The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-15

customs house for expectation to for
elgn countries, and the state comes in
Tor two per cent of the gross product Of
the mine. When you consider that the
wages PAID miners there are only so
cents day In gold, as against $3.50 in
the United States, 1t Wal be seen that
the taxes imposed by the government
operations IN that Country. Mining
machinery Is allowed to enter Mexico
free Of duty, and the government off,
Gals are anxious to have Americans de-
velop their country. A great deal of
gold is smuggled out Of the country in
small quantities and shipped from Ari-
IONA. And this gold Is credited to Ari-
zona's product by the express COM
panies.
1.-The Mexicans understood the process
of smelling rebellious copper and silver
ores and small vasars or Mexican smell
tiers are often found near the old work.
ings Of mine They can even extract
sold from copper, and with the copper
make church bells and copper kettles
with the crudest kind of appliances
came across one mine In the Sierra
Madre mountains, which had a ledge
of eight feet of metallic copper ore
and twelve feet of quartz, which ran to
we'll defined hanging wall. The eight
feet Of native copper averaged 80 per
cent copper and the quartz carried
values in silver, gold and copper. This
mine was denounced or located by an
American during the Yaqui boom. From
q shaft eight feet wide, six feet long
and three feet in depth, Mexican
had taken ore enough to make a half
dozen large church bells and a number
of copper kettles. He smelted the ore
in an adobe vasar with charcoal made
from white oak and pine. The Mexicans
are good miners, but they will not work
a mine themselves unless 1t is very rich
and can be mined easily. If the values
run low in few feet of work they will
abandon the mine and it will become
generally known that it no vale NADIA.
slXsg pines .ese- Esgaraea Rs OF more
1.-The manner Of mining in Mexico by
the natives would amuse an American
miner. They begn the shaft where the
| values begin and never lose track Of
the pay streak until it pincheS out. The
shaft is sunk the dsp,h of the highest
tree in the neighborhood, when land
ing is made, the tree cut down with q
small portion of the stronger branches
left for the miners use in climbing out
of the shaft with a cowhide bucket Of
ore From the landing the shaft is con-
tinued eight or ten feet and SO on to
the lowest wo k ngs of the mine. Their
mines are seldom ventilated, but the
air never gets too bad for the bats
which swarm into the shaft at night
and take up permanent quarters.
THE Yaqui boom did not injure the
mining interests Of Sonora as a boom
usually does. A great many who came
expecting to find rich iplacers were
soon convinced that the reports sent
out were rot true, and they turned their
attention to quartz prospecting. No
better field can be found anywhere in
| that line for practical mining men, and
there is no better field for the opera
ticn of capitalists or men with a few
thousand dollars than in the state of
Sonora in Mexico. 1 spent one year In
prospecting and visiting the producing
mines of Arizona, and L spent an even
year in Sonora in the mountains there.
I found prospects that could be OBJ
tanned for the price, of : denouncing
them, which gave every promise of be-
! coming good producing hmdnes. One
thousand dollars in 7Anerican money
| judiciously expended will develop a
mine sufficient to reveal it's value, and
the cost of prospecting there is not as
much as it is in Arizona"