El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-25
Mines aud
Mining.

The San Antonio mine in the state o
Chihushua has been sold for 5000, 900
gold.
The ST. Louis Copper company i
preparing to sink 200 foot shaft OF
their Jarilla property.-Ex.
Messrs. johnson, who owns some ricl
coal deposits near San Marcos, Sonora
have sold them to an American com
pany.
A company OF Boston capitalists il
being organized to operate come
placer mines in the Jicarilla mount
aims, New Mexico.-Ex.
N Levi of Nogal, and S. II. Cooper
of Tolarosa. have bonded the Laurel
Hill mine ut Salinas Peak. It is q
yer and copper. The main lead is 4:
inches wide.-New Mexican.
The copper mines of Pima county
Arizona are now making daily out.
put of more than twenty tons of metal
product. This means more than ten
thousand dollars daily, or three hun
dred thousand monthly.-Orb.
In the territory of Topic the follow
ing new mines were denounced last
| week: by Ponciano Vslenzuela, the
AmpliaciOn de la Reforma, silver and
gold, near Yesca; and by Sebastian
| Mercado, the Bagre, silver near Jala.
The Mexican Lead company, with an
authorized capital of 81 ZOO. 900, has
been Incorporated at Trenton, N. j., to
operate lead and other mines in the re-
public of Mexico. The capital stock is
made up of 81 $50, 600 preferred and
SIS, 7OO,O 900 common.
Word coEes from Lincoln county
that A. A. Brece, on the Duplex claim,
handled fifty yards of dirt in one
week on the Jarilla placers, and clear
ed $3.50 in coarse and nugget gold.
The dirt on the placers yields 81 to So
per yard, averaging SO per dsy.-Ala-
mogordo News.
Three hundred and fifty mining loca-
lions in ella county have been record
ed since January i, 1899. There is no
better indication than this of the live
ly interest in mining in the county, and
particularly in Globe district, where
most of the claims recorded are locat-
ed.-Arizona Globe.
The Chloride camp started last week
with the greatest strike of gold ore ever
made in Mohsve county. The Mime
sofa shaft at depth of $50 feet has
opened out into a body of ore that as
says 20 ounces gold and 300 ounces sil
yer per ton. 1t Is great strike and
the sale that has been pending will
An English syndicate is negotiating
for very extensive copper property,
with q very fair paying grade of ore,
carrying gold, in the state OF Michoa-
can, Mex. The agent OF the syndicate
obliged the reporter not to reveal his
name for the present. The property
is in the Inguaran zone, and that Is
all that can just now be dtvulged.-
Two Republics.
Christ Yesger of Jarills, the new
Turquois King, was in the city last
Sa turday. He has formed partuer-
ship with George Eberleigh of Dexter,
N. NJ, and leased the famous De
Meules mines of German De Meules,
father of the i'll fated former operator.
He states that the operators in the
business and are now developing their
Observation-Disclosures News.
The discovery of hubernite near o.
ceola, New, is considered one of the
most fortunate of the recent new de-
has a comm ercihl value of something
like $3.50 ton and market is found
for it wherever heavy fire arms and
armor plates are manufactured. It Is
used in tempering steel and no other
element seems to take the place of it
for such purposes. Deposits of huber
mite are rare in this country. It has
been discovered in one part of Mexico.
Elk.
Excitement has been caused at King
man over the discovery of coal at Yuc-
ca, pumping station west of King
man. The Santa Fe has had force of
in hon
q depth OF 200 feet a large strata of
coal was encountered, as we'll as por-
phine. Underlying this, water was
obtained. The country around Yucca
Is of the same desert character that
characterizes thet portion of the terri |
tory and the feasibility of boring for
water was very much doubted. Indica-
tions are that the valley which Yucca |
is In 1s OF one vast underlying coal belt, |
and the advantages to be derived from |
it are inestimable.
The Mexican government has grant
ed to William Q. Green, of Arizona, |
over so miles in extent of lands in the |
F'ronteras mining district Sonora. In |
1t are gold, silver and copper mines, |
some old abandoned properties, and |
others not yet opened. Green's scheme |
embr aces the formation of large grain |
and cattle ranches, the establishment |
VI o"o RTeoG sueitlHR plants TO treat
the ores and the construction of rail
way to connect the various portions of |
the grant with the road from Benson |
to Guaymas. Green is planning to |
form great industrial colony and is |
calling upon the Mexican residents of |
New Mexico, Arizona and Sonora to
take employment on his laEds.-Min-
ing Reporter.
Juan Ortiz, of Gslisteo veal thy |
sheep owner, is in the city on business. |
He carries with him a handful of gold |
nuggets, each Of which is worth at
least So. The gold was found in the |