El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-03

it. The ore from this mine is copper
| pyriteS and is easy concentrating and
smelling. Each of the Mexico mines
| has a large exhibit and the specimens
from each are above the ordinary in
| beauty.
The Shakespeare District.
In the third case the Dundee and
| the Florence, in the Shakespeare dis
| trict, \. NJ. have a fine lot of samples
of pyrites and red and black oxide of
copper. The Gold Hill, north of Lords
burg, has large piece of gold quartz.
The Homestake, lightweight Claim.
Alpha Lode, Phil Armour. Fountain
Lode. Gold King and Gold Farm, Ari-
of silver and copper, some of which
carry small amounts of lead. The
Kelley mine in the Jarillas has several
large pieces of copper ore in this cab
met. There are also samples of lead
carbonates from the Aventurera mine
in the Sabinal district of Mexico. These
carry lead also. In this cabinet is a
chunk of high grade gold ore. much
of the gold being visible. 1t is from
Sonora mine
Many Beautiful Specimens.
The large glass case contains copper
ore from Kelley & Ryan's mine known
as the turquoise property in the Jaril-
las and copper nugget from Jarilla
mine. Frank Barnum has in this case
sample of bismuth from a claim in
the San Andreas mountains. There
Is also specimen of wolframite. the
valuable ore used in the working of
steel. There is iron and "copper" black
and red oxide. from Ell Machete, in
Sonora, which carries free gold. Large
pieces of copper from the Superior.
owned by Ell Paso citizens, and from
COChiSa ri
Star mine in the Guaynopa district
Mexico. of which c. b. James. of this
city Is president, has samples of cop
per and lead in this case. The Olym-
pia Mining company. of Sonora. has
samples of high grade gold and silver
Mining company. OF which Thomas
Kelley. of this city. is president. has
some copper samples. There is some
more wolframite. this from the Ben
nett mine in the Organ mountains
This mine also has some lime CRYSTALS,
more ornamental than useful in this
case. There is a quartz formation of
iron stain from Ell Paso county and
mercury ore from Brewster county,
Texas. The Cinco &c Mayo in the Es-
condida mountains, Mexico. is repre-
scented here by fine lead and silver
specimens. There is also some gyp-
sum samples from Samalayuca, Chi
huahua, Mex. The New Mexican Lead
company. of this city. whose mines are
in the San Andreas mountains, has
some samples of high per cent lead
in this case and there are some crys-
tails of copper from Morenci. Ariz. |
There are two excellent specimens of |
copper ore, one from the Mineral Hill, |
near Tucson, and the other from San |
Fernando, Mex. Quartz crystals in this |
case from the Quitman mountains look |
like thick glass and are almost as |
transparent. In this case are some of |
the most beautiful crystals of copper |
ever extracted from mother earth. |
They are from near Morenci Some |
of native sulphur from Sierra |
MoJada, Mex, are in this case
Some large pieces. large to put in |
any OF the cabinets or cases. are oc- |
cupying different places in the cham |
Der. They weigh from 100 to 200 |
pounds and are from La General. Nine |
ty-nine Prospect and Leon, in Mexico.
and the Dundee and Torpedo in New |
Mexico. They are copper and carbon |
ates of lead.
More on the Way.
There are other exhibits yet to
come. Twenty-Five or thirty more
have already been promised and are
being selected by different companies
TO be sent in. Major Davis has done
a good work and secured an attraction
for Ell Paso that will never diminish
in interest. If he had all the ore that
he has secured for exhibits he could
retire on the proceeds from the sale
OF it and live in leisure and luxury
the rest of his days
Eiremen ME-