El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-03
Mines and
Mining.

The interior of q gold bearing rock
was inspected in an Oregon town by
means of the Rontgen rays and veins
OF auriferous smetal were as plainly
visib thew we're on the surface
| Some samples of copper ore, which
a we'll known prospector had just
brought to chihuahua from Cuevitas,
showed high percentage OF fine copper
ore which will. run from 20 to 40 per
cent. with ley of Sc to $40 per ton OF gold.
The party who has the specimens says
the country around Cuevltas Is lime
stone formation and much rougher than
the Sierra Madre.-Eagle Pass Guide.
George r. Sutherland, we'll known
mining man, has bonded the Night
| hawk mine, and has already begun
operations on it. The Nighthawk has
| produced thousands of dollars worth of
rich ore and the workings are yet
actIcally in the grass roots. Besides
the rich strata which have been work.
ed out of, the mine has big bodies Of
low grade gold ore that will pay we'll.
-Mohave Miner.
A cable of Pekin announces that a
contract has been signed by Mr.. Prit-
chard Morgan on the one hand and the
sub-commissioner of mines in SEE
Chuan onsthe other, granting the form
err permission to work mines not al
ready opened for all minerals in that
province, the government to receive
petroleum.. Sze-Chuan is said
to be the foremost mineral
bearing and industrial pro-
vince In Chica.-Engineering and Min
ing Journal.
Ralph Dillon is said to be en- route
from England, having accomplished
his task of enlisting foreign capital to
operate the Winningham properties at
Jerome. The starting of the work and
the good showing they are said to
make, will result in q dozen other
properties starting up, and which ad-
joins them. Jerome will be one of the
greatest mining camps in the west un-
der the favorable operation of these
mines, which lay right at it's door
Journal Miner.
John Campbell has located on the
river near the Senator mill several big
the ton in free gold. The canons cut
the ledge to depth of $50 feet in
places and the same grade of ore can
be found everywhere on them. The
proximity of these great veins to the
Colorado river and the fact that some
day the rapids of this great stream will
be harnessed and made to furnieh pow
er for mining and milling will give
great value to them.-Mohave Miner.
Besides the deposits in Arizona, to
which reference has frequently been
made, wolfram ore (Huebnerite) has
been found in New Mexico. The first
determination and analysis OF the ore
were made by E. T. Dumble.
Texas. The claims on which the ore
was found are still held by the original
discoverer, but very little work has
been done upon them, chiefly on &C
count of lack of means to develop them.
These claims are 8 miles from the rail-
road, but are accessible by q good
wagon notwithstanding & Mining
Journal.
A dispatch from Canon City, Colo,
says: The discovery Of gold five miles
southwest of .his city has caused q
named town to spring up in a night, as
it were. Half of the able-bodied men
the discovery and over 1000 claims
have already been staked. The new
camp has been named Dawson City, AZ
ter B. K. Dawson, who located mine
raj vein from which he dug ore assay
ing over SIG, 900 gold to the ton. The
main vein has been traced Is mile.
Some parties claim that it Ia an extern
sion of the famous Bassick vein ct Sill
yer City.
According to the Helena "Inde-
pendent, the occurrence of an ex-
ceedingly rare mineral near Florence,
Ravali county, Montana, was proved
by Percy train recently. 1t OCCURS in
small six-sided prisms, and upon
analyses proved to be q parasite, q
carbonate of cerium, with general
formula (CaFO (CeF0 Ce (Co3)3, with, in
this case, a part of the cerium replac-
ed by didymium and lanthanium.
This is its first occurrence in the Unit
ed States as it was first discovered in
the United States of Colombia and has
only been found since in Green
land.-Engineering and Mining Jour-
nal
To refute the statement made by the
Mining and Engineering Journal in
January, to the effect that there was
but one paying mine in Arizona, pre-
sumably the United Verde copper
mine at Jerome, G. w. Pittock who is
now in Globe, has contributed to the
Los Angeles Mining Review fourteen
letters on Arizona's paying mines,
gold, copper and silver. He has in
these letters touched very literally
on the Copper Queen. The South
Bisbee company has been attacked by
the M. & E. Journal in recent article
on fraudulent mining promoters and
that company has demanded full and