El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-16
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The Jarilla placers up to the present
have yielded about SO. 900 free gold.
A new strike was made on the OPP
portunity mine at Hills boro, N. M.
The San Juan mine in Lower Cali
fornis was sold recently for $120, 200.
Henry Wood has taken a 6-months'
bond on the Monument mine at Bland
A very large body of ore Is being up-
covered on the summit at Hillsboro, N.
Very rich telluride gold ore has
been struck in the warren at Hills
boro, N. M.
The Fortuna mine near Yuma, A.
T., Ia turning out clear profit of over
$40, 900 per month.
Concentrates from Al tons of ore
from the Memphis mine at Red river
produced S1,O2O.98.
Prescott men are going to begin pla-
Ger operations on Bill Williams Fork,
Yuma county, A. T.
The Old Dominion mine in Arizona
is reported to be turning out 800, 900
pounds Of copper a month.
In the lowest level of the Lone Star
mine at Bland, N. NJ, the best ore yet
struck has been taken out.
A company has been incorporated in
California to reopen the Zubiate group
of mines at Torres, Sonora.
The Rio Tinto copper mines in Spain
employ l. 400 men. Last year they
paid 81. 500, 900 in dividends.
Another big and rich vein of gold
and copper has been discovered on the
Trippe mine at Hillsboro, N. M.
The new owners of the Dell at Hills
boro, N. M, are about to commence
development work on a large scale.
A good report comes from Peralta
canon, Cochiti, where, it is said, the
miners are panniug free gold in sbun-
dance.
The ST. Louis Copper company in
tends to sink q 200 foot shaft on it's
copper property in the Jarillss. New
Mexico.
A new 500 foot tunnel and 800 foot
shaft have been commenced on the
Franklin gold and copper group at
Hillsboro, N. M.
Work is to be resumed on the ia
nous Harqua Hala mine, In Yuma
county, A. T., which made its original
owner q millionaire.
The Torpedo copper mine at Organ
Is now producing ore that averages ID
per cent. The mine Is producing reg
ulariy three cars per week.
The gold output of the Trausvaal
gold mines, South Africa, for August,
Is the greatest on record, being 1872, 100
ounces, valued 1t So, 677, 962.
Lead mines in the Castle Done dis
trict, A. T., owned by A. Modest and
F. Avila, are producing ore which gives
returns of 81, 100 per car load.
The shaft being sunk on the Paes
mine In the Jarillss Is down los feet.
On the SO-foot level drifting was COM
menced on 18 inches of shipping ore.
Captain Felix Kahn and A. w. Gif-
ford while testing the Jarilla placer
fields found . chunk of ore weighing
100 pounds that assayed $3.50 in gold
per ton.
Stock of the Santa Fe Gold and Cop
per Mining company of San Pedro,
with q par value of $40, brought so
and S12.75 on the Boston Stock ex-
change.
The original gold nugget found by
Marshal at Colomo, Cal, January 10.
184S, Is now In the possession of w. W.
Allen, No. 1928 Phelan building, San
Francisco.
The Modoc, q lead property, and the
Excelsior ands Torpedo copper
properties in the Organs, N. M, have
been incorporated and capitalized at
$1,000. 900.
New South Wales has a law which
prohibits an inexperienced person
working in q coal or other mine, unless
accompanied by miner of at least the
school of engineers.
The American Turquoise com pany,
whose mines are located at CerriIlos,
are preparing to send the finest collec-
tion of the beautiful gems to the Paris
exposition ever collected.
Several new finds of rich ore run
ming from 10 to 35 per cent copper and
carrying from 100 to 700 ounces silver
per ton were made the past week in
the north end of the Jarilias.
Mr.. Salisbury, of Chicago, purchas-
ed last month $50, 900 worth of stock in
the Modoc at the Organs, NM. He also
purchased at the same time q $50 600
block of stock In the Torpedo.
The Modoc Mining company is put
tramway down the mountain. Work
on large we'll on the plain about
mile from the mine has commenced.
During the year ending July 81, "a
cars of ore were shipped from Las
Cruces. and since then 33 cars we're
shipped from that station. About Is