El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
Mines and
Mining.

Z. j. Harvey, OF Cooney, a mining
man, died of heart disease.
Work has been resumed on the
Brush Heap at Kingston, which Is
down 300 feet and is to go 100 feel
deeper.
The mines at Cananea, near the Dor.
der line of the districts of Arizpe and
Magdalena, Sonora, are of great rich
ners. A wagon road is being opened
to them which will cost over $4,000
gold.
The mines of the new mining district,
Huisopa. are looking we'll aud the ore
continues to increase Fin value as depth
Ia attained. Some placers are being
worked with excellent results. There
is q great future for this camp.
William Cooper has put seven min
ers to work on the Pedro mine, in
Ready Pay Gulch, formerly known as
the Sheridan property. An output OF
five tons of $50 ore per day is being
made.
In the territory of Topic were de-
nounced the following valuable new
mines: Conception, of silver, and the
Cruz del ROble, an old gold and silver
mine, both situated near Yesca: and
the Lura. of silver, near Ahuacatlan.
In the state of Michoacan last week
the following new mines were denounc-
ed: the Oregon, of 1000 pertenencias
OF copper lands and the Carolina of g.
600 pertenencias of copper veins, both
near Huscama; San Jose, of silver,
nesf Sinapecuaro.
The following mines have been de-
96unced the past week in the state of
F6f Colima: the Colorado, Francisco
and Enrique, copper mines, on the
the Berts, copper, near Canatlsn; and
the Arturo, copper, also near Cana
tlsn.
Mining in the San Andreas is being
pushed ahead by energetic men and
some rich claims are being developed,
which promise good returns. Prospec-
tors are going into the mountains every
day. The leads so far struck are cop
per and the specimens brought down
show up we'll.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron company,
which has made arrangements to get
large and regular supply of iron ore
from Grant county mines, will send
much of the product back as heavy
rails for the Santa Fe company, which
will this year use 20, 600 tons from this
company. Over 10000 tons of rails
were laid by the Santa Fe last year.
mostly in Arizona and New Mexico.
There is wonderful stimulating eff
ect in the two figures 49," which
mean SO much to this Territory; the
'1S." of course, meaning the price of
copper. Thousands of dollars worth of
camp and mining outfits are leaving
Tucson every day for the new pros
poets, on the strength of the copper
market. 1t is believed by those on the
inside and in a position to know. that
it will soon reach twenty cents.-Tuc-
son Star.
Several new mines IS follows were
denounced in the state of Sonora last
situated kilOmeters from the Tucuru-
babi ranch near Tecoripa: Norte, gold
and silver. both near Horcasitas; the
Mexicaua, of silver, near Trinidad; the
Galav1s, an old lead mine near Santa
Ana; Yuma. gold, near Quilovaca; Al
berta, gold, near Alamos; Buena Vista, |
silver and gold, near Cumpas; Reina |
de Plata, gold and silver, near Imuris:
Victoria, gold and silver, and the Mer- |
cedes, also of gold and silver, both |
near Buena Vista; and the San Fran
cisco, gold and silver, near Cumuripa. |
The Tucson Star says: L. W. Nor
gan, superintendent of the Azurite,
and Charles II. Filkins, vice president,
are in from Azurite. They will return
early this morning. The gentlemen
confirm the reports of the rich and
large strike in the lower levels of the
Banes, the last forty-two feet of the
bottom of the shaft being all in ore.-
some of which is native copper.
contract has been let to drift through
20 the WINE, which is still at greater
1epth than the shaft, The drift will
De all in ore, as it shows up large both
q the winze and shaft. The winze be-
ng sunk on the Winnie, near the
is all in high grade copper
re, and is being pushed down to con-
lect with the long drift of the 200 foot
evel. Work also continues on three
ther mines, out of the development of
which rich ore is being extracted
'upt. Morgan ex presses the opinion
hat the Azurite is a coming great cop
er producer,
The we'll known Dolores mines, 80
niles north of PinOs Altos and about
he same distance from Guerrero, have
ecently been purchased by Col. James
'ender, the eminent English mining
ngineer, who was general manager of
he Palmsrejo mines and large stoc k
older In the property ten years ago
ne Dolores mines were worked 20
eors ago by Don Juan Soils,
ealthy Spsnisrd, who erected a mill
nd made many improvements, but
as forced to stop work on account of I
,dian depredations. Several parties
ave worked the mines since with sue
'ss; but the large amount of capital
,quired to handle them has been the =
luse of their being abandoned for the
LIST eight years. The mines were pur- -
lased from the Casavantes family of
uerrero, and parties in ST. Louis,
issouri The price paid is not known,
1T the mines have been held at SI5O.-