El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-22
Mines and Mining.

1 saw q team of twelve horses at the
depot unloading Aswelve ton load Of ore
on the ground. The railroad should net
allow mining men that are wOrkip e
hard to open up the mining industries
to do this. They should be prompt
with cars when mining men order
them lefs at their shipping points, and
mos let shippers be at this expense of
handling she ore sacks all over again.
North of S.ein's Pass eight miles 10
the Volcano mine. The owner of this
group Is the Wilson Mining Co., and
MIR. Chss. r. Smith is superintendent.
They are putting In the pan amalRsma-
tion process, with capacity of twenty
five TO thirty tons per day, run by Q
twenty-five horse power gasoline en-
CINE which is being put in place on the
mine now. They hope to be At work
soon. They have three claims in one
group, with one three hundred feet
6fty feet. At the hundred foot level
in the deepest shalt they have run
about three hundred feet of levels,
showing up good body OF silver ore,
milling about SIS per ton. So you can
figure out . good profit to las owners
with plant at the mine. They pump
their water about four miles with .
SbeOltue cuGluo.
This camp will assonish many
people who have thought
that there WAS not much out
here, and when all the claims 1 have
seen 10 this district are developed this
will be one Of the most prosperous
camps OF the Southwest. But IL needs
capital to do this. Most of the owners
of these claims are poor men. Mining
men should investig ate this part of the
lNf NJ Gpa al =
openings to make big mines around
STEMS Pass. This camp is too big for
one letter but 1 will cut 1t off here.
The boys will send in fine exhibit
from here OF their ores.
Mining News OF Interest From the
hlllsboro District.
The HERALD'S special oorrespon-
dent at Hillsboro, N. M, writes as fol-
lows under date OF August Il:
Will Cooper came into town from
the TERRA Blanca district, with
samples OF q new strike. We learn
that they were entirely satisfactory,
running about 1913 OF silver, and $40
OF gold per ton. This wonderfully
rich district is bou nd In time to attract
the worlds eye, ore having time and
time sgsin been shipped sssaying
$50, 600 and SEC, 900 per ton. A curious
feature of this formation in the SINH
lsrity OF It to that OF Cripple Geek,
the ore carrying from 10 to II per
cent Of It's high values Ia gold.
Many mines are still producing, but
all interest is conferred on the Gales,
Kennedy combination soon TO COM
mence operations with an up to date
concentrating and smelling plant.
The hustle and hustle however of
the county Ia at Andrews, 9 miles from
Hillsboro. The Philadelphia Mining
and Milling Co., do their own milling,
hauling, mining, farming, stock rails
ing and merchandise business. They
own the town, and are dependent on
nobody: own their water rights, and
pump an inexhsustible supply of water
over four miles. They use 100 900 gal
lone every "a hours for all purposes.
experimental run at their MILL and
although results are not definitely
known, they can be surmised.
A new mansion will be built to cost
between IS, 900 and $40, 900. An i'm
mense warehouse, Q new store, . new
hotel, ono hundred more stalls and
accommoda tions for horses and
quarters, blacksmith shops, also
Accommodations for one hundred
A town will be laid out forth with,
and rumor has it, . new 100 ton mill
consisting of 10 STAN pc and 4 Hunting
tons, bumping tables, Wilfleys, and
vsnners, also cyaniding.
Senator Andrews has determined to
force matters, now that they are COM
ing his way. The new shaft On the Ell
Orc mine he been sunk l50 feet, and
drif:ed or north and south so feet at
the 100 feet level. The showing in
this work has been so uniform, that
every man who has seen IL predicts an
immense out put. Five foot OF ore
perfectly perpendicular, continuous and
uniform, gives much promise OF wealth.
News of the Jarlllds.
Jim Borden returned Monday night
from the JArillas where he bad been
the past five days. He says he never
thought there was much trutn In the
reports tn at he bad been hearing about
hat district but that he finds it even
better than he had ever heard It was.
He says Chris Yeaser has ore to burn.
Kelly Bros. have shipped one car and
have several more in sight. Borden
says they have a oar OF as fine copper
ore on the dump as he ever saw. They
have only gone down thirty feet and
have vein seven feet thick aud
widening IS they go down.
M. Borden eays that the mine
operated by Yeager, Kelley * Bryan
is down 100 feet and has q vein that
when It changed from turquoise to
copper was only a few inches in width
but has gradually widened until 1t Is
now eight feet wide and still wideniuR
On one of the mines in the Bear
group at the south end OF the range q
fine lot of free gold was struck 1T Q
depth of fifty feet last Friday.
Interest In Cooks Peak District.
+ r Loo WIN has mi m In o fnterests m