El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-02
Mines and
Mining.

J for the past ten years has been under
| IL cents per pound. Today it is II
| cents per pound.-Chihuahu Enter
prise.
| John A. Kruse, the Chicago mining
man, purchased the Prosper mine this
week from J. 81. Hirsch. Considera-
ton, SIC, ZOO, on e-half down.-Hillsboro
Advocate.
| A rich strike of heavy copper sui
phide ore was made in the MastOdon on
Saturday, about 30 feet west of the old
workings. The vein is foot wide
and ASSAYS $40 gold and 500 copper to
the ton .-Hillsboro Advocate.
| An unpstented mining claim cannot
be "jumped' if it's original locator,
before Jan. LIST of the year succeeding
assessment" work and by consecutive
days labor completes it.-Flizabeth-
town Miner.
Scott F. Keller and L. W. Gales
bought the American mine on Tuesday
paying therefore 81, ZOO. This pro-
| perty Is the western extension of the
Bonanza, and is quite valuable. They
| have ordered mill machinery from
Chicago, -Hillsboro Advote.
The Yuma Sentinel says that every
available team in Yuma county has
| been engaged to haul the Blaisdell
mill and cyanide plant from Picacho to
the King of Arizona mine, distance
of 40 miles. The plant weighs 400 tons
and willI be moved as rapidly as pos
sible.
M. TAFT has shipped five car loads of
ore from his Sterling mine on Big Bug
which netted $500 per car load. Two
fine big specimens of the ore can be
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at present gives promise of developing
into regular bonanza--Prescot
Journal-Miner.
Henry S. Carter and John E. Moss
have secured lease on the Emma
mine in the Copper fiat district from
the New York and New Mexico Min
ing company and are doing the neces-
sary development work preparatory to
active operations. The showing up to
date is highly encoursging.-Silver
City Independent.
It is learned that Billy Hendershot
and Jim Cannon, while doing develop
ment work for the 'Milagros company
in the lower tunnel of the Milsgros
property in He'll canyon on Thursday
last, discovered fourteen foot vein of
are negotiating for the purchase of the
property, and this last strike will un-
doubtedly hasten the sale,-Albuquer-
que Citizen.
Development work upon the 400 and
500 foot levels of the Texas mine is
showing up fine bodies of ore. The
mill is running steadily every day and
making o good grade of concentrates.
A new well is being sunk in the bed of
the creek to increase the water supply:
the indications are than an abundance
of water will be developed. This will
insure constant operation of the mill
prise.
The force of miners employed at the
Helvetia mine in the Santa Rita noun
tains will be increased to 200 in short
time. The Calum ct and Hecla company,
which purchased this property for $50
600 in December, proposes to expend
500, 600 in development before smell
ter Is erected. Mr.. Dan ], Dryer, who,
In company with Chas. P. Udall,
brought the mine to the notice of the
Michigan people, has been engaged as
manager of the operations at the camp.
Tucson Citizen.
"Flouring" of quicksilver is it's coat
ing with what appears to be thin
film of some sulphides, so that when it
is separated into globules they refuse
W uulto. 4uS Sdu0 GTOuOl0 IS 8lSO |
called "sickenine." Water colder
than so per cent F has a tendency to
cause 'fourinR." FIGURED quicksilver
can be readily collected by adding
minute quantities of sodium and s,ir- |
ring it about. A weak solution of |
cyanide is also of avail.-Ex.
Hank Hawkins is working q force of |
nine men in the Santa Rita camp, and |
expects shortly to increase that num-
Der. Mr.. Hankins is working under |
lease from the Hearst estate He has |
ing q within to facilitate the extraction
of ore. The ore is copper, averaging
from twenty to thirty per cent, and
exists in such quantity that Mr.. Han
kins will ship five cars per week for
the present and will increase the out
put just as soon as the claim is better
1eveloped.-Silver City Independent
Williams, Roach & Ashton, who are
operating the Montoya under lease
rom the Hearst estate at Santa Rita,
aow have their shaft down fifty-fve
'eet and as the pull is too heavy for
nan power they have ordered Davis
whim from Denver. They are extract
ng an average of 1000 pounds of
inc copper ore every twenty-fOur
hours with force of fifteen men. A
specimen from this proper
y is now on exhibition at the "Red
onion" saloon in this city. It weighs
ixty pounds and is ninety per cent
City Independent,
The Edison mill now being erected
8 to US no novelty. 1t Is to be an or
linary 1O-stamp MILL with all modern
The management is
of experienced mining and
nill men, who have successfully
perated in almost every live camp in .
Colorado. 1t augurs we'll for this
mining district to have men of that
lass to take hold of a proposition of I
his magnitude. Mr., G. A. Philips,