El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-10
MINING NEWS
NEW COLD STRIKE is MADE SOUTH
OF THE TWIN PEAKS IN NEW MEXICO
Vein of IA Feet Is Rich in
Free Gold-The Hinekley
Property Develops More
Ore.
(By L. H. Davis.)

New gold discoveries are constantly
being made in the district in western
Grant county, New Mexico" said Joseph
+. Fraser, before leaving for Cedar
| Rapids, Iowa. The very latest strike
is that made by James Fraser a little
southeast Of the Twin Peaks camp on
the great Twin Peaks lode, just across
the Thompson claims. The discovery,
like most rich discoveries, was purely
an accident. For a long time he and
others had been looking for gold in
that locality, but had not succeeded in
getting anything -encoura ging. Finally
Re tried some of the rock which had
been overlooked, PANIED it and Il a
streak of gold clear around the pan,
S1rc OF it very coarse and nVg-tty.
Then he knew he had struck some
thing good. The vein is II feet wide
and the pay ground has been proved by
trenching to extend for over 500 feet,
and how much farther remains to be
seen The trend of the vein is north
east and southwest y series of shafts
have been sunk, some as deep as 20
feet
From assays made from samples tax
en- from everywhere the results show 4
general average of $40 per ton across
the entire width 90 feet) of the vein;
and the pay streak where the values
are concentrated runs from $40 to $50
per ton. There is plenty of coarse a-old
and the rock pans like house afire'
the thompson lode is really the same
pig quartz Outcrop or blowout Of sill
Gifted material
Strike in HinckIey Mine.
In the same locality a big stoke
mas Just been made in the HinckIsv
mine owned by the American expIora-
tloh company, which also owns the new
sutton mill and cyanide plant 1t Clear
Lake 1t struck q shoot Of o.. on the
900 foot level, 8 feet wide t1at rms
SO per ton. The vein is fun 20 feet
VIDE. 1t IS now milling the HI-k-
, ey ore. run~iag cay and night which
Keeps the Kitten brothers very brsy.
recent rains have caused all :he noun
tain streams to flow a lot Of water
and the mill has al it needs. A9s-i,1
creek, which was pretty low, is now a
Dig stream and will continue so the
rest of the year. John Sullivan. fbe
mining engineer, recently of FL Paso
and also at one time superintendent of
the Alemania mine, in FL Orc district
Mexico, is now in charge of the Hinck-
ley mine There are 43 men on the pay
rSn Of this property and the Clear
Lake mill.
Mr. Daley, who has a lease on the
gold, silver and copper mines of Steve
Corley. three miles west OF Twin Peaks.
mas a new gasoline hoist on the prop-
erty and has shipped a car of ore to
the smelter. The property Is under on
ton to Mr.. Craig of Apache Box. and
consists of SIS claims extending from
the Twin Peaks mine west for three
miles over the line into Arizona There /
are 25 men on the pay roll of the Twin I
Peaks mine They will lay all their !
new machinery on the ground within
the next two weeks
Jack McAllister of Duncan, Arizona.
has erected a new building costing five /
dollars and opened up a store /
and saloon at the new townsfte that 4
lies just below the Apache Box and IS /
doing flourishing business. as tour 4
lists, miners and cowboys from many 4
miles around congregate there to trade /
ana enjoy the grand scenery and cool !
climate. In fact the district is get
ting to be pretty lively.
My company has raised a good deal
IF money sufficient to install the new
luton mill which is going ahead to-
ward completion and will do some ex-
-ensive development in the mines"