Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-24
COPPER AND GOLD
Substantial Progress is Being Made
at Jarilla Mining Camp in
0tero County,
PERMANENT DEVELOPMENTS
Not a Poor Mans Camp, As from $4,000
to $4,000 is Necessary TO Prepare the
Ground for Production.

The Jarilla mining camp, located four
| miles off the line Of the Ell Paso e.
Northeastern road, in Osero county, and
| to which branch road has been built,
is one of the most promising mining
camps in this territory. The Eddy
brothers, the chief promoters of the
railroad running through that country,
and who have done SO much for the well
fare of New Mexico, are the largest
owners in this future great camp, and
are making permanent and substantial
improvements on their properties, as
they are well satisfied with the ore
bodies discovered. Hosting and car
riage apparatus are being set up, and
the diamond drill is marking out large
bodies of hematite ore with gold values
100 feet down. The building Of the rail-
road right to the dumps of the pro-
ducing mines makes wagon haul un-
necessary, and thus even third-cla
ore is made to pay through increased
carriage facilities. And as the bodies of
low-grade ore are very extensive, and
can. be handled economically because of
railroad facilities, the railroad company
will have an immense tonnage to haul.
The Eddys have marketed 5000 tons of
ore assaying SIS to $50 per ton in gold,
While small pockets yield from $1,000 to
$4,000 of the yellow metal 1t is reported
that car load of this ore, or rather
wire gold, is being sacked for refining,
but the management will not give out
facts or figures until "the returns are
all in"
Assays from trial shipments of ores
from various other claims in the camp
pan out 13 to Is per cent copper, and $4
to SIS gold per ton. SO valuable are the
claims in Jarilla camp held that $4,000
was recently refused for half a claim,
300x150O feet. The owners of this par
ticular claim are Dan Kelly, of the Ell
Paso hardware firm of Fassett &. Kel-
ly, and S. o. Smith, who was a poor
miner. They have developed fine ore
body, and can ship 60 to Is tons per
month. The st. Louis United Copper
Company have discovered a great body
of copper ore, and will sink large
shaft. The Orian Mining Company,
composed of Ell Paso capitalists, is
making careful prospect ere starting
development; and the Jarilla Gold Min
ing Company, of Ell Paso and Boston
capital, will thoroughly prospect with
diamond drills.
The grounds of the district have been
snapped up so greedly that it is claimed
that all the ground within a radius of
five to ten miles has within the last 80
days in particular been located and
staked out. So there is no room left for
locations; and as it costs from $4,000 to
100000 to put ground into a profitably
working condition, men without means
had better remain away and try else
where. New Mexico Texas, Colorado
California, Tennessee New York and
Pennsylvania capitalists are pushing in
with large means, and William Church,
of Denver, and A. w. Clifford, formerly
am extensive operator in old Mexico, are
in the swim. The ore output is shipped
to the Ell Paso smelter which will ere
long have to increase the number of it's
stacks in order to handle the increase of
business forced upon it,