El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-09
Mines and
Mining.
Bio Machinery Shipment.

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Big Machinery Shipment.
The Ell Paso Mine, Mill and Smelter
Supply house made a big shipment OF
mine machinery to Parral today. 1t
consists of boiler, hoisting engine,
10, who will install it On q mine ct Par
raj.
A w Clifford Back Again.
A w Clifford, manager of the Orion
Mining company, returned yesterday
evening from the Shakespeare district
where he has been the past week look
ing after the compauy's Dundee mine.
He reports work progressing satisfsc-
torily. A car OF ore from the Dundee
came In yesterday.
Senator Cldrk's Income.
Men who claim to be 60 situated as to
know say that Senator Clark, the cop
per king of Montana, has a daily In
come of $4,000 or sem sthipg like
$40, 600, 900 annually. He probably has
the second largest income Of any indt-
vidual in the world. Mr.. Belt, the
South African Croesus, has the larg-
est.
Water In the Torpedo.
E. T. Anderson. secretary of the
Torpedo Mining company, operating
in the Organ mountains, Is at she Ls1G-
or. He says that while running a level
at q depth of $50 feet large stream Of
water was struck in the Torpedo and in
eight hours there was siSty-dve feet
of water in the shaft, 1t rushing in at
the rate of 100 gallons . minute.
Mr.. Anderson says that the showings
of the Torpedo 60 far have been phen-
omenal, the mine having been payer
from the start. He says the shipments
for August will be about fifteen cars.
A pump is being placed In the mine to
take out the water, after which the out
put will be greater than ever.
Mr.. Anderson Is on his way to his
old home in Denver and from there
will 60 to California, TO be gone in all
about elk weeks. he says life in the
mining camp has q great fascination
for him and agrees with him, be hsv-
ing gained many pounds in weight
since going out to the Torpedo.
Activity In The San Andreas
G. @. Hopkins, general manager of
the New Mexican Lead com Ca.y's
mine in the San Andreas mountains,
friends from Los Angeles, who have
been visiting him az the mining camp,
aud who are on their way home. He
brought with him q box of samples of
ore from the mine that are IS per cent
pure lead. Besides the high per cent
of lead, the ore cor taiDs 81 worth of
gold and twelve or fourteen ounces OF
silver to the ton. They have 1900 tons
on the dump end will commence chip
ping soon.
Mr., Hopkins says that the Santa Fe
railroad company has a man out in the
San Andreas and Organ mountains
looking UP the resources of the cOun-
try with view to build line |
there. BE says there Is sure |
TO be road through there within q |
year as all com panies who have in |
through there will be good thing and |
IL is gus stiou OF who gets there first
that will get the plum.
Mr. Hopkins is profuse in his praise
Of toe san Andreas region, says the
,s mp OF the New Mexican Lead COM
pspy Is the finest in the whole south
west, that they have the best water the
l. rd ever put on the earth and they
asve bad plenty of rain, the climate is
green, the stock Is fat and everybody
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He says mining men by the SCORE are
coming to Los Cruces and there is
hardly a day but what some big man
If mines from Kansas City, Chicago or
ome other eastern city, comes to Las
Jruces and that burg is becoming a
lively little city.
l Liberal Decision of Importance to
Miners.
Hon. E. A. Hitchcock. secretary of I
he Interior, recently promulgated the
lecision In the case Of "In the Albemar-
. and other lode mlniaz clsim-" These
,iaims. says The Santa Fe New Mex
can are situated In the Cochisi mining
district. This decision IL broad and
ibersl'in its scope, and deserves more
han passing notice, for It 10 of impors
ance 10 the mining interests of Thu
erritory, and shows that the secretary
II the interior and the law officers of
hat department 10 not propose to tol-
rate any legal quibbling or the use of
mmaterial tech lea lisies,w hen it comes
o according minsrs and mine owners
easonable facility for expediting and
ecuring patents Oa their mining
laims.
IN the case at issue, Charles Il Toll
nd Others applied for patents for the
Albemarle group of Uines in the
;oc hiJl mining district to the surveyor
'eneral of Ne Mexico, the first step
q this proc sec ing being the msk lng OF
n order of survey OF The clSims with u
lew to securing patent. United States
Deputy Mineral Surveyor b 7 Brown
'as assigned to the work, and being
nable TO find government corner
'tth which to connect, within the two |
lille liBit, and there having been no {