El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-26
PROMISING FIELD

n PROmISIlNO lLAD
The JariIlas Have Long Been Known
as a Profitable Campfire Ed
dys Have Done Vast Amounts OF
Development WOrk.-Some Re
suits of Assays.-promlse For
Another FL paso Smelter.-Room
For Many More Big Develop
ment Comprehensive Eddys Do
Not Control the Camp.
speeial correspondence of the Herald.
Jarills, N. M. May 24.-General
Manager J. A. Eddy spent two days
in camp inspecting his holdings, going
up to Alamozordo Friday. Speaking of
the camp be said: '.It Is peculiar
one and hard to figure out. l don't
know that W have vein as yet, SIM
DIV immense bodies of ore are found
when we sink or drift for them. We
came in here after tonnage expecting
it from lower grade fuxing ore. DID
not believe there was pay gold In
camp and even doubted the first find,
saving it looks like gold, smells, tastes
and feels like gold. but it must be
some,hine else but it assayed over
$1,000 in gold, ard we had to admit that
it was gold"
while we have immense bodies of
low serade ore, that will in time
when Ell Paso becomes q great smell
ting center, yield good profits, we
have shipped over four thousand tons
of ore from our development work on
the Naunie Baird and every car shas
given US q profit.
1--WE are well satisfied with conditions
and think.we have the making OF a
great camp. The surface indications
immense bodies of iron and thOrough
mineralized condition OF grOund-equal
any thing l have ever seen.
''This camp is proving what ell 9th
er important camps have done: that no
two of them are alike, each one show
ing some different Oh aracterlst1cs ana
pecuiiarities."
We have often hard unkind and un-
lust criticisms of the Eddy Bros. by
the wise and knowing ones as follows:
"They have the camp gobbled;" ''No
show fer an outsider" If a man found
something the company would freeze
him out by discriminating against
him. II don't want anything In the
Jariila, il is only railroad BOOM" To
all suca expressions and beliefs l want
to say emph stically you are mistaken
and do the Eddy Bros. great injustice
and become stumbling block to the
prOfitable development of this section
OF New Mexico and the future prospe-
rity of Ell Paso.
As convincing evidence 1 quote a
casual rem ark made by j. A. Eddy:
81 think our mining claims are too
large; 1900 by 600 feet is big piece of
mineral ground aud If good Is plenty
for one or q dozen men, and If worth
less, is too much. 1 can't understand
why q man want to own dozen or
more claims in one camp. thereby pre-
venting Others from locating and pros
pecting ground. It takes small for
tune to properly develops one claim
in a promising camp, and when a man
concentrates his forces on one claim
instead of scattering it over dozen he
can make a better showing for success
and be of far more benefit to camp.
Here in this camp we own lot of
claims, and it takes our time and force
to develop three or four of them, and 1
question whether it is good business
sense or Judgment for US to own so
many claims. Would not we, the camp
and the country be better off in the
end, If they were owned by q dozen
different people who would each spend
enterprise, labor and capital In their
development?
ut seems to be human nature for
man to be selfish and want to own the
earth and I suppose he thinks that the
more claims be can own the more
chances he has for striking it. l think
t1is RposiLion is unnecessary in this
camp for sinking anywhere within the
belt in my opinion will give profitable
ore bodies as reward
the Ell Paso and Northeastern railway
would build by this camp. some prom
ineut eastern capitalists gave it due
consideration and the New Mexican
improvement and Mineral company,
with a capitalization of $4,000, 600, was
organized, to bond, develop, purchase
and operate claims in this section.
Under this organization, competent
experts visited the camp, examined the
ground, r1ported fsvorsbly thereon,
and block of p claims was purchased,
bonded aud located and active develop
ment inaugursted. This work was
contin ued for nearly a year when a
second expert representing English
capital, visited the camp, and without
examination turned it down, giving
scientii c reasons why it was impossible
for the camp to ever become pro-
Queer.
This item is made use of at the pres
ent time, to show that the Jarilla SEEM
iugly had to pass thorough the same try
ing ordeal that all prominent camps
in other sections have had to do-to
be condemned and turned down as alb
solutely worthless by mining experts
and tinslly, through enterprise, pluck
aad capital, to be proven immense pr O.
ducers.
Messrs Ricketts, & Banks. chemists,
assayers and mining engineers of 1O4
John street, New York. exported the
camp ia the fall of '97 for the first
compaoy and said: 1.-THE Lucky, Gold
Coir, Lincoln, Abe Lincoln, Black
Hawk, Monogram or Midday, Copper
King, Copper King No. 2, and six 9TH
er C aims, the names OF which we were