El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-11
Mines 4nd
Mining.
In From Terlln0ua.

In From Terlln0ua.
W. E. Bell, prominent miner from
| the great quicksilver camp OF Terlin-
qua, was here Saturday and Sunday on
business. he had been subpoenaed to
returned Sunday night to be on hand
at that place when wanted.
Story OF An Old Mine.
An old mining man on his way from
down In Mexico to colorado TO look up
an, old mine with a view to locating
and working it, tells an interesting
story concerning the property.
For years and years there was hand
ed down from one generation to an
other, in Colorado, that in the yeHr
1928 the Indians fell upon q settlement
of Spanish Jesuits In Southern Colora-
do and massacred them all, and these
Jesuits were down to have had valu-
able mining property, but just where 1t
was no one knew.
Itis eaid that there are records ex-
listing in Colorado that show that they
took large quantities of copper from
the mine. and for many years various
prospectors have searched for IL. 10
1850 come OWL engineers making
government survey for Governor
Gilpin found Q large Flag dump and
| unmistak able signs OF there having
been on that spot years ago smelter.
The man who made the discovery
knew nothing about mining and had
never heard the legend of the mas
sacre ofthe Jesuits who owned q mine,
80 he paid but little attention TO his
hnd. But an old Mexican named
Sanchez who WAS assisting him knew
and had heard the legend, but he
sawed wood for she time being.
Ten years later this surveyor was In
Mexico and there he saw miners TAX
ing large amounts OF rich minerals
from places similar to the one he dis
about them learned that the places
being work ed by these miners we're old
mines that had been deserted years
ago. 1t didn'S take him long to figure
out that mis- find was likely also val
liable one, but his business was SO that
he could not return to Colorado then.
| Becoming anxious to know what the
OLD mine in Colorado might hold 10
store for him, he wrote TO the
the old deserted mine in southern
Colorado, but be was unable to give
him the exact location OF 1t. He told
the mining man that Mexican named
Sanchez WAS with him at the time he
made the discovery and that IL he
could find him he could probably tell
him the exact location OF the property.
| But wien the narrator arrived In the
locality of the mine he learned that
SANCHEZ was lead, 60 he started out
| alone In search of the old deserted
mine, being very anxious to locate is,
rs th surveyor had offered him S25 900
in cash and third interest 10 the
property If he would find and locate it
for him.
For two years he remsined in that
sc csions, occupying his time in different
pursuit. but never giving up his search
for the I'D mine. While prospecting
cut in tue mountains of southern Colo
ado he came upon an old Mexican and
the two spent the night together.
| While lying on their blankets beneath
the stars OF q beautiful summer night
the two told stories of their experien-
ces in the mountains. O3e of the
stories the old Mexican told was abou,
the ruins of an old Cassillian smelter
by the Jesutts more than hundred
aud fifty years before. The mir err ask
ed the Mexican II he knew where the
old mine about which he was telling
was located. BE said that Mex
lean named Sanchez had told him
about the old mine and had taken him
TO 1t, but that II he ever told anybody
about 1t he would kill him, for al
though Sanchez could not make any
use OF the proper y he was go prejudic-
ed against the white man that he did
not want him TO reap any benefits from
It. Upon being tnf0r med that there
WAS NO danger now, as Sanchez was
dead the old Mexican promised TO take
him to the mine In the morning and
the miner went to sleep to dream
OF fabulous wealth to be taken from
the old deserted mine.
Just scross on the adjoining ridge,
they pushed sheir way through the al
moet inaccessible for estSof quaking asp
and pine to the scene of the labors of
the Jesuit miners, where they found
the slsR dump, the ruins of the smell
ter and the shaft. The sbsft had filled
up until It was only sixty feet deep and
growing up Out of the hole with its
giant roots planted In the very bottom
head towering far above the surface of
the earth.
An investigation showed that the
shaft possessed Q large body of copper
ore, but at that time there were no
railroad facilities in that section and
copper ore was low priced, so the mar
raIor decided that he could not work
the property to profit and returned TO
Mexico. That was eight years ago,
aud nee then he hss travelled and
labored 10 all parts of Mexico from the
northern border to Nicaragua,
prospecting, mining, raising coffee
aud working at various occupations. |
Nor that railroads have penetrated to
the heart OF the mountainous and |
forestcovered section of Colorado In |
which the old mine is located. and co.,
Fer has enhanced In value, he thinks
that the property can probably be
worked to advantage and Is on his wsy
there tO locate and develop il