El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-05
Mines and
Mining.

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Bohne & Klemp have Sl5, 900 worth
of ore on the dump of their Mint mine,
| in Todd tastn, Mohsve county.
The Pioneer mining district, about
ten miles east of Florence. is one of the
most promising sections in the terrific
ry, says the Florence Tribune.
The Leadville Miner reports that
the Vielle-Montague company of Ant
wOrp Belgium, has made q fiat contract
for 5000 tons of Colorado zinc at %
per ton.
The recent smelters' strike in Colo
RADIO resulted in a loss, as figured out
by Bradstreet's, of go, 100000. That
was q strike that didn't pay.-Mining
Journal.
Tin plate is advancing in price, ow-
ing to higher price of iron and steel
and also TO an increase in wages. The
raise amounts to about IS cents per
box more than year ago.-Ex.
The Mining Journal of London
says that the cash distribution of
dividends by Australian mining compa-
nies during July, 1899, amounted to
the sum of 9336, $3.50 (about $685.
600.
In the shaft on the 1888 claim of the
United Verde Extension claims there
has been encountered very strong
copper water. This water came in
just as soon as the formation changed.
jerome News.
While the statistics for 1898 show
that the production of silver in Mex
leo is being maintained up to that of
previous years-the value of 1t pro-
l. 1T
lean value. thinning Review.
A new mining district has been found
about sixty-fve miles north of BonhOer
station. Ariz., on the Canadian Pacific.
The discoveries have located rich veins
of gold bearing quartz which are said
to be of free milling ore.-Tucson Citi-
zen.
The Yosemite copper mine of the
Santa Rita Mining company, near Sill
yer City. N. M, is producing a net
profit of $500 per day. The ore is con-
contracted and the concentrates ship
ped to chihuahua, Mexico.-Indepen-
dent.
An assay was made this week on ore
from the Wallapai mouetain, for
Thomas Tyrrell, which gave q return
of so ounces In gold and 500 ounces in
silver. A few tons of such ore will
make the owner MISREPRESENTATION
Mineral Wealth.
The sale of the Big Five mines,
Ward property, is a bigger cash sale
than that of Stratton's Independence
mine. Stratton received q big block
Five folks will receive 50 500, 900 cash.
Denver Mining Record.
1t is stated that the United Verde
will produce from 80, 600. 900 to 40 ,OOO,-
900 pounds of copper. The daily pro-
duct averages sixty tone and upward:
1000 men are employed about the
mines and smelter.-Silver Belt.
The Alaska Treadwell Mining COM
pany reports q July run of $50 stamps
for twenty-nine and three-fourth days,
crushing SO, 500 tons of ore, valued at
500, ops, and l ,319 of sulphurets, valued
at $50, $50; gross value of bullion, 1885,
$50; working expenses, S38, 5O0.-Silver
Belt.
The Calumet and Hecla company of
Michigan will open five new shafts on
their property at an expense of 1,OOO,-
900. 1t Is probable that company will
build 100 to $50 houses during the year
composed of the people who own the
Helvetia mines.-Tucson Star.
Advices from Durango state that an
important discovery of nickel and fer
ro-manRanese has been made by a pros
pector at the Durango Iron Mountain
mine. PROJECTORS have been quietly
working upon the claim to establish
it's character before making it public,
but the news leaked out and now the
whole mountain eide is stsked out for
claims by the lucre loving citizens of
Durango Enterprise.
A correspondent of the Age of Steel
who recently visited Galena, Kan,
states that the output of lead ore in
that district for 1898 was over S5,OOO,-
600 exceeding that of Joplin. It was
related in Galepa that SO per cent of
all the mines there now worth $50 900
to $500 600, were once abandoned pros
poets. The properties there are usu-
ally leased to the miner, the free
holder taking a royalty from ten per
cent up to the entire output.
On the 10th of December 1897, Rev.
S. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E. church,
South, PIT. Pleasant, w. Va, contract
ed severe cold was attended from the
beginning by violent coughing. He
says: ''Afte- resorting to q mum Der of
so-called specifics: usually kept in the