El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-12
THE JARILLAS
Indirectly a Part of FL PaSO. "A Rich
Feeder For Our City.-Our Mer-
chants Do Not Fully Appreciate
Its Value.-Mr.' CIalrmonte' S Cpl

|
Its Value.-Mr..C Ialrmonte's Opt
| MON.
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
| JARILLA, N. NJ, May 10.-1n my
contact 18th Ell Pas Oans from time to
time during the past six months. am
forced to pass the following criticism,
| not to wound any PERSONS feelings but
simple to give food for more serious
| thought that should rebound to Ell
| Paso's benefit.
While Ell Pasoaus gladly and thank
fully accept the benefits offered they
don't seem to realize how directly onr
camp is playing n important part In
your present prosperity and your fu-
ture expectations. For the past year
the pay rolls of this camp have run
almost every dollar of it has gone to
Ell Paso. Your merchants might
truthfully say, "Hsve we not given
you value received and treated you
squarely?" to which we answer empha-
tically, Eyes but go deeper and search
sRe goose sss n g9!Ssn lay egg IL y soss
nest later on. What profit have you
made on the 5000, 900 worth of goods
sold to Jarilla camp? Have you made
1925, 900? Do you want to double and
qusdruple it? Is it worthy of serious
thought? If you have made $25, 900
and there is a chance to qusdruple this
profit and there is anything you can do
that is not being done, to aid in bring
| ing alb ,uJ this improvement, is it not
practical business prOpOsiGiOn?"
So fer the development work In this
camp mas been done almost exclusively
by the Eddy Bros, and while ,hey
have demonstrated the ore values and
the possibility of million dollar mines,
| 81 e,E Ia has
full Importance of the situation. In
the language of Web Flanagan" What
are we here fOr?" If you are in bust
ness for business, you want all the
business you can get and nything that
will increase your business, Is business
that needs your serious consideration.
| Ii the business men OF Ell PaSo would
take the S25, 600 profit, made out of ia
rills last year, and developa good claim
or TWO, they would be doing just what
Eddy Bros. have done and are doing
and this would double the business and
profit, and this would aid in bringing
someone else who would treble it, and
like the rolling snow ball, it would
grow and grow until you would have so
much business and make so much
money that you would become tired
and turn your business over to your
sons and trusted clerks, and be content
with the dividends from your Jarilla
mines, spending your days about the
pleasure resorts in the Sacramento
mouuta
Plainly speaking, our camp and
prospectors are poor. Our prospects
do not yield profits from the surface,
but require an expenditure of from
s., 900 to $25, 900 to put them in prod
ucing condition. They are not even
capital for inspection. A prospect
should have from so to 200 feet of
development work, before offering it
to prospective purchasers.
Our camp needs the assistance OF Ell
Pasosns, to join the prospector and
claim owner doing this work, AID now
is the time to start it. It must be done
and great big fortunes await the men
who are bold enough to act and act
quickly. There is q time in the affairs
of Ell Pasoaus if taken at its. tide leads
on to fortune. This tide is rolling this
way: will you ride it, or will you COZ
water (grub stalking prospecsor) and
let the wave pass beyond yOu?
| E. Clairmonge, the English traveller
and writer, spent two weeks in our
camp taking nrLes for his neXs publ
cation and says:
'As mining camp 1 believe it has
a great future. 1t is only in its infancy
| at present. Inc Nils nave ndo lohS
period of comparative tranquility,
owing to lack of water only. They say
the Mamie Baird mine was
sold by the discoverer for barrel of
water some years ago. How very thirsty
he must have been. If 1 owned her
(the mine 1 mean) a lake would not
part us. 1t is dry weird looking place
point appealingly like withered
fingers TO the cloudless sky. But what
does it matter, for every other day a
train comes putting and painting up to
the very shaft mouth with huge tanks
Of pure water and sreturns laden with
the rich ore. Besides, dry mine is
better to work than q wet one, for two
reasons. 1t is cheaper, and In an alkai
country as this is, water in connection
with 1t is death to copper.
| SIT is essentially copper country
they tell me, but L think differently.
Wait until the results of development
are seen and the gold will equal the
copper in value. But one has to go q
great deal on theory and experience in
other parts on similar formations.
With money and energy the truth will
out. and they will delve below the
eruptive showings and tap the main
treasures from whence the present
comes. Fortunately these mines pay
their way from the surface. that is to
say from the iron cappings that cover
every peak. There are probably about
five hundred miners and prospectors
there. Many OF the latter have good
claims, and await capitalists who will
buy or nvest on shares. 1t is certain
| ly not a poor mans camp for it means
sinking, and sinking is expensive. But
almost anywhere in the Jarilla area of
fifteen miles by four miles, there are
immense hidden treasures awaiting the
man of grit and money"