Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1915 — RICH ORE FROM OLD MINE [ARTICLE]

RICH ORE FROM OLD MINE

Copper Shipped From an Old Spanish Mine Recently Discovered in Texas. Allamore, Tex—M. F. Jarrell has just shipped a carload of rich copper ore from the old mine which he discovered near here last Christmas day. The fact that the skeletons of twenty men .were found in the long-aban-doned shaft; of tfae mine and that near by was found a collection of knives and other leads to the belief that the property was worked by the Spaniards in the early days and that trace of the mine was lost through the r -• —---■• ——- - X" ' "

sudden death by massacre by Indians or otherwise of the men connected with the enterprise. The ore which Jarrell shipped to the smelter at El Paso was all collected from the surface, where it had lain for an untold length of time. As soon as the shaft can be cleaned of debris extensive operations will be started. The discovery of this ancient mine caused great, excitement. Prospectors began rushing in here as soon as the news of the find was made public and claims have been staked for several miles around the mine. Many good outcroppings of copper have already been discovered. Some of the ore samples assay about >3O copper to the ton and considerable gold and silver.