way between
Hermosillo and La Colorado, which
has been recently denounced and is nov
Messrs. John Grant, j. Coughell and
J. Frazier, of Minas Prietas and Georg'
Wanless, of Hermoeillo. There is &
fve-foot ledge which recent assays
show to run about S25 in gold per ton
$l4O silver and large percentage o
lead. a shipment of ore made som'
time ago yielded $16 gold, about 800
silver and considerable lead. A tun
mel has been run on the vein 250 fee
long, in ore all the way.-ExchaDge.
If the Taos Cresset is correctly ad
vised Taos county has q copper claim
that will bear watching. 1t is calico
!. the Champion. and located on Cope