El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-07
Mines aud
Mining.


breaker for Cripple Creek district
Colorado, the gold production amount
ing to 81 1925, OOO.-Ex.
from Australia, is looking up Pins
change.
In the district of Rayon. state Of
chihuahua, there are thfrty-hve
nabar in OperatiOn.-The Enterprise
In the state of Morelos Luis Coma
lez, Urquiza, Luis Ramirez and Isidort
Fernandez have denounced the Casua-
lidad quicksilver mine near Acultuco
We have it from good authority that
the Inmensidad mine near Parral has
been leased to q Colorado company.
and work of developing will begin
soon.
The new placer mines of Lower
California are said to be twelve miles
long by two miles wide. There are
present.-Journal Miner.
1t is reported that French syndicate
is negotiating for the purchase of q
The price is said to be $50, 900 gold
chihuahua Enterprise.
London capital is looking to the
United States now for investment in
mines more than heretofore. South
Africa has been given the preference
for several years.-Journal Miner.
| At Santa Clara, Lower California,
the latest gold excitement originated
| q few days since. 1t is reported that q
man can with an ordinary primitive
dry washer, wash out from S. to S35
per day.
Last week the following mines were
denounced in the state of Michoacan:
By George Hall new gold mine near
Tlalpujahua; and by Eulogio and Zen
On Mora, the Esmeralda, silver, near
Angangueo.
the Prietas district, Sonora, man
prospecting for placer gold discovered
mass of nearly pure gold, estimated
in value at $4,000 The vein is
some four inches wide and of nearly
pure gold. It is said that in the same
section at the Bsstills mine vein ten
feet wide, with a streak of one inch
wide of pure gold, has been discovered.
The Nogsles Oasis says: Near Las
Cruces ]. B. Magruder is pushing
work upon his mines and reduction
works. The mines are lead and iron,
which he will use for huxing the ores
to be reduced in the smelter, which
will be purchased from properties in
the surrounding region. Upon one he
is sinking a shaft $50 feet in depth,
and upon the other running q tunnel
AGO feet long, Mr.. j. Wilson is out at
Las Cruces attending to the assaying.
A Silver City, N. M. paper an
nounces the sale, by the Hearst estate,
of it's recently acquired mining pro-
perties near Silver City. N. M, to q
mining syndicate composed of w. A.
Clark. senator from Montana, and
owner of the United Verde mines, in
this county, the Rockefellers, of Stand
ard oil fame, and others. The paper
in question states that the Hearst es-
tate never made purchase of the
property but he'd an option on it for
three years at 81, 200, 900 and in addi-
tion to the payment of this sum the
new syndicate pays the above estIte
S2C0, Cc0 for their option. In this the
Silver City paper is probably in error,
as 1t is generally understood that the
figures at which the Hearst estate Sc
cured the property did not exceed q
half million dollars.-Ex.
From the Hermosillo district comes
an lower true tale" of mine foreman
who ran drift 120 feet under ground
which nearly defined complete circle.
the lower workings followed zig-zag
course considerable distance. From
an elbow in the drift new drift was
started southwar to cut another ledge
eighty feet away. The new working |
was started some thirty feet back from !
the end of the old work. The foreman |
ran about sixteen feet south and then /
took slight turns to the right; in !,
about twenty-siX feet farther he took .
another turn to the right, again at q !
further distance of about-twenty- three !
feet he made third turn to the right;
thea nineteen feet further he made the |
fourth turn and after running seven
teen feet more he announced that he |
had cut another ledge. Investigation
demonstrated that he had returned to
,he ledge from which the work had
started and that he was but nineteen
eet away from the face of the old
workings. having run 10l feet to make /
hat discovery.
Barranca del Cobre, the copper pro
,erty, is 150 miles southwest of Chi 4
luahua and about 100 miles south of
3atopilas. The ore Is copper glance, |,
gold aud silver. 1t is re-
,Orted to run II per cent copper, with
nough free gold to pay the milling
osts The mill plant comprises -
lamp mill, q Huntington mill and
rue vslner. The vein, which is from
to Is #. wide, has a dip of about 60
nd outcrops on both sides of great
hasm 5000 #. deep. 1t is worked en-
irelly by drifts, the lowest opening
eing just above the sire am in the bot
ON of the chasm. Mexican owners
Iorked it for gold, and later an Eng
ssh company spent large amount of
aoney in improvement, but TIE dis
ance from railroad and the cost of
citing in supplies by mule train has
ept down development. The compile
on of the chihuahua and Pacific rail
Dad will. however, improve transpor-