El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-03
J. T. Logan Talks
In Denver About the Sierra
Madre Mining District and
Its Future.

II a
Its Future. (
Relics of the cliff dwellers at the ca
pitol were very interesting to j. T.
Logan, general traffic manager of the
Sierra Madre railroad, who spent some
time looking over the specimens says
Denver, Colorado, paper. Mr.. Lo-
gan 3 railroad penetrates to that sec
ton of the Sierra Madre, where cliff
dwellers used to exist, and where
number of temples and other remark
able masks remain. His impression of
Colorado's ruins is that they are not as
imposing or extensive as those In Mex
leo.
Mr.. Logan is interested in mining
and is elated at the outlook for the
whole western mining section, espe-
cially since the close OF the Spanish
American war.
1.-THE unprospected part of the Sierra
Madre mountains in northern Mexico,
along the boundary line between the
states of chihuahua and Sonora" he
said, sis developing some wonderful
mining properties. And this has been
done by very few prospectOrs, who
have no more technical knowledge OF
mining than q shoemake in Bong
Kong.
"The fabuluously rich deposits OF
silver ore at Pilsres de Teras, on the
Sonora side, where A. J. King, j. II.
McKimm and Jesus Santa Cruz nave
been digging out high grade ores for
over year from the mines known as
Cinco de Mayo, Noche Triste, Roy, FL
Puento and San RAfaelitO, were dlscov-
cred by Mexican, whose occupation
t,11 irr 10 m
into that vile irewater called mescal.
This mans name was Julian Palafox,
and he had in his employ two men,
Manuel Sierra and Gerardo Rivera,
who would climb the mountain sides to
cut down the maguey plants. The
former, while at work, missed the root
of the plant he was chopping with an
ak cut into the rock. causing silver ore
to adhere to the roots of the maguey.
This was noticed by Palsfox, who, wish
Sierra. Investigated the character OF
the rock the next day. There they
located the first mine in the district. 1t
ia known as the Santana. Since that
date over 81, 0OO,O0O has been taken
from the same mountain. and the
| mines show ore for hard work for years
| to come.
"Most of the product goes to the 81
Peso smelters. Now, if a drug clerk
can discover Cripple Creek and mescal
makers can open a bonanza, there is no
telling what intelligent prospecting
would do in Mexico. Since our road
| has been in operation q few mex
perienced prospectors have gone into
the district and more than twenty good
mines have been opened. For time
the war with Spain detracted attention
from the section, but during the last
few months the pick and shovel have
disDIacad crusts that hide vast riches.
NEW CAMPS RICHNESS.
"Yes, the new gold camp, LIE Cali
fornis, is all that has been claimed for
it, It is twenty-eight miles southwest
of the Pilares silver belt, and abounds,
not in plscers nor pockets, but in ifs
sure veins of large and paying dimen-
sions. The Bavispe river, with an
abundant supply of water every day in
the year, is only five miles distant.
The supply is good enough for power
and dare say in q few more months
there will be mills running with this
cheap motive power.
The California is vein fully twelve
feet wide and contains much ore which
assays from S12 to 5000 per ton in gold.
The Arizona, another vein OF this camp,
Is forty feet wide in places and where
the gulches have scored 1t deeply it as
says over $40 gold from wall to wall.
The owners of this camp are Alexander
Grant, E M. Sturges and DR.. E. D
Smith. The California is owned by
Will Evans, G. w. Stout, Clyde Mitch
ell, s.. L. Story and DIR. E. r. Clark,
who are pushing work rapidly.
"There are other good claims in that
camp, but the most surprising and
promising one is called Ell CAPTAIN,
which was discovered by Capt. Frank
Moritz, who before the Spanish Amer
can war, was a captain in the Cuban
army until wounded and captured by
General Weyler. The captor was
about to execute his victim when Gen.
eral Fitzhugh Lee learned that Moritz
was an American and succeeded in
getting his liberty, but only on condi-
tod that the captain would promi sc
not to return to Cuba under Spanish
rule.
ALMOST SOLID GOLD
"Moritz has a vein whose surface
rock, in q streak of four to eight inches
assays over $40, 900 In gold. The ledge
| is about ten feet wide and large part
of the vein matter Is hard quartz, IS.
saying $500 in gold. The development,
of this claim shows the rich streaks &c
run up the mountain for over 300 feet,
along the vein, and so valuable is this
ore that the vein was stripped of it at
the surface before specimen fiends
could carry away much of value.
"That mountain section of Mexico,
| not 100 miles from the Uuited States,
has gradually given up it's wealth, even
TO men to whom the &C cupation of pros
pecting is entirely new, but fsscina ting
on account of the good results. Sabinal