El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-30
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mineral country in the world" This
statement was made to a Herald re-
porter this morning by practical min
er who has just returned from an ex-
tensive prospecting trip through So
nora. but did not care to have his name
mentioned.
THE road which the Phelps-Dodge
people are building from Bisbee to Ma
cosari is one of the most promising
outIooks for the development of that
section of the country. The mineral
BELT in and around Nacosari is exceed
ingly rich in copper. gold and silver,
copper principally. There is no doubt
that this road will be built south from
Nacosari for the reason that the COM
pany has entered into a contract with
the Mexican government to construct
| the road in the next ten years. Then
there are good reasons. in my opinion,
Why the Phelps-DoGge people should
build to Ell Paso from Nacosari. For
instance. if they built this road it
would give them all the business oil
hauling the coke. coal and supplies to
that district. and all the ore from there
| I know of one contract now for 5000
tons of coke for Carlo. With that
country opened up such road would
soon pay. and pay we'll. Another point
is that the Phelps-Dodge people at the
prestn own rich copper mines at MO-
renci in Arizona. BY connecting the
| lire from Morenci to the Nacosari and
Ell Paso line they would be entirely in
dependent of the Southern Pacific and
control all that territory There is al
| so another road going into Cananea.
which is another rich copper section.
know of three large smelling plants
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has been put on the Cobre Grande
mine which produces about 600 tons
OF ore a day. and another has been put
| in on the Damocrita mine. producing
| like amount. Both of these plants are
| running full blast. and another is being
out in on another large proposition.
The people interested in these mines
had projected line from Naco to Ca
nanea, but the Southern Pacific is
meditating the construction of road
from Fairbanks. Arizona. to Cananea
which If built will render the other
road unnecessary. The Moctezuma dis
trict is probably the best developed
section in the state at the present time.
but the Arispe. Ures. and Guaymas dis
tricts are all opening up in the most
promising way. You can put 1t down
as certainty that Sonora will be the
richest mining state in the world in
time"
THE TRIAL AT LOCKPORT.
Superintendent w. r. Martin of the
C. H. & S. A. railroad. and Captain
Nose Dillon, collector of customs. ar
rived home this morning from Lock-
hart, Texas. where they have been at
tending court as witnesses in case
against the company. In 1887 when
Captain Dillon was a conductor on the
G. H. & S. A. he had a difficulty with
d shoe drummer named LaPrelle and
on account of the trouble the shoe
drummer sued the railroad company
for damages. and it is in this case that
Messrs. Martin and Dillon testified.
They gave their testimony and return
eG before the case was given to the
jury.
TO SOLVE SMOKE PROBLEM.
J. ]. Miller. an employee of the Penn
sylvania railroad, has invented a de-
vice that is intended to solve the smoke
and cinder problem of passenger trains.
The invention consists of a pipe con-
lection with the smoke stack being
connected on the same principle as the
air brake. The average diameter of an
engine smoke stack is fourteen inches
and the pipe running from it over the
this way the smoke will be passed over
the train and escape on both sides of
the rear coach at the bottom. There
will be an air vent in the smoke stack.
The device is to serve as a spark ar
Iester, a smoke consumer and dis
tributer of cinders along the road bed.
RAILROAD CHECK RAISER
A check issued to August Gustafson
q Santa Fe Pacific shop hand at Albu-
querque, for the sum of 1915 arrived al
the general office in Los Angeles raised
to $115.75. Steps to apprehend the
check raiser were at once made and
Gustafson was arrested but he was able
to convince the authorities that he had
the check cashed for its original face
value by fellow workman. He was
taken before the man who had accept
ed the doctored paper and that mar
said Gustafson was not the man who
presented it. The guilty man is still
at large, but will be hunted down.
TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN.
An attempt was made to wreck the
west bound passenger train on the San
Antonio e Arkansas Pass road near Ell
mendorfg. The knuCkle of a Janney
drawhead was SO arranged that the
elevation of the end set to meet the
drive wheels of the engine was about
seven inches above the track. Luckily
the engine knocked the drawhead loose
or ran over it and kept the track. A
line of coal cars was on the side track
and had the engine jumped the track
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