El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-03
Mines and
Mining.
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The Batopilss Mining company hs
recently opened general store a
Batopilas, with capital of 500, 900.
The Old Abe Mining company a.
White oaks has struck a fine body O.
coal, and the Eagle says it Ia an excel
lent article.
Anew camp has been established al
Santa Barbara river in Taos county
The district was originally prospected
by men looking for q lost mine of IA
BILIOUS wealth.-Ex.
''The highest mine in the United
States is probably that near the sum-
matt of the Sierra Blanca, near Gar
land, Colo. The mine Is IA, 400 feet
above sea levei.-Ex.
An important discovery of nickel
and ferro-msnganese was made recent
Iy by Jesse Work, prOspector OF Du-
range iron mountain mine. There is
much interest in the find at Durango
Modern Mexico.
Charles Dussourt has located gold
quartz mining claim in the San Juan
mountains, ten miles east of Cspistra
NO. He has located placer claim in
Lucas Canon, Orange county, CAL
Los Angeles Times.
Work On the addition to the Com
monwealth mill at Pesrce is progress
the machinery and the additional To-
stamps will enable the company to
s-eat about 100 tons of ore per day.
Inform alton comes from La Colorado
to the effect that the Grand Central
Mining company is preparing to install
30O-ton cyanide plant to handle an
accumulation of tailings that approx
mates 200, 900 tons that averages from
IS to 81 per ton.-Nogales Vidette.
Toe Lake Superior and Western De-
Velopment company OF Calum at, Mich,
says the Prospector, has decided to
proceed to develop the Costello group
in Warren district near Bisbee, upon
which the company recently took a
bond.-Ex.
The American side of the boundary
in the Yukon country will be credited
with a greater gold output for 1899
the year, according to 8 conservative |
ess!m Ate, will aggregate s19, 900, 600.
The Sonora Mining aud Developing
comp any, operating in the Matape |
country, Sonora, has ordered new
ten-stamp mill to reduce the company's
ores aud to do custom work for other
mines in the vicinity. Monterey
News.
The Transvaal. g. A., gold is worth
about sl8 40 per ounce. The product
ion of the Rand district for the first
seven monthslof '99 aggrsg ated $751;
979, 497. England wants the country,
aud will ultimately absorb it. It
means "from the Cape to Cairo" and
is inevitable.
Reports from Santa Rosalia, Low.r
Mex, are that there is q
grea. sc srcity of hello at thu mines
ard shelters Of the Boleo company:
Upwards of 250 went to tbs tabled
placer fislds near San Rogue, aud AS
came over to Sonora on the last trip to
she Curacao.
The large Candida mines in Coahuila
have just been sold to London syndi-
cate with capital of 81, 100000. The
company will build branch railroad
to connect with either the National
Rt Villadama or the International at
Monclova. 1t will also erect a smelter
with capacity 500 tons day.-Ex.
A Mexican was crossing a gulch
near Pinos Altos not long since, when
} nail in his shoe caused him pain and
ae picked up cobble stone to drive
,he protruding nail down. He noticed
hat the stone he used was very heavy
He was surprised to discover a large {
,ercenta ze of the piece was gold. He /
old it in Pinos Altos for S25. i
A Pitkin special to the Lsadville 1
dioer says: The famous Maid of '
Athens nina In Mineral Farm Basin, a
ear Tin Cup, has started CIT this sum- {
ler to eclipse its record of last year, q
y making big shipments. Last year +
he nina made an output of S25, 900 !
'orth of ore from grass root shafts, l.
ut the shipms nts ceased by the snow [
ng in of the Alpine tunnel on Decem- n
er 18th. t
The Hidalgo Mining company at v
'arral is treating $50 tons of ore daily y
any is also working the Alfarena, S
reseua, Morena and San Francisco c
roperties. These mines supply ore Il
,r the two mills and also ore for ex- i,
Ortation. The Hidalgo company is VI
repairing to open up the Cabedena 6.
line with large three-compartmen >.
1aft, equipped with modern machine Ii
Herald.
The patio process of treating silver -
'es, OF which an illustration is given :.
connection with the article on Qua
sjuato's mines in this issue, was in W
,nted by Bartolome de Medina, q a.
achuca miner, in 1857. About 70 per d.
mt. of sthe silver mined in Mexico -
nee that time has been treated by q,
is process. For the average silver 60
es of Mexico 1t is the cheapest and -
,st reduction, the normal loss being
So than six per cent.-Mining Re-
ew.
Another effort is to be made by Cali in
rnia parties to find the long lost wi
sgleg mine. 1t has been thirty years liz
nee this mine, famous as a tradition, fol
10 discovered. It was supposed to lir