El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-03

} Mines and
! Mining.

4 Mining.
S~~~ 1870,
a Car OF Ore From the Oscuras.
| w S Peters, of Bonita, N. M. wa
| here yesterday with a car of cope
aims.
Back From Sierra Madre
DR. Warren representing New Yorl
capitalists, returned last night from
the Sierra Madre country. He wa
accompanied by Jim Tsylor,'a mining
engineer.
Sierra Madre' s Big Ore Business.
The Sierra Madre road is crowded
for oars owing to the increase in the
ore shipments over the line. The in
crease in ore shipments Is due TO amin
crease..in the mining business along
that line and means an increase in the
Machinery For parral.
N. b. Emmons, a prominent mining
man of Parral, has been here this week
looking after some machinery that was
passing through here on it's way to
Parral to be installed in q mine. He
has returned accompanied by Mr.. Hop
kins, a mining man from Denver, who
Is q tockholder in some mining pro-
perties in Mexico.
Has Adopted The West
G. L. Larson, who owns an interest
in a valuable mining property near
Hillsboro, N. M, left for that place
10 off L. L., 1T
city. He contemplates returning to bis
old home in Sweden in the near future
to settle up his affairs there and then
come back to America to spend the re-
of his days in the great west.
The Mono erful Oscura District
IR Cox and Capt. Dan Roberts are
In the city to-day, having come down
from the Oscura mountains with aicar
load OF copper ore from the just Before
mine, owned by them and L. Page of
Walnut Station. The Just Before Is
located 81 miles from Mslagra Switch
brought is fine copper glance, paying
about S4S to the ton, and they have 100
tons of it on the dump at their mine.
They only have to haul it 81 miles and
that over as fine roads as can be found
in south western New Mexico.
Mr.. Cox has with him several sam
pies from a new claim he has. called
The Copper Bonanza The ore from this
claim In still richer than that of the
lust before. Both of these claims have
srge bodies of the rich copper glance.
Mr.. Cox says that a concentration would
De big payer in the Oscurss as there
here and it is easily mined, the only
difficulty being lack of water.
rhe Santa Rita Company.
An Ell Pssosn just from Santa Rita
mining district. says that the Santa
Rita company have taken over fifty
eases on claims in that district in the
ast two months and are developing
hem. The Santa Rita company is
loing q great thing for that district,
or the leaser ts valuable factor in |
developing the resources of mining
country. Often when the owner of a |
'ood property has failed TO make it
Jay, the lesser steps in aud
makes money for himself aud
he owner of the prop
ruy. Mines that have been abandoned |
ave become valuable through the |
work. of the leaser and property that
vas deemed of small value often turns
ut to be bonanza through his efforts. |
The leaser is generally man of expe-
ienoe who takes hold with the inten- |
ion of making the bess of it and goes
or the ore wherever it Is to be found, |
wherever it leads and never |
living up as long as there ia any thing |
q sight.
he Rich San Bias District.
General Traffic Agent Logan, of the
Terra Madre railroad, Gays he has |
eceived veri6cstions of the reports |
has many rich fods are being made
q the San Bias mountains. 81 be-
ieve," eaid Mr.. Logan, that if the |
ian Bias district WAS q wild, almost
naccessi BILE country it would bs full of |
rospectors, but the average prospector
Gems to have an adveuturesome spirit .
hid, uninhabi,ed country and risk his
life anu endure hardships when he
nows that richer deposits of mineral
Jay be found nearer home.
"TDe gold seeker ruehes to the
llondyke and to Cape Nome in the |
ace of the news of terrible sutferings
nd few rich finds, while nearer a.
ONE there Is country the prosp acts
t which are more promising than
ven the most exaggerated reports
rom the far-off mining regions of the
Orthwest. Within sixty five miles
-om Ell Paso, in the Sau Blas noun
aips, there Is n region that, although
hasn't the fascinating hardships of
.londy Ike or Cape Nome. is just as
lch In precious minerals as they are.
However there are few good,
lbstantiai miners going into the San
la district and they are becoming
impressed with the fact that there is
)methinp real and near nv that