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

The San Antonio mine in the state OF
Chlhuahua has been sold for $500, 600,
gOld.-Ex-
The state o chihuahua, Mexico, con-
tinues to furnish discoveries of good
copper mines,-Monterey News.
Severe and Nicanor Espino have de-
nouDced the Cas- alidad silver and iron
mine a Z!mapan, Hidalgo.-Ex.
The rich mines at Hostotipaquillo,
Jalisco, Mexico, have been sold to an
American company for $500, 600 gold.
A party of Colorado mining men are
to develop some promising mine pro-
perties in the state of Guerrero.-Mexi
can Herald.
j. w. Evans, associated with Colo
RADIO Springs capitalists, has purchased
the Volcano silver mine at STEMS Pass.
Two cars of ore have already been ship
ped to the Ell Psso smelter. A stamp
mill Is to be erected on the property at
Once.-Times.
A very rich strike of high grade ore
has been reported from the Decatur
mine, six miles from Jerome. The
shaft WAS started with. more in sight;
now the workings are in IL feet of ore
and the bottom of the shaft is all ore.
The shaft is about 120 feet deep
Courier.
Mining engineers agree that the
limit to which shafts may be sunk in
to the earth with the present ma
chiuery and equipments is $1,000 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.
Fred Wall and John h. Hovey, old
timers of Gunsight district, have locat-
of the GROWER, and appear to be hap
Ply over their prospects,. A party of
capitalists examined the claims last
week and q deal is on the tspis. Some
of the ore assayed $500 per ton.-Yuma
Sun.
Suits have been brought at Prescott,
Arizona. by James Shirley and Wm.
Vanderbilt against George Mitchell
for 1928 ,OCO, claimed as their share
from the sale of the Cobre Grande
mines in Sonora, and also against G.
w. Hull for q share of the money paid
him for the United Verde Extension
mines at JerOme.-Tueson Star.
The new cyanide plant at Mammoth
l, says the Tucson Star. A large force
Of workmen are now busy putting the
large steel tanks together. The rivet-
ing of the huge sections of the tanks
together while making q loud din, is
sweet music to the residents, for it
means added prosperity to the thriv-
ing mining camp of Mammoth.
Contracts for an improvement to cost
5000 900 gold will be closed this week.
The work cOmprehends q water system
for the mills at Minas Prietas and La
Colorado, Sonora, and includes q pipe
line sixteen miles long, of 9, z and s.
and the construction of q new reser-
voir. The source Of supply is 9 trib-
utary of the Yaqui river, sixteen
miles from the mills. The water will
be used jointly by the Creston, Colo
RADIO and the Grand Central comps-
Dies. The major portion of this on
tract Ia practically let to Roy & Tit
comb, agents for the National Tube
Works company.-Nogales Vidette.
The following mining announcements
we're made last week in the state of
gold and silver, near San Pablo Hulk
tepec; by Agustin Ortiz, the Anexas
de la P~rovidencia, gold, near San
Miguel Peras, and the Trompo, gold,
near Santiago TeDango, and the Elena,
also of gold, neal the same place; by
F%eliciano Lopez. and partners, the An
geles. gold, near Peras; by Carlos H.
Andres, the Ampliacion de San Juan,
| gold and silver, near Vague: by Will
liam h. McWood, the San Francisco,
| gold and silver, nea San Bsltazsr Chi
chicapam; by Jose Osorio Portillo and
E. Munoz de la CameIa, the Alaska
and Elvira, both of gold and near San
tiago Tenaneo: by Lincoln Snyder and
Gustavo E. Frazer, the Buena Sombra,
| silver, near Yage: and the Adelina, al
30 of silver, near Ocotlan, and by Sra
Dolores Dolls de Martinez, the Corazon
de Maria, silver, lead and gold, near
Magdalena Teltepec.-Mexican Her
| aid.
The following account of the estab-
lishment Of the zinc industry In the
Mississippi valley is given by the Mis-
souri, Geological Survey: In the Mis-
sissippi valley the beginning of the
zinc industry was with the erection of
the works 1t Mineral Poins and at La
Sale, Illinois, by the Matthiessen aud
Hegeler Zinc company, In 1860. Those
at Peru were built later. In Missouri
zinc was not manufactured until 1867,
when . email plant was erected at Po-
tosi. The M%artindale zinc works at
Corondelet we're esta blished In 1869.
Following closely upon these were es-
tablished at the same place successfully
the works of the Missouri Zinc COM
pany of h C%arondelet Zinc company;
at ST. Louis, those of Page nj Krause
and Washington furnace; and in Wash
ington county the Hopewell furnace.
The great zinc deposits of Newton and
Jasper counties were not drawn upon
until 1871. These ores were first chip
ped to La Sale, but in 1873 the Weir
City (Kansas) works we're built. and
others 81 Pittsburg in 1873. The Jop-
lin n other Missouri works were not
built until after 1883.