The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01
MILLIONS In A MINE.
Edwards, Montgomery and Plat
tenburg Seem to Have
Struck il Rich.
Former Sedalians Who Are on
the High Road To Fortunes
Without End.


wards, ben. Bacon Montgomery and Major
Harvey W. Plauenburg, all former Sc
daliaus, are largely interested, but recently
nothing has been learned as 10 their pros
poets, which At first were pronounced fiat
tering. Capt. Abe Furst, a wholesale liquor
dealer of 81 Joseph and ~. Louis, who has
furnished the capital for the development
of the mines, has Just returned from a trip
to the front, and the following account of
his journey and observations, taken from
the st. Joseph Gazette of Wednesday, will
be read with interest by the people of Sc
dalia and Petit county, nearly all of whom
are acquainted with Edwards, Montgomery
and Plattenburg:
THE ROUTE HE TOOK.
II went from Kansas City to FL Psso on
the A, I. Il y, f." said Mr.. Furst
"At FL Paso took the Sumet
route To Maria, a little town some
40 miles distant. This is our shipping
and outftting point. had written Gen.
Montgomery and Capt. Plattenburg to
meet me there and they did. The moon
VS. at Its full, and we turned night into
day. ] bought a strong, compact buck
BOARD, and two excellent horses, and we
v IlOCh III tue
MOI tgomery's camp, where he Is working
a large force in its rapid development. Ii
was some fifty miles from Maria, and we
made the trip in about eight hours.
drove and Montgomery piloted. About
six miles OF the road was terrible-huge
rocks, declivities that are almost perpen-
dicular, sometimes only a trail, and now
and then only direction. ! turned over
once, but nobody was hurt, and the horses
stopped of themselves
How did you find Montgomery and
Plattenburg%
Hearty as two bufalOs, and as black as
any two Indians you ever saw. They live,
eat and sleep out OF doors They have
been hard at work where they are year
this month, and while they have had ex-
cellent tents, and house at Plattenburg's
camp, they have rarely occupied either"
WORTH MILLION.
"Well, captain, your friends would be
glad 70 see published the results OF your
per onsl examination. What do your
mines Indicate"
"A million; but il really say mil
lion nobody VII believe me. / found,
however, everything just as Montgomery
and PlattenDurg had reported-even better
IN fact. They are running three
mines, and At each an immense body of
ore Is pilei on the dump. Experts various
ly estimate the amount in sight at each
dump. | rely altogether upon the judg-
ment and experience of my two partners
down there, and they say that $4,000 is u
a small estimate"
"What SORT of nra have vnr -;
sore that can readily be reduced for
from - TO So per ton. 1t contains about
20 per cent. of lead Ia the ton, an ounce of
gold, and fair average of from $50 to POO
ounces of silver. Some of il goes higher,
but the figures given above are fair aver
age OF some twenty or thirty exhaustive
BUILDING THE MACHINERY.
"When will you have your machinery
at work"
"Just as soon as il can lie built. The
first machinery we looked at and agreed
upon would not answer the purpose. We
found that especial machinery would have
to be constructed, and i'm order that this
may be done ton of ore is TO be shipped
and with this ore | shall go
TO the foundry and have such machinery
made as is demanded by the actual rock
itself. There Is no other sensible or prac-
teal way"
81 hear, also, that You are interested in
some wonderful claims in Old Mexico. Is
this true, captain"
"1es, in Chihuahua-some silver and
ne gold, where three men have taken out
a pound OF gold each for a month-three
MeAic ans. Captain Plattenburg left for
there the same day left Maria on my re-
turn home. He will report in two weeks
just what is necessary TO be done to develop
these, and have made ample arrangs-
ments for them to prosecute the work with
push and vigor."
SHIPPING BULLION.
us there not a mine close to the one that
Montgomery is working in full opera.
tion?"
"Yes, day and night. 1t is called the
California. Its owners have a ten-stamp
mill. liz cannot begin to do their work.
They propose TO put In one of thirty
stamps. They ship each day $500 of
bullion. They ship direct to San Fran
cisco."
"Where is the market after it gets
.here?"
Everywhere, except a home market.
English buyers of bullion are swarming all
over old Mexico. Three or four were
II Maria and dozen or two at Ell Paso.
The California compsny's bullion goes
iirect to China, India, Egypt and Eng
and"
Then you were pleased with everything
TOu saw about the mines and their richness
IND future prospects,"
PLEASED. That is hardly the word. You
AN give it as my honest and conscientious
opinion that in very short time our whole
amp will become one of the
MOST VALUABLE EVER DISCOVERED
n America. 1t is hardly known vet. The |
country lis sparsely settled. The Mexicans |
here have no money. They are mostly |
lay laborers, and the Texans there know
lothlng but grass and cattle. They will
carcely talk to you of mines"
wv hat did YOU get to eat down there9r