El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-31

Mines and
Mining.

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The Red Rock, on Big Bug, is being
worked with three shifts with twelve
men and is looking fine. Mr.. Fleming
is the owner of this promising DO
nanza.-Pick and Drill.
De Louie Tice, of Red River, ha
been appointed resident agent for the
Red River Mining Company, and the
appointment has been filed in the Sc
cretary's office.-New Mexico Miner.
Prof. w. P. Blake of the university
of Arizona, says that Arizona at pres
emit enjoys the distinction of being the
only available source of hubern1te.
wolframite in the United States, and
the mines at Russellville, Dragon
mountains, contain the purest and
cleanest known in the world.-Citizen
Some good looking gold ore was
brought in today from Chas. Hart'f
mine in the Huachucas. This property
has q most promising future. The
work of development has shown up q
good uniform ledge which carries q
good average. The mine is good one
for mining men to look after.-Tomb
stone Prospector.
charge of the Equator, has invented q
concentrator, made one of them, and
placed it in Tomlinson's mill. on the
Hassax ampa. The concentration is said
to be q success, treating both light and
heavy sulphide ores. Mining men
speak in terms of much praise of the
new invention. Prescott Courier.
| Most encouraging word comes from
Barrett Camp of the continued favor
able development of the Copper King
property there. The ore body has
| proven quite an extensive one with the
end not yet in sight. Some of the ore
yesterday which shows the high grade
quality of the ore. Plenty of native
copper is seen and good feeling of those
in charge prevails.-Tombs Pros
pector.
Joe Cobbledick, who was in from
Richmond Basin this week, brought
with him q very handsome silver mug
get. IA ounces in weight. from the Sill
yer Plume mine, and which he sold to
Chas. Holman. The Silver mine is
one of the richest silver mines in the
basin, and needs must be to prove re-
munerative. The ore last shipped,
almost one dollar per pound.-Arizons
Bulletin.
Frank Vomicil has leased and bond
Costle Dome mining district to VIM.
D. Luce. The consideration is two
years. lease with q royalty of twenty
per cent, which applies to the purchase
price of 500. 900. Mr.. Luce will take
Immediate charge and will work the
property on an extensive scale. The
product of these mines is premium
lead ore from which white lead Is
made. The ore is shipped to San
Era al q at n tn
and there is an immense quantity of 1t
in sight.-Yuma Sentinel.
Col. Epes Randolph, president of the
company, makes the prediction DELHI
erately that Arizona will this year pro-
due S13, 600, 900 worth of copper and
half that amount in gold and silver,
and in this opinion he has the con-
currence of G. w. Pittock, the Arizona
correspondent of the Los Angeles Min
ing Review, than whom there is prob
mining resources of the whole terri
tory. With such returns there will be
little temptation for Arizona to leave
home in search of mining prospects,
Los Angeles Times.
The Orc mine, according to S. 81.
Gould, the superintendent, who Is visit
ing Tucson this week, has q very pros
porous outlook. Development work
has been prosecuted continuously dur
ing the past year, and for the greater
part of two years since the present COM
pany began work. A 600 foot tunnel
has been completed and $40 foot
ing ore from the surface,
but improved with depth. Last year
1000 tons of the last ore crushed netted
So per ton. Fifty men are employed by
the company, many OF whom are put
ting ore on the dump for the new mill.
which has lately been put in operation.
This mill is known as the improved
tons, and was shipped here from Bos-
ton. Mr.. Gould is highly pleased with
the mill, as it beats any he has ever
seen, both in the quality and amount
of the work performed.-Ex.
1t is just forty years since the first
discovery of gold in the state of Color
ado. At what is now known as Idaho
Springs, then known as Jsckson's Bar,
George A. Jackson made the first dis
cOvery of gold Gin the mountains on
that side of the continental divide, Jan,
2lst, '59-fOrty years ago today, Some
time since the spot and adjacent ground
was acquired for. the purpose of erecting
q commemorative monument thereon.
OOuOtlcSS Iu0 CuT00 cOuuG l0S OI bOul. |
der, Gi1pin and Clear Creek, and pro.
baby all Colorado, will appropriately
celebrate the dedication of the propos-
ed monument at no distant date. Jack |
sons was the initial discovery, and |
soon led to several others, notably that |
of Thomas Gregory, on the north
fork of Clear Creek, on |
the present site of Black Hawk |
and Central. The Importance of the
event to Colorado and the west is too
manifest to need line of comment. By
q singular coincidence this date, Jan
uary 21st,is also the anniversary ofSthe
demonstration of the fact of Marshal,s