Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-06-28

man-American, Mr. Roundtree, of San
Francisco, and Arturo Cubillas, of Her.
mosillo. The different mines have
yielded thus far about one million and a
half, of which the ''Noche Buena" alone
paid over one million dollars. This
mine is now filed with water. A new
shaft is in course of construction which
will reopen the mine at depth of four
hundred feet The company also own a
part of the coalield, the Tarumari camp,
with mill, etc., where the Noche Buena
is situated, group of mines in the vi
entity of La Dura, a copper mine at Po-
trero, the abandoned Tres Hermanos
and Libertad mines, ETC.; besides, Graf
is the possessor of hand ice-machine-
a handy iee-machine-and offers friends
refreshing drinks ad libitum, in land
where large and small parrots live in
liberty and the noon sun, right over
head, makes one conscious of the tropi-
cal cline. He has a nice little garden
in front of his verandah, built out, ele-
waited, into the street, thus exposing ii
to the zephyrs of the evening, unob-
structed by the neighborhood. There,
under the foliage of orange trees, old
time "reminiscences and late topics are
discussed, accompanied by Bremen lager
frapee.
The mines hereabout are mostly ar
gentiferous and more or less rebellious.
Therefore the ore is worked in different
ways, especially by the Lixiviation pro-
cess. Drcyes of the small, serubby, but
sturdy Mexican mules can constantly be
seen climbing the mountain trails,
as crooked and almost as steep
as the trees that sparsely cover
the hills among thickets of thorny
bushes, packed with ore in tanned
leather sacks, with which the mill is
supplied from the different mines of the
neighborhood. Poor beasts | Stunned
the sight of them to avoid seeing tneir
ill treatment By brutal Mexicans the
patches of missing skin and protruding
raw bones.
Next to the common, lazy, loafing
Mexican, degenerated by mixed blood,
stands, in the scale of the land, the
Yaqui Indians but who is far his supe
rior in usefulness, endurance and sobri-
ETY. rs workman in mines and all
branches of physical labor. He is the
peon, the laborer of Sonora and Mexi-
can, however low by birth, and I'M
touched by the slightest ray of educa-
ton and Advancement, will always have
conceit enough to hold himself superior
to the thrifty Yaqui. The Indians,
quiet and peaceable in their ways, are
found as laborers all over Sonora and
part of tho adjoining States. Their
home is now reduced to the but partly
known bottom lands of the Yaqui river.
They begin at the mouth and extend
about forty miles in straight line up
the meandering river, where its annual
overflow irrigates the most fertile land
of Western Mexico. There they live,
about five thousand strong, republic in
a republic, and heed nobody's but their
chiefs command. They raise patches
of corn, sugar cane, melons in abund-
ance, and nature grows unassisted a
great variety of berries and cacti with
palatable fruits, among which latter is
the favored playa. Of their surplus
they supply Guaymas, and are also the
sole suppliers of the delicious oyster
which grows in great abundance, and is
handy to gather, at the mouth of the
river. Just now is the time when the
absent Yaqui returns to his home to eel
citrate among his people the great fiesta
of San Juan-for all are Catholics eat
melons and pitayas to excess, and, l
dare say, drink not little Mescal. The
construction of the railroad, which re-
lies mainly on Yaqui labor, as also the
farming interest, suffers by this sturdy
habit of the Yaqui, who would rather
lose the money due him by his employ
ers than to miss the annual reunion in
his home. SONORA.
Barranca, June 10, 1882.