Arizona republican., 1897-09-29
THE METAL MARKET.
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THE YAQUl STklkE
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 ployed at Pearce camp in Arizona. They had prospected placers on their tourney across the country but with poor success.
 Gen. Fox and myself left our party at Sahuaripa and started back over the winding trail to La Colorado, a distance of 200 miles. We had good horses and the trip was made in three days and eight hours. The other members of the Fox party journeyed on to Mulatos to inspect the placers and lodges there.
 The most important strikes in So- nora are the great bodies of copper found north of Soyopa. The great copper belt which as given Arizona so many rich producers of copper seems to have bobbed up here. The belt extends for a long distance in Sonora and it has never been pros pected to any extent. In fact barely any prospecting for copper has ever been done by white men in this state. The Indians and Mexicans never look for copper. It is silver they want. The big placer strikes are still wrapped in mystery as far as the ground which yielded the gold is con- .cerned. It is is impossible to find out anything definite in regard to them It is not strange that men who are fortunate enough to find rich ground should guard it from encroa chment The Yaqui country covers a vast ex- panse of territory. I do not pretend to have seem more than a very small part of it. I saw enough, however, to give me some appreciation of it's magnitude. What I have seen of it was not favorable for profitable placer mining by inexperienced persons. But in county with al most every canyon lrai1ed by the Yaqui carrying some gold it cannot be questioned that it has been con- centrated in pockets in many places Those fortunate enough to find pock- cts take out the gold and get out of the country without talking any more than is necessary. The export duty on gol6 of something over 10 per cent may serve to solve Ii1e mystery which involves these strikes
 
 J. P. Furling is the only man who actually saw the gold from the big strike of $142,000 He lives at La Colorado and owns the only news stand in the camp. Every one had heard of it. But Mr. Furling saw it in the sacks and examined it. The party came from Riverside Cal. They took out this amount In ninety-six days. MT. Furling endeavored to find out where it was found but the prospectors refused to reveal their secret. "All they would say.'' said Mir. Furling, ''is that they went about 15O miles southeast of La Colorado. Their guide was sent out on the first train, and he would talk to no one while he was in the camp. I never saw such a dumb lot of men. They left here and went to Guaymas and that is the last I heard of them. About the same time man who gave me his name as Francisco Lemadros from Riverside, Cal, was here with a sack Of gold contai ming between eight and ten thousand dollars. He told me he was going to Hermosello to secure
  where in the Yaqui country.
 Saturday at the La Colorado I met Marshall P. Wright Of Hemosello and Leo G. Cloud of Cincinnati, O., who came in from Torres with Capt. James Brent en route to Soyopa where Capt Brent owns rich silver mine. MT. Wright has spent several months Tn the upper Yaqui country in the vii cinity of the Rio Arros. In reply tn my inquiries in reference to the re- ported strike he said he did not doubt the accuracy of the report, and he believes the strike was made in the northern part of Sonora on the Bata. peto river, a tributary of the Yaqui He considers that portion of the Va qui country the most valuable fol placer mining. This section include: the Rio ALTOS district, the regio1 which has given the world so many tales of fabulous wealth taken iron its waters. It was here that Fischeg found his shining nuggets. Whethe, he really found them or whether H 5. Canfield's fertile imagination dreamed the story he published in tn, Chicago Times-Herald, you will hay, to decide for yourself But MT "ilShI HdS coHIueHce Tn the ArrO country. He believes it will startl, the world with it's riches some day It Is hard country to get into Al that country hear the backbone of tn, Slerre Madre mountains has deel canyons through which the stream which feed the Yaqui river find thei way to the big river.
 T believe the gold of Montezuma' day came from the upper Yaqui. I would astonish you if the figure could be set down to represent tn gold taken from the Yaqui placers The world will never know it. Tn, high export duty on gold exacted b, the Mexican government acts as premium upon smuggling. It is esti mated that $S,000, ,000 has goAe int the United States free of duty. Tn,