El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-16


ing. There is a big shoot at the Wine
IA feet wide Of milling ore. One
streak, six feet wide, aTerag es S14 per
I ton J. C. Conklin sampled the entire
tunnel several times and says it
I averaged for so feet long the entire
l width of tunnel IS per ton, two
I thirds being gold North and across
the Coon Gulch is the Black Fox or
! as the Nellie Gray. A shaft Is feet
/ deep shows a face OF ore clear across
! averaging Sc to SIS per ton in gold and
/ silver Along the side of this mother
/ lode are series Of smaller veins all
carrying values in gold and silver.
On the same vein are the COyle and
) Paislee claims, discovered and worked
! by the late Tom COyIe, the sole sur
/ Doubtful Canyon. Next comes the
J Bachelor or &C. mine owned BY
/ Frank L Cresweu and F. W. Catlin,
/ lying west and adjoining the FL Orc
/ group. This is developed by a $50 foot
( shaft and shows a good vein rich in
! silver and gold
! In Coon Canyon is another group
/ called the Cow Girl owned by Jack
/ Davis He located it himself and is
! said to be in Toronto, Canada, financ-
! ing a company. n. T. Tregear is look
/ ing after his interests during his
| absence. The MaderO mine is the eX-
! tension Of the FL ORC group and is
owned by ]. c. Hayden. It is de-
! veloped by shaft and shows a strong
! vein carrying good silver and good
/ values. He is an old Cripple Creek
! operator.
The Old Volcano Mine.
Just over the hills to the north Of
| tee E. ORC camp is the Volcano mine,
Said - have been at one time the
! greatest producer in the 6imbaIl dis
: trict, having produced several hun
dred thousand dollars. 1t is now
owned exclusively by Capt. Charles r.
smith, an old pioneer and mining man
z n
Silver City. He has a large house
at the mine and lives all alone He
entertaInS many visitors, especially
young people who often come and
nave dances IN his spacious ball room.
me Volcano mine was originally
located by ?. 3. Smith shortly after
TIE discovery Of the Beck mine, in the
early SOS says Capt. Smith, "and he
worked 1t and shipped about 100000
OF ore to the Silver City smelter prior
10 It's burning down. In 1900 the VIII
son Mining * Milling company bought
him out and erected the 1O-stamp and
amaIgamat1ng mill They did a good
deal of development and laid a pipe
line down some $4,000 feet to some
! water holes IN the Animas valley.
costing $4,000; but, as there was not
suITlcIent water, they closed down the
mill Two years ago Capt Smith
bought the company out. Il have
| plenty of milling ore" said he but
have no water to operate the mill
J bringing water from the valley, and
instead to sink down in the mine for
water for the mill. The shaft should
pc sunk down to the grOund-water
( level where the drill hole at the Beck
! mine has demonstrated there is abund-
ance OF water. I would prefer to de-
EeIop the mine and at the same time
develop water than to spend large
valley. Originally the ores ran so
ounces silver and were shipped at a
profit but the new and deeper ore
bodies run about IS ton and must
The Two shafts.
The Volcano has a main inclined
shaIt 300 feet deep and another so
loot shaft 500 feet north. The vein
IS marked BY a brecciated and silici-
fled zone so feet wide forming a
prominent OutCrOp called locally a
rhyolite dixie, traceable for over a
mile, which cuts through the andesite |
on the hanging wall Of the dixie where
II IS a fault fissure from three to
seven feet wide, of quartz
Rlch values are also found on the
loot wall Of the dixie. There are five I
claims in the Volcano group. The !
ores carried chlOrides of silver in the
oxidized zone, but below are in sui
phides. A recent mill run of the latter /
saved SIS per ton Some OF the ship
ments nave been made to the Douglas
shelter.
The veins and ores Of this district !
are as good as those Of the No
goHOns,' says Capt Smith Il nilied
and mined there for years. It only
needs capital here as they finally got
IN the MOgOllons, to make this the I
banner gold and silver district of the (
southwest"
The Federal group is south OF the 1
Volcano, good gold property. To /
the north IS the Saddle mine on the /
same lode.
are several good gold claims in the I!
kImball district. Rich float is found I
On every hillside and in the gulches. /
Inc camp needs publicity and capital I
and IS destined to become a great /
producer Of gold and silver.
south Stems Or san Simon District. (
Thls district extends southwark ,
from Stems Pass toward Antelope /
station on the Ell PasO & Southwestern /
railway over 70 miles Between these /
points in the PelOncillo range are {
many veins and mines of copper, lead, /
zinc and silver. /
On the. west slope. three miles
southwest Of stems is the Mineral /
Mountain mine owned by Wynn and /
sherman, Of Chicago, which is de-
EeIoped by a shaft 200 feet deep and (
TOUR drifts aggregating 400 feet
A large amount of silver and lead
ore was taken out and shipped TO the
Silver City smelter. A flow of water 1
was struck and the mine is idle. The I
VEN Is dDOuL lOur IeeL VIDE. lneEG
Is steam hoist on the shaft. The !
property was formerly known as the
Bradford group and consists Of y or
IA claims, but is now called the Min
eral Mountain Mining company mines.
This property also has valuable cop
per deposits which should be de-
velOped.
Copper King and Queen Group.
South Of the Mineral Mountain
group about five or six miles or nine
miles south of Stems, on the western
side Of the range are the Il claims Of
the King and Queen Copper company,
New Mexico corporation, owned by
DR.. J. Odd Hamilton, of El Paso and
associates. For the limited amount of !
development work and the magnitude
of the mineralized OutcrOps. L believe |
this will make one OIL the biggest cop /
per mines in New Mexico. 1t is a
porphyry- copper proposition, the dis (
seminated sulphides through the mon
zonlte pOrphyry being chalcOpyrites {
from the grass roots. The brecciated
zones are of great width and seem TO
carry best values. The chief develop
ment has been done on the King and
the Queen claims. On the former