El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-31
Mines and
Mining.

u Mining. |
The rich mines at HostotipaquillO
JaIisco, have been sold to an American
company for 5000, 900, gold.-Ex.
A new eighty-stamp mill, to cos
5000, 900, will be erected at the Esper
ANA mines, Ell Orc. Esperanza share
are now quoted 1T S160O.-Ex.
New Mexico, perhaps, has a greater
variety of minerals, economic clay
and stones, than has any other state Of
territory in the union.-New Mexican
Herald.
Recently near Csstana, Coahuila, OF
the line of the International railroad
q brakeman, Chas. Thompson, dis
covered a valuable vein of free milling
gold ore.-Ex.
| Neither the high water For the va
qui Indians stopped several large out
fits from starting from Casas Grandes
to the mining districts of Sonora lsst
month.-Mexican Herald.
The Kansas City Mining & Smelling
company continue to ship on an aver
age of a carload Q day, with no signs of
dimunition in their immense ore
bodies at Victoria, N. MEX.
Mining is very brisk at Parral, ma
ny improvements being made in the
properties of the Hidalgo company.
This company is shipping large
amount of ore over the Central.
Three carloads of acid for the Black
Warrior Copper company arrived last
night from Ventura, Cal, and regular
shipments are promised. The ,ompa-
ny's teaching works will be started up
within q week.-Globe Times.
There was produced in the territory
by the Colorado Fuel & Iron company,
from the Starksville mine, Las Animas
county, Colo. 20, $50 tons of coke, and
N. NJ, 1854 tons Of coal was made into
cuke.-Ex.
A Hermosillo paper announces that
j. A. Naugle, general manager OF the
Sonora road and George Kranz, own
have arranged to sell that property for
5000, 900 gold. The name of the pur-
chaser is not mentioned
The Mammoth Collins Gold Mining
company have force of men at Nam
ton of the twenty stamps to be added
to the mill. These stamps will be run
by gasoline engine, separate frem
those now in operation.-Mining Re
view.
Mining engineers agree that the
limit to which shafts may be sunk into
the earth with the present machinery
and equipments is 10000 feet. The
deepest shaft ever dug is the one now
in existence in one of the copper mines
of Lake Superior. It has q sheer depth
of 5000 feet.-Ex.
The Calumet and Hecla company, of
will open five new shafts on
their property at an expense of 81 ,OO0,-
900. It Is probable that the company
will build 100 to $50 houses during the
year for its employees. This company
is composed of the people who own the
Helvetia mines.-EG.
Andrew Grant who is largely inter-
ested in mining properties in the Cali
fornia group in Sonora, Mexico, was in
'ibilities are unlimited there and the |
prospects of rich gold output will ul-
'imately be realized.-Bisbee Core |
'pondence, Prospector.
Mr.. E. J. Callahan, of Guadalaj ara
8 now clearing 81 900 month on one
If his copper mines near Ameca. Mr..
Callahan has been in every mining
in the world, and considers
hat Mexico offers better opportunities
n this line than any other country
london Mining Journal.
The Cuchilla gold mine near Altar,
sonora, has been bought by California
'arties for $50, 1000. Another deal at
he same place was the sale of fine
'old pr OPPOSITION by Sr. j. ]. Pompa
or 81 900. The Calera. also of gold,
ear Magdalepa, is in treaty for $780,
90, and New York syndicate is re-
orted to have bought the Copita cop
er mine for $4,000, OOO.-Nogales
basis.
The great copper mine at Sonora,
i Cobre Grande, in which Mr.. James
hirley and others are interested, has
cen placed in shape for development
lr. ]. II. Costello, of Buffalo, has pur-
based q controlling interest in this
ig mine and put Mr.. Con O'Keefe in
barge as assistant general manager.
Ir. Geo. Mitchell will fill the position
metallurgist for the company
1eXican Herald.
Such a thing as strike of laborers
| the mining camps'o of this common |
eslth has been something unhesrd of I
n period of twenty years or more. I
is true that the millennium has not +
IT come, but condition In Utah mining
amps would indicate that it is near at S
and, and it is to be hoped that the =
resent pleasant relations between the :
inc owner and the man who delves t
background will be maintained t
defnitely.-Salt Laka Mining Re-
ew.
There is q difference between q vein
I'd a zone. A vein, whether large or y
nall, has clearly defined limits, !!
or> he ,ia1 A. |
alls be ore or not. A zone is not q
.cessarily sharply defined BY walls. 7