Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-09-13
HermosillO Letter.
HERMosILLo, Sonora, Mexico, !
 September. 3rd. 1884.

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 EDITOR CITIZEN: Having been closely engaged with my mines, and the httle practice have here. and having been called to the pueblo of San Miguel to see some bad chronic cases, l have neglected writing to you, and giving you the news of importance ID this city and vicinity.
 The fever scare Is over, there being only one house in the entire city that IS believed to be infected, the house where the late priest and bishop died. The governor did all that one can do, to have them change places, but no, they would remain there until the last one is dead. five priests and the bishop. He offered them money to go away with, and begged them for theIr own good, to 70. but they would not. After the bishop died, be offered to have built with his own money Q Dice vault, or place in the cemetery to please the bishops friends, but they insisted on burying him in the church which they did, the governor having taken up and re5uried in the cemetery the same night. All this caused much excite ment and talk among the common class, or the more ignorant, but all right, good minded people, seem to be on the side of Governor Torres. There IS absolutely no sickness here at present, a very few cases Of teething among | children. or course in 6 city as large as HermosIllO, there Is always more or less | Eicknt ss but there Is at present no | sickness of any kind. True, business IS very dull, there being so little travel on | the lines of railroad, but notice at the depots there seems to be more than the usual amount of freight beng handled. | This applies to the whole line, as l was up us far as Nogales only yesterday. These reports have all been greatly exaggerated about the fever ard deaths, etc, all of which has had a deleteriOus tendency to business of every kind. If We had different class of foreigners | here, with more push and go ahead, Ill | their natures, and less whining when circumstances clash, this country would be much better of, but We must wait, all things will work out right in due time Tn a c Cl.ry with all the natural facilities of Sonora.
 Parties are going into developing one of the finest prospects of a gold mine, with me, I have ever seen; 1t Is situated | just above the Bacuachi placer diggings, up the Sonora river, five miles from the said river, but there is another stream | supplying an abundance of water within one mile of the prospect, which IS five foot vein of decOmpOsed quartz between two well defined porphyry wsll-, honey combed-Of a gre' nish cast. The ore averages across the vein SJ2 to S6OO per | ton; now We will see how 1t holds out, or goes down, and I shall write you the | truth from time to time, as to these matters, and if we strike 1t very rich, send you fine sample of the ore. | l have just received 800 sacks firm the Benson smelter this day, to which | place l shall begin to ship ore from the Virginia mine, eight miles north from | HermosillO. The vein Is 715 feet in width, averages s per cent. lead, S49 ger ton silver, SS.5O gold. It is easily worked, and excellent roads to the mine. J ought to make money by ship ping the ore, even though lower III grade than ever, can have it mined. aud hauled in tO Hermosillo to the cars, for S4 per ton. The import duty per cent on its assay value, Is something and then the freight; bat still 1t will leave me a margin worth working for.
 We have been having fine rains of late, which has brought out the grass and all other vegetation; the country looks green and beautiful, and the air seems cooler and purer.
 Since the fever reports and so many Leaving ths country for San Francisco, Cal, and other parts, 1t Is wonderful what a difference there is in rents; buildings that rented for $l00 per month, three months ago, are now be- ing offered for $40 per month.
 The best place to stop at in the city, IS the Railroad House, at the depot The only house now opened to guests, down in the city, is the Gamboston, a finely furnished well kept hotel-but down in the supposed infected portion of the city. As 1 said long ago, this fever IS not contagious, but it is infecti- ous. One cannot take it from patient. only by taking into his system the malaria or poison, through the medium of the lungs. Every irrigated district is liable to the fever.
 PAUL GREGORY, M. D.