El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-22
Report By Major S. N. Davis On
the STEMS Pass Country.

Report By Major S. N. Davis Or
the STEMS Pass Country.
Major 8. NJ. Davis writes the cham
Der of commerce as follows from
STEMS Pass, N. NJ:
stopped off here 20 look over the
tricts, all at work and shipping ore
The Kimble district lies eight miles
north OF STEMS Pass, the San Simon
three miles south west, and the Granite
district fifteen miles south.
Mr.. Samuel W. VIM, the secretary
and treasurer of the Mineral Mountain
Mining company Of Chicago (which
has recently purchased . group OF nve
mines three miles south OF STEMS Pass
and has Just commenced development
work on all Ave claims) proposes deve-
Looping q good lot of ore before he puts
In q concentrator. The Mammoth, the
Jersey Lily and the Manhattan are all
on one vein running east and west. A
shaft on -he Mammoth, $50 feet deep,
shows q we'll defined vein about six feet
wide, with good concentrating ore
almost At top, and continuing on down
to the bottom with improvement in
quantity acd quality.
At the Intersection of the Jersey
Lily sndi the Manhattan claims ~ the
end of the line there is Q shaft three
hundred and fifty feet deep. AZ the
present time there is about Q hundred
feet of water In 1t, but dug around
on the dump and saw ore that would
pay to chip to smelter, running high
In lead, copper and silver. The Cop
per Queen and the Southwest are the
other two claims of this group The
Copper Queen, when being exported
out of the assessment hole, was found
to contain ore that assayed $50 per ton
in gold. silver and copper. Very little
work has been done on the Southwest
claim but It has a we'll defoed vein
highly mineralized.
Some ore has been taken from these
veins running over . thousand ounces
of silver per son. Mr.. Winn's COM
psny will have . good paying property
when developed, and the $50 foot
shaft demonstrates they will have
plenty of water for . concentrator.
With proper management these claims
can be mace 70 pay the developing
WORK. and with the low grade ore con-
stantly Increasing on the dumps they
will soon have enough ore tn keep q
good sized concentrstor At work. But
there should be . large concentrator
put in the neigh borhood of the water
TO treat all the dumps of the camps. Ii
all the claim owners go to work they
could keep a 200 ton plant at WORK con-
stantly, and one OF such size should be
built.
Five miles south Of the Pass lies the
Carbonate Reef group OF five claims
belonging to Ell Psso parties, Chief
Lockart, Mr.. Adkins and Elmor VI
card. They have about . carload on
the dump which will run 25 to 30 ounces
OF silver, 30 to 40 per cent lead and
from two to nine In gold. Those are
very promising claims and will make
the owners a good paying proposition.
These properties should be pushed, az
they can be made great prod ucers and
big money makers. 1 will only say to
the Ell Paso boys, You have It: push
the output and 60 down and open 1t
up.
Southwest of the Carbonate Reef
$50 feet of work. One carload shipped
gave returns of ounces silver and ~
per cent lead; another Gar, Is ounces
silver and 40 per cent lead.
And southwest one and a quarter mile
is . group of five more claims belon Ring
20 Colonel Henry and Bob Williams.
The Johnny Bull claim has about q
thousand feet of development work on
1t. The Bull has shipped In all about
twenty carloads, with smelter returns
Of 10 ounces silver and per cent cop
per.
The Virginia has $50 foot of work.
and picked ore from 1t by the sack
runs as high az 30 per cent copper.
The base OF the ore from these claims
Is iron and lime, and they would make
, smelter proposition. The Sterling
Price claim has about two hundred
feet Of work, and Is about the came in
value as the Bull and Virginia. There
10 on the dumps of these three claims
seven or eight hundred tons of good
ore that could be worked
1t q profit.
Near these claims are the Copper
King and the Copper Queen, belong
ing to Bob Williams. These are
ores running as high ss %
per cent copper, with q good, large
lump awaiting COMMENTATOR. Here
Is another fine property waiting for
capital to develop 1t. One carload of
lead ore tshipped from this district)
ran as high rs 5000 per car some years
ago. Most OF these claims In this place
are contact veins.
This mineral zone runs south sfteen
miles 10 Granite Psss and will be open
up some day into q great mining dis
trict. Most OF these clsims were held
In 1879 by General Lew Wallace. But
Ben Hur and The Fair God made him
rich enough, and he let the claims 60
Here 10 Q district convenient and OF
Easy access, and It should attract the
attention of capital. l have seen
enough to know that IL would gIvo back
big returns for money invested in its
South OF STEMS Pass. fifteen miles,
are the Weymen and Brandt proper
lies, Henry Lasdes, superintendent.
They have considerable development
work done and have . gasoline hoist