The weekly Arizonian., 1859-03-24
Sonora and it's Resources.

We copy from Wilson's Mexico: it's Peas ants and its Priests" the following chapter in reference to that interesting region of country destined sooner or later to be American terri tory Wilson extracts his mining data chiefly from Ward and Humboldt: and it is therefore correct At the time this book was written, Arizona was portion of the State of Sonora:
 Chihuahua and Sonora are the States or Departments to be affected by our Pacific Railroad. Sonora is the most valuable of the two, not only on account of its inexhaustible supply of silver but also on account of its de- lghtful climate and agricultural resources. It
 like the land of the blessed in Oriental story. California does not surpass it in fertility or in climate. With industry and thrift, it could sustain population equal to that of all Mex co. The table-lands and the valleys are so near together that the products of all climates flourish almost side by side Food for man and beast was so easily procured that the de- scendants of the early settlers sunk into effem macy long before the breaking out of the great Apache war of the last century. Drought aowever, makes the formation of artificial lakes and reservoirs necessary to the full develop ment of its agricultural wealth.
 Bat it is the remarkable abundance of silver iicb, distinguishes it above all other countries except Chihuahua. l have described, in g former chapter tke long and laborious pro cesses by which silver is produced from the orc n the southern mines, and also the great tcpths from which it is raised. In Sonora silver is most commonly extracted from the ort by the simple process of fusion But in the district of BatopiloS, it is or rather was, found pure. If we should adopt the theory that veins nf ax-tanA +hrn,1 1crh tho aptira Iapotb of May ico, then I should say that they "crop out" il Sonora, or, rather that the silver lodeS whicl are here above the surface, dip toward the cit, of Mexico, and also northward toward Califor na The mountain chain which traverses Cal ifornia under the name of the Sierra Nevada appears to be only continuation or reappear ance of the mountain chain here called Sierr Madre (Mother Range), which forms tn boundary between the departments of Sonor and Chihuahua
 On the western declivity of this mountai range, the most remarkable illustration of thi fact of cropping out is found at Batopilos a ready mentioned. This town is in deep ra vine The climate is, like that of the Califol mia gulches intensely hot, but remarkabl healthy. Here the IOdes of silver ore are a most innumerable* x with crests elevated abov the ground. The mine of EJ Carmen, in tn times of the vice-kings, produced so immensel that its proprietor was ennobled, with the titl of Marquis of Bustamente. This was the b. ginning of the family of Bustamente. A piec of pure silver was found here, weighing for hundred and twenty-five pounds. should lk to continue in detail to enumerate the rc surface mines in the southern portions of theS two States, but, lest 1 should weary my reade l must omit them, and refer those who wish learn more to the translations from the la official reports of the Mineria, entitled Chihu hua and Sonora, which are embodied in u Appendix
 "The Good Success Mine Bueno Success was discovered by an Indian, who swan aero
 VI would not like to make such extrayaga