El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-01
THE JARILLAS.

Track Laying Begun to the Mamie
Baird Mlnes-Laylng Out d
Town Site.-Rough Riders in the
Camp.-A Great Future Promis
ed.-Jaril1a Wants Post Office
Pat Markham, an old time and com
petent miner from the Platte to the
Pacific, is working in the Naunie
Baird.
Charles O'Neal and VIM. Douglass.
two old time miners, are in camp doing
assessment work on claims owned by
themselves, and for others.
! Bob Black, q sober and Industrious
brother of G. L. Black, is one of the
working force on the Mamie Baird.
M. E. Austin and family, recently
from the Panhandle in Texas, has
opened q tent boarding house, and the
with the table.
n. S. Church, who is proving him
self to be the right man in the RIG ut
place, is now ably assisted by Ed. Kur-
meier, recently of Ell Paso, as clerk in
the commissary.
The surveying corps of ten men, I'M
der John P. Hallihan, as chief, is still
at work, laying out town site and To-
eating spurs to different properties
owned by the company.
Lew Cowen and family, Joe Cowen
and family, Fred PiersOn, j. Gibbs,
Lewis p. Cline, Boss Jones and John
Santana, are part of the working force
on the st. Louis company properties.
George Hedges, q young man with
friends and relatives in Ell Paso Is
holding down q good job with the
company, on the Mamie Baird, and is
duly appreciated for his sobriety and
industry.
E. M. Clark, q new arrival from
Philad elphia, is clerk and book keeper,
and the assay department is in charge
of H. A. Gardener, an old and most
competent assayer, assisted by a young
mau, Robert Dryden.
Mr.. Church. q competent civil and
mining engineer with experience to
his credit, is graduate of the Califor-
nia school OF mines, and Is spoken
highly of, by the men under him. The
company and camp is fortunate in hav-
ing such q man as its general man
ager.
Hagan and Breeze have tent in
camp and have been doing assessment
on claims held by them, but both are
now working for the company. A.
Breeze is hauling ore to the railroad
company from Mamie Baird and John
Hagan mining in the Lucky.
Mrs. Pat Markham and family have
set tent in camp, and she sage, 81 am
glad to see one mining camp in New
Mexico, giving steady employment to
deserving idle men. Surely it comes
as q blessing unto many families. May
it continue and the promoters make
millions is my WISH"
w. B. Gibbs, SUPERINTENDENT for the
St. Louis United Co., is working eight
men, drifting on the ore body. They
are now loading car for shipment to
Silver City Smelter. This company
shaft to depth OF three hundred feet,
starting drifts on all ore bodies or
as they cut through them.
The working force on the Lucky lie
now twenty men under S. o. Smith as
foreman. The cave in is now cleaned
out to bottom of old shaft, and plat
form is being placed at fifty foot level
and drifting will be started on the ore
body next week. More men will be
added as fast as ground opened up will
permit.
The Rough Riders are represented
in the camp in the persons of @. L.
Black and Taylor Lewis, both of troup
81, who are evidently following their
commanders parting advice, for both
are competent, Industrious miners
working for the Eddy company, one in
the Mamie Baird, and one in the
Lucky.
Your correspondent admits himself
a failure as q prophet, for q month ago
he prophesied that the camp would
have railroad inside of year, and
here we are with grade completed to
the Mamie Baird ground, and track
laying began this morning. At this
speed we will have the joyous snorting
of the iron horse within ten days. The
by contractors Good &
Co. is being pushed with force of Is
men under Geo. Kenuerman as SUPER
int ndent and D. D. Breen as foreman.
John Baidridge and family. an old
time miner from Co orado is working
for the Eddy mpany, and says, This
will be good camp, Good for the
miners because of the salu-
brious climate and good for capital be-
cause OF sure returns on money invest.
ed. 1t has the making of big camp.
1t seems to have secured enterprise, ca
pital. and railroad without an effort.
wish l owned q few good claims. Sor-
~ did not get here sooner, or had |
money to buy claim; would surely
chance it,"
Mail for the camp now goes through |
to AlamoROrdo and we get it at five in |
the afternoon by the returning train.
This is done for cancellation of stamps |
1T postoffice but is great incon-
veuience to nearly two hundred people. |
Paper mail is irregular and uncertain.
This should not be. and moves that