The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1898-04-30
RETI1RNED WITH GOLD.
Nuggets of the Virgin Metal
found bv two Texans.

Nuggets of the Virgin Metal
found by two Texans.
Ell Paso, Texas, April 1s.-(speciai' -
News has Just IT ached this city OF re.
gold discovery in the "Yaqui
Country in Mexico, which, II true anu
there is every reason to believe 1t 49, olu'
fair to rival Klondike in richness.
One feature that will be in favor OF the
new Ell Dorado is the fact that the climate
ia not severe, Is, in fact. temperate, ana
within easy distance OF
reaching.
The two gentlemen referred to above
are Meesrs. +. Borden and L. II. GsSsse.~
of Ell Paso. Mr. Borden. speH ing OF the
affair to a representative Of the Times
relates the following:
II started on my prospecting trip last
October and put in most Of nv time pros
pecting on the Aros river, or more par
ticuiarly on four of the tributary gulches
leading into the Aros. and found gold
in all of them. However. they are all
dry gulches except for few months in
the year. consequently can not be worked
successfully by the ordinary prospector,
QUILTED only with his gold pan.
Il went over to Guaynopa and found
scme old workings there that yet show
very ri:h ore, and ruins of ancient build
ings, but some Mormons showed mp with
papers containing evidence of their own
ership. which |, of course. respected.
while at Guaynopa found five
foot ledge of copper ore that will aver
age high, bur l found it was on forty
mile square mineral zone, that was re-
Gently taken out at the mineral Office
80 left it without doing any work on it.
However. the zone has expired and under
the new law it can not be renewed and
l will locate it while on my way south
next month
'Mr. Gasser joined me a. Guerrero
last January. We got good outfits and re-
turned to the headwaters of the Yaqui.
I'm one of the gulches tributary TO the
Ysqui we found this coarse gold that we
have. We worked about five houre day
for three days in getting this out; of
course, this is not all We took out. One
nugget was valued at S7S, and two others
valued at SIS each. This gulch is about
two miles long and creek runs from
the top, where there are several springs.
to the tributary o: 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 rounded, which
was an evidence to us that the ledge
very close by further up the gulch.
I'VE spent more than week looking
for the ledge and found three of them
which showed them rich IN the PAN We
quickly set out for Guerrero to denounce
the ground, and after carefully explain
ing its situation TO the mineial agent
there, he infoIme.! Us that it was cover
ed by zone an1 that two claims had
been located on the ledges we had pros.
pected. However, the claims are not
located on the ledge we were most an
xious to get.
We have come up here to spend four
or five weeks before the zone will have
expired and the ground be openAo others.
We will return about May 10. The
formation there IL slate aud Pscxksgy
hedges. -
This place is located about ninely
miles south of Chuichupa By the prss-
ent trial, but understand the Yaqui
Gold Mining company is now blazing :
new trial through from Chuichups 10
Hulsopa, where main trail can be taken
to mos sny point Their via Chui.
chupa is the shortest BY At least aftv
lines, and in addition has much The Adj
vantage of any other trail. because there
is plenty of water. wood. game, etc, along
that ronle.
THE finest mineral belt I have been
in is northwest aad south Of Chuichn.
pa. | have prospecied in great manv
districts. but l Asys never seen anythinr
to equal the Stem Madras. /, is . mint
sral country a. he way through and
lave no doubt tkat in few month. !.
will be the sislDg ground Of thousand
0, ;I' prCspecs 90 .,ss Ihe next thing in ordess
n viii Ge tue aes:lspment Of the biz and
;, n",~e nUm U.n"s mon ~ there. This require