El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-12
! Mines and Mining

The Portland mine at Cripple Greek
has been sold to an English syndicate
including the Exploration company.
the Venture company. and Werner.
Belt & Co. The price is given as S15.-
600. 900. a new company will be orga-
niZed to take over the property and its
stock will be floated in London.
SWARMING WITH PROSPECTORS.
The hill county surrounding Jerome.
Arizona. is literally swarming with
miners and prospectors as far south as
the Mingus company's property, on
which twenty men are employed. At
the Burkshyre camp there are about fif-
teen men engaged in sinking a shaft.
at the Cliff six men are working by
hand. The Iron King has full force
driving a tunnel. The Copper Chief
lately let go the most of their men ii is
I said because of the incomplete con-
dition of the plant to reduce their ore.
Nine buildings at the Copper Chief are
much more pretentious than those at
any of the other camps.
MINES NEAR PATAGONIA
Several properties in. the Harshaw
and Salero district near Patagonia are
being developed into actual producers
and the platforms of the railway sta
/ ton arec rowded with sacks of ore
waiting to be shipped to FL Paso. \
| good WACO road is soon to be made to
the Salero mines form Patagonia. An
. interesting feature of the town is col
! lection of ores from neighboring mines
arranged on shelves on the sidewalk
in front of n leading store. where
strangers can quickly learn of the di-
/ versity. nature and richness of the ores
produced in that region.
COCHITI Is REBUILDING.
! The rebuilding of the mill of the CO.
chit Reduction and Improvement com
pany at Woodbury.. about six miles
from Bland. the center of that mining
district, is well under way. The mill
was destroyed by fire last June. Ii is
expected that the mill will be ready
for operation about the end OF the pres
ent year
The iron machinery for the mill was
shipped from the Colorado Iron works
| of Denver about two weeks ago.
The company is working the Iron
King and the Good Hope mines. both
at Bland. In addition to treating the
company'S ores the mill will do custom
work. and in fact. mt is being built
mainly for the treatment of ores from
other properties.
PROMINENT MINE OWNER
! Hon. ~. c. McDougal of Kansas City
was in the city over Sunday en- route
to the White Oaks country where he is
I interested in some very fine mines
He is accompanied by Col. Comstock
of Albany. Gentry county. Missouri.
who is interested with him in his min
ing venture. Mr.. McDougal is one of
the bright lights of the republican par
~. His speech on expansion and I'm
Derialism delivered before the Union
Veteran Patriotic League at Kansas
City on September list was one of the
finest of the campaign and was pub
! lished in pamphlet form and was wide
~ read all over the country.
, THE VERDE KING COMPANY.
/ Articles of incorporation of the Yer
de King Copper company have been fill
ed in the office of the county clerk at
Prescott. The company has secured
nine claims in one of the best locations
near Jerome. The claims show up eN-
cellently and promise to develop into
paying mines with little work. The
surface is scanned with immense iron
dykes similar to the groupings of the
nearby United Verde. A surveyor has
been engaged to- survey the property
and contract will be let in the near
future for the running of n tunnel into
: the mountains several hundred feet on
. the claims. Other development work
will also be done. The company has
plenty of capital at its command and
intends to put the capital in circula-
ton around Jerome. The capital stock
of the company is 100000 shares of
, the par value of one dollar each.
STRUCK 1T RICH.
\. Walker. formerly one of the G.
/ II. operators. has struck il rich.
! He has been prospecting in the Quit
man mountains near Sierra Blanca for
several weeks and returned here last
| week with some of the finest copper
and lead specimens ever seen here. He
has a copper prospect that assays a
per cent copper and three ounces of
, silver. The vein is four feet thick and
/ gives every signs Of being inexhaust-
, ible.
The lead prospect is a vein twelve
feet wide and is near the surface. 1t
assays 60 per cent lead and can he east
g ly worked.
Mr.. Walker says he has fine thing
. and will begin working il extensively
in the near future. The property is in
FL Paso county ana so near the smell
ter that the cost of getting il to the
market will he very small.
SUMMIT MINES SOLD.
The Summit group of lead mines in
the Cooks mining district. Grant coun-
~. New Mexico. has been sold to +. A.
Fuller and brother of Chica go for S150.-
600. The claims are known as the Teel
x Poe property. The ore is a sand car
Donate. with considerable galena.. that
insures very easy working. As the re-
suit of a single shot in one stope. 56
car loads of ore running more than 80
per cent in lead and carrying ~
ounces to the ton in silver We're knock
ed down. The deepest shaft that has
been sunk but 40 feet. and a great
deal of paying ore has been taken out. |