El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
THE JARILLAS
Mining Interests BoOming-Test-
inc Placer Ground With the Eu-
reka Portable Gold Washer
prominent Visitors In Camp.

reka Portable Gold Washer
Prominent Visitors In Camp.
Special Correspondence OF the HERALD.
| Our camp ia still making progress.
New people are arriving daily vacant
ground out onto the flats for several
miles is being prospected and staked
for placer claims. Several shafts are
going down to bed rock to prove up
lode claims are now down over 100 feet
and work being pushed as rapidly as
possible, giving promise that. by the
| first of January the value of our camp
will be sufficiently proven to attract
the attention and due consideration of
mining capital.
| Several prominent capitalists and
mining men from eastern yoints have
visited our camp since my last letter,
all of whom expressed themselves as
pleased and astonished at our showing.
| ITEMS.
| A school has been running since the
first of the month and over twenty
children are enrolled.
| A petition has gone forward to the
county commissioners asking for the
| forming of school district.
Superintendent Church under ap-
point ment of Governor Otero went last
| week to San Francisco as New Mexi-
co.'s representative in the miners con-
| vention. He was accompanied by his
| wife and will remain visiting relatives
| until after the holidays.
81. A. Gardanier, the company assay
err, is acting superinte-de dent during alb
sence of Snpt. Church, and is liable to
add to his reputation as an asssyer
that of q mascot, from the finding of
good ore.
B. D. Warnock, the contractor from
AlsmoRordo. representing eastern
capitalists, visited the camp last week,
and was SO we'll pleased with the yellow
stuff taken from the plscers, that he
purchased ten placer claims, ordered
Eureka washer, and proposes to begin
Immediate development work.
The Russian Mining and Milling COM
psny have purchased the Duplex claim
from Hagau and Breeze. and are now
working twelve men aud four dry
washers.
The Electric Mining and Milling
company are working q dozen men on
their placer claims.
The Eddy company have found pay
placer dirt on some of their lode
claims.
A new find of good shipping copper
ore is being opened up on the eastern
slope of Mamie Baird mill.
The placer find has now been work
ed about 80 days, giving q total output
up to date of about $4,000. at present
writing about 30 men and dry wash
ers are employed, producing from 5000
to $500 per day.
A. w. Clifford, manager of the Orion
Mining company, has arranged to
have next weeks clean up ON exhibit
ton in r. G. Lightbody's show win
dow next Sunday and Monday, that the
doubling Thomsses can see what the
yellow stuff looks like.
The Jarills Gold Mines company and
the Orion Mining company have had
small force at work the past week I'M
der direction of Captain Felix Canine,
making surface tests of their ground,
and report fine gold, but bed rock must
oe encountered to prove whether they
have value as placer ground and this
means working shafts of from SO to Is
feet.
Mrs E. F. Pearsau with her mother,
Mrs. N. 5. Alexander of Boston, Mass.
have located in camp for the winter.
There being no idle carpenters In
camp, Mrs. Pearson set good example
for others to follow by building q
miners cabin by himself.
G. E, Moffett, Lieut.. of the Russian
company has built a comfortable cab
bin and is now happy, became of the
pTSsSuoe VI Ills vile duu lhmliy.
A. A. Breeze has gone to Las Cruces |
for ten days rest and medical stten-
ton.
FL. &. Daugherty is opening up some |
fine Gre on his Ell Paso claim in the |
north end, that assays from 1873 to |
752 o., silver and to 20 per cent |
copper per ton.
Charley O'Nesl has the promise of |
shipping copper ore from his fraction |
claim in north end.
The Ell Paso company sinking q shaft |
on the Pass mine in north end. are
now down 100 feet and are drifting on |
a good showing for shipping ore at the |
S0-foot level.
The Old Abe, Old Abe No. 2, and |
North Pole claims are to be sold on the |
9th of next month to satisfy judgment |
in favor of Hagsn and Breeze; have |
been appraised at 81 500.
G. G. Young and Geo. Hedges have |
taken nine months lease on the Lit
tie Joe claim from theElectric N. g. M.
Co., and are working q dry washer
made by. themselves, making good
wages.
Frank Foster, foreman of machine
department Ell Paso smelter, and w.
Oser, of Ell Paso, are in camp prospect
ing their placer claims, the Dewey
No. and the Miotte, and report fine
gold at 10 feet depth.
J. L. Bean of New York, represent
ing heavy operators in working placer
fields, spent several days inspecting
our placer ground, and considered it
Of sufficient Importance to entertain q
if owners would join in q
combined proposition covering 500
acres.
On Monday last, through the efforts
If A. w. Clifford, Capt. Felix Kahn,
The inventor of the Eureka portable
gold washer, and a.plscer expert of ex-
,ensive experience in South Africa and
Did Mexico, was induced to visit the