El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-06
THE JARILLAS

Steady Work For Steady Men,
Permanent ImproVements.-Not
A Poor Mans Campfire Flu
ture of the Camp.
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
A few transients can now find tent
accommodation, bed and board at Mrs.
Pat Markham's.
Private parties contemplate putting
up small buildings the moment they
can get lumber from Alamogordo.
The commissary has now a very COM
plete stock of goods. Even the little
children are happy because they can
buy candy.
The diamond drill, operated by the
Eddy company on the Mamie Baird, is
down seventy-six feet, doing good work
but making slow Roadway.
Several prospectors have been locat-
ing ground for distance of ten miles
to the north end. They all report just
as good ground in the north end as we
have here in the south end.
A car load of ore was shipped last
week to Silver City from the May mine
owned by Dan Kelly of Ell Paso and
S. o. Smith of this camp. They are
working q force on ore and will soon
ship another car.
Permanent improvements in the
snaps Ol u0pOt UulluluSs largo o0Ol
house, postoffice, and company head
quarters building will be started by
Contractors Good g. Co. in few days.
Several cars of lumber for this work
are now at the station.
The camp is progressing slowly, but
surely. Miners who have proved
themselves sober, industrious work.
men, have held their jobs with the
company and are now supplying their
| IN ,,,ili nf the npaGPd
forts for camp life, all of which in
directly come from Ell Paso, while
those who unfortunately were so short
sighted as to form a partnership with
''Old John Barleycorn" have gone'
down the hill
Ten prominent business men of Ell
Paso have formed pool or company.
agreeing to put Sl5 each per month to
prospect and locate claims in the
Jarillas, and their representative is
now on the ground with an eagle eye
open for vacant ground, We are glad
to see Ell Pasoans making such dis
play of enterprise, and trust they will
not stop at simply prospecting, and
want ten thousand dollar returns on a
fifteen dollar investment, but double or
+ treble their monthly donation and
! develop mine thereby helping TO
develop our camp a i'd benefit them
seIvet.
Messrs. German DeMules and James
Curvan of Dexter, N. Y, and VIM,
Crawford of Anderson N. Y, father
and brother-in laws of the late Amos j
DeMules. have taken up their abode /
camp to spend the summer looking aft
ter their holdings, consisting OF e1gne
= claims including the celebrated DE
Mules turquoise mine. A small force
will be kept at work mining turquO sr
and prospecting their other claims un
der the arrangement of Mr.. Curvan
Mr.. r. B. Moore, lapidary, will be re
!. tanned by the family to direct the min
: ing and dressing of turquoise. The
ford. sisters of DeMules, will for the
present reside in Ell Paso, but later
will come out to the camp. The miner:
in camp regret the circumstances thai
bring this sorrowing family into theil
midst and extend to them heartfelt
sympathy, and hope their holdings
will yield them sufficient to in part
balance up the numerous trials and
troubles they have encountered.
A suggestion-a word of warning Ii
Ell PasOans who are liable to catch the
Jarillas mining fever. Don't overlook
the difference between prospecting and
mining. Generally business men re-
sembie prospectOrs in the fact of en-
tering the field of prospecting and fool
Ing themselves 10 Una
\ they are in the mining business, pro
ceeding to talk values beyond their
power of proof and out of all reason
2 They can not or will not develop, and
: ask O price for their holdings thai
. drives wouldbe investors out of the
: field. This is not poor mans camp
4 and the owning of q simple mining
e claim bv either prospector or a ciJi
zen of Ell Paso does not make mine
but requires an investment of from five
thousand to te 4 thousand dollars to de-
velop the claim in to a producing prop
erty, and this is mining. Ell Pasoan:
can we'll afford to enter the mining
business in this camp, for it will pay
them in two ways. It will pay then
handsomely as a mining business, an6
in helping to build up this camp they
will be increasing their mercantile
trade.
Jarilla, March 5th, '99.