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

Mines and
Mining.

y Mining. !
w. n. Albritten, of Stanley Butte,
at depth of fifty feet, encountered a
large deposit of copper ore that carries
copper up to IS per cent and gold value
$35.-Globe Times.
W. 81. Newcomb is shipping about
20 tons of iron ore per day from his
mines on Legal Tender hill, almost
within the city limits, to the Silver
City reduction works.
The Commonwealth mine at Pearce
has not only kept up. but increased as
large production. The shipments its
the smelter continue, and twenty
stamp mill has been added to the plant
at the mine. The vein in places has
caused establishment by its increased
width and richness in both gold and
silver.-Arizona Republican.
The Nogales Oasis says: A couple
of weeks ago the new ten. stamp mill
of the Santa Rosalia Mining Co., In the
Arizpe district of Sonora, started up,
and is reported working well aud
ships q great deal of very rich ore il
has also q large body of good ore
which will not pay to ship, but milled
on the ground will yield very hand
some returns.-Ex,
The Texas shaft has attained depth
of 500 feet. A crosscut from the shaft
struck the vein at q distance of IL feet
from the shaft. Drifts are being run
up on the vein which show up q nice
steak Of tirst.clsss shipping ore and nd q
large body of concentrating ore. The
mine is being worked steadily with two
shifts of miners day and night. The
mill is running every day and turning
out good grade of concentrates En-
terprise.
The Empire Copper Mining Com
pany. which is composed of Los Ange-
| les gentlemen and is operating back OF
Empire Flat, has completed assessment
work on the entire group of claims, and
| in most instances fine lodges and
| splendid grade ore have been shown
up. 1t is understood that large sale
pany's property will in the very near
future pass into the hands of European
capital.-Yuma Sun.
JIG. Hopkins. chief bookkeeper of
the Arizona Copper company at Cliff
ton, is reported to have made FORUM
ate investment in stock of the COM
pany, buying 5000 shares at 621 cents
| and selling since the rise in the copper
market at $50 per share. l.. Shine,
agent of the New Mexico and Arizona
Railroad at LordsburR. is also report
ed to have made q good speculation in
the shares of the Arizona Copper COM
pany.-Arizona Citizen.
I. T. Burns relocated an abandoned
claim lately in the vicinity of Bobcat
gulch. Samples of the rock chow
body of mineral close at hand. The
claim was fir located some fourteen
years ago and has been worked by
many owners since. The good looking
rock in question was uncovered after
two weeks work. In the absence of
an assay he is inclined to think he has
struck deposit of high grade ore
New Mexican Miner.
The value of the United Verde Coz
per company's mining property is
secret known only to the owners, but
it has been variously estimated at from
sixty to one hundred million dollars.
The fabulous wealth of the mine is suf.
ficient, however, to keep up city OF
5000 population with all lines of bust
ness in q prosperous condition. In
spite of the late disastrous fire which
literally wiped Jerome of the map,
temporarily, the town Is rapid
ly rebuilding. the structures being
more substantial than before.-ArizO-
pa Republican.
1t is reported that Chicago capita
lists are trying to secure the Silver
Mining compauy's property at Lake
Valley, and that the shaft will be sunk
to depth of 1000 feet. During the
Gig hties, the mine was considered one
of the richest of the world. A strike
has been made in the Pelican mine at
Hermosa, and the product is being
shipped to Ell Paso. Hillsboro is in
terested in the offer by Thomas
Murphy and several Colorado capita
lists of IS45 900 for the Freyburg mine,
and the Hearst estate has agents ex-
aiming various mines in the HillsborO
district with q view to purchase.
Work Is to be resumed on the Good
Hope bonanza properties owned by st.
Louis parties.-Ne& Mexican.
The Silver City reduction works is
smelter stacks running 135 tons of ore
daily. 1t ia understood that the capa-
city of the works will be largely in
creased in the future, both on the pre-
sent system of handling the copper,
gold aud silver ores, and that lead
smelling stack will also be added to the
works. The company is receiving
large consignments of ores every day,
not only from every mining
camp in the territory, but also from
Arizona, Colorado and other states.
The La Bescubedora mine, five miles
from chihuahua, Mex, is shipping
fifty tons of ore per day to these works.
The phenomenal popularity and sue
cess of this comparatively new COM
pany in the smelling business, is large
ly due to the fair, upright and
courteous treatment accorded the