El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-30
Mines and
Mining.

progress in this county today than
there has been at any other time in its
entire history. The work is being pro-
secuted by a class of men who under
stand the business, men who under
stand that it requires something more
than mere prospect hole and q ten
stamp mill to pay dividends from. The
mining interests in the past have suf-
fered from two classes. One was the
honest investor who knew nothing
about the business and who had form
ed erroneous Impressions OF it, who
imagined that he should begin to reap
dividends as soon as he had sown his
Investment. Instead of being willing
to employ a capable and competent
man to superintend the business, and
see that the work. was intelhgentlg
performed he would almost invariably
put some one in charge, as ignorant
of the business as he was himself. and
falling to reap his harvest
of gold as soon as expected would
withdraw, leaving monument
of failure behind him, and carrying
away with him everlasting detestation
| of the country. The second class was
the man who did his work on the stock
board or Otherwise through jobbing
channels. It made little difference. to
such whether thebaseof heir operations
was bonanza or q barren claim the
results invariably proved the same. So
far as can be judged at present there is
not single property in the county be-
ing worked on either of the above prin-
ciples, or if there is it has not yet ap-
mining seems to be the order of the
day, and so long as this continues success
and prosperity is sure to be the result.
Prescott Journal-Miner.
Information from La Barranca con-
veys the intelligence that Prof. Dunn
ble's investigation, on behalf of the
southern Pacific Co., of the coal fields
in that part of Sonora, is daily becom-
ing more satisfactory. The force of
sixty men employed Ia divided into q
mum Der OF parties. working at various
places. At one point q seven foot vein
OF natural coke has been developed, up
on which a,drift has now penetrated
more than sixty feet, and is still con-
tinuing in good cooked by natural causes
long ages ago. and is now right at
hand, ready for the uses of man. It
was tried in the for ges in use at Prot
Dumb camp and found a splendid
article. Should development prove
there is enough of it what great
thing for the smelling industry in So
nora. But doubtless there is coal that
can be cooked, and coke ovens would be
quickly provided. A railroad from
Ortiz will surely be constructed to La
Barranca. Mr.. George Crocker's |
visit to Sonora this week probs bly, is in |
and projected railway.
Oasis.
The Apadaguero mine near Parral
sold for 100000. This is in the CEN
ter OF the richest mining district of |
the state of Chihuahua, the Prietas
mine in that section having been dis
covered in 1888 and having always
yielded very rich ore to this time.
Another famous mine, the Tsjo. was
discovered in 1852 and it's ore today
runs from 55 to 80 ounces of silver to
the ton. In one of the shafts, called
the San Miguel, there is vein the
top nor the bottom of which has never
besa reached, which is six feet wide,
and the ore runs an average Of so
Ounces of silver to the ton, and anOth-
err vein about half vara wide is full
of native silver. This mine will prove
one of the richest in the republic. The
Jesus Maria y Ell Carmen is another
very productive property. The San
Patricio, near Minas Nueves, has re-
Gently been rented and will probably
This section has 252 mines against 22O
in the rest of the state and pays more
stamp milling tax than all the rest of
the state put together.-Ex.
In the smelter com bine, which has
reached a contamination, the mines of
the Kansas City Refining company are
to be acquired, but the Mexican smelt-
ers of that company have been left out
Of the sale. The cash value of the
twelve smelling plants included in the
is s65, OOO.OOO The trust
Of today, against which there is go
much railing, injurious CIR destructive
TO individual effort and liberty as they
are, are the natural and inevitable pro-
duct of natural law. They can no more
be prevented than the recurrence of
,he seasons. That natural law is that
all things tend to concentration and
1t is law which runs
through all nature-mineral, vegeta-
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