El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-20

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| Fifty heavy teams from Shafter were
at Maria the other day after machin-
cry. food and mining supplies for the
mines at Shafter. These equipments
and supplies were hauled fifty miles
overland before reaching their desti-
nation.
Nearly thousand pounds of silver
bullion has just been shipped from
Shafter. This represents a large
amount of moneybut is a small amount
compared with what is expected to be
Skinned fro mthe district in the next
few years.
RETORTS FOR TERLINGUA.
Two large quicksilver retorts.
weighing $500 pounds each. were ship
ped from this city last week to Maria
to he taken overland from there to
Terlingua. They are for w. +. Bell.
the quicksilver mining man. There
were also three wagon loads of mining
supplies for the various camps in that
district. shipped at the same time.
COPPER QUEEN PHILANTHROPIC.
The Copper Queen Mining company
have subscribed $4,000 to the univer-
sity of Arizona at Tucson for the pur-
building at that institution and the
check for the amount was received by
the university last week. The regents
of the university passed resolutions of
gratitude to the mining company upon
receipt of the donation.
QUICKSILVER SHIPMENTS.
Three heavy wagon loads of quicksil-
yer from the Terlingua mines were
shipped from Maria last week. Quick
silver brings an average of S4S per
flask of seventy-six pounds and three
eight-mule teams are capable of haul
ing several thousand pounds. Other
shipments will follow frequently now
as the mines are being worked by a
large force of men and are producing
beyond the expectations of the owners.
THE CoCHITI MILL.
w. c. wynkoop. who is superintend-
ing the work of erecting the new CO.
chit mill atWoodbury. states that If he
can secure mechanics enough he will
have the mill completed by January
LIST The material for the mill is on
the ground and some of the lumber
has been cut and hauled to the site.
The mill is to have a capacity of fifty
tons a day and crushing capacity of
$50 tons. IL will do custom work. and
IL asufficient amount of that can be
secured to justify il. the mill will be
enlarged.
THE ORGAN DISTRICT.
The Organ district in New Mexico is
receiving stimulation in the way of
new prospectors almost daily Many
new locations are being opened up and
worked as the means of the owners
permit. The Copper Bar Mining and
Milling company in this district I'M
covered four ore bodies and then were
stopped by water. Messrs. Allen and
Keens of Cripple Creek. have three
claims at Organ and twelve in the
Black mountain district about ten
miles northeast of Organ. The machin-
cry on the Torpedo at Organ is work
ing satisfactorily. sending a large
volume of water down the gulch. AS
soon as all is gotten in shape large
shipments of high grade mineral will
be made from the Torpedo.
MORE GOLD FOUND.
One of the richest strikes ever made
in the vicinity of Prescott has Just been
reported from Groom creek. j. r.
Slack and son. who have been engaged
in mining in that section for twenty
years. and in that time they have
who have made the last great strike.
They are too well experienced to be
fooled or to be excited over a rich find
but their enthusiasm has been aroused
to greater extent by this find than
by any previous one. The discovery
of the rich vein that has warmed them
up to their work was purely>accidental
They were engaged in sinking a well
to provide water for their mill when
at adepth of fifteen feet they struck
a gold ledge about four inches wide.
The deeper they sank the wider and
richer the ledge became. until at their
present dpth. forty-seven feet. they
have a well defined ledge two feet wide.
which Mr.. Slack Conservatory estimates
to assay 5000 in gold TO the ton Samp-
les were taken to Prescott to be ASSAY
ed but the returns have not been given
out. They will continue sinking on
the ledge and will probably convert
the well into a shaft.
4 MOMENTOUS TRANSACTION.
The Bethlehem Steel company. of
Bethlehem. Pa. has made heavy in
vestments in New Mexico which NAV
be the beginning of an industrial era
in that territory. The company has
purchased 1000 acres of coal lands near
CAPTAIN and the same amount of iron
lands five miles from the coal mines
The company has a man at the iron
lands to examine the property and re-
port upon the adviss bility of erecting
a smelter furnace on the grounds
Perhaps some day this big company
will have blast furnaces and rolling
mills right in the vicinity of Captain
and big industrial town will build up
there as result. This company has
received an order from Uncle Sam for
SS-OOO.OOO worth of armor plate and