El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-21
Ell PASO DAILY HERALD TUESDAY. MARCH q, 1899.
Mines and
Mining.

The mining expert" is wholly q
fraud; and the fellow who pretends to
be in touch with capital, when ne
can't pay his laundry bills, is Ga par
with the "curbstoue broker and law
yer. "-Pick and Drill.
There is report that the English
syndicate who bonded the Ray group
OF mines on Mineral Creek, has CLOSED
| the deal and contemplate narrow
| gauge railroad to connect with the
Southern Pacific at Picacho, distant
some thirty-6ve miles.-Globe Times.
At the Old Dominion there were
| 1900 buckets of ore passed over inc
tramway one day last week, the larg-
est number in one day on record. On
the same day the hoist raised more ore
than On any previous day. The smelter
also broke the record in the output OF
copper.-Globe Times.
We have just received news of an
other big copper strike in the Carbon
property owned by Mr.. l. Lindsey OF
this city. The workmen uncovered a
] ten-foot ledge of Is per cent copper ore
| the forepart of the week. Mr.. Lind
sey will now increase the force from
ten to thirty men and begin regular
shipments to Ell Paso.-Nogales Oasis.
| George Hamlin has returned from q
trip to the Black Hawk mine, which 10
| situated 40 miles west of Phoenix. 1t
| is gold property owned by G. A. 10
| berts and G. T. Henderson. and Mr.:
Hamlin stated that it had very good
| prospects. One shaft in sunk 40 feet
| and it has q 1l2-foos drift on the 7O-foot
| level. There has been 10 feet of work
done on a tunnel opposite. Another
shaft has been sunk 70 feet and there
| is 2O-fOOt drift east at the bottom
| About seventy-ive tons of ore are on
the dump.-Arizona Republican.
Here's something that should settle
| for all time several disputes that have
| recently broken out in this district. 1t
| has been held by the Utah supreme
court that where one or more locates
claim and fails to do required annual
assessment work, any one OF the form
| err lOcators can relocate the claim,
| when it becomes subject to relocation,
and by complying with all federal and
| local requirements can in law hold it.
Such q decision was subsequently, ap-
pealed from to the supreme court OF
the U. s. At one time the acting COM
| missioner of the general land office
| held that one of three lOcators, whose
claims had lapsed, could relocate and
partners provided he complied with
all the requirements.-Hills Ad-
vOcate.
From a reliable source the Orb
learns that the old, worked out, worth
less Peabody mine in the Winchester
district, near Russelville, has been
bonded to Ell Paso parties for $50, 600.
The mine at present belongs to w. ID.
Hubbard, Connecticut, who purchased
it from a company at b low figure be
cause it was reported as being worked
out. For the past few years it has been
worked under a lease by Messrs, .Wein
& Mitchell, who have made snug lit
tie sum for themselves out of their
lease. At present there Is q fourteen
foot ledge of ore in the face of the
drift which runs we'll in copper and
carries considerable silver. Six thou
sand dollars has been paid down on the
bond and the holders of the bond will
soon put to work number OF men in
taking out ore and further developing
the mine.-Bisbee Orb.
= Lieutenant w. F. Hill lately return
ed from a trip to the Mounted Chief
mine, in which he is interested. The
property lies II miles south of the
Crown King in the Bradshaws and is
on the, opposite side of the range.
Speaking of his trip Mr.. Hill said:
Numerous stamp mills are being
erected throughout that country and
also, as noticed in my return through
out the Castle Creek district. The
places are assuming a state of general
activity, but the one difficulty general
Iy, is the lack of water However,
there is usually some way of getting
water if the claims are satisfactory, and
the nature of the properties will al
most always justify large expenditures
for the purpose. There is another dlsad-
vantage which will be over
come eventually, and it re-
suits from the fact that the |
mines GU the south side of the Brad
shaws are tributary ito Phoenix and |
they do not receive az much encourage |
ment rs those tributary to Prescott, |
where mining is practically the only |
fource of revenue. That is OF course
natural at present, but before long |
MANY active camps will be established.
Those immense undeveloped and rich
regions will not always remain idle,
and now that mining has been, or is
fast becoming reduced to q legitimate
business and almost an exact science,
eastern capitalists are not so slow to
in vest their money, but as it happens,
mining developments must pursue
heir natural course, requiring long
lime to be placed on paying basis,
and their benefit to the territory
8 not instantly felt.-PhOeniX Repub-
lean.
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