El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-24

bury, of Fort Worth, slipped in and
located it, or as the prospectors say
jumped it while Mckenzie was tim
pOrarily absent Learning of 1t, he hur-
ried there alone and with his Winches-
ter began shooting at the windlass and
drove the miners away. Henry Det-
wiler hauled the coal, some 400 tons,
to Torbert and shipped it to FL Paso.
kingsbury sequeStraIed II and sold II
to the FL PasO gas works and the Mex
lean Central railroad. Nal Gordon, one
works reported the discovery to {.
Z. Huntington, president of the South
ern Pacific railroad, and made an OF
fer of $40, 900 for the mine, but Nc
Kennels associates declined the offer.
Difficulty in obtaining title from the
state caused the holders to abandon the
property. Their old workings were
soon afterWard destroyed or covered by
a mass of gravel and EARTH swept down
by tOrrential flood.
In 1889 c. n. GrOsTenor and Sam Tate,
OF Memphis, Tenn, on the suggestion
of county surveyor Parker and myself
relocated the property and did a large
amount of exploration work, sinking
an incline over zoo feet, exposing the
vein.
The vein ranged from six to 10 feet
in thickness of coal of the highest
grade and quality and between 500
and 1000 tons of il were extracted
Soon afterward another torrent de-
stroyed or rather filled. up the old
workings and the property has been
High Quality of Goals.
These Goals are Jet black, glossy and
bituminOus and OF semi-anthracite
appearance. remarkably clean, solid
and free from slate, sulphur and iron.
The coal burns with a long smoky
flame, contains a large quantity of
gaseous matter, baking together and
finally cOking. It Is q first class cox
ing coal, and as such has high COM
mercial value. 1t burns exceIlently in
stove, makes a strong. heat, leaves a
small percent of ash of light gray color.
with no smell of sulphur, nor trace of
clinkers.
Analysis of Eagle Mountain Coal.
Voiatiie ccmbusti6ie ...:..... $3.50
tlXed carbon .-....-.-'.......'. sly
ASH ....-............. 500
sulphur 80. ....---.....-....... 10
100 90
This old abandoned coal mine, the
only one in FL PaSO county, is only
three miles south of Torbert station
on the G. H. & 5. A railroad. 1t Oc-
ours in bituminous Shales and gray
sandstone. GeOlogically it is probably
i'll the same class of rocks as cOnSti-
taceous period, in which are deposited
the immense coal beds of New Mexico
and Colorado.
Extensive Coal Basins.
The same coal seams outcrop in ether
parts of the Eagle mountains, for in
stance in a canyon mile south, in an
other a few miles west and also about
10 miles southeast of Eagle Springs,
which prove it is a coal field of con-
siderable area. Unfortunately all ex-
ploratiOn work was done by inexperi-
enced operators who chose the most
instantaneous locality where The
formation was badly disturbed and
faulted by volcanic eruption. II ex-
plorations should be made in a level
and undisturbed locality, there is hard
ly a doubt that a coal field of great
value and extent viii be opened up.
Rich Deposits of Zinc.
About six years ago the writer found
a stratum of zinc in an arroyo three
quarters of a mile north of the Eagle
Springs coal mine In company with
the late " F. Robinson and George
Ross, L did some work on it and
shipped a couple of cars Of ore to the
zinc smelter at lola, Kans. It was pro-
rcunCed tc be the purest, cleanest zinc
ore ever found west of the Mississippi
river, being free from lime, iron, cad
MUM, sulphur or other impurities The
ore was both carbOnateS and silicates
OF zinc and ran from 40 to A percent
zinc. The property was purchased soon
after by the Lanyon Zinc company.
During the period of low prices Of zinc,
it was abandoned and the title reverted
to the state. This mine was the first
producing zinc mine discovered in
Texas, and is Il valuable property. The
ore deposits seem to be in bedding
planes 1t is an ideal locality TO eX-
plore with churn drills.
Lead Veins.
Less than 100 feet west of Eagle
Springs are some shallow openings in
a limestone ridge in which John Ford
found lead ore
In Green River canyon on the east
ern end of the Eagle mountains are
some lead and silver, and also copper
claims. Considerable development work
was done there several years ago. With
the present high prices, the copper
claims probably would pay to work.
Thomas r. Owen and w w. Nichols are
DreDarlng to visit that locality.
Gold in the Eagle Mountains.
There has for years been a persistent
story of rich gold veins somewhere in
the Eagles Several years ago sur
geOn in the army picked up a nugget
OF gold worth $500 a few hundred feet
south of the Eagle Spring. Apparently
ii had 1oated down the canyon in the
torrential wash from Emory Peak.