El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-11

copper pyrites, good ore for concen-
sratipg and desirable for smelters.
Mr.. b BILE also has . lease on some OF
the South west Coal and Iron com
pany's property, and Is shipping abou {.
| five carloads day to the Pueblo Iron
| Works. This is one of the richest iron
| beds In the United States. The iron
runs so per cent over the silica. This
is wonderful property, carrying suoh
copper and silver claims are putting
out one hundred tons a day Of concen-
tratinR ore and are milling from IS to
so tons per day, making good carload
OF concentrates every twenty-four
hours.
Mr., Bibles concentrator was put up
by the Ell Paso Mine, Mill & Smelter
Supply house. L don't say 1t because
It Is an FL Paso house, but II Is the
most convenient and best equipped
cancentrator in the southwest. The
capacity of the mill 10 about 20 to 80
tons per day. Il has an 80 horse power
boiler and go horse power engine,
Blake crushers and four large sized
Bartlett tables. Everything runs as
smooth rs clock work. Plenty of water;
wood costs $3.50 per cord delivered At
the mill.
Mr.. Bible has the franchise for a
from Silver City to all ,he mining
camps, which includes Pinos Altos,
Hanover, Santa Rita, Fierro, Central
City and Fort Bayard, and will be ex-
tended to Mogollon mountain and to
the Burro mountain. Part of this line
Is already up, and In a few weeks 10
will be finished and in working order.
The chamber of commerce should
try to have Ell Paso connected with
- a, Hv oil
bring our merchants into close COM
munication with all these camps.
While talking to Mr.. Bible about Ell
Paso's contemplated Mining Exchange.
he said that could count him in as
one of the charter members, and he
hoped that IL would soon be organized.
The Mineral Point Zinc company
OF Mineral Point, Wisconsin, has quite
q group OF zinc clsiDs in this dis
trict, Is doing considerable surface
work, and is shipping several carloads
to Its works In Wisconsin. The Han
over Copper company is also doing
considerable work in this district.
They have shipped six or seven car
loads of ore to the Silver City smelter,
running from 10 to % per cent copper.
Their main shaft is 1875 feet deep and
has q good steam hoist. They are sink
ing the shaft deeper to catch the ore
body farther down.
In the Fierro district, two miles from
Hanover, are the big iron mines be-
longing to the Colorado Coal and Iron
company of Pueblo. They have an
immense crusher, crushing about 300
tons of iron Q day which goes to their
works at Pueblo. They are working
quite q lot of men, and Fierro Is quite q
lively camp. This ore is q very 6ne
iron. carrying small per cent OF
silica, which accounts for the long haul
to Pueblo. Alongside Of this large
iron deposits are veins OF very
heavily charged manetic iron. can
illustrate how heavily il is charged by
telling you what some Of the boys at
work there told me about 1t. One fol-
low says Dutchman, prospector,
came up there wearing big nails in his
shoes and went to cross the vein, when
he stuck fast and h6d to get out of his
shoes and walk home barefooted. Az
other party said he took q contract to
sink q ten foot hole, and when his blsst
went off the iron flew up In the air but
il was all sucked back in the hole a gain.
Another yarn Is that she railroad had
to fill the hole with dirt to get the loco
motive by it. 1 told the boys that
vas satisfied about its drawing quail
ties, If it could draw out such yarns.
Mr.. Bible said he would get up 8
collection of ores, aud also send In the
different grades of bis concentrates In
bottle form.