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EL PASO HERALD-EDITORIAL and MAGAZINE PAGE
Saturday, March 25, 1916.
LARGEST DEPOSITS OF HIGH GRADE COPPER IN THE WORLD, NEAR EL PASO
(BY H. D. S.)
SOME YEARS ago, the chief mining engineer of the
United States Steel corporation, after having
personally examined the copper mines and pros
pects in the Organ mountain, expressed the opinion
that these were the greatest deposits of high grade
copper ore in the world, so faras scientific knowledge
of the world's copper extends. Reporting as an expert
for possible investors, he found that the wonderful
deposits extended ten miles or more along the contact
of the lime and porphyry, and that enough development
work had been done to demonstrate their huge economic
value; but unfortunately the district had been covered
by a large number 'of separate locations, mostly running
transverse to the principal veins, and litigation bad
been so complex and so general and persistent over a
long term of years that titles, options, or leases were
hard to obtain on terms that he could recommend.
Many of the de facto owners of properties or of equities
therein, seemed to want to get enough out of a sale
to replace all the losses of the last 75 years due to
bad management, litigation, neglect, and looting. There
seemed no possibility at that time of acquiring and
consolidating the many separate properties on a fair
business basis at a price that an expert could approve
as reasonable.
The United States Steel corporation's chief mining
engineer at that time expressed the opinion that, if it
were possible to consolidate the many different prop
erties and develop the whole district under one manage
ment along modern scientific lines, the Organ mountain
copper district should become one of the greatest and
most famous producers in the world.
There is no reason to suppose that the material con
ditions of the properties have changed in the time that
has elapsed since those opinions were expressed unless
for the better. Some work has been done on some of
the properties, some new deposits have been opened
and traced. It is probable that the district as a whole
is somewhat more promising today than it was when the
expert above referred to, made his report. His scientific
judgment and practical training led him to estimate
correctly the huge economic possibilities of the district.
His business discretion and loyalty led him to report
adversely upon the particular project then under con
sideration. v Now it is understood that Phelps, Dodge & Co. have
been able to arrange the preliminaries of a transaction
that is expected to result in the ultimate acquirement
and consolidation of many of the properties in the
district, and the development of the copper deposits on
a vast scale with all the advantages of the most modern
and skilful methods of mining and reducing the ores,
as practiced by this great corporation in its rich south
western holdings.
It need not be expected that the job will be done all
at once. It will be taken up cautiously and with an
eye to the future. It is not the policy of this com
pany to "scratch the surface." hunt for rich "pockets,"
or make deceptive showings for stock jobbing purposes.
Nor do the business policies of the corporation always
become public property. In the Buno mountains, many
years have been spent in thorough exploration and de
velopment; millions of dollars have been spent in under
ground work; more millions in railroad lines, concen
trating mills, and industrial towns. Yet the Burro
mountain properties are not yet included among the
producers. The company recently acquired immense
tracts adiacent to its holdings, and known to contain
continuations of its own deposits. The work is all done
in a big, deliberate way, that may not always suit
the speculators on the outside, but that makes for
permanence and strength.
So it will probably be with the Organ district. It
is not going to be another Bisbee, Morenci, Cananea,
Miami, Santa Rita, or Ray immediately this summer;
but work will go on with persistence and caution, all
planned for the future great camp. In a few years,
there should be developed, in the normal course of
things, on the western slope of the Organ mountains
15 to 20 miles from Las Cruces, an industrial district
of tremendous economic importance. Thousands of
men will be employed there, and with their families will
make several prosperous towns. A railroad branch
will be extended from Las Cruces or some other junction
point to the mines. Mills will be erected, and there will
be the necessity for large shipments of building ma
terial, machinery, fuel, and supplies, together with the
outbound shipments of concentrates and high grade ores
to the smelters. This all means more business for
southwestern railroads, manufacturers, merchants, and
trade-workers.
Las Cruces should derive much direct and indirect
benefit from this development, that city being the
principal commercial point in the valley above El Paso.
If the railroad branch connects there with the Santa
Fe, that will give the town added importance. The
mining towns will be large consumers of valley produce,
and the Organ mountain district may become one of
the best markets the farmers have. Las Cruces will
share in all this activity.
So also will El Paso share. This city is, as it
were, at the toll gates of the southwest, where it is in
position to receive a share from the profits of all traffic
in the region. El Paso merchants, bankers, builders,
produce dealers, outfitters, manufacturers, trades
workers, railroad men, and the farmers in the El Paso
valley, will all feel the' effects of such development
in the near vicinity.
One of the most important effects on El Paso,
economically, will be to improve the "back country,"
giving the city a new spoke in the "wheel" of primary
resources which diagrams the city's fundamental reasons
for existence. Heretofore practically all our mining
resources have been west; this new district lies north,
and extends the area of the city's chief commercial
interests. In easy automobile distance, say three hours,
the Organ district will be our nearest big mining camp,
and there will be much traffic especially with the
building of new roads, shortening distance and time
still further.
So added security of tremendous present and poten
tial value is given to El Paso's future as a metropolis,
and to the city's prospects of unbroken and increasing
prosperity.
By the way, can every army officer, city and county
official, and federal civil official, hold up his hand and
swear that, he never gossiped a wild rumor?
o
If all were true that gossip about the Mexican situ
ation says is true, then maybe one apparent lie would
balance another and the millennium would be here,
through the operation of a policy of total extinction
of the race, a la Kilkenny pussies.
o
To look at the little pink eared white rabbits in
the store windows heralding the near approach of
Easter, greatest Christian festival, one would hardly
believe that the whole world is in chaos, and that every
second on the average a victim of the great war falls.
o
There are fewer soldiers today between Buffalo and
Seattle than there are policemen in St. Louis. But who
cares? Bryan's "grand army of 1,000,000 between sun
set and dawn" is there, all right. Joke.
o -
The more often the wires go down between Wash
ington and Pershing's headquarters, the more likelihood
of success to the expedition.
o
Evidently campaigning with Pershing is no bed of
orchids.
Short Snatches From Everywhere.
Don't always call a spade a spade. Have a heart.
New York Times.
If you cannot make good at least make n. noise.
New York ..inerican.
You have to watch jour step to leave footprints In
the sands of time. Macon Telegraph.
Some wives can henpeck so sweetly that a fellow
does not realize it. New York American.
The kind of optimism men buy- by the glass is
seven-eighths apprehension. Toledo Blade.
When a fellow marries a rich woman he never
gives her any credit for his success. Nashville Ban
ner. The things that we need the least are usually the
things we struggle the hardest to get. Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Villa's seat of government is moving more rapidly
these days than the Servian capital. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Much of what is called enthusiasm is merely a
vociferous demand that somebody else do something.
Albany Journal.
Time drags for the worker who regards a week as
only an Interval between pay days, ami his work drags
too. New York World.
There are a lot of pacifists, but only a few of them
are shrewd enough to make money out of it. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Perhaps you have noticed that it is a whole lot
easier to break a dollar than to gather op the pieces.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Some women seem unable to think at their beat
unless they are seated In a rocker and going full
gallop. And the rocking chair habit Is utmost as bad
as cigareta. Toledo Blade.
In the haay rumors of Villa's movements, the belter
that he Is going "further away from the border" may
be true, but all the same he may be getting nearer
the verge Providence Journal.
Biscuits Are Small, Irritable Food Products
Many Womec Can Make Tliem, But Many Cant
SV HOWARD L. RANK
-v-tHK bis-utt is u small in liable food the Momach to revolt in tones of pas-
product composes 01 iiour, ban. j
"" milk and luck. A great many '
wnimn use the right proportions of
tliui. salt and milk, but tiy to get
along without any luck, thus introduc- j
ina into a once happy home several
aiietie of valve-lifting indigestion.
There are two kinds of biscuits
sweet and sour. The sweet biscuit Is
one which is made by an old-fashioned
mok who spent years at the trade and
neci look a domestic science lesson
in lier life One of the sweetest night
in life is that of an expert wife and
mother making liaking powder biscuits
hy slapping the ingredients together
with the careless slice of a cement
mixer, and then have them come out
wilh a golden-brown complexion and
as light on their feet as a ballet dancer.
The wife who can do this seven days
liaml running, without ruining a single
iiairh should be more highly prized
b-v her husband than an endowment
lolir which Is about to fall due with
a loud cackle.
Sour biscuits are the kind which are
u-uirflly fed to young husbands, causing
ABE MARTIN
Mapping the Ingredient together iflth
llir carrle grace of n cement ml&rr.
biscuits the joung and fen i less house
wife follows a et of blueprints fur
nislied by the high school tenchei of i
domestic science. A complete, set ot
tools is always used, consisting of a
yardstick, spirit thermometer, gradu
ated glass, blue-flame retort and
crucible, making the pantry look like
n vmlf.fnli riiturl,ann in a in (OrntOT
The compound is then baked bj rote
in a measuring oven, and served in the
form of dum-dum bullets. Four or five j
oi mese miueis, appueu mieriiHin , win
convert a neat and tastv bridegroom
into a. gloomy misanthrope inside of 19
minute?
The biscuit is not as deadly In it
effects as the doughnut, but it should
not lie drank to excess. It is always
beet to test the biscuit by seeing if it
Mill hold-up a strong man. standing
on one foot, and If It emerges trium
"Tlbnnt from the test it should then be
fcif4o the livestock. Thousands of sal
soda)iseuits are fed every year to the
-"ilfow, as a stimulant, and this no
doubt oTCVCnt'o.'vUOjjnurderous in
stincts of that househoTfMSI Pro
tected by The- Adams Newspaper
ice I
How T
Boys
A "
o Put Up a Lunch For
and Girls At School
fTUK an exliaufltite studr, j silad hessing orange, apple, a mix-
ncle Sam's atreuth m the Home 1 u' , Htl frx "r ernf. ake
Economics division of the d- i eM.au.d. it.ll. ni.dichev fruit:
piilment of agncultme, 1-J"- deter- (ko
mined just what vow .houldrfut in ihe t'ottrisre ohei! .ind cl'opprwl reen
Mldren lunh basket hc the go pepi'i nandwiches or pot of mail.
in sehool. I 1ueje with brtdd and butt r a.ind-
Nmc practical .school lunches ha've i wirhf-
been selected. The contain, accniri- 6. TFard-boiW eKK' crip taking
injr to the xpert. U. npht amount powder biscuit celery or indishes,
of fate, protetnn, starch, sweets, 'ind Mniw'i Miar or intiplt iuar sjnd-
the thouPnnd and one other thing that wkhe
go to make up food for human con- ; Bottle of milk thin corn bread
euniptioii and butter, date apple.
Here as the run1 N Kami oi nut bread with butter;
1 Sandwiches with sliced Undei t cheese. ansr" maple sutfar.
me.it for filling;, baked apple, cooiuea
or a few lumps or euffar.
THL COURTS
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llT tllSTHICT CO HIT.
I". It. Price, prenldlng.
Kxpurte Juan and Samuel Itoilnguez,
writ of babeas corpus; detendants re
leased Coggm & Demere Te.i & P.iclfic,
suit for damages to cattle shipment; on
trial.
AST 1 1 DISTRICT I-OIU'I.
Hnllnrd Cfilducll, presiding.
X. G. Buenos & com pan v .. I..
Carroll, suit for commission, filed.
.1ITJI IlISTIIICT till IIT.
Han M. JacKson, presiding.
State vs J. D. lee, murdrr. not guilty.
Ml ice nf meat loaf or bean loaf'
lirend-and-buttcr sandwiches; stewed
fruit small fronted cake.
.: frlsp rolls, hollowed out and
filled with chopped meat or fish,
moistened and seasoned, or mixed with
Baker ban and lettuce cand-
u idles, apple sauce woet chocolate.
The prtnision of a buttle of milk Is
suggested in one of the menus, but of
course taking milk to school in warm
weather would be itr practicable unless
means were pro Ided for keeping It
chilled until It Is consumed.
T ETTERS to THE
-L TJVD A T n
HERALD
( Mi communications must beat the
signature of the writer, but the name
will be withheld If requested.)
THE -VOItI.I) DO )IOVB."
j:Jnor El Paso Herald.
According to Millard Patterson's
artlt'e in The Herald regarding the
ai man. be would have us believe
that the present day custom and Intel
lect of mankind came Into existence in
a night, like Jonah's gourd.
The theorists and scelentists, who he
rffi rs to as madmen with "bughouse
niteligeiice," have ever and will con
ilnue to be the advance agents of civili
7atinu. and a higher plan- of living for
tin human famib. both physicall) and
mentall.
Theorists and scientists In their re
spective age and surroundings hato
e r lived In a da after the morrow,
Rlnle those who opposed them were
contented to live the day before es
terda Theorists and scientists go ahead and
pr pare the way.
r.lerlricity, with all of its appliances
mi') conveniences, was once merely a
thur. A little over 20t years ago a
man with a theorj took a few handsfull
of sand and made a telescorie, and now
fioni the results of this man's Ideas we
an go spend an enjoyable evening in
lb movies, at ?J jn r seat.
Keller mechanical appliances super
sede th old ones, while the old ones
are cast aside and forgotten till some
one interested in the flow of human
ii ogress collects them and places them
in a museum for educational purposes.
And when I visit a museum of today
i ml study the crude Implements of the
d n s gone by. I do not say the old
urease lamp Is a degenerate of the pres.
nt day tungsten nor that the old-fashion,
d drum bo telephone has fallen
away fioin our modern ones.
And when I view the reproduction of
the cave man, I will Just let my imag
ination extend backward a little
farther, when man transported himself
about op his all fours, and then back a
fen- ages farther, when be abandoned
the water to become a land animal, and
jurt a little farther back when he was
a water breathing creature, then I will
bb. "some progress" C. C 'Tarter.
I'lUHAI
. MIltVICKs lli;,l
KOIt WILLIAM A. ELLIOTT
Tuneral services of William A. El
liott, proprietor of the Valley Grocery
who died early Friday mornlne will
be held this afternoon at 2:3$ odock , $j and costs.
at me cnapci oi 111c J. J. ixsster un
dertaking company. 108 North Camp
bell street.
ltev. Perry J- Rice will officiate at
co i:tv co i iit.
Adrlnn Pool, prcMdinc;.
State vs. .Toe Dickinson, theft under
i: filed.
Al
Cold Cream Needed By The Column In Mexico
Troops Have Cracked Lips And Burned Noses
"O
II ou cold cream, said h. A.
Van Camp, telegraph operator
who is up from the front
where he was with Gen. Pershing's ,
, nintnn 'The nun and the wind are
I surely bronzing the American soldiers ;
They don t nunc in.n. oui me .j
heat cracks and blisters lips is decid- i
edly uncomfortable, to sa the least, I
and eve man whose sweetheart or
feminine ' rela ive has sent him cold
cream is considered a mlghtly lucks
chap." i
"Tlu Ameuean troops in Mexico will
have a nimh easier time of it than the
allied troops in China during iiic Boxei
uprising." said C D Miller. "On- thing '
Its a whole lot more cheerful for ih
reason that practically the whob of
north China is nothing but one ceme
tery. Then the only language that the
American army has to contend with .
outside of its own. is Spanish, while
In China there was an unendless I
amount of confusion caused by the
preat mixture of languages, necessi- I
tatina- interpreters . who understood
Japanese. Russian, Prench, German and
all the Chinese dialects in order to
get anywhere at all. The sign langu
age was about the only thing that
could be universallyiused "
"The immense amount of building
being done In Kl Paso is one of the
most impressive proofs of the substan
tial growth of this city that I have
ever seen," said J. B. Carter. "Hardly
a da occurs but that building permits
for the erection of homes and offlee
buildings at an estimated cost of
thousands of dollars ar issued at the
city hall."
"The light showers recently only
hardened the roads leading into El
I'aso fram the west and they are in
excellent condition for traveling at
present," said R. A. Jones. "The
present condition of the highways make
motoring ver enjojable, however, and
there are numbers of automobile
owners from New Mexico and Arizona
arrive in the city every week, in order
to take advantage of the roads. All
of these persons leave a certain amount
of money in IU Paso, and which makes
their visits very desirable."
"EI Paso is full of people." said R. K.
Sherman. "If you don't believe It, ask
the real estate men. It is the hardest
thing we encounter, to find rent houses
for the large number of people that
call every day. There are no vacant
houses and everything that becomes
available is quickly grabbed. New
comers tell me that there are far fewer
rent houses in El Paso than in any
western city."
"I have Just got bold of some in
formation that indicates that Boston's
estimate of requirements for the year
In water meters is 5500." said Ed
Haight, city purchasing agent. "In
view of the fact that last year our
requirements were 1100 El Paso must
be growing more rapidly in proportion
to population than the famous 'Hub'
city, for Boston has a population of
nearly 700.009, against our 70,71!."
MAKING SHELLS FOR ALLIES
When
gita his.
dead, called
feller falls in love th' barber
Joe LatkTVong mournea as
Renfrilican
quarters t'day an' give himself 5
fFrotected bj ACan.s ICewpav" Service
I
OS! IE
RECEIS HIE
"Check Kiting" Is Alleged
by Witnesses Regarding
La Salle Street Bank.
.it "jncic cot uts
J. 31, llesTer. PreiWInir.
State vs. Junn Rodriguez and Sanuel '
Rodrlguei, coasptracy'to commit arson, 1 ,, r -
filed. i Chic igo. III. March 2a. W itnes'-eB in
8Ute vs. Alvino lHos. theft from the the trial of Wm Lorimer. 'y"V. 1 with
nerann. on trial i conspiracv in connection with the ful-
person, on trial. nre t)e SaUe strpet Trust & s.
... . J- '' ?'"rnl,y. Presiding. ingB htinK testified today that the
State vs. H. Cornell, speeding: ne- I transformation of the bank from a
fendant pleaded guilty and was fined ; national to a state liank was carried
$5 and costs. ... I out in a perfectly regular manner.
State vs. Hoy Chitwood. speeding: de- john h. jilfe. former state bank ev-
ienaant pieaacd guuty ana was nnea aminer, testified that In an examina
State s. G. Viicaria. speeding, de
fendant pleaded guilty and was fined
$5 and coats.
State va Charles Roberts speeding:
the services Interment will be made I defendant pleaded guilty and was fined ' bank, had written checks on banks in
In Evergreen cemetery. 5 and costs. which he had no money.
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT
Her-
FULIX MAIlTI.i:Z.
I'rom the Albuquerque tN if.
aid
AH oer l!" southwest people will
mourn for Felix .Maitlnez New Mexi
cans yespeclalU will feel lus losi. be
cause be was a native New M!can,
and because he had aecnmpllKtted much
for his nalivt. si-ii
i:eiyw-here th.it he was known
people will mourn him for that the
world has lot a brilliant and efficient
uorker. h conslructie thinker, n man
ith vision and courage to make his
i- inl lie will he iiiouined
h- w ! a 1 1 n. .'tin! oiiri' -
p iiil fi ii inl anil a
nlil in. I -In i iimiiniii! the
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BY BRIGGSH
m ygs: I
ic virrAjNrXJvNAj-T"TT I .i.l i
tlon of the bank while a state institu
tion, he found indications of "check
kiting" and unfaorable loans They
were evidences, he said, that C H Mini-
ilai. convicted vice president of the
WAITE CLOSELY GUARDED;
SON OF PECK TO TESTIFY
N'ow York. March 20 Dr Arthur
arren Wa'te. accused of the murder
f his fatherinlaw. Jbhn E. Peck, mll-
U.miairr druggist or uranu itapias.
iliieh remained under close guard at
liopini touay. me young
lthousrh still suffering from
ti,,. effet of the drugs he took two
flaw ""' na reported much Improved.
liiV'rut attorney Swann is preparing
to prVseMt '" the grand Jury oil Monday
the evidence bv which he expects to ob
tain iX" Indictment charging Dr. Walt"
with I'nirder Perry Peck, son of the
dead nV" ' expected to testify before
ROOSEVELT TELLS OF OWL;
WONT DISCUSS POLITICS
New York. March IS. Col Theodore
Roosevelt, resting today after his o
age to the West Indies, where he w a
accompanied by Mrs Itooseeli ile
clined to comment on am phao of
menran politic or the Mexlian s.
uaUon lie said he had found on the island of
Trinidad a bird as il:r a3 a b-irn owl
called the uacharo It goes out onl'
at night, lives in caves and eats nuis
he said.
the jury and also the two physici.ni'
who performed the autopsy on Perk s
body.
Jr-
Saturday Night
THE Ways of the week bring us labor and care, to keep the pot boiling we
wfarily hump; and often we feel, with a pang of despair, that, spite of
0lr efforts, well land at the dump There are things without number de
manding our """"n, the high cost of living is surely a fright; but let us can care
when tie. week's work is done, say "Shoo!" to our troubles, on Saturday night
If neighbi" come ovr to gossip a while, don't let them refer to the wolf at the
door; donV 'et them exhibit spring samples of bile, or sprinkle sad tears, bv the
quart," on the fioor. Just tell them you're willing, at most other times, to listen
to roasts Jwth a fiendish delight, to jump on the plutes an dtheir various cries,
but peace rs yuf portion on Saturday flight. Unhappy the man who must carry
his grouchaway from the shop or the office or mart; who takes it along when
he goes to.his couch, and cuddles it close to his bitter old heart. Unhappy the
man who ust worry and fume when the week's work is done, an"B his pipe is
alight, whik cannot say "Shoo!" to the phantom of gloom, when he sits in his
rocker on Saturday night!"
itected by the Adams Newspaper Service ) WALT MASON.
rProVecJ
L PASO HERALD
umiic vtep' to Tun hKnvicE or iiie people, that io rood calsl
llLL LACK A CH.flPIOX," AMI THAT EVIL SII LL
i NOT TIiniVE UNOPPOSED.
II. D. Sinter editor and cnntrollluc owner, has directed The Herald for IS yearn
.l.'C. Wllmarth la Manager and C. A. Mnrtln la Kill tor.
MEMIIKU USSOCIATED PltESS, AMCIUCAX NEW SP VPKH. PlTILISIIEns'
Af.tMICIATIO.V. VXD AUDIT Ill'nEU HI" CIHCULATIO'VS.
AN INDKPNDKXT DAILY NEWSPAPER The EI Paso Herald was established
in Mai cli. 18S1 The Kl Paso Herald includes also hy absorption and sue
sessio1- Tne Da'' News. The Telegraph. The Telegram, The Tribune. The
Giaph'c. Tne Sun' T1,e Advertiser. The Independent The Journal. The Re
L pnhliepn. The Bulletin
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