El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-10
THE JARILLAS

Some prospectors Too Anxious to
Make Big Money.-The Rich Pla-
Ger Find.---personaI Notes.
Special Correspondence Of the HERALD.
Several car loads of ore are now be-
ing loaded from the Lucky for ship
ment to Ell PasO.
The Maggie is now added to the list
of producers, and chute Is about COM
pleted to load direct from the mine into
cars.
A. w. Clifford and j. J. Mundy de-
sire to return thanks to Supt. 81. s.
Church and his estimabie wife for kind
and courteous treatment while in
the camp. They always do the right
thing at the right time.
General Manager J. A. Eddy is in
camp inspecting the placer find and
the recent strike of big ore body in
the "Maggie'' Mine adjoining the
Mamie Baird on the west. He is will
pleased with the present condition OF
camp.
The find of placer gold here on the
4th in the gulches lying east of the
Mamie Baird and running north and
south out onto the fat, is only another
proof, that gold does exist here on and
near the surface. 1t is also proof OF
the gold bearing nature OF the lodes IN
these mountains. Ten or twenty thou
sand years ago these hills may have
been mountains several thousand feet
high and their disintegration by the
action of the elements has set the gold
free, depositing it some where in the
surrounding gullies and valleys. While
the find, as is generally
the case, has excited the
population of the camp and come
are already building castles in the air,
that will soon pass away. L would not
advise visiting Ell Pasoans or others, to
load themselves down with bags and
boxes to carry the nuggets found back
ina small hand grip will be sufficient,
and it would be well to fill this grip
with the nuggets occasionally known
as Uncle Sans $40 gold pieces, as nee
essary tools with which to hunt for the
other kind, for the holders are already
talking about good figures for even
an interest. The find is an important
discovery and worthy of more than
passing atter ton, but as yet nothing to
get excited over. With development it
may prove only small pocket yielding
q few hundred or few thousand dol
lars and if we get up TOO high in our
excitement and expectations greater
and harder will be the fall. 1t has
been known for years that the
gulches and flats PANIED gold but not |
rich enough to work without album |
dance of water. This find, should 1t |
yield few thousand quick, will lead |
to general prospecting down the
gulches and over the fats hunting for
pockets on bed rock, that may prove OF
great value, making immense and
quick fortunes for the lucky finders OF
same. The finds we're made by pros
pectors A. A. Breeze and W. B. Bates.
About forty of our camp population
took in Tularosa on the 4th and are
more than complimentary in their
praise of General Superintendent A.
5. Greig and Assistant Passenger
Agent 81. Alexander who gave their
attention to seeing to the
comforts of their numerous patrons.
work, giving evidence that the operat-
ing management of the Ell Psso &
know their business and
attend to it in all of it's details.
When in camp the other day
Judge Lew Davis said: II am
friend of the prospector, generally
speaking, and no one would ike to see
hem get big prices for their claims
more than 1 would, but snme of them
aold strange ideas and it seems hard
or them to learn by experience. They {
DOL them elves too easily over little
piece of ore and get the excitement in
tead of letting the other fellow
ret 1t.
zone man holding a claim, the as 6
essment work not yet done, wanted
5000 cash or $1,000 under six
months bond and lease with cash pay
nent, and can't understand why min
ng capital don't rush around and buy
lis mine. 1t seems waste OF words to I
ry to advise or reason with such pros I
'ectors. They think you are trying to g
OBJ them.
sit has always been an unsolved pro- /
'iem in my mind why a prospector 4
tops at q ten foot hole and wants from
en- to fifty times as much for that hole,
8 he is anxious and willing to go out t
nd do 1t for some other fellow by con- s
ract. He often times has the grub
nd idle days at hand and could If he {
,ould sink his shaft to even fifty feet,
ut no, year after year, it remains ten {
Dot hole. or added ones for annual as
lC
HE talks about sure great values s
18th depth and asks q price based on
alues in expectation and wants his n
loney before they are proven, while in y
act he is proving to the visiting would
e Investor that he Is lacking in conf Z
ence, afraid to take the chances even
putting in his idle time at labor on T
is claim. =
ST would like to see twenty-five shafts n
ding down one hundred feet in this !,
amp and few even five hundred to :,
ne thousand. l believe every such .
!, aft anyw here within the belt would
rove up pay mineral. l have faith in
he camp. Think she will make big
inner. This find of placer gold is no g,
sw thing, it was found fifteen years N
70 and these flats were located for >.
lies around. I.