Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1902 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL XII
VLRlNE. HK8WSTE i OOUNTY. TEXAS FRIDAY. MARCH 14, 190*.
NO. 4
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We Wave Been Here Long Enough
To Know What The Pe
Up to date, Stylish DRY GOODS, Dress Goods,
Trimmings, Furnishings, Etc.
Trash may cost less, but it will not suit these people.
We havi now in trausit from the East the best and largest
assortment of these goods ever brought to this country. You
can suit yourself and save money by seeing the stock before you
buy. ROFLOFS HATS for Men are the VERY B$ST that can
be made, and everybody knows where to get the best HAMILTON
oBROWN lino of Shoes,
to give our customers
We must advance, and we Expect to try
i give our customers
BETTES GOODS. FRESHER GOODS and MORE GOODS
for their money than ever before. Cotoe ajad see us.
C. H. Larkin JCo.
Hotel Garnett
ALPINE TEXAS
Refflttod Throughout and f#»p«oed under new management,. Nine year*
experience in tlm Hotel bittiness in T**x*s qualifies the proprietor to cater to
the wants of the travelling public Come and see for yourselves
W. S: Dunbar Proprietor
PAUL JONES
Here
Alpine,
It’s standard all over the world—it’s Ten
Years Old and it tastes it—aged and mel-
lowed in the wood. |fv $. BLEVINS
is our agent; and buys direct from our dis-
tilleries at Louisville, assuring you the pure
goods.
No Middle Mans Tampering.
Direct to our agent, then to you.
Physicians indorse these goods everywhere. Family
trade will receive prompt attention through our agent.
PAUL JONES
LOUIS 1LLE KY-
GOOD SERVICE 1901-^
BETTER SERVICE 1902
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
In order to stimulate California travel
the Southern Pacific Sunset Route has
decided to put on extremely low rates 0°r. Out he says that
front all points along its Hue in
Louisiana and Texas The rate from
New Orleans to San Francisco will be
•30,00, from Beaumont 027.50 from
Galvestoe #28.40,from Houston, Austin
Dallas, Ft. Worth, Sun Antonio and
Denison •2S,00, Tickets will be one-
way, second class and will be accepted
on payment of the through Pullman
tourist sleeping car rate on all
Pullman Excursion sleepers operated
over the Sunset Route Tickets will
be sold daily during March and April
and are limited to continuous passage,
This Is the chance of a life time to
make the trip to California The
through excursion sleeping cars are the
very best of their kind, are personally
conducted and equipped with every
convenience of travel. For further
information address local Southern
Pacific agent or,
M. L. Robbins. T J Anderson,
G P &T A A G P. A.
Houston, Texas.
BREWSTER C0U TY MINERALS.
In the southwestern part of Brews-
ter c mnty and abiftit twelve miles from
the Rio Grande there are oeposits of
quicksilver ores, chiefly cinnabar. The
area lies principally-in Block G12, Gulf.
Colorado A Santa Fe Ky.,but also ex-
tends, it is thought, into Block 311,
Texas Central lly., and also into Block
G5. '■'rom east to west the district is
about eight miles In length and about
three miles from north to south, the
center b log In the vicinity of Ter-
lingua postoffice, which is in the north-
,st cornor of Sec. 68, or the uuilhwBBt
Sunset Route
FREE CHAIR CARS.
SPLENDID EQUIPMENT
BOX VESTIBULBD, PERFECT TRAINS.
THE VERY BEST
andto all POINTS
nniPT FADL' CT eer EXCURSION f LEEFIN6CARB to ASffINSTON cilIC 00
DON T FORGE I as4 CINCINN Tl. Berth Rates LESS thee HALF BTA ARB
tereceev ef the BOUi HERN PACIFIC COOK BOOK,eeetaleleg 200 reefpe*
. T J. ANDERSON, M. L. R0.MN5.
Gen. Pees Aft. Gen. PaesATkL Aft
Seed 10c led
I. P. B. MORSE.
corner of Sec. 69, Block GIB. The
course of the lead is east and west. The
Sections wtiloh appear to constitute the
mineral belt are the following: In Block
G12, 33,34. 33,38,37, 38. 39. 40. 41, 42,
43, 44, 45, 46,47, 48, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
69,70. In Block G5, Sec. 100. In Bh ck
341, Sees. 69 and 70. In Block G1 Sec.
295. It is not meant that mining is
being carried on In all of these Sections,
or that workable ore has been found
on all of them, simply that within this
area mining and. prospecting are now
being conducted. All of that portion
of Brewster County wbteh lies north,
south, asst and west of Terlingua and
contiguous thereto may be considered
mineral-bearing. The occurrece of
quicksilver ores in this region has bedb
known elnoe 1894, and the first authen-
tic discovery seems to be due to Meters.
George W. Waniese. Jimenez, Mexico,
an4 Charles Allen, Socorro, New Mex-
ico. They went into the region early
In 1894, having been attracted by the
report that some Mexicans had found
nib quicksilver ores In that part of
Brewster county, in the Transactions
of the American Institute of Mining
VoL XXV, 1890, Prof
Villiant P Blake gave an account, of a
rip he made into the district in August.
S94, .and tills in .the first scientific
Inscription that we have. Short ac-
:«»mits >f t’ie ni.i'ter have appear; d
In the reports of the United States
•eoln&ical Survey froih time to time
Mr. G. \V Turner having written of the
deposits in tlm Goverment pudlicatinns
In the Engineering and Mining Jour-,
nal, Vol. LXX1 No 51 Mr E P. Spaul-
ding desertla-d the mines and the treat
meat of the ore. The Manufacturers'
decord. Hallo , has also spoken of this
deposits.
it is sudicient. for our present purpose
to sav that the cinnabar is , containei.
both in the mud wetaoenus liuiestoio
anil in the more or less decomposed
oluish shale that occurs in the region
Towards t lie eastern part of tne dis
,rict tlie ore is more closely assoc i at to
>ith the shale than with the limestone,
although even here calcite is abuuduut.
1 Tne shuie-hite, streaks that are
i tumid through the unaltered limestone
1 .nay have arisen through decoinpbsi
lion of the limestone along plane*
i ot deposition, for it is often to be
obsarved that ’the rich stringers
it cinnabar follow these #planes am
iccupv cracks in the limestone nllci.
with study matter. Very ricu porka>
, of cinnabar are found in the district,
and but little of the mining is earned
' on underground My far the greater
, part of the on is taken irom open cuts
and ihe practice h io follow tne
| indications wh rever limy Lad
Intrusion' of igim-uis rocks ai<
frequently me: with in ilie district,but
Prof. Blake was lucluo d to refer the
origin of the ores to u position from
aqueous solution ratlo-i th ... irom va
ae »..(odd uot
lose sight of the tun that there are
intrusions of dolenlic rock near by,
and this probably has direct and close
connection with the disturbance of
the strata and with lit - source of the
metallic impregnations Tim develop
uieut of the district is proceeding as
rapidly as possible under (ne firm in-
stances. t be distance irom meS .uib
ern i'actlie By. at Aiptue is about
ninety miles, from Marathon eighty
live miles, and fr >m Marfa about 1J0
miles, most or the freight and hauling
going over the road from .darfu. In
1900, the production w s 1750 Masks
of quicksilver, and in 1901 about 31(0
{tasks, a (task holding about seventy-
six pounds of the nietul The Masks
are of iron, und are closed with a
screw plug. 1) irmg the year the San
Francitco qu< unions lor quicksilver
ranged front 61’i 50 io a IH.00 per Mask
for domestic, .did ao>a* $42 00 for
export.
Practically all of tin; output to (he
end of 1901 is to be credited to the
Marfu & Mariposa Mining Company,
although Parker A McKinney produced
some metal in a small furnace on their
claims near the eastern boundary of
tne district. The Marfa A Mariposa
Mining Company has been operating a
10 ton Scott furnace, and is now build-
ing another 10 ton furnace alongside of
the old one. The Terlingua Mining
Company ( Lindheim A Dewees ) has
recently built a 45 ton Scott furnace,
which can be urgedup to 50 tons. These
furnaces are all of good construction
and some of the brick for them are
made within a few miles, the fire-brick
being brought in from St. Louis
THE ORIENT S0A9.
J. F. Trevino, local manager for th
Kansas City, Mexico A Orion
returned last night from Kansas City
where he w,i° called to consult with
the heads of the company. He has
returned fullv empowered to prooeed
with construction and there is now
not the smallest doubt that the com-
pany means business.and work will
not be suspended until the road is
completed.
Mr. Trevino will leave Mondav
night for Mexico City to conclude
and sign the contreact with the Mex-
ican Centra! Railway Company for the
crossings. “Upon my return from Mex
ico City,” said Mr. Trevino, ‘ which
will be about *he 20th of the mouth,
construction work will begin out of
Chihuahua. The company has S3,000
000 gold deposited in the Bank of Com
merceof Kansas City for Immediate
tnt\ and there will be plenty more
when it is npeded There Is now
nothing In the way to im|»ede the
progress of construction. Twelve new
cars were bought from the Pul man
company at Chicago and were shipped
to Ciiiliuahuii mi the 4th of the mouth.
1 Mey should bo in the city soon.
“ \m pic provisions have been made
for rails for immediate use. We have
tu Chibuanua sufficient for eleven
uiles, Mud enough have been pur-
chased in the United Slates to com-
pile the road ns far ns Aldamn. By
i.it time tin* rails will begin to arrive
from Europe so Hull there will be no
delay in completing (he road to tbe
Texas border.
Mr. Stllwell and six or eight gentle-
men of the financial committee, will be
lit Chihuahua, between the 2Btb, and
the £8Ui of this mouth.”
Tbe company has secured a charter
in Texas this week for tbccoiistruoiioy
of the road in that state. —Chihuahua
Enterprise.
Vice President Sylvester In a letter
ptiolished in the .*%au Angelo Standard
of last Saturday says:
“Cases's one hundred kilometers is
practily ready for the rails, covering
tlie entire distance from Port Stilwell
io Ei Puerto, and we expecte to hays
that piece of road in operation by the
tirst of next October.
' 1 he work has commenced at Sweet-
water where we have put ou a large
number of teams ami the work will be
pushed from there up to the Ked river.
We expect to complete the grade from
- wootwater to the Red river withiu six
mouths. From the Ked river north the
grade is already complete through
Greer county and up into the Indian
Territory for something between thirty
and forty miles. From Fairview which
Is eight miles south of the Cimarron
river, the grade is completed iuto
Anthony, Kansas, with considerable of
the bridging in and a large number of
ties on the ground. We expect to be-
gin laying rails at Anthony within the
next thirty days, or just as soon as we
can get them wo well put them down.”
Both
wood and water are scarce. Rock
tanks are constructed in the canons
for holding the rain water, but borings
for water in the Ha s should by all
meaus be undertaken. At the present
time most of the water is being hauled
from the Uio Grande, a distance of
about twelve miles.
If the coal, which is known to exist
north aud northeast of the quicksilver
district, thou Id prove to be extensive
enough the fuel qulstion will solve
itself.
A detailed investigation of the quick
■liver deposits and of the coal will be
carreled on by this survey during 1908, 0f tboee F.1 Paso gentleman may prove
and an accurate map prepared, the: to be defeetiva.
latter in co operation with the United j
The El Paso papers claim for the
surgeons who went down on the relief
train all the credit of caring for those
injured in the wreck. This claim is
not justllled bv the facts Dr. Murray
of Marion, Ohio, and a young army
surgeon, assisted by other passengers;
conspicuous among whom was a Ger-
man lady, began the work of relief at
once Drs. Beakley aud White and
Druggist Stewart of Marathon arrived
at dawn and at ouce reinforced the
workers Dr. Sweeden and Walter
Garnett of Alpine reached the scene at
9:30 and found little to do. When the
relief train arrived in the alternoen
the work was Hinished.
Democrats of Brewster couuty are
laughing about an alleged political
deal in which the votee of this county
in tbe congressional and senatorial
conventions are involved. When it
comes to delivering the goods tbe title
States Geological Survey.—Bn I let In
No 2, University of Texas Geologioal
Survey.
Manager Van Vleck has authorized
tbe statement that the Southern Pacific
will Improve its train service by fall.
The trains that are now day trains from
Houston to San >utonio will be made
through trains »o EI Paso, while the
night train* will beoome ‘fliers.”
“Hill of Brewster” Is mentioned in
the El Paso Herald as a party to a cer-
tain political bargain. Who is Hill of
Brewster? Never beard of him before
All the counties that ha va held prim-
aries thus far have instructed for Lan
ham for governor
Snow on the mountains of norther*
New Meztco is four to five feet deep;
hence tboee chilly ureat triads Tuesday
end frost Wednesday morafqp.
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Carnes, J. M. Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1902, newspaper, March 14, 1902; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth802774/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend).