El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-22
IN THE JARILLAS.

lHS SohP NIL SOOn DS HS~uy ~
Receive Visitors.-lts Value As
"A Producing Camp Has Been
Known For Years.
Track laying began today and unless
they have to wait for this the camp
will have a completed railroad next
| week.
The miners in camp are unit, for
new state with Ell PasO as its capital,
and some of their sayings on the sub
ject are amusing and furnish food for
thought.
Mr.. Wench, an expert from Denver,
| Colorado, visised the camp in '97, and
gave it strong endorsement as low
grade smelling proposition, with tran
sportatiOn solved.
w. T. Thornton, Ex-Governor of
New Mexico, visited the camp in 1896,
taking options on q group of claims
and it is said: SIT is the largest low
grade smelling proposition.I have ever
seen or heard Of"
Several letters from Ell Paso people
asking for Information have been re-
ceived by parties in.camp. To such we
say wait few weeks, until the track is
completed and some sort of hotel build
ing is up and then come out and see
for yourself. Seeing is believing you
know.
| The commisary under direction of
Manager Church carries good line of
supplies which are furnished to the
camp at Ell Psso prices with freight
added and the disposition we are glad
to note. is not to rob and take advan-
| age of the struggling prospector and
miner, but just the opposite. to aid and
encourage him in every possible way
Hno. P. Hallihan, G. E., has return
ed from day visit with his family in
Ell Paso. His work in camp will be
completed this week and he goes to
the front as mining engineer. He
likes the showing our camp is making
and thinks we have great possibilities
| many advantages that mining capital
will take advantage of, when il is point
ed out to them.
dry gulch from the foot of the NOria
| Baird extending southeast. has been
purchased by the Eddy Co., and will be
used as q town site to accommodate the
working force on the Noria Baird and
surrounding mines. The moment lum-
Der can be obtained from AlamOgOrdo,
several buildings will be put up and
our camp will take on q more perma
| nent and hOmelike appearance.
Prof Hugh Mcdonald the we'll
known mining expert of California who
visited the camp in September, 1896,
for Mr. Baird said: "Wben you get
will have a big camp here. 1t will be
q successful producer. Sinking any
where within a radious of five miles
around this mine-(The Lucky you
are liable to strike large ore bodies
that will yield handsome returns. If
you had transportation this property
would soon prove itself worth mil
lion dollars" 1t was through Mr.. Nc
Donald's advice that the Mamie Baird
ground was located and prOspected.
The, miners. regret their present tent
life conditions, otherwise they would
have extended an invitation to Gov.
Otero and party to visit the camp that
they might give expression to their
views about county officers to be ap
pointed. They say those pushing en-
terprlsing people over at Alsmogordo
may have the gall to try to convince
the governor that they are the only
people in the county to be governed.
Mining is to be an important interest
in OterO county, and Jarilla will be one
OF the important camps and to the gov
ernOr they would have said had he Wis
tied the camp, whats tt e matter with
us having a miner from this camp as
one of the county commissioners
G. N. GrOsvenor a prominent citl-
zen and capitalist of Memphis, Tenn,
spent several days in camp last week
as the guest of Manager Church. He
inspected the development work of the
the progress and showing made in
so short a time, and said. 1T in
terests me. it looks like business,I shall
give 1t more serious thought. The
Eddys are doing good work for this
section they have big thing in those
mines and will make money and 1 am
glad of it. This camp will be an i'm
portant feeder to Ell Paso and 1 should
think that many Ell Psso people would
become interested. I shall visit the
camp again and may become int rest
ed"
Mr.. W. 81. Mackey and J. r. Burton,
prominent capitalists from Kansas,
visited the camp in 1896, and had same
experted, which must have been to
their satisfaction for they bonded the
Lucky group for s25, 900, which they
held until last December selling out to
Eddy Bros. They were prevented from
carrying out the original plans for
spending $50. 900 in development work
by litigation over conflicting interests.
These gentlemen realized they were
letting loose of good thing, but they
did not care to continue the strife and
contention, even if the reward in the
end offered a million and they would
not stand in the way of others and so
solo out, making some money on their
| investment in the camp.
Some people think that this camp is
new discovery; this is true as regards
| the finding of pockets of high grade
wire and corse gold but it's impor lance
for large bodies of low grade for smelt-
ing ores has been known for years
Several experts have examined it for