El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-22
Mines and
Mining.

A. ]. Doran's mill on his Accidental
mine, Walker district of Arizona, has
started up for steady run.
The Ration Fuel company has filed
Incorporation papers. The capital Is
$4,000. The pricipal place of business
Is at Ration.
The Green Consolidated Copper COM
psny, Sonora, has shipped seven car
loads of copper matte from Naco dur
ing the past few weeks.
The closing year of the nineteenth
ce ctury promises to witness substan
tial progress in the mining industry
of Arizona, says the Arizona Silver
Belt.
filed Incorporation papers in New Mex
ic). Its capital stock is 81, OOO, OOO, and
it's principal place of busin ess Portland,
Maine.
Green Rusk's copper mines in the
Rincons, N. M, the Peacock and the
Monitor, have attracted the attent ton Of
mining experts and will probably be
sold this week.
The Moreno Mining company of New
Mexico has notified Secretary Wallace
that it's principal place of business will
be at Springer, aud Hugo Seaberg Its
local agent.
The largest increase in production,
both actual and proportional, has come
from the Arizona mines where the
work has been carried on very actively
in all the large mines.
The Santa Rita Mining company
filed incorpor alton papers at Santa Fee.
The company was incorporated in New
Jersey. It's capital is SIS 900, 900. and
principal place Of business at Jersey
City.
Mr. G. Armeny of New York City,
owner of the most valuable turquoise
mines in the United States and iden-
titled with turquoise operations in
Turquoise, Arizona, ia Tombstone
visitor.
Fred Nickel has located some very
promising copper properties about 20
miles from Jerome, and has two men
developing them at present. The
ledge is large and the cropping assayed
III per cent copper.
The Silver Valley Water Works
company has filed incorporstionipapers
at the Office of Secretary Wallace at
Santa Fe. The capital of the company
is 500, 900 aud its object is to construct
water works in Grant county.
1t is confidently expected that the
San Juan smelter will blow in on the
18th of January, and make q steady
run for an indefinite period of time, rs
the bins are full of ore, and there Is q
large quantity on the dumps at the
mines.
Considerable excitement prevails
around Pine Top, Arizona, over the
discovery of q supposed mineral sec
ton. The ore is believed to contain
copper and gold. The whole adjacent
country is being staked, and shafts are
being sunk.
w. F. Hull, representing Chicago
and New York capitalists, who have
the Backbone" and "Hidden Treas
ure" gold properties on Lynx creek,
Arizona, will place large force of
men at work on the properties about
February l next.
The San Juan mine in Arizona con-
sists of eleven claims in the whole
group. The main shaft is down 165
feet. Drifts are now being run in diff
ferent directions ct the l00-foot level
| n the western drift, at this point, at
least 125 900 tons of ore are in sight.
States in 1899 was exceedingly active.
In 1898 the total output, including cop
per in sulphate, was $50, 900, 232 pounds.
In 1899 the figures reached a total of
592, 672 ,637 pounds: showing an in
crease Of56, 772, 405 pounds, or 1916 per
cent.
Last week on the Boston stock ex-
change. 1,044 shares of the Cochiti
Gold Mining company's stock, of the
Cochiti district, of the par value of $40,
we're sold at from S13 to S14 per share.
OF the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Min
isg company, of San Pedro, Santa Fe
county, $50 shares Oslo par value were
sold at from S. to 6.75.
Another Ell Paso company, the Orion
Mining company. hes notified Secre-
tary Wallace that it has increased its
capital stock from S15, 600 to S2OC, 900
and that Alvs w. Clifford has been
appointed its local agent with Jarilla
as his headquarters. The directors
are Alva w. Clifford, Thomas O'Keefe
and James II. White, and its principal
place of business Ell Paso, Texas.