The border vidette., 1899-10-21
IN MINING FIELDS.
Progress of D syeIo2 pm ent n Arizona
and Sonora.

daleua district. Sonora, that the out
side mining world has us yet heard COM
paratively little of. 1t is SO close to
Nogales, too, as to be tributary to this
town, and already quantities of sup
plies have been purchased here. The
work of denouncing claims in this sec
tion has been going on quietly during
the past three or four months, but it
is only recently that the value of the
mineral deposits has been given pu-
blicity in the measure that it deserves.
The center of the new country is in
and near the Pinto mountains, twelve
miles east of Gasita, IL station on the
Sonora railway tweuty-seven niles
south of Nogales. In Cocospera canon
waterway draining the mountains.
the gravel is heavily impregnated with
gold and the hills as far as they have
been prospected are heavily scanned
with rich gold quartz.
Ely Il Co, of San Francisco, have
taken mp several claims. Mc Ely was
the locator OF the old Ely 6 Raymond
mine of Nevada.
Tue valuable property of DR.. w. f
Chenoweth and Jesse Grant is in the
same belt; as is also La Culera, which
DR.. Cowan OF Tucson recently sold to
Messrs, Chase, HargrOve and Caro-
theirs. Another claim, Oro Bonito No.
l, owned by Hays, Brooke Il Roster
lrzky, has been bonded to Denver peo-
pie. G. W. Hays, for his company
l,s l-nr
tim Der property extending from Cocos-
pera cailon up into the Pinto noun
tains, twelve miles northwest OF the
ORC Bonito No. l.
This prnperty is extensively work ed.
1t is not for sale, but in letter written
recently by Mr.. Hays to his partners in
Denver, and which THE VIDETTE is
permitted to reproduce, ono IL get
fair idea Of the value of the new coun-
try. Mr.. Hays says plenty .ef ground
still remains subject to encouragement:
LOCATIoN.-These mines are located
in the Magdalena Mining District, about
thirtyfive miles from Noyales, Ari-
Zona, and about twelve miles from the
Sonora railway, and amid mountains !
covered with a heavy growth of large !
pine timber. AT present the nearest !
railroad station is Casita, about twelve |
miles from the Independence and Orc !
BonitU mines, or Hays Brooke camp. |
CCESSIBILITY.-A fine mountain |
wagon rocd is being constructed, and |
IS now completed to within two miles |
r lr
days it will be finished to point on
the line of the railway, aboat two miles /
south OF Casita station, where tho rail
road company has agreed to lay spe-
cial switch. The total cost of con-
5tructing this wagon road, from the ,
mines to the railroad, will be about
IS, 600, all expended by the present
owners of the mines and timber loca-
lions
FREIGHT.-To and from the mines
over this road will cost about five
Mexican dollars per ton of 2,OJ0 lbs,
Or, roughly speaking, 81 50 American
money.
WATER. There is plenty of water
for all mining and milling purposes.
FoRMATIoN.-The general formation /
Of the country is porphyry. The large |
mountain range dips to !
the northeast, as does the sister range |
of the Cananeas. This indicates that /
the valley is an immense fissure, or /
cooling crack" Being myself q min !
ing man, and having mlde diffsrent .
explorations of the Cripple Creek dis
trict, in Colorado, firmly believe that !
this district, rich in gold bearing !
quartz, is similar to the famous district !
above named, or, plainly Speaking, |
"a cooling crack from the volcanic !
eruptions of tho Cananeas, in the same .
way that the Cripple Creek mining
district is from Pixies Pe4k,-a it is /
generally known that the lower. por- /
tions of those famous mining districts !
contain the m ineral values.
Placers. quartz veins are lato I
discoveries, and are not ''old Aztec T
workings" They are the source ofthe /
ancient placer known as -'the Caspriee /
placer" whore the old mission still /.
stands with walls erect. but with the
fool ldlen III IRON long exposure TO ;
winds and storms. There were several
of the ,spaniards by the
Indians ;mdny years sines The !
Spaniards worked the large valleys,
s'placering "all the way TO the hsavy
timber near to the mines known as the
and the Ofo Bonito.
They stopped at the timber, where
they were always in danger of being
by tho indians. This placer
s still worked every year by ths4.
Of tiYaa nth good Hasrltz 9.