The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-23

News has just reached this city of a remark
able gold discovery in the 'Ialul Country III
Mexico, which, II true, ana there Is every ic't-
son to believe it IS, bids fair to rival klohdike
in richness.
One feature that will be In favor of the new
Ell Dorado is the fact that the climate is not Sc
we're, is in fact temperate, and comparatively
within easy distance of reaching.
The two gentlemen referred to above are
Messrs. j. T. Borden and l.. II. Gasser, OF Ell
Pas0. MIR. Borden, speaking OF the affair, says
the Eel PasO Times relates the
II started on my prospecting trip last Octo-
| her and put in most of my time prospecting on
the Aros river, or more particularly IN tonr or
| the tributary gulches leading into the Arcs,
and found gold in all of them. However, they
are all dry gulches, except for a few months IN
| the year, and consequently cannot be worked
successfully by the ordinary prOspector, out
fitted with only his gold pan.
~ went over to Guaynopa and found some
| old workings there that yet show very rich ore,
and ruins of ancient buildings but some Nor
mons showed up with papers containing evil
dence of their ownership, which |, or course
.While at Guaynopa 1 found a %tive-foot ledge
Of copper ore that will average hlSh; but |
found it was on Il fOrty-nile square mineral
zone that was recently taken out at the mlne-
raj office, so left it without doing any work on
it, However, the zone has expired, and under
the new law 1t cannot be renewed, and L VIII
locate it while on my way south next month.
MIR Gasser joined me at Guerrero last Jan
uary. We got outfits ana returned TO inc mead
waters Of the Yaqui.
::In one of the gulches tributary to the va
uni we found this coarse gold that we have.
We walked about five hours IL day for three
days in getting this out. or course, this is not
ali we took out. One nugget was valued at
SIS and two others valued at So each.
This gulch is about two miles long and a
creek runs from the top, where there are sevc-
raj springs, to the tributary OF the laqul river
below. The tributary is called the IutWac1ue
river. We found quartz sticking to the gold
and the gold itself shows that it has not been
in the creek very long, because 1t is not much
worn and rounded, which was an evidence to
us that the ledge was very close by, further up
the gulch.
1--WE spent more than q week looking for the
lodges and found three of them. which showed
them richln the pan. We quickly set out for
Guerrero to denOunce the ground, ana alter
carefully explaining its situation to the mine
raj agent there, he Informed us that 1t was Gov
cred by a zone, and that two claims had been
located on the lodges We had pr0spected.
However, the claims are not located on the
Iegde we we're most anxious to get.
ave have come up here to spend four or five
weeks before the zone will have expired and
the ground be open to others. We will return
about May 10th. The formation there Is
slate and porphyry lodges.
'.This place is located about ninety miles
south of Chuiohupa by the present trail, but l
understand the Yaqui Gold Mining Co.. is now
blazing a new trail through from Chuichupa to
Hulsopa, where main trail can be taken to
most any point. The route via Chuichupa is
the shortest by at least fly miles, and in .addi-
ton has much the advantage of any other
trail, because there is plenty of water, wood,
game, ETC., along that route.
1.-The finest mineral belt I have been in is
northwest and south Of Chuichupa. I have
prospected in a great many districts, but I
have never seen anything to equal tho Sierra
Madres. 1t is q mineral country all the way
through, and 1 have no doubt that i'll q few
months it will be the stamping ground of thou,
sands of prospectors. The next thing in order
will be the development of the big finds now
being made there. This requires some money,
and of course, 1T will naturally be forthcoming
Mr.. Borden's long s%ojourn on the mountains
has bronzed him considerably. His HAIR falls
to his shoulders and a long beard covers his