El Paso International Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. ELEVENTH YEAR, No. 104, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 2, 1891 Page: 2 of 8
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Secretary Foster's New Move
—A Receiver Wanted—
Markets—Etc.
6C3RBD A VICTORY.
8t. Louie, May 1.—The carpenters and
joiners have once again scored a victory
against their employers. Two years ago
they fought for 85 cents -an hour and an
eight hour day and won. Today they
asked 40 cents an hour and got it. As to
the other trades which were last night re
ported to be affected, nothing has yet
developed, but the indications are that no
walk out will occur.
Columbus, Ohio. May 1.—Out of 12 -
OQfrtik&n employed on both sides of the
Hocking and Creek valley there are not
more than 1,500 men who are at work,
the rest having been out to await the re*
suit of the conference now being held
here between the operators and miners.
Pittsburg, Pi. May 1.—A general re-
view of the situation here at this hour
shows that carpenters, brick layers and
stone masons to the number of 8000 are
about to strike with many plaining mill
hands also idle. The different unions of
the building trade are holding meetings
and making careful estimates of the num
ber of men out and the number found
“black sheeping.” They report the lap.
ter as being very small. The number of
men in the building trades known to be
out are: Carpenters. 1100; stone masons,
700; brick lsyers, 600 to 700 Several in-
dependent contractors have already
granted the eight hour demand and the
men say it is only a question of a short
time when the builders association will
be forced to terms.
Dbquihb, Ills.. May 1—Every mine in
this vicinity except one was closed dowD
this morning and 1400 miners and mine
laborers came out on a strike for eight
hours a day and weekly pay.
Fosters* More.
Washington May 1—One of the steps
•contemplated by Secretary Poster for
getting the subsidiary coiif now in the
treasury into circulation was taken today
when the following notice signed by
United States Treasurer Nebecker was
prepared at the treasury department and
will be sent to banks and bankers
throughout the United StateB.
“The coinage of standard silver dol-
lars authorized by the act of February
28 1878 having been discontinued by the
act of July 14. I860, the treasurer finds
it inconvenient to furnish them otherwise
than in redemption of silver certificates
or treasury notes, but will forward silver
half dollars, quarter dollars or dimes to
any address tree of cost for transportation
by express in sums of $200 or more, or by
registered mails or packages of $70 for
any kind of money deposited in the treas-
ury or any sub-treasury or depository
bank. Remittances for rbie purpose will
be received by the treasurer and ;tbe
assistant treasurers in the form of drafts
on any bank or banker in Washington,
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Cincinnati, Chicago, 8t. Louis,
New Orleans or Han Francisco.
Dan'i Review
New Yobs, May 1.—R. Q. Dun& Co.’s
weekly review of trade says:
Business is large in volume and sus-
tained by general confidence aa to the
future. Wheat and flour exports from
Atlantic ports continue far behind those
of last year and while reports of for-
eign crop prospects are not favorabie
there is really no reason to
anticipate any shortage or unusual de-
mand from abroad prior to the close of
the correct crop year. The possible de-
mand next year has to meet an exception-
ally favorable crop outlook. The reports
of trade at other cities are on the whole
more favorable than a week ago. Boston
finds general business better. At Pitts-
burg the glass business is active and
Bessemen iron is higher. The
Cleveland market is inactive, but
money in good demand and at
Detroit manufacturing interests are sus-
tained by a strong demand. At Cincin-
nati the dry goods season has been brisk
and collections are about as usual At
Chicago receipts are smaller than a year
ago and grain receipts about the same,
.but an increase appears in cured meats
’laid, butter, dressed beef and
about three per cent in wool
Sales of dry goods are at
least equal to last year’s with very satis-
factory payments in the branch of shoes
and clothing. Trade at all other western
and southern points seems to be especially
encouraging this week. Better weather
helps almost all western points and at
Milwaukee trade was never better. At
•Om&ba and St Paul very fair; at
Minneapolis four is dull but
the lumber trade is active
and at Omaha fair weather helps busi-
ness. Trade is quiet at Kansas City but
improving at Louisville and Atlanta with
decided strength at St, Louis, though for
tye week business was dull at New Ot
leans. The business failures occurring
throughout the country daring the Iasi
■7 days number 355 as compared with a
total of 247 last week. For the corre
spoeding week of last year the figures
were 311.
A Receiver* Wanted.
St. Louts, May 1.—A petition asking
for the appointment of a receiver for the
St. Louis A San Francisco railroad was
filed in the United States circuit court by
Hitchcock A Finkelburg, representing
eastern stock holders of the' Frisco The
grounds on which the appointment of a
is first that the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
and the St. Lonis, Kansas City and Colo-
rado are competitors of the Frisco, yet
they are owned and controlled by the
same men and have the same officers,
which is contrary to the constitution and
statutes of the state of Missouri.
Second—That the Atchison claims that
there is a large indebtedness due it from
the Frisco, whereas, the complainants
believe that if a true accounting was had
the Atchison would be indebted to the
Frisco.
Third. That to secure a more com*
plate control of the road by acquiring a
greater amount of preferred stock direc-
tore propose to issue 50,000,000 dollars
additional of preferred stock and an
equal amount of bonds.
The petition also asks that the officers
of the Frisco be restrained from giving
the Santa Fe any bonds and from payii<g
the indebtedness maintained to be due.
Judge Thayer received the petition and
fixed May 21st as the day for the hearing.
Voting Fewer Fooled.
Baltimohr, May 1.—A circular has
been addressed to stockholders of' the
Baltimore Sugar RefiniDgCo., as follows:
“We have united with a number of
stockholders of the Baltimore Sugar Re-
fining Company, to pool the voting power
of our stock in the Merchantile Trust
and Deposit Company, for a period of
five years, We think it proper that we
should give you notice of this fact, that
you may, if you please, also sign the
agreement. Signed,
E Jevering & Co.,
W. W. Bfenck,
William B. Wilson.”
The pooling of the voting power of the
stock places it beyond the power of out-
side interests to get control of the refinery*
for the period of five years. Trust certifi
cates can be dealt in to represent the
stock.
GOLbOTeOUfBYHAND.
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DISCOVERY OF
BREYFOGLE’S MINE
Money ana Metals.
Nhw York, May 1.—Money od oall
firm. raDgingfrom 4* to 9 per cent. Last
loan 8; Qclosing .at 10. Prime mercantile
paper 5 to 6 J .
Sterling exchange—Quiet and steady
at 4.85* for 60 day bills and 4.88* for
demand,
Lead—Dull; weaker; Domestic 4.20
Copper—Neglected; nominal.
Tin—Dull; straits 19 65.
Silver—Bar 98*.
Pig Iron—Dull. American 16 00@18,00
Mexican Stlvhr Dollars—Kl Paso
quotations—77
Last NlRhi’e Moslcale.
The song recital given at the First M
E. Church last evening by Mrs. Bertha
Stockwell, assisted by Miss Sabin was an
entire success, the church edifice being
crowded to the doors. Mrs. Stockwell
and Miss 8abin, possess voices of excel
lent merit and won the hearty applause
of the audience from baginning to finel.
“The Nightingales Trill” and “The
Suannee River” by Mrs. Stockwell were
beautifully rendered, the latter beiDg
given in response to an encore. The
programme for the evening was excellent
ly rendered.
Real Estate Transfers.
Jose Carreun and wife to Reyes
Bambrano warranty deed to
survey no. 42 in San Elizario
Cons........................$
E. Alexinder and wife to E B.
Bronson and W. H Austin,
quit claim deed to P. U Prid-
hac survey No. 271 El Paso
county, codb ...............
E. B Bronson and W. H. Austin
trustee, quit claim deed to un-
divided * interest in P. U.
Pridham survey No. 274 ,E1
Paso county, cons............
Jas P. Hague and w!fe to E. F.
and M. L. Cadwallader, quit
claim deed to 100 acres of land
in Ysleta town tract, cons---- 1
B. Liebman and W. J Harris to
E F. and M. L. Cadwallader
quit claim deed to surveys 152,
158 and 163 Ysleta town tract.
Cons....................... 180.90
800
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Ex-President Eckstein Norton,
of the Louisville & Nashyille railroad,
arrived in his special car from Chihuahua
yesterday and departed in the afternoon
for California via the Southern Pacific.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McVey from Chi-
cago, who have been in the city for some
time will leave next Monday for the west.
Mr. McVey is a prominent merchant of
Chicago and is making a business trip
through the west and Bouthwest.
There is not a miner or old settler in
the southern part of California who is
not familiar with the story of the famous
Breyfogle mine. It ranks with the Gun-
eight, the Pegleg and the Lost Cabin
legends. Like them it has cost dozens
of lives, and so unsuccessful and fatal
have been the many expeditions made
in search* of the mine that it has come
to be regarded by many as a myth.
Briefly, for the information of those
who have never heard the tale, the story
goes that away back in the early fifties
a party, in which was a man named
Breyfogle, set out for California by way
of the southern Utah road, a route which
lay through the southern portions of
Utah and Nevada, skirted Death valley,
traversed the Mojave desert and finally
terminated in either the San Bernardino
or Los Angeles valley.
Breyfogle was something of a miner
in his way, and while prospecting in a
wild and forbidding region he found a
place where he could literally dig great
nuggets of gold out of the decomposed
quartz or cement, as he called it, with
his knife. As he described the place,
there was a large deposit of an exceed-
ingly rich character—enough to make
the whole party wealthy. He returned
to camp, but the travelers were short of
provisions and water,*the Indians were
troublesome and there was no time to
waste in mining.
They pushed on toward their destina-
tion, but between the Indians and thirst
only a few of them ever reached civiliza-
tion. Breyfogle told his story, exlnbted
the nuggets he had dug out and careful-
ly preserved, and then spent the rest of
his life in a fruitless search for the-de-
posit. Others who heard the story fol-
lowed his example, and for upward of
forty years the Breyfogle mine has been
a veritable will-o’-the-wisp, luring men
to destruction in the terrible deserts of
southeastern California and southwest-
ern Nevada.
A LUCKY STRIKE.
George Montgomery, an experienced
miner well known in the Wood river re-
gion of Idaho, was on a prospecting trip
in the region to the southeastward of
Death valley. It* should be premised
that the old Utah road after leaving San
Bernardino city turns through the Cajon
pass and then strikes off in a northeast-
erly direction across the Mojave desert,
passing Resting Springs, the Kingston
mountains and then traversing the Pahr-
ump valley. This valley lies just on the
boundary line between California and
Nevada and lias a general northwest-
erly and southeasterly course, the Kings-
ton mountains lying to the west and the
Pabrump range to the east.
While prospecting \n the mountains
last named and at the upper end of the
valley Montgomery made a discovery
which bears every indication of being
the long sought Breyfogle mine, or at
i 'aist one exactly similar. But the loca-
; ion answers to that given by Breyfogle,
while the gold has been found just as he
said—so plentiful that it could be dug
out in nuggets with a knife.
One ledge located by Montgomery is
eight feet wide, and has been traced by
its outcroppings for a distance of 9,000
feet. In the decomposed surface rock
the gold is found almost like plums in a
pudding. Pieces of quartz picked out
are from a quarter to half bright yellow
gold, while with a hand mortar the
lucky discoverer pounded out in a short
time a yeast powder can full of nuggets
of various sizes. All along the ledge
free gold is found in quantities that as-
tonish the oldest prospectors and which
seem scarcely Credible.
After making several locations Mont-
gomery spend the news of bis discovery,
the result being that some thirty or forty
miners are at work in the valley. Mont-
gomery himself packed up jus large a
quantity of the richest specimens as he
could carry and made Ids way across the
desert to Daggett, the nearest railroad
point, 160 miles away. From there he
came to San Francisco.
FORTUNES FOR MANY.
To the question whether he was look-
ing for capital or a purchaser. Mr. Mont-
gomery returns an emphatic negative.
The mines, he *iays, are the richest he
ever saw, and lie is satisfied that he can
realize a fortune by working them.
There onght to be plenty of placer gold
in the gulches leading from the ledges
that have been discovered, but no effort
has been made to find any. All the
miners yet in the camp are busy on the
quartz claims they have located. On one
claim taken up by Montgomery a cross
cut has been pushed for twenty feet
across the Vein without striking the
hanging wall, and it is free milling ore
Arthur Hudson, of Toronto, Carada,
and Frank Kennedy of Chicago, returned
to this city yesterday after an absence of
three years in Mexico where they were j all the way.
connected with a surveying party. Mr. | Besides the deposits of gold, some rich
u.hi.kiD, itttfjoii.nri.'
in El Paso real estate.
which run over a hundred ounces to the
ton. Lead and copper also abound, but
at present gold is the sole object of
search.
I There is plenty of mesquifce wood for
A curious phenomenon has been re-
ported from the village of Kirnujarwi,
near Paja Lapland. During the winter ' "the vaUey ^ithi7thine" or four
the earth became spontaneously’ heated; ^ newly discovered camp,
in many places to such a degree thtftTne whl,e m the Stains, fifteen miles
snow and ice melted at4hoee places, and arp fomrt9 which Bbun-
th09G 8r°te dance of timbering material. Water can
be had at a moderate depth in Pahrump
valley, while at Ash Meadows, fifteen
miles away, are streams which could be
utilized for power.
In auv event the Breyfogle mystery
seems to have been solved, and i>erhaps
this fact will give as&tber stimulus to
Uie search for the Guuoightand the Peg-
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BY A PROSPECTOR.
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without burning one’s hand.
In an old geography printed in 1812
appears the following: California is a wild
and almost unknown land. Throughout
the year it is covered by dense fogs, as
damp jus they are nnhealthful. In the
interior are active volcanoes and vast
plains of shifting snow, which some-
times shoot up columns to great heights. ( mines. ^-San Francisco Letter.
The largest line of fine shoes in the city at Ef C. PEWS
fete
105 San Antonio St
Laths, Shlnglel, Doors. Sash, Mould*.
in£s, Etc., U. 8. & Halladay Wind
Mills, Pipe Casings and Fittings
Barbed Fence Wire.
YARDS CORNER FIRST AND KANSAS STREETS
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
Dealers In'
LUMBER
Max Schaper
Main Street South Side
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Dealer in
Mexican Curiosities,
OPALS VERA|CRUZ CIGARS,
Onyx Goods, Filigree Ware.
Reasonable Prices.
Mexican Antiquities
CANES, OLD COINS, POTTERY,
Featherwork StrawworK
Etc,, Etc,, Etc,
Careful Packing Guaranteed
W. G. WALZ CO„
ic<3 El Paso Street
Jos. Schutz Block,
New two story brick
Main St. Ciudad Juare*
DEA1BR IN
PIANOS, ORGANS, SMALL
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, SHEET
MU8IC AND MUSIC BOOKS,
SEWING MACHINES.
BICYCLES, TRICYCLES,*
VELOCIPEDES.
CROQUETTE, TENNIS
HAMMOCKS
CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES,
BASE BALL GOODS-
ATHLETIC AND SPORTING GOODS.
TOYS AND
FANCY
GOODS.
BERLA & CO.,
Plumbers&Gas Filters
Agents ior HOYT’S TOILET PAPER.
Pumps, Ranges, Hose,
EL PASO, TEXAS.
U W. EMERSON. E. V. BERRIEN
EL PASO COFFIN and CASKET CO,
Undertakers and Kmbalmers. 415 El Paso street
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Telephone 187 open day and night; hearae and carriages furnished: w-w* guaranteed
Oar Use of baby bugle wUlbe lartfe l he comic? vwnr, Yon
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See *1 Penn OeAaend Oaafeet edvertleemmt
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Veld ere our combined curia,*
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El Paso International Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. ELEVENTH YEAR, No. 104, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 2, 1891, newspaper, May 2, 1891; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth540998/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.