El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-23
Mines and
Mining.

The Australian gold output for 1899
was 1854, 500 ounces.
Colorado's gold production for 1899
was 500 900. 600, and silver S31, 20S,-
637.
The Santa Fe Copper company is
pushing work at Cerrillos with about
fifty miners.
A new lead of good mineral hearing
rock has been discovered on the Mas
ter Irving mine, near Bland.
A large body of 1900 ounce silver ore
has been struck in the Grand Army
mine, White Hills, Mohave county.
1t is reported that Thomas Shields
has opened up a vein of very rich
quartz on Harrison Hill, in the great
Cochiti district.
The Silver Bar properties at Cooney,
Socorro county, have .increased their
output one-third by a system of screen
ing the ore at the mine.
There are three copper mines in
Hanover district which have dividend
paying record-the Hanover. the An
SON s. and the Tenant.
Messrs. Gilchrist & Dawson, at FL
O,
Arson S. mine, and have started to
drift from the 100-foot level.
Thomas Atwood, manager for Mr..
Mckinney at the Rather mine, ia put
ting up within and getting things in
shape to sink 20O-foot shaft.
The Union IL considered one of the
best claims at Bland. The average
value of the ore is $14 per ton. There
Of ho
The Southwestern Coal and Iron
com pany ship several carloads daily of
iron ore from the Hanover district for
iux to the Pueblo lead smelters.
Practically all the copper ores of the
Hanover district aud the adjoining
Santa Rita find home market at the
works of the Silver City Reduction
company.
The deeds of the Lone Star proper
ties, conveyed to the Navajo Gold
Mining company at Bland, have been
filed. The revenue stamps on the deeds
had q value of 300.
The results obtained from the opera
ton of the new Peletan process, re-
Gently installed at the Albemarle mill
at Bland, are said to be considered by
the company as favorable.
Arizona is credited with having pro-
duced during the year 1899, 81, 500, 600
in gold and $1,000, 900 in silver. It is
believed that the United Verde mine
alone produced more than that sum.
The fine residence just completed by
Senator Andrews at his gold mines,
ten miles from Hillsboro, is one of the
best in the territory, containing eight
cen rooms and all modern convenien-
ces.
The Ajax people at Red River, N.
NJ, have given an option on their
property for S. sixty d6t days to Pueblo par
over 1000 feet of work. 1t carries
gold and copper.
The reduction plant of the Copper
Queen company at Bisbee is closed
down, undergoing annual repairs and
expected the smelter will he again in
operation about February /.
F. Preston Jones has begun work on
one of the oldest mines In the Pinos
Altos district. The "Lsngston" lie To-
Gated within a quarter of mile OF the
Gillett shaft and mill of the Heart
estate.
county, copper mining has received
much attention during the year. At
Copper Hill, for instance, large works
have been constructed, and at Amizett
the production of copper has been
large.
The C-Will-U and the Francis Ethel
are two gold properties in the Organ
mountains, belonging to Guy Jenkins,
of Alamogordo, the former showing q
four-foot vein of ore, with an eight
inch pay streak carrying values from
$40 to $50 per ton.
From Cerrillos comes the report of a
remarkable discovery of gold bearing
trachyte in the San Miguel mine. The
mine is said to be mountain of rock
which lie scanned in every direction
with fine veins Of gold bearing matter
carrying high values.
Arizone's mineral output for 1899,
as shown by the director of the mint,
does not do the mining industry of the
territory Justice. That our showing ia
not greater can only be attributed to
the fact that large mining companies
refuse to make known the amount of
their products.
The Copper Belle and Champion
mines, Big Bug district, Yavapai coun-
ty, have been bonded to Russell Ray
mon aud Robert Bean, representing
strong Colorado company, who will
commence development work i'm
medistely. The mines are the prop
erty of J. w. Nelson and II. o. Pas
ten.