El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04

Its Past, Present and Future, as
Seen by A. w. Clifford, an Olo
Newspaper Man, Who Has Been
Friend of the Great Southwest
and Its Unequaled Advantages
For Thirty Years.

While strolling over the mountains,
examining prospect shafts, searching
for items Of news, we ran on 10 MI.
Clifford. seated on an immense slao OF
lime stone, examining some peculiar
sDecimens, and to our questions, What
have you there, aoo what ls your
opinion of this camp: he answereo'
These are evidences OF anc1 E
habitation of these mountains. Inc
inhabitants must have been Indians.
They are specimens of tools and COOK
ing utensils used by them. See these
I8 iuch holes in this slab OF lime rock;
there are IL of them. This Is where
thew GROUND their grain for food. 1t
toox time, patience, and labor to MAKE
these holes with stone TOOLS. Ibis
must have been q settlement or ca"P-
ing ground of some Importance from
the abundance of broken pottery; see,
it overlOOks the valley 1or miles ~
three directions, and Is natural IOrtl,
ficatiop. These people must have nad
water near by this place ana tnls Iacc
Ia what interests me. Where was IL
and how to find it is the present ques-
tion. A. present, this ia dry cam
and a good spring of water would De
equal to q good gold mine. You news,
paper reporters remind me OF an oI1
prospector finding specimen OF ricm
fioat. He follows it up, overcomloe al
obstacles. in search for the lode from
whence IL came. and when the reporter
GETS even a scent of an item, he follows
It IN. until he gets his rePortorlai
aupur plump into his victim. .u
.Well, it is my opinion that Jarllla
will soon be q camp of no small import
ance. The work of the past, wnen
prominent ST. Louis and Phllaoelpnla
capitalists with much mining eA,
perience did the work and patented
seven claims, laid the foundation oy
moving the existence of low grade ore
in great abundance. The work OF the
nresent-the purchase of group OF
Claims nv Messrs @. B. and j. A. Ed
DIV, after spending in the nelg oornooo
of 800. 900 to find out whether tney
wanted them: the shipment of fifty cars
of ore. that yielded handsome prohts;
and the building of spur from tneIr
main line, right up to the mines tney
are operating, and the pushing OF per
msnent development work WIN iofGe
of one hundred competent mlners-ls
to nv mind proof that they found the
foundation q safe one to build on ana
the building ia q safe guarantee OF
what the future may be. 10 me the
Eddy Bros. are playing Winning caros
and it ia safe to follow them. They VII!
make a big success of Jarillas, and
every sfellow with holdings In .ne
camp will make money, II ne pays
with Judgment, and not as stumollng
block. It would not surprise me to see
a camp here with five thousard people
before the end of the year.
sSome competent mining men say
the ore bodies are only pockets in
lime. while others cay they are
series of blankets of which the lower
ones will prove of greater value than
the upper one lying near the surface,
and will make for New Mexico q sec
ond Leadville. To me it matters not
which is the true condition; either is
good enough. Is there plenty OF ORE
and will it yield q profit over mining,
MISREPRESENTATION and smelling? The
evidence before me is that it does, and
will. If the Eddy Bros. did not so be-
lieve, beyond q reasonable doubt, they
would not be spending upwards OF 9
quarter of q million of dollars.
81 saw the posi- bilities OF this camp
some two years ago and then secured