El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-18

able market and so the rich zinc was
! thrown over the dump or piled as
| waste in exhausted slopes. The mine
| is said to have produced while Oper-
| ated by the first owners nearly $780,
GOO They supposed the property was
IN a nublic school section. But a suit
ineti+IIted by the Texas & Pacific COM
/ Da1v land owners established the fact
| II was on a railroad section and Col
Stevenson lost the bonanza mine linen
II Law idle a dozen or more years un-
I'll Some WeatherfOrd, Texas people
bought the entire railroad section, or
Canned themselves into the Republic
Nine and Milling company, erected a
Sutton-Steele dry concentrat-
mo and separating mill, with gasoline
ar9ine crushers and two tables and
bCgan running through the old waste
zinc and lead dump ores as well as
new ores taken from the mine. The
TiiI which at that time had not been
Dcrfected as at present, failed to give
Satisfactory results, and so the own
ers ceased further operations
H Johnson Becomes Interested.
A month or two ago J. II. Johnson,
n well known mine operator and min
inc engineer of Parral, Mexico, visited
ana examined it, and was so well i'm
pressed that he, together with T. b
Love and J. R Love, prominent cattle
mon of Sierra Blanca, purchased the
nine from the Weatherford company
Their holdings cover an entire section,
one mile along the bonanza VEIN
The improvements and develop
uents are a % horsepower gasoline
hoist superintendent house, bunk
and boarding house and habitatiOns
for employees. The main shaft is
about 500 feet deep, with drifts on
The new owners have begun active
Ouerations They are working in the
400 foot drift west from the shaft on
the $50 foot level and have started
drift east on the same level They are
extracting both zinc and lead-sllyer
sill IA tod nv
hand and have two cars of zinc loaded
at Lasca ready for shipment to Neo-
-dessa, Kansas, and viii also ship the
Iead-silver ore to FL Paso.
The zinc ore is sphaIer1te or zinc
blend and assays from 40 to 81 percent
zinc The two carloads average II
percent zinc.
and averages 65 percent lead and 40
to so ounces silver The rlch pay
streak runs from one foot to Is inches
as three to four feet in the lowest
level With spelter bringing $500 to
$40 in the market, this mine will pay
handsomely The owners are working
80 men on and in the mine
The vein of the Bonanza, says Mr..
Johnson, is fissure IN granite &C
cOmpanied by a QuartZ-porphyry dixie
and carries ore constantly clear across
the section Zone mile). The strike OF
the vein is north 60 degrees east We
have run a drift 500 feet long, all In
strictly business principles to make it
pay. The Love brothers and own 1t
and there is no stock issued The
parallel dixie indicates we have deep
seated fissure with ore to great
depth"
The AeropIane Mine.
The western extension to the Bo-
nanza property is the AerOplane mine,
formerly called the Alice Ray, after
Mrs. Alice Ray Barlow, of FL Paso- 1t
extends from the apex Of the ridge or
mountain, down to the foot Of the
western slope, 1900 feet from east 10
west.
It was originally discovered and ex-
tensively worked by Jacob Hand and
Frank Sheridan until their deaths. The
Bonanza ftssure vein runs through II
1900 feet The work consists of two
adits or tunnels, the upper about $50
feet long and the other 100 feet be-
low, about 800 feet long driven east
from the slope Of the hill. These tun-
nels are connected by air shafts.
Considerable Stopping. was done and
several cars of ore shipped to the FL
Paso smelter, mostly lead-silver, run
ming $40 per ton. This mine also car
ries a streak Of zinc ore, both sphaler-
ite and carbOnates. 1t is very yalu-
able property and Is owned by John \.
Gilcrease and Bob Finlay. The old
workings are three-fOurths distance up
the mountain. a tunnel driven in the
mountain will give over 500 feet of
stopping ground overhead. There is a
spring of good water on the property
The Little Lightning Group.
Immediately south and west of the
Bonanza and AerOplane is the Little
Lightning group, consisting of two
patented claims owned by A. D. Eng
lish and T. c. Cahill, of Haskell These
were originally located and owned by
John y. Gilcrease and Z. W. ThOmme,
of Sierra Blanca
The ore bodies occur as contact
metamorphic deposits, in the base of
along contact
garnets and limeStOnes, and also make
an intrusive pOrphyry dixie. Mr.. GIL
crease, while owner. sank shaft 80
feet deep through some oXidlzed ore
and encountered a deposit of pyrites,
chElco pyrite and chalcocite.
From a stope 30 feet long, Is feet
wide and 10 feet high lot of ore was
extracted only so feet below the sur
face, and shipments were made to the
shelter. The first shipment ran IS
Percent copper. $3.50 gold and $3.50
silver; the second ran SO percent cop
Per, $3.50 gold and silver; the third
ran six percent copper and $3.50 gold
and silver; the fourth ran ia percent
copper, $3.50 gold and silver Two
other shipments recently made ran
four percent and "A percent copper.
There is a within and frame dwelling
on the claims.
The Red Indian Copper.
This is a newly discovered claim, 10
Gated south of the Little Lightning
group, on the west slope of the Quit
Mans four miles south of 1sasca sta
ton It contains contact-metamOrphic
deposits of copper. Along the side OF
the canyon are some outcrops of red
copper ore that run 90 to so percent
copper, and there is another face of
oxidized copper ore four feet wide.
Above the latter is a pyriuferous zone
It being on vacant ground, L located it
for luck and really think well of it
The Tama Mine.
The Tama mine lies two miles south
east of the Little Lightning group. 1t
is a patented mine, belonging to Thorn
as O'Keefe and John Moffit. There is
a large body of OXidized and leached
ore in some old openings, carrying
lead and silver. Before this a fissure
vein cuts through the metamorphtc
lines. The gangue is quartz which car
no Mil.