El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-20
Mines and
Mining.

Rio Grande which are from SO to ovel
600 feet deep.
One of the richest copper deposit:
known, it is ssid, has been found ir
7 Archer county. Texas, A Boston com
papy has machinery en- route to work
, the find.
The fact that q shaft has been sunk
40 feet through gold bearing grave
without reaching bedrock need not de
ter the owners from sinking still deep
err. as bedrock must lie at some poin,
below.
According to latest accounts there
are 1000 men on the ground at the
new placers in Lower California. A
} Spaniard recently returned to South
Rosalia with three pounds of nuggets
and fine gold.
One of the largest if not absolutely
the largest gold ore body in the Unit
ed States Ia that in the Homestake
SOO-foot level 10 said to be $50 feet
wide, all pay ore.
New and rich strikes are being re
ported from the king Of Arizona dis
trict since the discovery of water. The
district Is one OF the richest in Arizona
| and will now no doubt attract much
more neutrality-suspicious. Sentinel.
The Bisbee correspondent of the
Tom bstone Prospector says: 1t Is re-
ported that the Copper Queen comps-
ny Will close the mine for two or three
weeks during the month of July to
make repairs to various parts of the
| mine and smelter.
| In Southern California are gravel
and sandy deposits of great thickness
which near the surface are gold bear
Ing. The gold occurs in semi-cement,
consisting of gravel, sand, cobbIes and
clay. The gold is fne and none Of the
deposits are rich. The deposits near
Newhall in Los Angeles county are of
this character.
mines of Chilli are reported to have
produced an annual average of $780,
O0O. Americans attempted 10 work the
mines. but without success, the yield
being too small and the quantity of wa
| ter scarce. The natives evidently were
| satisfied with small returns.
The mining industry Of Yuma coun-
ty, Arizona, Is very active. Ten new
| mining location notices were on Tues
day field with the county recorder
With the settlement of the land grant
and the opening POT new promising
mines Yuma county looks forward to
prosperous times next fall and winter.
Arizona Sentinel.
The speciments of pink rubellite oc-
curing in lepidolite in radiated crystals,
found in California, are from River
side county. near Pala Mission. Rubel-
lite ana other varieties of tourmaline,
other than black, occur at Mesa Gran
de, San Diego county, and near Straw
berry valley, in the San Jacinto noun
tsins, in Riverside county.
The turquoise mines of Cochise
county have been placed under option |
for sale 70 New York parties, who have
examined the properties and declare |
the turquoise to be the superior of any
stone of its kind in the world, much |
the Orient. This will prove to be an
other Arizona ndustry.-Tucson Star.
II. B. Cartwright received q letter
yesterday from Bland which tells OF IN
immense strike of ore in the Lone Star
mine, New MEXICO. The strike was
made on the crosscut st the fifth level
OF the mine. It exposed body of ore
eighty feet In thickness. The ore of
the Lone Star Increases in quality and
Quantity as greater depth is reach
ed.
Black sand which assays in gold but
con tains no free gold which may be
malgamated should be sent to smell
ter, If the assay shows it to contain
sufficient gold ID pay cost of collecting,
and treatment and q
profit besides. Some recent shipments
II this character of material are said to
nave yielded very satisfactory returns.
Ground slucing is the term applied
10 the method of mining gravel by
means of pick, shovel and bars, the
.ravel being washed in trenches cut in
he bedrock. A stream OF water il
ften brought to the top of the bank
which is being caved dowl and assists
q carrying away the debris. The ma
erial cleaned up from the bedrock in
he trenches Is usually washed in rock
rs or short slutces.
The method of timbering mines by
means OF square sets was first introduce
d in the Ophir mine of the Comstock
ode at Virginia City, Nevada, whence
came to be known as the Nevada y
quare set. The inventor was Phi.
)eidesheimer. The history and meth =
d of framing square sets is fully set
orth in Bulletin No. 2 of the Califor-
ia state mining bureau-"Methods of
line Timbering."
1t is said that the women of Hopdur- n
8 washed gold from the sands Of the P
ruayape river and from the proceeds 81
their labor paid for the construction f
I a church at Juticalpa. The gold O
'as gotten by washing the auriferous T;
ands in bateas. They seldom took s
ravel from bed rock and often waded G
nto the stream, dipping up the gravel q
nd sand from under the water and Ii
exterously separating the gold from l,
ne wash. A large number of women a
ngaged in the work, which was con- S.
nued over a period of years before r
efficient gold was obtained for the a.