The oasis., 1896-04-18

and an old boiler and engine, buying and working second grade ore from ya- riOus mines in the vicinity, have In the last two months turned out over Sl4,000. They are highly elated with the success of their venture.
 Suaqui de Batuc, in the Ures dis trict, is one Of the coming mineral re- gions All the lodges are wide, with great bodies of ore, from which only the small pay streaks are extracted and shipped A little two stamp cus- tom mill is paying handsomely, and a lO0-stamp mill would find all the GUS tom work itcould do at handsome mar gins.
 In the planting season recently closed Messrs. Calderon & Rueda of IIermosillo, have planted 1000 young olive trees in their orchard at Santa Ana, making 6.000 olive trees now growing on the plantation. Of the 1000 planted in 1895 all are thriving and enjoying a vigorous growth, save tive-a remarkably small percentage of loss.
 Senor Aguiar, prefect of the district Of Ufes, has at Suaqui de Batuc a large mineral zone, comprising some twenty very valuable claims. upon which he is doing great deal of de- velopment work. The high grade ore Is shipped, and pays very handsomely. A reduction plant to treat the second grade ores is necessity which it is hoped will be supplied shortly.
 Last week, with the party of distin- gulshed officials who came from the City of Mexico, there arrived Admiral A. Ortiz Monasterio, chief Of the Mex ican navy, who hOisted his pennant on the Iaragoza, to accompany that vessel in her voyage around the world. In 1873 Admiral Monasterio was sail ing master of the Spanish gunboat Tornado when she captured the Amer ican fillibusterer Nirginius in Cuban waters.
 Itis authoritatively stated that cer- tain Spanish capitalists in Mazatlan, who have been investigating the out put of the Minas Prietas mines in be- half of home correspondents who have investments on the Transvaal and are now seeking investments in Sonora, after careful inquiry, reported that the mines at Prletas, during the year 1895, yielded s2,600 in gold per month fer every stamp dropping, against a yield of Sl 300 per stamp per month by the two best mines at Johannesburg.
 At Hermosillo, Wednesday,, there was held conference between repre- sentative merchants of Sonora, and the state officials to arrange the de- tails for leyying taxes in the place of state and municipal import duties, which will be abrOgated on July lst. It was agreed that tax of two per cent on gross sales should be assessed and collected, the returns to the fed eral government for stamp tax to govern the assessment. Of the taxes collected sixty per cent are tO go to the state and forty to the munich pality.
 Messrs. Oscar ]. Smith. the Quay mas ore buyer, and H. A. Cnlloden, auditor for the Sonora railway, have recently denounced tifty-two perte- nencias of mining ground at Minas Prietas, immediately west of the Grand Central property, and ia close proximity thereto. If the ore bodies in the Grand Central extend through into the their ground the two gentle men will have mine and as a specu- latiye proposition they have a big thing anyway. It is strange so advan- tageously located a property should have lain unoccupied so long.
 At Hermoslllo "El Globo,n the largest clothing factory in Mexico Luis Possehl y Cia., Sucessores is in receipt of large line of fine and ele- gant French cassimeres, and other imported cloths for gentlemen's suits, pantaloons, coats, vests, etc., which they will make up to order in the latest styles. Every month they re- ceive from Paris, direct. the latest fashion plates, and in their work they give the prevailing mode in the metro
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