El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-07
Mines and
Mining.
In The Quitman Mountains

In ne AIMS
Il N Sandusky returned Saturday
from the . litman mountains where he
had been the past two days looking
after his mining interests. he says
there are many more miners at work In
the Quitmaus than there were the last
time he was there and that the Bonan-
"a mine which had been lying idle for
several years has been started up again
and force of miners are pushing the
development work on 1t.
The Foys Here.
Henry Foy and nephew. William Foy,
were in Ell Psso yesterday having come
down from Los Angeles where they
have been recreatinR. They went TO
Las Cruces last night and from that
place to the Organ Mining district this
morning. Mr. Fov has mine, the Call
oway, in that district and Is going out
to see about it. He also hss an inter
est in two other mines in that district.
He Is the man from whom Billy Hayden
and associates secured the TorpecO, on
which deal they made quite specula-
ttop.
The Dundee Property.
Prof w b Seamon has eturned from
q business trip through the mining oIs-
tricts Of Arizona aad New Mexico. DE
returned by way of the Shakespeare
district near Lords burg, where he ex-
amined several mine properties among
which was the Orion Mining company
Dundee. He says he found the Dun-
dee in pretty fair shape and oelleVss
with the proper machinery IL coulo
be made to pay good dividends.
He says that some rich ore mas
been encountered and this is be-
hr1f EheFA
large quantity OF concentrating
ore being taken out and they
should be provided with concentrating
machinery to handle CHS. He says
he is highly pleased with the work OF
development that has been done on the
mine since his first visit to 1t which
was when il was fret opened. Inc
work that has been done mas oeen
systematic, resulting In the blocking
out of ore in sufficient quantities to en-
hence the value of the property ten
fold.
P.of. Sesmon says that the wbole
southern end of both territories Is bad
~ in need of rain and there is much
If ring among the people and STOCK
on that account.
Most Remarkable Reunion After
Forty Years
father, w S Barnum, in Plumas
county, California, working an old
placer clsim, has written home short
but interesting letter about their ex-
periences in that country. They had
been there ooly two days when he
wrote and had been to the claim and
t,ken out q little gold each day. On
the frs. day they met an old man 10
the gulch where their claim ia located
and the old man told the elder Mr..
Barnum tEat be looked like man that
crossed the plains with him years ago.
But" he said, you can't be him for
he is dead" Mr.. Ba mum asked him the
crossed the plains with aad he said IL
was Bill Barnum. 81 am Bill Bar
num- said that gentleman, land l
crossed the plains in 1859 with q man
named Frank Snider." And l am
Frank Snider.' said the old man
Then there was happy meeting and
pleasant talk over old times. Forty
one years ago these men crossed the
pla Ms together and they parted almost
on the came spot where they now stood.
Snfder had been there in that country
ever since. Frank also writes that
the weather there is very pleasant and
adds, IF you could have our spring
OF ice water or big snow bank, you
could keep COOL"
The Great San Pedro Group In Mex.
Tni- is the second letter written by
Mai S M Davis, collector for the
chamber of commerce, from San Pc
drO, Mexico. The San Pedro group Of
mines is located 100 miles southwest of
Ell Paso on the Sierra Madre railroad.
ST have spent three days going
over the district, examining the mines,
aud 1 find here the largest mineral
lied district have ever seen. The
figures given in this report of the
certificates on hundred ton lots, or in
other words, actual shipments.
81 will commence with the Candida
ria mine. The shipments are about 400
tons months to the smelter by the
Candelaria Mining Co. of San Pedro.
The smelter returns from the ship
ments are as follows: $50 ounces silver,
So ounces gold, Ills per cent lead, IA 8
per cent copper, IL per cent iron and Is
about three hundred men, opening
up considerable new ground. The
number of feet opened up since the
fret of January, 1900. is 1872. The
main shaft is $50 feet deep. The pay
streak is twelve inches wide but rich.
Some ores have run as high as 500 to
600 ounces of silver. The walls are lime
and porphyry. The mine has a fret
class steam hoist, the best one the COM
pany has in its camp. There are about
seventy-five men sorting the old dump
and shipping three to four cars dsyto
the concentration at Juarez This mine
is true assure vein and will carry its
rich values on down as far as 1t can be
worked, some 2, 500 to 5000 feet. The
r,l6 d.fYn nnpf ms T.