El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-19
Mines aud
Mining.

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The Hillsboro mine was this week
sold to Senator Andrews for $1,000
Exchange.
L. L. Merrill has resigned his posi-
ton as general manager of the Cochitf
Gold Mining company, and has gone to
Joplin, Mock.
Six hundred dollars was bid and
$40 asked for lease In the lower
workings of the Richmond mine in the
Hillsboro district.
The vein in the Miners Delight
Near Blund N. M has been cut at
distance of 80 feet feet from the mouth
OF the tunnel. which shows a vein of Z
| feet.-Ex.
The April production of the HillborO
gold placers was purchased by the
firms OF Keller, Miller. g. Co. and
Robins & Crews. The gold dust brought
So, 800 57.--Exchange.
The tons of ore were mined in the
lower workings of the Richmond mine,
HillsborO district, last week, valued at
S13O per ton gold and S78 per ton cop
per.-Las Vegas Optic.
A jig has been put in operation at
the Lawrence Lapoint mine j.. the Or
gan noun tains. A steam concentrat-
| lug p1dub WILL U0 pun up Oy UQ0 owners
at the mine.-New Mexican.
The employees at the Quinn cyanide
plant near White Oaks went out Oh q
several men out of q job and the COM
pany is looking for others to take
their places -Exch.
The diamond drill at work on the
copper fat, near Animas Peak. Hills
borO district, is now down nearly six
hund red feet, at which depth it has
passed thro gh q blanket formation of
rich copper ore thirty five feet thick
Elk.
w. B. Cook and 81. Mallow, of
Wichita, Kansas, went to Elizabeth
town to take charge of the Gold Mug
get placers. but found no water avail
ing 1t. 1t is their intention, however,
to operate elsewhere in the camp
Las Vegas Optic.
crazy over copper. While there ia
great activity in the silver districta,
it is the new copper discoveries that
are the talk OF the day and it seeMs as
it the average prospeceors would rath-
er find Indications OF copper in the
ground that he is prospecting tor sil-
ver.-Gnterprise.
The Nacimiento de Aguila. of silver
gold and copper ore, situated near
Aguiia, State OF Michoacan, was de-
nounasd last week. In the s. me state
lne following copper mines situated
near Iuricato were also denounced;
graz and Curindalito -Mexican Her
aid.
The stockholders of the Bennett Ste
| mir ha n
their annual meeting al elected the
following directors: Nuna Raymond,
president; Martin Lehman, vice presi-
dent; William Desssuer, secretary:
Theodore Rouault and William N G
Coy: The mines, according to the
smelter accounts, yielded $50, 600, 900
last year.-Ex.
One of the biggest bodies of ore in
the Ellzabethtown district is just
town. Anaconda No. IS and 2, the
workings of which are about 400 feet
up the side of the mountain. show an
uncovered, well defined lead from 40
to 80 feet in width, carrying values in
gold, silver and copper. There is not
better prospective milling PROPOSE
ton in New Mexico. These two
claims are owned jointly by John Con
ly and M. M Underwood. -Exch.
| No' eAucS LOU, Olo mining men say,
has there been such activity in the
mining industry of the territory, and
| never has New Mexico been the RECT
4, nient of SO much attention from out
side capitalists and mining investors.
Undoubteoi,,:. Grant county leads the
van. There the sreat Hearst interest
| has opened scores of mines and is ex-
pending many hundreds OF thousands
of dollars in development work. The
immense copper resources of the coun-
ty are being developed to the utmost
extent, and the mines of every kin6
are returning highly satisfactory re-
suits. There lent an idle man in the
county and prosperity is everywhere
in evidence.-Ex.
Robert Ferguson, writing from Min
era del ORC, Mexico, under date of
May 3. tells of the drowning OF Frank
K: Lloyd on Tuesday. April 25. The
mine OF which Mr.. Lloyd was superin-
tendent had been shut down six months
previous 10 the date CT the disaster.
waiting the erection of new hoistine
machinery. During th'. ,;ro ~. *
err had risen sixty meters 10 the shat
Work had just been resumed on the
morning OF the oath, and on Tuesdav
morning Mr.. Lloyd and his cage run
ner got on the hoist and ordered the
engineer to lower them to the water
levei. ln executing the order, the en-
feet below the water surface, drownino
both him and his attendant The en-,
g1neer seemingly not cognzsnt of his
mistake made no attempt to hoist
them. Indications were that Mr..
Lloyd made q desperate attempt to
save his life.-Exchange.
Last week in the state of Sonora tba