El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
Mines and
Mining.
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Several rich pockets have been dis
covered in the Cuervo silver mine In
the state of Hidalgo, Mexico.-Ex-
change.
The New York price of tin Oct.
/, '96. was 13 cents per pound. The
New York price today is % &c nts.-
New Mexican Miner.
In the municipality of T~eotlalco,
Puebla, several valuable mines of sill
yer and gold have been recently dis
covered Mexican Herald.
Recently $50 tons of copper were re-
ceived at Guaymas from the Boleo
mines and shipped to the United States
over the Sonora r. Rex.
Pedro Zavala, of Guadalcszar, San
Luis Potosi, Mexico has denounced q
valuable silver mine near the Colo
RADIO arroyo near Tula. Tamaulipas.-
Elk.
Graphite, if very pure, Is of COM
mercial value rs a lubricant for ma
chinery, and Of hue quality makes
lead" pencils. It Is nearly pure
earbon.-exchar ge.
A big strike was made on the Grant
Gay group near Stein q pass on Grant
county. N. M. After digging q 500
foot tunnel the owners have struck an
immense body of ore averaging %
ounces in silver and As per cent of lead.
The strike Is worth over 500, OOO,-
New Mexican.
Ration Is now furnishing the gold
mining camps of Colfax county the
bulk Of tSeir supplies. 1t Is hoped
tina this summer will zee the road
from here shortened and bettered to
the extent of controlling. Our grow
ing city can afford to make the i'm
provement.-Range.
The relation between n avoirdu-
pois ton of 1000 pounds to one troy
ounce is the same as that etween one
assay ton, 20, 166 grams, and one mil
ligram; so that if q assay ton of an
ore SAMPLE is used in a gold assay the
weight of the bead resulting therefrOm
in milliRrams indicates the value in
ouucef per ton.-Exchange.
During the first four months of this
year Mexico exported to France 713
tons of copper and to Great Britain, p
22O. The heaviest expectation of this
metal, however, is to the United
States. which not only its
own production, which is enormous,
but in times OF extra demand brings
copper from Europe.-Mexican Her
aid.
VIM. Fraser has sold his group of Is
claims, situated e Amizet, New
Mexico, on the Rio Hondo. Mr.. Fraser
has shown his faith IN this property by
staying with it for Is years. The deal
paid down. The purchasing company
consist of New York and Montana par
ties. They will commence operations
at once, and the necessary mills and
reduction works will be built.
Last week the following mines were
denounced in the state of Durango; by
John 81. Campbell, the Nina Grande,
of gold and silver, pear Coneto; by
Miguel Vidans, the San Miguel, of cop
per and silver, near San Luis de o
dero; by William w. Graham, the Gin
CO de Mayo and the Porvenir, OF gold
and silver, near Papanton, and the q
Jorge, of lead, gold and silver, near
Herald.
1t is high time the mining business
of Northern New Mexico Was put on q
capital is not the only need. Many
prospeciors who have good showings
have laid down by their holes and
fallen asleep and the old world moves
on just about as well without them.
Capitalists are not coming unless you
let them know there is something to
come for. New Mexican Miner.
Considerable work is being done at
the CariZillO camp, near the Mexican
border, thirty-five miles southeast of
Deming, N. NJ. The Golden Cross and
ping copper n silver ore. A strike
of good ore has been made on the
Klondike, and a 100 foot shaft is being
sunk. Another good strike has been
made on the Copper Tom mine. giving
80 per cent of copper and nearly 100
ounces in silver.-Ex,
A large amount of modern mining
machinery is going TO White Oaks.
The famous Old Abe mine has now
fifty men at work. The new holster is
now in course of erection, and the
twenty stamp mill and the cyanide
plant, handling the tailings. are in full
feet, working in sulphides. The aver
age assay returns of this mine are Sl75
per ton, and some ore has run as high
as 81, 0S3.-New Mexican.
The old San Xavier mine, fifteen
miles south of Tucson, has been bond
ed for $50, 600 to Kansas City men. The
San Xavier mine is a well known and
much respected property. It WAS dis
covered by the Mexicans many years
ago and has beef worked off and on for
thirty years. There are now in this
mine nearly 5000 set of workings and
the lowest level is 800 feet below the
The ore is refractory and car
ries copper, lead, silver and zinc.-Ex-
change.
In the state of Guanajuato last week
the following mining announcements
were made: By Joaquin Montero, the
Refugio, silver and lead. near Xichu;
by Francisco Ruiz, 1000 pertenencias
near San Nicolas; by Alex. Cummings,
Canalitas. gold and silver. near