El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-16
Mines and
Mining.

Southern New Mexico has q boom
ing mining camp. There are over two
hundred people employed in the Jaril-
las mining district.-Rio Grande Re-
publican.
The mine Dolores in the Santa Eula-
liza district is in bonanza and about
$40, 900 worth of ore is being shipped
weekly to the smelling works at Ell
Paso.-Chihuahua Enterprise.
The Montezuma company have this
week moved their pumping and hoist
ing machinery and boiler from the
Klondyke workings to their Blue Ban
dana shaft. They will be ready to up-
water the shaft and to continue, the
work there in a few days.-Elizabeth-
town Miner,
Ell Trafico states that the expert in
vestieation of the coal deposits at La
Barranca has demonstrated their value
beyond expectation, and that their
speedy development On a grand scale
and construction of a railway from Or
very short time -Nogales Gases.
The owners of the Challenge, one OF
the best mines at Hematite, have COM
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mine by running a tunnel which will
cut the lead at a depth of 300 feet.
The property has given assays as high
as $2S 900 per ton, and has shipped
some very rich ore to the Pueblo smell
ter. They expect to be able to cut the
lead with this tunnel in time to furnish
the Hematite mill with ore to start up
on by April observation-disclosures
Miner.
Don Pedro Romero de Terreros took
SIS 600, 600 out of the Real del Monte
mines in the state of Hidalgo. From
IVA to 1888 they produced $500, 900 per
year and from 1901 to 1909, $500, 600
annually. During the war Of INDIE
%pendence q great many mines were
abandoned; also as the shafts were
sunk deeper a great many of the rich
est mines were abandoned on account
of water. With the advent OF modern
machinery these are to a great extent
being reworked and the silver produce
ton in Mexico in 1894 vas $40, OOO, 600.
besides gold, copper and lead.-Eagle
Pass Guide.
According to reports hat are well
authenticated, the company OF eastern
capitalists that passed through Deming
a few months ago, and which was be-
ing billoted by Colonel P. K. Smith,
has one of the largest, if not the larg-
est, bodies of copper ever known to
exist. This property is situated in a
spur of the Graham mountains, in Ar1
IONA. It is stated that the whole
mountain is a mass of copper, some of
which runs as high as 81 per cent. The
main Office of this company is located
in Deming, and as Don as the com
pany gets to work in good shape it will
no doubt be a valuable addition to our
Own,-DemiuQ Headlight,
E. o. Stratton of this city, has just
returned from a visit to the Silver
Bell mining district, and reports much
activity about the old mines. The Sill
yer Bell is being operated very sue
cessfully by the Nelson Mining and
Smelling Co. Development work is be-
ing prosecuted vigorously, and new dis
coveries of rich deposits are of fire.
quent occurrence. This mine has en-
riched our territory many thousands
of dollars and is still more valuable
than ever before. 1t was formerly, as
the name implies, q silver proposition,
but it has.accommodated itself to the re-
quirements OF the market by turning
into q copper producer, giving employ
ment at present to about sixty men
Tucson Citizen.
Messrs. A. r. Gibson and John Rock,
of Cleveland, Ohio, have spent ulast
two months examining every placer
mining district in New Mexico. They
have secured blocks of ground in many
localities and one of their chief acquisi-
tions is q 800 acre tract upon which a
Pinch stream of water can be easily
secured. The company represented by
these gentleman will make extensive
experiments in the dry placer districts
with q machine known as the Perks
separator, which operates on the con-
trifugal force plan, aided by mercury.
This machine is now working on the
region, and is the only plant which has
successfully operated on flour gold.
The investigation of the gentlemen
embraced the entire territory from the
Old Mexico to the Colorado line, except
the Jarilla and Jicarilla regions, and
is probably the most thorough exam
ination that has ever been made in the
territory.-Las Vegas Optic.
The method of depositine metal
direct from the ore las been tried for
some time in Germany, and has proved
lurgical works are to be equipped for
this process of treating the ore. The
copper ores las the process has been
most used for refining this metsD are
first ground to a fine powder and hen
leached in q hot solution of copper
chloride, the effect of which is to dis
solve the copper, silver, lead, and
nickel, and change the tsolution to
chloride. By the action of
lime the arsenic, bismuth, anthony
and iron are eliminated, and the
after being filtered, is passed
into a receptacle divided by a dia-
phrsgm. Here an el%ectrolytic action
ccurs The anode being carbon and
the cathode copper the solution is de-
posted in the cathode chamber, while
schlorine set free in the anode
combines with the solution to
form cupric chloride. which serves to
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