El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-22
Mines and
Mining.

Inc Mercur mine, u ian, Is now US
ing electric drills and good progress il
being made at a less cost than by the
use OF steam power.-Ex.
A. M. McDuffie, miner at Chlor-
ide, Mohave county, Arizona, has solo
his Rain bow claim to Los Angeles
company for $I1 900. Star.
Within in the last ten days over
: $4,000 worth OF silver ore has beer
Pilares district, Sonora, Mexico
Mexican Herald.
A new camp has been established on
Santa Barbara river in Taos county.
} The district was originally prospected
by men looking for q lost mine of fabul-
GUS wealth.-Ex.
The La Calera gold mines and plac-
ere, six miles from Cucurpe, and forty
miles from Magdalena, Sonora. Mexico,
have been sold to w. L. Hargrove and
associates of Bisbee, Ariz.-Ex.
Christopher Harrihnuser. q pros
pector, has sold the Farewell group of
copper claims, located north of the
United Verde mines, near Jerome,
Arizona, for s25, OoO.-Silver Belt.
The Mollie Gibson mine, at Chloride,
Mohave county, Arizona, is reported
to be bonanZs, producing large guam
titles of ore that is averaging $500 per
ton in gold and ilver.-New Mexican
Miner
The richest copper ore ever pro-
duced in Arizona is now being shipped
from William Ridenour's Grand Can
yon copper mine, near Pine spring.
The ore runs SO per cent-Mohave
Miner.
The Tucson Star says that prospec-
tors have found we'll developed veins
of wolfrsmite in the Cerro Colorado
range. Wolframite is said to have
market value of from S4OO to $500 per
ton.-Jerome Mining News.
Dan Price has struck large body of
cobre in the Picacho mountains and
will soon ship q carload to Chicago.
The Mexicans in this vicinity have
been using it for years as paint. The
PicachO mountains are within six miles
of Las Cruces.-Dona Ana County Re-
publican.
Where one locates q mining claim
on the theory that q former location by
another was forfeited by failure to do
the necessary amount of work thereon,
the burden is on him to prove such
failure in an action by the former 10
Gator to determine the right of posses
sion.--Jerome Mining News.
The Donnellan Mining Co., which
has been operating about Prescott,
will commence soon to develop DO tions
of the Globe district. This is one of
strongest developing companies now
operating in the territory and at pre-
sent has for it's Globe properties $780,
900 of working capital.-Mexican Her
aid.
The mine recently located near
Lordsburg by jeremiah Uric, of Ell
Paso, and now owned by the Ell Pas
Mining company, has commenced ship
ping ore. The ore assays $50 per ton.
There are eight stockholders in the
company and so far only $3.50 has been
expended on the property.-Ex.
There are in Mexico S,644 mining
properties, divided among 20 classes as
follows: Gold, 1928: gold aud silver.
1875; gold and copper, 81; silver, 4,O24;
l ,035: silver and iron, AZ; silver and
manganese, 2: copper, SOL; copper and
lead 6; copper and iron, 40; lead, 10:
lead and iron, 7; iron, 80; an,imony, 10;
tin, 8; mercury, IS; sulphur, 20: opal,
49,; rock salt, 2.-Modern Mexico.
The provisions Of the revised stat
utes, sections 1920, that no location of q
mining claim shall be made until the
discovery of the vein or lode within
the limits of the claim located, is man
datory; and, to sustain an adverse
claim filed against an application for a
patent on q mining claim on the
ground of a conflicting prior location,
there must be evidence reasonably
tending to show such discovery before
the prior location was made.-Ex:
It is understood that representatives
of the Calumet and Hecla company will
be in Tombstone within few days to
enter into negotiations for the bonding
of the Martin Costello group of mines |
in Bisbee. If this deal is contaminated |
it will be one of the largest mining
are included in the group and the price |
is authoritatively given at $500, 900 with |
10 per cent cash payment. This sale |
would mean much for Cochise county, |
and more especially for Bisbee.-Pros- |
pectOr.
George II. Utter has sold his GROUP
of copper Mines near P1nos Altos, N. |
NJ, to eastern capitalists for $4,000,
says the Silver City Enterprise. This |
group consists of five claims lying on
the southwest slope of Pinos Altos
mineral land. The ore bodies are in
lime and porphyry and are from SO to
$50 feet wide, carrying from three and
one half per cent up to native "copper"
Mr.. Utter acquired the property when
it seemed to be worth but little. He
held on to it through hard times, never
doubling or losing faith in it's value.
Now he is rewarded handsomely for
his good judgment and untfring energy.
Elk.
Early last week a mining man on
Groom creek concluded to develop
sufficient supply of water near his
cabin for domestic purposes. and &C.
cordiugly let q contract to sink we'll |
thirty feet. The other daY the work