El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-12

Mines and
Mining.

| The telephone and telegraph line be-
tween the Silver City Reduction works
and the Pinos Altos Gold Mining COM
pany's Office at Pinos Altos, is complet-
ed and working to Silver
City Enterprise.
| A new strike has been made on the
200 foot level of the Lone Star mine,
Mineral Park. The discovery was
made prosecuting the vein and its size
and trade hat not yet been determined.
This is another argument in favor of
prosecuting your vein. j. P. Finegan,
Darious and Fred Brown, Jas. Bone
and Scott are the Owners.-TuceOn
Star.
| Assessment work has been completed
on the Eagle copper mines, owned by
w. S. Sultan and William Sidow. The
mines are situated between Globe and
Richmond Basin, and about eight miles
from town. The ledge is large, and
the ore carrying Is per cent iron and 9
per cent copper, is desirable for fuxing
with the silicieus ores found in this
district.-Globe Belt.
VIM. Miller, assistant superintendent
of the Tennessee, and others. have
purchased Samuel Chadwick's mine
| and have let contract to drive q tun-
| mel $50 feet on the ledge. The work is
| now being done. This mine has produc-
GU oTS ny suo CorlOHo 6u6s 6VorSHSo
| over 50 ounces of silver and 80 per cent
lead and some gold per ton. It is q
valuable property.-Mohave Miner.
The gold output from mines in the
United States during the year 1898, is
now estimated at s65, 1872, Sit, of which
upward of twenty-four millions were
produced in Colorado, and nearly If
teen millions in California. In Mon
tana and South Dakota, upwards of
five millions each were produced.
Next to these in the order FAMED
came Arizona, Nevada, Utah. Oregon
ane Alaska. In no other state or ter
ritory except those named did the
product exceed one milli0n.-Ex.
Dell Devices was in town q couple of
days this week from the quicksilver
company has quite q force of men at
work during the necessary assessment
work on many quicksilver claims and
that they strike good ore in every hole
they dig; that the explosion of dyna-
mite IL heard on all sides. Mr.. Dewees's
company has just brought into Ma
rathon about 5000 pounds of pure
quicksilver, recently smelted at their
mines.-Alpine Avalanche.
A dispatch from Tacoma, WASH,
says: News that q big strike has been
made at the Leolo copper mine has just
reached Tacoma Several days ago q
just q few feet below the surface,
which runs 20 per cent pure copper and
which also carries 20 ounces of silver
and paying quantity of gold to the
ton. The mine is located in the east
ern part of Pierce county, at the foot
OF Mount Tacoma on Canada Creek.
The formation in the district is prac-
= 1vvfl rf<h t.
wall copper fields and the ore can be
mined very cheaply.
Clack and POLAND have four car
loads of 500 gold ore between King
man and the smelter. This makes S6,-
900 and represents less than three
weeks work Of fourteen men on the
Orc Plata. These lessers take out
monthly near $40. 900 yet little is said
about It. Three years ago the Orc
Plata was q worked out mine and the
owner went to cow punching and sold
it to the present owner J. W. Gerritt
who works it on the leasing system.
of the mine and the owner is in clover.
The deepest work is less than 200 feet
and the biggest and richest ore is in
the bottom.-Tucson Star.
The Engineering and Mining Jour
nal presents full statement of the
mineral and metal production of the
United States for 1898. From the sta
tistics collected it appears that the to-
tai production was 1852, 927 ,O47, an in
crease of $55 ,069, 1923 over the previous
year. OF this total the output of gold
was $64 200, 900, an increase for the
year of $5, 100000. In silver the pro-
duction was 81, 900 900 ounces, the larg-
est ever reported, with the exception
of the year 1892. The production of
copper was $40, 1867, 1893 pounds, over
half of which was exported to Europe. |
The pig iron production was IL .712, 900 |
tons, an increase of over 2, 600, 900 tons. |
The production of coal was 208, SOC, 900 |
short tons. Lead aggregstinR 3O5, 489
short tons was turned out by the smell
ters, and of this I'll, O67 short tons were |
from ores mined in the United States. |
Zinc also shows q large increase over |
1897. as do the minor products. Fig |
ures collected show that the total pro- |
duction of gold in the world in 1898 |
was 1886, 218, 954, az Increase of S48,-
1886. 1913 over the previous year.
Frank A. Smith, president of the |
Mining and Milling com pa
ny, has been in town for few days |
and said to reporter of the Star:
"On,Our cOmpany's mines we have all |
the men at work it is possible to
handle, and I am very glad to say are
taking out very valuable ore and plen-
ty of it. I don't like to cay just what
it runs, but we are satisfied. We are
pushing q tunnel at the foot of our
main claim that will strike three veins
at q depth of about 500 feet. and prove
to our own company and to the
public that deep mining in this
part of the country is
what Is required. We have one thing
In this district that is lacking In 80
many in Arizona. namely, wood and
water. OF course we are some distance
from railroads, but perhaps the future