South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-10-10
The Texas Gold Fever.

brownsville (IexaS) Is in fever of
excitement. Mr.. Da Camara, formerly a
resident of Newark, New Jersey, writes
to his friends in that city that immense
mines of gold and silver have recently
been discovered in the Moiado mountain,
at the junction of the three Mexican
States of Durango. Cohahuia and Chr
huahua, and that the people of the three
States, each claiming the territory in
which the mines are located, have been
lighting over their possessions. The
Brownsville paper enthusiastically con-
firms his story, and announces the Won
derful news with eleven startling head
lines. OF gold alone we are told that
the Mojado mine has yielded five mill
ions of dollars in twenty-six days" and
that "the nose bag of horse containing
only sixty pounds of ore was valued at
five hundred dollars The tale of this
discovery, as furnished the Newark Ad.
vertiser, is TO the effect that a man nam.
ed Bosse discovered, at the junction of
the three Mexican States of Durango.
Cohahuila and Chihuahua, enormously
rich gold washings, but was forced to
leave by the Indians. Subsequently
both Bosse and his ser.aiit died, and al
knowledge of tie discovery was tempo.
rarily lost. Only two months ago large
Development of silver was found in the
MoJado mountain, and this, bringing
many miners thither, led to the re.disco.
very of the gold deposits, which were in
'the same neighborhood. All such sto-
ries must be received with many grains
of allowance but it is not improbable
that one or both Of the precious metals
have been found in the Moiado noun
tam, even though the statement of the
yield may be greatly exaggerated. Mex
leo has long been famous for her mines
of gold and silver, and the Mojado noun.
tUin is part of the same range that runs
northward through New Mexico and Col
orado. The point of the mountain where
1t is alleged that these new mines have
been discovered is less than four hundred
miles due west from Brownsville, and il
is not surprising that the accounts given
of their remarkable yield should produce
in the reckless border population Of Tex
as an intense longing to pass over into
Mexico aud share in the spoils. If the
reports of the Moiado mines should turn
out, from subsequent information, to be
well founded, it will require all the vi.
GLANCE of our troops stationed along the
line OF the Rio Grande TO prevent armed
bodies of Texans from crossing that river
to contest with the Mexicans the right of
working the mines or Of 'prdsrectlng"
for others in the saline range. Already
we are told that the news reaching
brownsville is of such an exciting char.
acter that it may lead to the depopula-
ton of Western Texas, and perhaps, in
the end, to new conquest of part of
Mexico. 1t would be easy, in Il case of
this kind, to provoke war; for with
Mexican cattle stealing and Texan raid
ing, it has been difficult to keep the
peace for years past. Bnt it is to be
hoped that if this discovery of the Mo-
lido mines should tempt armed bodies
of men from our side of the border To
invade Mexico, such IN understanding
will be had between the two governments
as will enable them TO act conformity in
putting an end to such adventures, or
regulate the working of the mines under
standingly and amicably.- But. Sun
PAINFUL ACCIDENT. Miss Ida NJ.
OsbourD. dauohfsr Of MIR ! ~ Oshaurn