The oasis., 1898-08-27

competent and honest mining en- glneers as the value Of the stock in d store can be taken by au honest in- yentory. Suspicious are also fre- quenrly attached to the honesty of assayers. How in the name of com. mon sense can an assayer help it, if a mining vendor uses any of the assay certi ficates for which the assayer has beeh paid to represent as ore from a mine in Arizona or Mexico or Mon taua: He only gets sample and a number to represent that sample, with perhaps statement that the sample came from such or such mine; but the assayer cannot possibly know II the man is telling the truth or not, and generally don't care, as long as he gets his money for his ht nest work
 There the guiIable purchaser is again to blame.
 Editorially the El Paso Times says:
 The news published yesterday taken from the Globe Democrat and other sources regarding the action to be taken by the Messrs. Sieberling and others of Illinois against the Messrs. BOrnio, Stanton and others of this city for the selling to the former par ties, by the latter, an alleged ''salted' mine, known as the Las Planchas" group, in Sonora, is regarded by min ing men as case where a few tender feet started into business wherein they expected to get independently rich in a few weeks, but didn't know how to run the thing after they took charge. As matter of fact the Las Planchas" has been looked upon by mining men as very valuable piece of mining property and estimated casually to be worth anywhere from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars. 1t has been a constant and profitable producer for some years. The proper ty is estimated to consist of nearly a a thousand acres of land, with three mines and twelve to fifteen buildings cn it. There is also mill on it that cost S20, 900 or more, and there was generally six or seven thousand dol lars worth of quicksilver on hand in addition to a large quantity of wood and paraphernalia in the way of tools, engine, boiler, holster, etc.
 If the Messrs. Sieberling and their friends bought the property while 1t was m it's usual state Of maintenance they certainly have considerable for their money, the purchasing price be- ing said to have beeU S60, 900. of which Sl0.0O0 was cash. It is hard to be- lieve that the recent purchasers of the Las Planchas group know what they bought or what to do with it af- ter they got it.
 From all THE OASIS can learn the foregoing has pretty clearly stated the actual facts of the case. Those at Nogales who have looked into the matter assert that the Illinois parties have tried to "draw to shoestring and get mine;' that they found they had "bit of more than they could chew" It is very clearly stated that the entire property was put into the hands Of Messrs. Sieberling and his as- sociates and that they worked the mine and the mill an entire month, producing two bars of silver bullion weighing in the aggregate several thousand ounces All that time they were in no way interfered with by MT. Hardy, who was elsewhere. Upon the results shown by that months work they decided to purchase the mine, and the deal was m ade as out lined herein.
 When they paid the SlO,OOO. cash, they showed their hand as a very weak financial outfit. In payment they turned over a lot of small checks from various individuals in Illinois. Business men accustomed to handling large propositions would have present. ed single draft on New York or Chicago for the entire amount. Then in numerous other ways they exhibit- ed financial weakness-trying to bor- rnu monpV from several in Nopales