Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-12-02
LOST MINES AND MINES
I HAT HAVE NEVER BEEN
FOUND.

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A year or two ago were discos
cred the lost placer mines of Lo
Llanos an La Cienega, in Norther
Sonora 1t is estimated that thes
plscers still contain not less thai
$l00,OO0,O00, These mines ar
said to have been originally dis
covered and owned by all old Cas-
lillian named Don Teodore Sals-
Ear, who worked them with al
army OF poems and Yaquis. Nea
the placers were gold. bearin,
quartz veins known as La Minf
de Salazar and La Nina Teodoro
tho ricn decomposed groupings OF
which were worked. A priest
who confessed the old Spanlarc
Salazar about two years before ht
died, and received for his services
gift OF sufficient gold to reno
vate and redecorate his church,
stated in the center of a large
building, Don Teodoro showed
him, IN dark room, ten or
twelve immense chests filled with
gold both in sacks and loose.
There were nuggets and coarse
gold from the size of goose eggs,
down to those like beans. There
were in sight several millions in
gold. After showing the priest
his immense hoard, Don Teodor o
made him promise to say nothing
about his great wealth while he
was still alive. When two years
later, he died, not all ounce of
gold was to be found about any
of his buildings. 1t is supposed
that he cunningly secreted it and
search for 1t has been made in
every cave and nook for miles
around Cienega. Even to this
day the search continu es having
taken a fresh start notwithstand
ing that the ghost OF the old Don
is said to nightly patrol the
grounds in the vicinity of the
ruins of the old buildings. In
1889, party of prospecters re-
ported finding in Sonora, in the
main range of mountains south
west of Hermosillo, the ruins of
a city supposed to have at one
time contained $4,000 inhabitants.
The city had once been inclosed
by avail and among other things
found were six pieces OF cannon.
How the mines, towns and even
cities in Mexico were lost Is very
well-known. As the Indians
hated mining and hated the Span
sh masters who drove them to
heir toll, they alwsys-when
hey got the upper hand in any
a clean sweep of all
whites, burned all buildings that
Gould be destroyed by fire and
hen concesling the entrances to
mines betook themselves to the
astnesses OF the mountains. In
$3.50 there was grand revolt
yhen theIndians succeeded in driv-
ng the Spanlards out of most of
he mining regions of Mexico.
This done they destroyed all mi
ling buildings and villages, Gov
red the entrances to mines with
caps of rocks and rubbish and
hen took to the mountains to
ally forth on the warpath when
yer an attempt was made on the
art of the Spanlards to regain
foothold in the mining sections.
n Peru the Indians also filed
o and concealed all oonceaIable
hen they found that their Span
III conquerors intended working
hem as slaves and treating them
,orss than had formally been
one by the lncas, who merely re
uired them to do a certain
mount of work in the mines with
ut pay. To this day many mines
D hiden doubtless remain I'M
nown. The natives want nothing
! do with mines, as they have
ever brought but toll and trouble.
'bey several times arose against
heir Spanish enslavers and 80
ffectuslly in 1914 that they we'll il