El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-02
MINING NEWS
DISTRICT
RESUMES ACTIVITY
FL Pasoans Are Developing
Claims Near Orogrande;
Work on the Jim Fiske.
IL. H. Davis.)


The Jarilla mountain district, New
Mexico, is getting very lively again.
after several years inactivity, due to
the present high price of copper. The
By-Chance and Buckeye, which were
discovered and owned by Billy Gibbs
and Prall, of St Louis, No, about SO
years ago, are again in operation. This
property is north of the town of Oro-
grande. The ores are copper sui
phides, carrying gold.
Operations have also commenced on
the Lincoln, the Seven-Come- Eleven,
and other neighboring claims. under
the management of Beckham and
Gaylord, of Ell Paso. These properties
are also copper bearing, being crysa-
cola and carbonates. They lie about
one mile northwest of the town Of
Orogrande.
Still farther NORTH about two miles
is the Garnet, owned by the Jim Fisk
Mining company. It is being operated
under the management Of z. D. Ba-
ker. This property has work shaft
500 feet deep, but the work is being
prosecuted at the 200-foot level The
main ore bodies are copper, glanze,
red oxide and black sulphide of cop
per, the last of which runs az high
as SO percent copper, and SO gold per
ton One face four feet wide aver
ages Is percent copper and SO gold;
and another II feet wide averages
eight percent copper and IS gold. It
OF milling or concentrating ore in the
Garnet mine, running ID percent
copper and $50 gold A Wine is be-
ing sunk 40 feet. The mine is equip
ped with gasoline hoist, of Is h. p
The Garnet is shipping three cars
of ore every two weeks, and has II
men on the day shift and four men
on the night shift. This mine has
produced over $4,000.
The Jarilla district, which IS the
o oct nil IN 7r+s-
situated in an isolated group Of hills
that rise like an island to an ele-
Yatlen of about 500 feet above the
great desert plain, in western Otero
county, N. NJ, about so miles north
east of Ell Paso. The postoffice is
Orogrande. on a spur of the Ell Paso
& Southwestern railway
Were Worked By the Zunis.
The Jarillas were worked hundreds
Of years ago by the Zuni indians for
turquois and gold, as evidenced by
ancient workings and a deserted viii
Of pottery are found. The Tiffanies.
of New York. did some exploration
work on the turquois veins some 20
years ago. Subsequently, Amos ]. De
Muels, the hermit of the Jarillas'',
located and worked the turquois
mines. He found a ready market
for the gems, and realized over $50
600 up to the time of his murder by
a Mexican employe about u years
ago. Afterwards Pat A. Kelly, Thos.
A Kelly and Christ Yeager worked
the turquois mine and extracted
about $4,000 worth of gems
Eddy Brothers Work Claims.
The Eddy brothers. in 1899, acquired
about so mining claims from De
Mueles and did considerable develop
ment on the Mamie Baird and the
Lucky mines They built the rail-
road spur from the main line, three
miles distant and shipped the ore all
the way by rail to Ell Paso. These two
mines produced about S66. 1000. mostly
gold, with some copper. The Mamie
Baird vein dips only 20 degrees and
lies in a bed of metamorphosed lime
stone just over an underlying contact
with manzanite porphyry. An incline
500 feet long follows the main shoot
In the ore-bearing bed. This shoot
is called the "ore pipe
The Lucky mine is west Of the Nan
ME Baird. and is developed by a 225
foot shaft. The ore is found in garnet
rock at the very contact with por-
phyry.
The Three Bears is just south of
Orogrande, is owned by a Philadel-
phia company and is developed by a
vertical shaft 525 feet deep and five
levels. 1t is said to carry pockets of
gold and copper ore. Placer gold is
found in the gulch below the Mamie
Baird averaging 81 per yard. The
has yielded $4,000.