El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-03

exhibit from that locality.
The major expressed himself as won
derfully surprised at the immense
resources In and around this town; and
says White Oaks nay easily have the
greatest mineral exhibit that will
reach the chamber of commerce from
the entire southwest
All arrangements have been mad
and men are at work getting out mine
rals, cutting the stone etc. The exh1-
biz will comprise the following vsrie-
Ly OF resourc e: Old A be gold exhibit
as we'll as gold from each of the other
mines here; copper, iron, coal, ire clay,
red sandstone, black sandstone, cream
cOlored sandstone, black marble, var1e-
gated marble, lead, gypsum, lime and
sulphur. The Old A he will have on
exhibition ores from the mine showing
golo bearing aud of sufficient quaint
ties to be representative of the virtues
| of the property.
! The exhibit embracing the above
variety of resources will be sent to
the chamber of commerce at Ell Paso
as soon as IL can be gotten together
Major Davis will meet the shipment at
Carrlzozo and with a committee from
here will deliver it to the chamber OF
| commerce..
New Mexican Lead Company.
Geo. G. Hopkins, general manager
| OF the New Mexican Lead cOmpanys
/ mines in the San Audreas noun tains.
| is in Ell Paso on business. He came to
engage teams to haul ore from this
company's mines to the railroad. He
also brought along some samples of ore
| that ehowed from forty to seventy two
per cent lead. He Gays they have un-
| covered q vein of this to the width of
sixteen feet and there's no telling how
much wider is is. New mines are open
ing up frequently in these mountains
and all are making good showfngs.
The output of the mines belonging
to the New Mexican Lead Company
for June was 1000 tons, and Mr.. Hop
kins says that he calculates to double
that for July. he will commence ship
ping next week.
81 was in the San Andreas noun
tsius in 1882" said Mr.. Hopkins, "but
the cost of transportation and the nee
essary materials were so high that 3
man could not afford to handle the ore.
The expense of handling ore is seventy
five per cent less now than in 1882, and
while shelters made charge for treat
ing ore then, shey will treat 1T
free nov and pay a premium for
the lead they secure in the
process. Then we couldn't handle
forty dollar ore at q profit. Lead ore
during Cleveland's ADMINISTRATION was
as low as $2.10 per hundred pounds:
yesterday it WAS 81 20 per hundred.
Still there Is large portion of the ore
we can not yet handle but when we get
our own machinery we can handle 1t all
and that time is not far of for the
company expects to put in huudred-
ton cOGcentratOr In the near future"
Two or three cars of ore are shipped
from this region every day, it being
hauled In wagons from fifteen to thirty |
Eve miles. Mr.. Hopkins says the ship |
ments would increase 100 per cent If
the means of transportation we're better |
and cheaper. II could furnish ten cars |
. day right from the surface" he said.
IF there was railroad running near
the miues. I sometimes pay $40 q ton |
for the ore to be taken to the railroad |
while the railroad takes it -everal |
times the distance for Sl.50 per |
ton, SO you see a railroad would enable |
US to ship the low per cent ore that
now may as we'll be thrown on the |
dump, for it costs more per ton to have |
transported than It will assay"
Letter From Major Davis
The following letter was received by
Secretary Russell of the chamber of |
commerce from Major s. M. Davis,
who is collecting mineral specimens
for the Ell Paso mining exhibit:
WHITE OAKS, N. M, June 27.-I
Am glad to report the White Oaks ex-
hiblt will be put In the chamber Of
l arrived ia the little city and called
On M. S. Wharton of "The Engle",
who is q live gentleman and Is running
a live paper, with push, brains and
II was but q few hours until
l knew every business man Ia town.
and / was received very cordially.
took my very cordial reception as
compliment to the chamber of COM
merce.
The people of White Oaks are alive
TO the benefit the chamber of COM
merce can do for them. and they are
going to work in earnest to get together
an exhibit that they will not be
ashamed of. Mr.. A. Y. Hewitt, pres
Ident OF the Old Abe Mining company,
hB, taken hold of it with q vim, and
when he takes hold of any enterprise,
1t will be grand success. The people
ar united as one man in this matter and
will show up the resources of White
Oaks as they were never shown up be-
lore. What they propose to do in this
way will cost them four or five hundred
collars; and no an In Ell Paso has any
des OF what the resources OF White
Oaks are until he has Investigated
hem. The resources surrounding
W hite Oaks ought to make 1t a city as
arRe as Ell Paso when developed and
placed before the world.
have seen here gold mines, copper
Ind lead mines, sulphur, iron, fire clay, I
ime rock, aud coal as good g. any In {
he south west. looked over the Old
be ash dump that had taken eighteen ]
ears to accumulate. and 1 failed to ]
ind one ounce of clinkers in it look
ID over quite q mum Der of ash piles in
he city and not q clinker did l find. ,