Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-02
BIG MINES IN SONORA.
Some Of the Properties Owned by Citiren of Tue.
 son-Good Opportunities for Capitalists.

MT. Edward Parker has returned from lengthy soiourn in Sonora, where he has very extensive mining and other in terests. It IS about sixteen years since NIT. Parker first turned his attention to Sonora properties, and his knowledge of that country Is very extensive. In his Journeyings through the mountains he has made a record of more than twelve hundred mining properties, and his well known uprghtness of character gives a double value to his fund of information, and he can be quoted as high authority on Sonora matters.
 Inc mlnlng properties represented by MT. Parker embrace some of the largest and richest gold and silver mines in Mexico, some of which are described as | follows:
 A group of seven mines, 45 miles south Of HermosillO, near and adjoining the famous Prietas mines, which are owned by New York company, who have a splendid 60-stamp mill in run nlng order. These veins are from three to seventy feet in width, and carry both
 
 twenty distinct veins on these proper ties In this vicinity are also four other silver mines, on which work has been done, and in every instance the results have been fiattering. The veins are wide and the grade of ore is very high, ranging from S3O0 to $500 per ton in silver.
 Near HermosilIo there are five mines controlled by NIT. Parker One of them, gold bearing, has a shaft I25 feet deep and a cut of 100 feet, besides several small tunnels which enter the vein. The average of the ore in this vein is S75 in gold per ton, with some silver. The other four mines carry from S60 to S100 per ton in silver, and are mostly carbon ates.
 He has a group of six other mines within forty miles of the railroad, which are looking exceedingly well, one of which IS a carbonate of lead. The vein IS twenty-five feet wide, with ten cross ledges from three to ten feet wide. A shaft fifteen feet deep has been sunk, and the ore taken out assays S4S in sil- yer and S1O III gold. Plenty of wood and water Is found near the mine. Mir. Parker has a plat of this property with him in this city.
 Another mine, on which the company has expended 5000 in prospecting, shows a twelve foot vein, and three smaller veins from four to five feet wide. This ore assays S20O per ton. An old work near by has a twenty foot ledge that gives an average assay of $40 per ton. This property IS eighteen miles from the Sonora Railroad.
 Twenty miles from the railroad he has contact vein thirty feet wide, the ore from a shaft IS feet down assayinC S9 gold, S6 silver and S6 copper. There IS plenty of wood and water at the mine.
 His antlmony mines embrace large deposit and many thousand tons of ore are now in sight. Mir Parker has speci- 1 mems from this mine of all grades up to the pure metal, with him in Tucson. l Besides this valuable property he has several other antimony mines of less value, some of which carry considerable l silver. He has also plumbago mines | that contain a very fine article and in l great quantities.
 Besides these properties, Mir. Parker 1 and hls associates own several very large | mines on which but little work has been | done. One of them, gold mine, covers l an area of more than 12,S70,000 square | feet, and thorough prospect gives an average assay of S10 per ton. This is | said by experts to be the largest gold | property in Mexico, and has been exam | ined by mining expert of thirty years experience.
 All the above property is partly own ed by Mir. Parker, there being but two other parties interested with him, one of | whom is Don Jose Ortiz, a banker of | HermOsillo. MT. Parker is fully author ized to sell any or all of the mines, and will remain in Tucson several weeks for that purpose. He is a reliable gentle man, and in all his dealings in mining and the formation of com panies he has shown himself a truthful | and honorable man.