The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-04-30
Returned with Coarse Cold
q NUGGETS IN THE
VIRGIN METAL.
Famous Yaqui Country Penetrated BY
Two Gentlemen OF e Paso.

News has just reached this city Of o
remarkable gold discovery in the
"Yaqui Country in Mexico, which, if
true, and there is every reason TO be-
liese it is, BIDS far to rival klondike
il richness.
One feature that will be in favor Of
the new I'll Dorado is the fact that the
climate is no severe, is in fact temper
ate. and comparatively within easy
distance of reaching.
The two gentlemen referred toabove
are Messrs. j.. T. Borden and i. II.
Gasser, of FL Paso. Nj. Borden.speak-
ing of the affair,say the FL Paso Times
relates the following:
II started on my prospecting trip
last October and put in most Of my
time prospecting on tie Arcs river. or
more particularly Oh four Of the trlbn-
tary gulches leading into the Aros, and
found gold in all Of them. However
they are all dry gulches, except for q
few months in the year, and coiise-.
quehtly cannot be worked successfully
by the ordinary prospector, QUILTED
with only his gold pan.
II went over to Guaynopa and found
some old workings there that vet show
very rich ore, and ruins of ancient
buildings; but some AIormens showed
up with papers containing evidence Of
thvir ownership, which I, Of course, re-
spected.
"Whiie At Guaynopa / found a five
foot ledge 81 copper ore that will aver
age high; but / found it was on a forty
mile square mineral zone that was re-
Gently taken out at the mineral office,
so left it without doing any work On it.
However, the zone has expired and
under the new law it cannot be renew
ed and | will locate it while on my way
south next month.
"Mr. Gasser joined me at Guerrero
last January. We got good outfits and
returned to the headwaters Of the
Yaqui.
s.In one Of the gulches tributary to
the Yaqui we 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 aud TWO Others valued at $500
each. This gulch is about two miles
long and a creek runs from the top,
where there are several springs, to tie
tributary Of the Yaqui river below.
The tributary is called the Tutwacque
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 round
ed, which was an evidence to US that
the ledge was very close by, further up
the guleh.
.sWe spent more than a week looking
for the ledge and found three Of them
which shove them rich in the pan.
we quickly set out for Guerrero to de-
nounce the ground, aud after carefully
explaining its situation to the mineral
agent there, he informed US that it WAS
covered by a zone and that W. claims
had been located on the lodges We had
prospseted. However, the claims are
not located on the ledge we were most
anxious to get
ave have come up here to spend
four or five weeks before the zone viii
haze expired and the ground be open
to others. We will retur about May
10th. The formation there is slate and
porphy ! hdges.
..Tl.is place Il located about ninety
miles south NJ huIehupa by the pres
emf trail. but / understand the Yaqui
Gold Mining Go. is b blazing a new
trail through from Ghuiehupa 10 Hui
sopa, where main trailcan be taken AZ