El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-04
No. mines, or what used to be called

No. , mines, or what used to be called
the Gillette and Hearst workings.
I'VE have sunk shaft 100 feet deep
and from the bottom of it have drifted
southwark on the vein 400 feet and to
the north We have drifted 200 feet,
also on the vein. This shaft is sunk
in the gulch which crosses the prop
erty. The shaft and levels show a vein
five feet wide between walls, and cuts
through a diOrite pOrphyry country
rock. Our pay streak or solid mineral
is from one to three feet wide, of zine
lead ore carrying some silver and
gold. There occur shoots of pyrites or
iron copper sulphides, carrying from
81 to IS gold per ton. The ore occur
renee is somewhat peculiar in that the
two classes of ore occur alternately, so
for eight or 10 feet, succeeded by
zone of gold bearing pyrites the next
eight or 10 feet, and so on and these
alternate streaks or shoots are con-
tinuous all along the levels
I'VE are mining and shipping our
zinc ore to Bartlettsville, No. When
hand sorted it runs As percent per ton.
The ore is zinc blende and largely
rosin zinc.
Pacific No. L Worked.
Adjoining US on the north is the
Pacific No. l, or old Gillette mine,
which is owned by the Savannah Cop
per company, and was once a great
gold producer. 1t is also being worked,
now by Bell and Wright under a lease
and is shipping three car loads of ore
daily to the FL PasO smelter. The ore
shipped is pyritiferOus, carrying cop
per, iron, gold and silver, and averages
about $50 per ton. The Pacific mines
produced nearly one and a half mil
lion dollars, mostly in gold, and are
deVelOped by two shafts, one of which
is called the Gillette and the other
the Hearst, to a depth Of zoo feet,
which are intersected by tunnels and
drifts This is on the same mother
lode or vein with our mine. These
sulphide ores are in good demand at
the copper furnaces at Ell Paso, on ac-
count of the sulphur contents. They
get a low rate of freight, it being only
81 per ton.
Another big property near US and
carrying similar zinc lead ores is what
is called the Cleveland group, owned
by George H. Utter, Of Silver City. For
years Mr.. Utter has been working on
his properties under considerable dif-
ficultieS At last he has succeeded in
concentrator and separator which
make his product very valuable and he
is shipping quantities of it to the east
ern zinc shelters.
ON our mother lode are several
good mines, such as the Pacific, Tam
picO, the Deep Down, Atlantic, MOuh-
tain Key, Aztec, TampicO and Langs-
ton mines. This vein crosses the con-
porphyry.
THE Mountain Key has been worked
more or less continuously since the
early days Of the district and has pro-
duced two thirds of million dollars.
Placer gold was discovered in 1860 not
far from the present location of the
Mountain Key mine by a man named
Birch, a pioneer in the California gold
fields, and the camp was called Birch
Vile and grew very rapidly. In the
same year the first lode was discoY-
cred and it is still worked as the Pa
cific mine Within two years from the
discovery Of the gold it is said that 80
claims were located and were being
worked by 500 men When the civil
war broke out the camp became nearly
deserted on account thereof, and soon
was continuously raided by Apaches.
The present name of the district was
given to it by the AIexicans, Pinos Al
tos or tall pines. After the war, ope-
rations were resumed. The chief
operators were Bell and Stevens. In
1867 the first mill was built consist
ing of Is stamps. In 1888 there was
erected the first mechanical concen-
trating plant in New Mexico. In 1896
the Hearst estate of San Francisco &C
quired the mines"