El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-13
Mines aud
Mining.

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The Hlllsooro gold district shipped
100 tons OF ore to the mills and smell
| tiers last week.
It is rumored that the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company is about to invest In
Gallup coal property.
r. E. Pooler is shipping ore from
the "Memphis'' mioe in the E'town
district, to Pueblo Colo.
The Philadelphia group Of mines at
Hanover has been sold to c.. w. White
of New York for S65, 900.
A strike was made last week, on the
Home Fraction of the Temomi on Gold
Hill, in the Cripple Creek district.
The Union Mining company is doing
extensive development work on the
Union mine, Cochi ii district, purchased
months ago.
A cavern at the Mastodon mine near
HillsbOro, the other day, revealed to
the delighted owners handsome body
of shipping ore.
A new strike is reported in the Buck
| eye mine at Water Canyon, Sccorro.
consistingof a vein of shree:fees of very
rich copper ore, carrying some gold.
A heavy snow has fallen on the Mag
dalena range, Socorro county, New
Mexico, assuring plenty of water for
mining operations during the sum-
mer.
The sum of $500. GOO was offered last
| week for the Copper Hill Mining COM
pany's property at Rinconada, by
Boston capitalists, and was refused by
the Copper Hill company.
The we'll at Cerrillos, by which the
Cochiti Gold Mining company hopes
to develop artesian water, has reached
a depth of 40 feet. 1t will probably
be sunk to depth of 1, 200 feet.
| And now in the Ozark mountai
region in Missouri, rich copper belt
Assays of q number of samples show
that the ore runs about 20 per cent.
Messrs. johnson and Larson have
struck the lead in their cross cut from
the SO-fOot tunnel on the Sunset claim
on Comanche creek, Colfax county.
The lead is about five feet in width and
shows up we'll in gold value.
| Last week on the Boston stock ex-
change 1920 shares of the Cochiti gold
mining company's stock, of the Co
chit district, of the par va ue of $40,
were sold at from S12 to S13 per
share.
| The Savanic mine, near ST. George,
| Arizona, has shipped q car load o.
copper ore that returned as per cent?
copper per ton. ST. George is just
south of the Utah line, north of the
Grand Canyon. The ore was shipped to
Salt Lake.
| The precious stones are being pro-
dured. in large quantities aud of varied
kinds. in New Mexico. A recent and
| " h!o Fl nd nj tnr
| was made by Julian Psdilla; samples
| show these gems to be very fine, hav-
ing the soft-blue shade SO much priced
by the dealers and fanciers.
A rich strike is reported to have
been made on the Rosa Nicol
| In the Cripple Creek district, belong
ing to that company. A tunnel has
! been driven 80 feet, . winze sunk 80
feet, and at the bottom was found an
averages AZ ounces to the ton.
Big discoveries of ore have been
made on the Pecos river reserve,
minerals. A strike of large body of
ore that assays 3 ounces gold to the
ton was made this week. A. A. New
berry and o. B. Steen are working
claims on the reserve that promise
well.
The Ale Lincoln Gold Mining COM
pany has filed Incorporation papers in
the Office of the territorial secretary.
The headquarters of the company will
be at Erie, Pa, with a branch Office at
| Elizabethtown, Colfax county. The
local agent is G. A. Dorm, at Elizabeth
| town. The capital of the company is
800, 600 divided into loo, 900 shares.
In the Wells Fargo annual report of
precious metals produced in the states
and territories west of the Missouri
river. the following measures are plac-
ed opposite New Mexico: Gold dust
and bullion by express, s259, SO6: same
by other conveyances. 414.716; silver
bullion by express, $780, 262: ores and
base bullion by freight, 81, 543 Os4; to-
tai, 81. 317. 95S.
In the crop of a turkey, which, Alex
auder Bjorklsnd recently bought in
Denver. was found q gold nugget
valued at $1.18. AS the turkey only
cost S1.15 Bjorkland considers this a
good bargain as we'll as a good find.
Bjorkland and others of Denver are
hot on the trail leading to the ranch
where this gobbler spent his happy
boyhood days.
| Hotel palaClO
| Mr. T. c. McDermott has as-