El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-05
MINING NEWS
.BERINO CAMP IS
4 PROMISING ONE
Papen & Henry Develop San
Pedro Group; Las Cruces
Men Make a Strike.

There Is comparatively new min
ing camp Of great promise little more
than 20 miles north of FL PaSO, in what
IS called the BerlnO mining district
says Allen J. Papen, former owner and
editor OF the Rio Grande Republican of
Las Cruces. Frank I. Henry and
own eight claims there which we have
been developing ever since the middle
OF last December, which we call the
san Pedro group. These mines are sit
uateQ 1lVe and a half miles east of Be
rlnO, New Mexico, a station on the San
Ia te railroad, and are on the eastern
SIDE or the main range of the Franklin
moununs, and about four miles north
OF the dividing line between Texas and
New Mexico, and about six miles south
OF Bishops Cap peak, just south of the
wide pass between the Organs and
franklin mountains.
Our development consists of 10
shafts from Is to 50 feet deeD and a
tunnel which we are driving IN fis-
sure vein, and which has already
reached a distance of 124 feet from its
mouth on the side of a canyon This
tunnel IS driving on a fissure vein four
and a half feet wide. On the side of
the tunnel are stringers and punches
OF SaIena or lead SulphideS and also
carbOnateS pitching from the east Ito
the fissure the vein having a north and
south strike The same conditions oc-
cur IN all the several shafts which we
have sunk in the OutcrOD of the vein
The flssure is in a limestone country
rCck and is about 80 feet east OF a con-
tact of hornfels or metamorphosed
shale, and the vein dips east about so
degrees Along the strike OF the vein
are numerous outcropS of iron and
fluorite in the series of hills through
which the veins course. The OutcrOD of
the vein is prominent for a mile and a
half There are also other smaller fis-
sures- The face of the tunnel IS about
100 feet vertical depth below the top
OF the hill and when driven in farther
VIII be about 400 feet in vertical depth
DeIoW the apex OF the hill. The ore
which we have encountered assays all
the way from Is IL to 70 percent lead
and as high as IS ounces silver and a
trace of gold per ton.
In pockets and streaks we have found
enstaute, or Wnat is often called brOn-
ute, mineral used to make gold paint
brOnzing and gliding work, and has
large demand in the markets of Eu-
rope There are also large bodies of
iron, llmonite and fluOTite.
Las Cruces Men Develop Claims.
Six miles north of the San Pedro
group are some good copper claims on
which development work is in prOgress
by Shaublin and Soto of Las Cruces
About a mile south of the San Pedro
claims, Soto and others are developing
vein of hematite iron which carries
gold They are now down IS feet in
an inclined shaft and have a splendid
showing.
still farther south of the Berino
camp there are prospects of copper over
on the Texas side. which are said to be
on railroad land, and for that reason
are not lOcatable,
Really, we are on the great contact
which runs along the west side of the
Organs, on which are the big mines of
the Stephenson, Torpedo and Memphis
and Modock. Our camp has the distinc-
ton of being the nearest live one to
the city of FL PaSO.
"A meeting of the board OF directors
of the Organ Mountain Mining COM
pany which has taken over the Bennett
stephenson mining properties, was held
last Wednesday IN Las Cruces and a
number of the eastern stockholders
were present to meet Mr.. Mccullough
and Mr. Carpenter, the latter of whom
is connected with the Scientific Ameri-
can The result of the meeting was
that arrangements were made to start
operations on those properties within
two months
1t is also reported in Las Cruces
that George L Fitzgerald. of Massa-
chusetts, has taken a 80 day bond and
option on the Torpedo Copper mine in
the Organs and that his people will be-
sin working the mine soon. This mine
is said to have yielded about $500. 600
during the short time it was worked
and still has immense ore bodies prac-
tically in sight"
Mormon Mine Sold.
The Mormon gold mine, a few miles
northeast of the town g Organ, is said
to have been purchased by a big Ari-
iona mining company, which 1 have
been informed is the c. & A. company,
begin large development work and
sink the shaft to 1000 feet depth.
Gen. Dunwoody retired army Off