The past week has been a busy one at…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

other strikes rivaling this one in value, and has a fine ranch at Las Cruces. He will now settle down in luxury; while his partner, Thoman, goes to see the old folks in Switzerland. He has worked hard and stuck to it like a man, and everybody is glad of his good luck. The past week has been a busy one at Deming. Long trains of ore coming up from Mexico, reloading back with merchandise, and numerous other trains loading for the same points, have taxed the large house of Lindauer, Wormser & Co. to its fullest capacity, and made pleasant the faces of all our merchants. From ihe January 31, 1890, Issue of The Enterprise The Gila alum contains about 28 per cent alumina, the balance being water (44 per cent), sulphuric acid (22 per cent), impurities (sand, gypsum, etc., 6 per cent) . It is therefore not what is commonly known as alum, but is hy- drous sulphate of alumina. To utilize it in mak- ing aluminum the manufacture should be car- ried on either at Silver City or Deming, as all the fluxes and reducing agents, excepting per- haps salt, exist in abundance in the neighbor- hood of Silver City, such as fluorspar, pyrites, copper ore, pyrolusite. Sulphate of alumina is now manufactured and sold in England, at $21.75 per ton of 2240 pounds, so that there would be nothing in shipping the Gila mineral to the seaboard.