El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-16
The Little Nine and the Big Future.

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Ell Paso, Aug. Z, 1900.
The Little Mine and the Big Future.
RT. Barton, who has been working
In the Meddler Mining Company
mines near Clifton, for she past four.
teen months, has returned to his old
home in Ell Paso in order to send his
little boy to school. He also has a son
firing on G. b. engine. Today he
went out to the San Simon district to
examine the mine being worked there
by Messrs Lockart, Coins, Adkins,
and others of this city, with view to
taking charge Of the development work
on that property. He says that the
country about Clifton is the direct he
ever saw. The Clifton people are get
ting water from Morenci, to which
place it Is pumped from the Eagle
river.
"While 1 have no interest in the
mines about Lordsburg," said Mr..
Barton, Il don't think Major Davis
exaggerated any on the prospects of the
mines in that region. l am so satisfied
that they will some day be good paying
properties that If 1 owned any one Of
them 1 would not exchange it for many
an old property that 10 valued at hun
dreds of thousands OF dollars.
GEL Paso should have another smelter
and 1t should be erected just as soon
as practical. Not that [ have any
thing against the smelter you now
have. That is not the idea. It is this:
There are enough old established
mines bringing ore to this smelter to
keep it busy. There are hundreds of
new ones being opened up that will
soon be shipping large quantities of
ore to some smelter. Some entsrpris-
ing individual will see some of these
days that smelter up about Deming
or in that vicinity would pay aud put
it up; then you see Ell Psso will have
lost big plum.
There are the Lordsburg mines,
right on the S. P. road and already
shipping some ore. The more mines
that are opened up in the vicinity OF
Ell Paso the better for the town. 1t is
should be encouraged. Wnat
better could you do to encourage the
opening Of mines near your city than
to have another smelter? The
psoper. aeo n m1as 81. the s. s,r,o, p
,m citing propositions and they are 90.
Ing to be demanding another smelter
70 handle their outputs before long, SO
wonld advise the citizens of Ell Psso
70 wake up to their interests. II they
wait until some town in New Mexico
puts up one il will be all day with Ell
Paso for that plum.
ut means thousands of dollars to Ell
Psso and the railroads coming into the
,ity to secure all the shipments of ore
properties of New Mexico, Arizona and
he northern part of Old Mexico. The |
own and the railroads should unite in |
the opening of new prop.
critics. To do this the citizens should |
erect another smelter and the railroads |
hould make proposition to deliver |
he prospectors' provisions on the |
ground free of charge aud to haul TO |
he smelter the first five cars of ore. |
The receipts from the first i've cars |
would be put right back into the mine !
md the mine would be put into posi-
ion to bring the railroad big interest |
IF Ell Paso procrsstinste9 on this |
melter question she will be like the |
arizona Copper company. The COM
any had railroad from Lordsburg to
clifton and transferred their freight
rom that road to their baby gauge at
clifton and took it to their mine. By
DING underground at the Lonefellow
ncltne they could have constructed a
Dad to have come out of Morenci and
'OoAo h0NO uAu mOuOpOiy
n the freight traffic through
hat country besides making
heir mining property more
They were asked to do this
nd probably intended to for some tin,
ut they waited until now the Morenci
Southern is being constructed aud
ley have lost the plum. just so with
1e oitizeus OF Ell Paso. They may in
md to build another smelter some
me but they had better be wide
wake or some other town will head
lem off.
"You would call me fool IL you saw
man trying to promote something
lat would be sure money-m maker for
e and would refuse to give him assist
nee. The railroads and the city of
Paso are to be great gamers from the
esults of the labors of poor st juggling
rospectors that are digging In the
Ills in this vicinity, yet they stand by
nd hope they will succeed but never
fer to lend hand. And let
e tell you now, there are going to be
lines opened up nearer to Ell Paso yet
Ian there has been. The mou otaius
ing just north of this ciey are just az
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