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.