El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-26
Mines and Mining
JEROME. ARIZONA. DISTRICT.


district will be more than doubled dur
ing the next two months. The fecili-
ties now in operation will be Increased
and new machinery will be brought in
70 the district and many new proper
ties will be opened up.
WILL DEVELOP OIL LANDS.
General Manager O'Kelley. of the
Gallup Oil company. of Gallup. n. M.
has completed the sale OF 1OO.0Oo
shares of stock. The purchasers are
residents of Albuquerque. Gallup and
Winsiow. Arrangements will now be
made to operate in the oil lands OF
the company near Gallup. under the
supervision of experts.
GOOD MICA MINES.
At Petaca. Rio Ariba county. N M.
the Standard company and Cleveland
company are doing active work on
their mica mines and they are proving
to be payers. as larg quantities OF ex-
celIent mica are being taken out J. A.
Holmes. of the United States geological
survey. has visited the properties re-
Gently and reports favorably upon
them
GENEROSITY REPAID.
Several months ago DIR. Wells. of
Deming befriended a poor miner and
prospector and the man said that ne
hoped some day to be able to repay him
for his generosity. The miner went
prospecting northeast of Hillsboro sew
eral miles and struck a rich lead and
copper showing. A short time after
wards he sent DIR. Wells deed to
third interest in the claim Experts
who have seen the property tell the
doctor that he has good thing.
SAM SIMON DISTRICT.
r. T. Barton. manager OF the Prov
idence owned by himself. Chief Lock-
hart and Ell Paso railroad men in the
Sam Simon district near Stems Pass.
is at home on a visit to his family
He says the situation at the Providence
Is about the same as when he was at
home last He and his men are piling
ND lots of good ore on the dump ready
for big shipment. At the Vocano
property near the Providence. the
ditch for the pipe line from the well OF
that company five miles away is being
dug and the pipe will be laid as soon
as it is finished. From the Granite
Gap near the Providence. ore is being
shipped TO FL Paso regularly.
EFFECT OF ELECTION.
A mining man. who has been in the
Burro mountains for many years. says
that more mining men have visited
that district since the election than
for six months prior. and that large
number of sales will be made in that
district within a few weeks. There
are a large number of capitalists al
ready interested in the Burros and
the district will be more active in |
mining way now than for many years. |
as a number of interested parties are
now planning to work their properties |
in an extensive manner By thorough
development work the district VIII |
soon become one of considerable i'm /
portance.
A WEEK AT JARILLA.
H. s. Church mining engineer. has
returned from the Jarilla mining dis
trict for a week where he has been
looking after the assessment work in
that district. He took up about 40
men to put to work doing assessment
work on the properties of the Jarilla
Mining company. They are now at
work and will continue working until
the first of January Mr.. Church re-
ports favorably on the general situa-
ton in the Jarillas. Kelley & Ryan
are keeping several men employed on
theft BY hance'' mine and are ship
ping at Intervals The DeMueIeS 1ur-
quoise mine is being worked by few
men and good copper ore is being TAX
en- out though nothing sensational has
been encountered for some time. Ii
WILL DEVELOP SYSTEMATICALLY.
The Chicago company, which pur-
chased the Summit group of mines in
the Cooks Peak district of New Next
go. are preparing to develop the prop
critics in a systematic manner. New
machinery has been ordered ard will
be installed within the next few weeks. ,
IL is the intention of the new purchas-I
ers to do a large amount of Develop
ment work and to place the group in
excellent shape. Charles Poe one of 7
the former owners had been driving a !
tunnel for a number of years and man I
a ged to run IL into the mountain sey-I
eraI hundred feet when his means gave :
out and he could not complete IL. The I
tunnel is in ore now and will be COM r
pleted by the new company. e
MINING DEAL.
A mining deal OF considerable i'm S
portance was contaminated in Jerome. Z
Ariz.. last week. The Black Warrior C
group OF copper properties owned by a
Fred Nickel. W. w. Nichols and c. p
Myers, in the Grapevine district were Z
leased and bonded by eastern capital C
lists for 100000. to be paid in instl- v
ments running through a period of e
twenty-one months. The new owners | r
are to begin actual development on a
the group within sixty days from date O