El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-18

| president OF the Bank of New Madrid
/ No. and president Tucker. of Little
Rock, Ark. In the same camp the
/ Haynes mine is now being unwatered
I preparatory to sinking 500 feet deeper
/ and the Cleopatra mine is shipping ore
/ Work on the United Verde extension
I will begin in January.
Old Hat District.
/ In a group of mining claim adjoin-
/ ing the Copper Queen holdings, in the
! Old Hat district, 40 miles north of Tue
I son, a rich strike is -reprOted to have
/ been made by the owners, A Daley
/ and associates. the ores carrying cop
/ per Of high grade.
Is Poor Mans Field.
In no other camp IN Arizona has so
! much mining development work been
I done by poor men without the aid Of
outside capital as in Yavapai county.
On the York mine, a group of six
claims, II miles from Congress juno
I ton, the owners, E. L. Bartholomew,
JOhn ) Reilly and Joe ReeS have sunk
one shaft 400 feet, and other shafts.
altogether aggregating 200 feet. and
several hundred feet OF tunnel and drift
work They have done all this with
their own hands or with money they
have earned as wages. They took 500
tons Of ore recently to a custom mill
and the mill run yielded $3.50 per
ton A carload OF ore sent TO the smell
ter netted S52.54 after freight and
treatment charges were extracted.
Many other prospectors in the same
district have done equally as much
work unaided, and with equally good
results.
On account of striking a large flow
OF water in the workings OF the Com
mercial Mining cOmpany's properties in
copper Basin, further sinking has been
discontinued until adequate power can
be obtained to unwater it. Two 50
horsepower boilers have been ordered
which viii furnish, together with the
Mt E.,Ha r.@
power
WingfieId Interested.
George Wingfield. the millionaire
NINE operator of GOldfield New. has
taken an option on the Montezuma
SIoup OF mines, owned by Perry Will
1,dlls. OF Marlcopa, and also of the
Greene and Santa Rosa group of mines
OF J. T Mehan and Lieut. JAM To-
Gated IN the SaltWeu district. 20 miles
south OF Casa Grande. All these prop
Ives are rlcn gold propositions. The
consideration is said to be $4,000
In the Deming District
Wlth the proposed opening of the old
sInelter IN Demlng, n. NJ, in the near
newed activity. The Chance mines in
the Victoria camp, west of Demine. will
operate the smelter primarily for treat
ing their own ores, but in addition to
these they viii also be in the market
Ior custom ores The HELEN srouD in
the same district. is shipping 500 TONS
a month OF gold, silver and copper ores.
rms ore Is being taken out of a drift
ana the ores in the lower levels remain
to be worked The formation of these
ore deposits is similar to those of the
great lead carbonate deposits in the
santa Eulalia mines, near chihuahua,
Mexico.
The amount of ore taken out of the
Florida mountains, lust south of Dem
ing; has been small of late years, but
with the formation of the Bessemer
sold and Copper company the pros
poets OF greater development are good.
rms company was formed to take over
he Ruebush and Tidmore claims
The FL PasO mine, in Cooks Peak dis
rlct. has been responding to the in
creased demand for zinc. and some time
lSo W. Z. Gordon, of Bowie and for
nerly Of Kelly. n. NJ. took a contract
-or the entire output of this property
and also Of the district, and calculated
hat the shipments would amount to
seven carloads a month. In the same
district the DesdemOna and the Othel- /
o mine owners have entered into con- I
gact TO deliver 10000 tons of lead and 4
inc ores, and the Poe interests there 4
-lso contemplate some extensive de- /
niles south of Deming, negotiations I
re on for the purchase of the Copper
1ty claims, which produce zince and
cad ore. DR.. S. D. SWOpe is doing
considerable development work, open
1g up deeper ore bodies. He has at
resent a good tonnage of ore on the
ump- His ore is zinc and lead carbon
ties. The mine is in the foothills of
he northwest end of the Tres Her