The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-04-30
RETURNED WITH COARSE GOLD
Found Nuggents in the Virgin
Metal.
Famous Yaqui Country Penetrated
BY Two Gentlemen of FL PasO.


| April IS, says:
News has just reached this city of re-
markahle gold discovery in the .sYaqui
Country in Mexico, which, If true, and
there is every to believe it is, bids
fair to rival klondyke in richness.
One feature that will be in favor of the
new Eldorado is tn" fact that the climate is
not severe, is in fact temperate, and COM
Paratvely within easy distance of reaching.
The two gentlemen referred to above are
Nlessrs. IT. Borden and l.. II. Gasser, of
Ell Paso. Mr.. Borden, speaking of the affair
says the Ell PAsO TIMES, relates the follow
ing:
started on my prospecting trip last Octo-
Der and put in most of my time prospecting
on the Amos river, or more particularly on
four of the tributary gulches leading into the
Amos, and found gold in all of them.
However, they all dry gulches, except
for few months in the year, and conse-
quently cannot be worked successfully by the
ordinary prospector, outfitted with only his
gold pan.
81 went over to GuaynoEa and found some
workings there that yet show very rich ore,
and ruins of ancient buildings; but some
Mormons showed up with papers containing
course, respected.
''While at Guaynopa 1 found Gve-foot
ledge of copper ore that will average high;
but found it Il forty-mle square
mineral zone that was recently taken out at
tbs mineral office, left it without doing
any work on it. However, the zone has ex-
pred and under the law it cannot be
renewed and I will locate it while on my
way south next month.
''Mr. Gasscr joined me at Guerrero last
January. We got good outfits and returned
to the hcadwa:er of the Yaqu.
Sin of the gulches tributary to the
Eaqui found this coarse gold that we
have. We walked about five hours a day
for three days in getting this out. OF
course, this is not all we took out. One
nugget was valued at $500 and two others
valued at $500 each. This guich is about
two miles long and creek runs from, the
top, where there several springs, to the
tributary of the Yaqui river below. The
tributary is called the Tu,wacque river.
We found quartz sticking to the gold and
the gold itself shows that it has not been
in the creek very long, because it is not
much worn and rounded, which was an
evidence TO us that the ledge was very close
by, further up the gulch.
eve spent more than week looking for
the ledge and found three of them, which
showed them rich the pan. We quickly
set out for Guerrero to denounce the ground,
and after carefully explaining its situation
to the mineral agent there, he info, med us
that it covered by a zone and that two
claims had been located on the lodges we
had prospcctcd. However,, the claims are
..s,l
Nous to get.
eve have come up here to spend four or !
five weeks before the zone will have expired
and the ground De open to others. We will
return about May 10th. The formation
there is slate and porphyry lodges.
'.Ihis place is located about ninety miles !
south of Chuichupa by the present trail.
But understand the Yaqui Gold mining
Co. is now blazing a new trail through from |
Chuichupa to Husopa, where main trail
can be taken to most any point. The route
via Chuchupa is the shortest by at least
fifty miles, aud in addition has much the
advantage of any other trail, because there
is plenty of water, wood, game, etc., along
that route.
s.The finest mineral belt l have been in
is northwest and south of Chuichupa. I
have prospected in great many districts, but
1 have anything to equal the
Sierra N1adres. 1t is mineral country all
the way through, and have no doubt that
in few months it will be the stamping
ground of thousands of prospectors- The
next thing in order will be the development
Of the big finds being made there.
This requires some money and of cou,se it
will naturally be forthcoming.''
IT, ~,
tains has bronzed him considerably. His
hair falls to his shoulders and a long beard
covers his chin. He is a six footer and
picture of health.
PUBLIC OPINION.