El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-23
in THE JARILLAS
Progress DlsCernibIe Everywhere
The Survey for the Spur Com
Observation-Disclosures Talking
Too MuCh-InterYleW With A.
w. clifford.

w. Clifford.
Manager Church's family will soon
move from California and affairs about
headquarters will be more home like.
The permanent buildings on the
Mamie Baird are completed and COM
pany headquarters are today moving
into them.
The Mamie Baird vein is being ex-
posed from the surface in q dozen diff
ferent places ana good shipping ore is
feet.
Jim Baird, the genial and popular
cattle buyer for Nations & Co. who re-
camp to the Eddys, spent part of two
days in camp and with Manager
Church inspected several of the mines.
The camp was thrown into an up
roar .of excitement yesterday over
q case of emallpox in q family recently
arriving from Juarez. Manager Church
Immediately ordered all tents moved
to safe distance. and supplied sulphur.
He'had all hands to fumingste. He qua
ranttned the family, selecting q trusty
man 10 look after the family, and
there will be no spreading of it.
Teams are hauling iron ore, gather
ed from the surface of the Iron Mask
which 10 shipped to Ell Paso, under
tonnage contract. If this character of
ore will yield only small profit per
alone will guarantee the success of the
camp for there are thousands of tons
on the surface to be gathered without
the expense of mining, and prospector,
and mine owners without capital could
easily make wages, where they have
the iron exposed on their ground.
The wagon road up to the Lucky
shaft is about completed. The danger
GUS ground in the shaft has been
timbered and they are now hosting
ore in clearing out the cave in A
common sense within is being put in
place and as rapidly as possible the
force will be put to mining ore. The
ore body in this mine is proved to
depth of 1876 feet and variously esti-
mated at from 40 to Is feet in width,
with the vein proved full length of the
claim. In character it Is honey
combed decomposed iron carrying from
81 to $12 in gold per ton with an oc-
casional showing of q percentage of
copper. While low grade it will be
one of the heavy and permanent pro-
ducers.
The engineer corps Friday,,completed
their first preliminary survey from
Jarilla side track up to the Lucky via
the southern pass or gulch. It is said
they will run another line to the ORTIZ
east of the Lucky which would connect
with the main line at Turquoise STA
ton. Individual interests SO far ex-
press themselves as friendly toward
the proposed spur and will gladly give
right of way. We trust this feeling
will continue and be followed by action
at the proper time, as stumbling blocks
In the way of petty annoyances. by
hangers on, black mailers, and trouble
making gossfpers, would be danger
GUS element at this stage of the camp.
The camp has the misfortune to have
a few of this element of humanity, who
in their grievance, prejudice and bi.
gotry assume to themselves the right
as to who shall stay in or &C
quire interests in the camp.
In sympathy with the white
csppers from the Sacramento
fenced by the United States courts
they have begun to talk about ''hav-
ing it in for A. w. Clifford" and to
do him if he remains in the CAMP"
The sayings of these men are being
carefully noted by minere in the camp
who are warm personal friends of Mr..
Clifford, and II they have not learned a
lesson by tae prosecution of their white
Gaping friends, for their cowardly
and In human treatment of Mr.. Clifford
while prospecting in the Sacramento
mountains in '97, action will not be
for but prosecution will be in
suRurated for their talk Of Islander, and
threats against other citizens liberty.
United States and territorial officials
are determined that this
element In New Mexico
must stop their tresspsssing upon 9TH