Show MCJES PEUMES Arrival From SouthernCamps Tells of Them ENORMITY OF THE DEPOSITS Wages of White and Native Labor Surveyor Brooks on Tonopnh The Cnrisa Came ronvnrd With Ulch Gold and Copper Ores Sampler at IT S Smelter to Start Day on the Mining Exchange California Is Taking Out Shipping Ore Note and Personal H E Conic who has for several months been un active Inh1j otc tInes Peruvian corjs arrived from those distant diggings yesterday to return to Peru some months later Mr Conk although testifying to climatic uiu ouier conditions not altogether con ducive to a rush to the southern coun Uy comes back himself In an excellent suite of preservation and with his ex periences Is prepared to entertain a wide circle of friends during the long winter evenings He pulled his freight on August 1Hh and made his way home Ma Panama and New York passing Mr aicCunc and A E Welby the gen eral manager of the projected railroad at one of the southern landings both in good fettle OC the mines that have boon acquired by the llcCune and Ilaggm syndicate says Mr Conk there has been no exaggeration however incredulous In-credulous those who have never explored ex-plored the region The metals occur in a farreaching zone that has during the centuries the native has mined it been explored to a width of nearly three miles Upon this one the Ccrro de Pasco company exploited by Hon A W McCune has acquired nearly 400 locations and In the campaign of development de-velopment is I now dropping down no lower than nine shafts each of double compartment The metals occur within with-in two welldefined horizons explained 3Ir Conk On the upper one silver preponderates pre-ponderates the metal occurring In an oxidized quartz and at times attaining many thousands of ounces per ton Below Be-low thlH horizon the copper ores occur the red metal showing percentages that me astonishing while the general average aver-age is a most sensational one It Is this class of ore for which the largest reduction works on earth are being provided pro-vided and no man not conversant with the country says the visitor can possibly pos-sibly grasp anything like an adequate idea of the Immensity of the proposition proposi-tion Of course there will be no production pro-duction until the smeller has been completed com-pleted and the railway between Arroya and Cerro dc Pasco a distance of eighty miles Is completed however enormous the disclosures under ground With conditions that appeal to the miner from the States Mr Conk was not very favorably impressed the wages of the white man ranging from 2 JO accorded the green hand to liO which is paid foremen Of course in contrast with wages varying from 10 cents to 50 cents a day paid the native the wages of the whites is munificent but with board alone costing cost-ing 25 a month and everything else corresponding with It the appeal to the experienced miner is not a very tempting tempt-ing one In the same channel it might be mentioned that the teamster is allowed al-lowed 50 In gold per month The camp of Cerro de Pasco Is not such as characterizes the mining camps of this country says Mr Conk and while the saloon is present the bad man and his ugly weapon the dancehall and its hnndpalntcd Inmates and the gaud generally of the far West arc lacking However there Is a population of 5000 in It and that these attributes of riotous riot-ous civilization will moke their appearance appear-ance in time is most likely |