The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-16

one or two days q Ia Tnula, and the coun-
/ try already mentioned on the south with
Baranca La Cobres million dollar con-
Germ. still SOUTH and Batopilas Boss
Shepherds camp with its millions. only
two days away, instead Of chihuahua
| ten days, Ia na11la Also. another San
per day OF rich ore will be within two
days Of the new railroad.
Looking down sheer three thousand feet
into the river on the left Won will find a.
thousand old Spanish mines developed one
hundred and nifty years ago under the
mica. aluminium. quick silver, mineral
paint. ire clay. with coal IN the Ortnoco
valley in abundance
The scenery in these grand canyons sur
passes almost anything I have ever seen,
even the Grand Canyon Of the Colorado
Tropical and senal-tEopical fruits grow
bananas and a hundred other varieties
flourish IN a thousand side canyons where
a thousand cascades and water falls are
beating themselves into idle foam, waiting
slow Centuries to be harnessed, to mine
and mill these precious ores
These wild and seemingly, inaccessible
gorEes and canyons, are the homes OF the
of the Montezumas, with the blood or
kings IN their veins, they have lodged IN
these secluded mountains, where the
storms of winter and the summer rams
are alike welcome They are as peacefui
as dovs and a. gen{ 5He as woma o2e oh l
with a net Of cruel cords, yet they would
not exchange II 1sr the palaces 81 OF k 1.ss
ago left them IN charge Of their mines
and buried treasures, promising to come
back IN q few years II was lTnposslDLe
for them to escape with, or remove any
of their treasure, or anything pur pet
Sonal effects. Spanish history ana l1adl-
ton say they had ship loads of gold and
silver. and they left it with the rarama-
rah Indians They have been faithful to
their trust. they have also concealed and
buried thousands OF old mines, fortunes
are dug IN every month but not are ever
-aS-aafs74 Nv an Indian 1t would be
impossible to get an Indian to show one
Of these old mines as to seduce him from
ffer5nn
hundred wears. They still hold to the
Tror7jse that the fathers will return. bur
"a -1iSsaI viii be uncovered trea sure
c8ves vii be cpened-Fichard y i'll be him
But let me get back to the railroad
again From Quiteco looking FORWARD
Quitec0, itself, is mountains Of metal me
famous Ctrero mine is not located the
Cfusasaparis IS al a mineral d 5 rIct-only
waiting for transportation. At Ralnnyfap
pany with the usual English NAM cement
and bad luck, have spent seven Inli1lons
own a great deal of the country and four
teen miles of well equipped I'll cad be-
Lhey have never Esetlq q lusilu y g . -
spring and summer they have been buying
new mines. From GuItecO to the coast IS
yet three hundred mlles-tWo routes- One
down the water course, with four thouS-
chance TO overcome it The more pracLlc-
able and useful route would be to t1loW
the wide and open valley from 9u14l-sc3o @
the long canyon, nine miles from CIRQUE;
Here il too must descend four thousand
feet to get down TO the river but II mas
more than p miles or GOOD hanging
ground to swing to- Once here-U r1due77
they will ind over three hundred OLD
Spanish mines WITHIN a rad1us Oh Ihfs -
miles of the little town. and over SIX
thousand in forty miles. and but rev OF
them owned or claimed Dy any one Lle
ores are mostly silver and worth from
eighty 10 ten thousand dollars per ton, no
one here pretendS to treat ores here winch
run less than S100 per ton. because with
the crude process, it cannot be made TO
pay The river from Ur1que on 10 the
coast cOTnUara lively easy.
Speaking OF mines here about Ur1que,
as a rule they are not in prosperous
condition It is wei known that mining
has been carried on here for nearly -FOUR
hundred years but wars. famine and re-
voIutions have nearly left Uriaue a played
out camp. One old mine, the Rosario Just
across the river from where I sit, and
lust opposite our Diez Senores, has pre-
duced five millions. Two hundred yards
south Of it is Nina Salta- which has pro-
duced million in the past few years, and
the owner now has more than a million
dollars blocked out ready to be KNOCKED
down. It goes on an average OF $500 per
ton It could all be taken out in a month,
but he is old, and takes out Just what
il is safer there than in a bank
This is only a fair sample Of what may
railroad building, which I regard as a
sure thing, foreign miners viii flock in
VIII be eagerly sought for
Passing on down the river. Cerro caordo
and BatopiIas are within thirty miles of
the TRACK HundFsds OF mines nave oeen
opened and worked with more or less sue
nor a wagon track within $50 miles, but
with che new railroad thousands OF mines, |
produce thousands Of tons of ore per day
1t would appear that hundreds OF cars /
Chihuahua to Port StllWel viii De be- |
tween six and seven hundred miles long. !
saying that no railroad in the world can /
show any comparison for rich mines along !
It's route. PRESIDENT D1az Wen SAID that /
II was the greatest scheme OF the age
Sti1Weu can market, or could market, |
thousands OF tons OF coal day on the
Pacific coast and when the new coal fields /
are opened BY the Kansas city & Orient, 1
he will have a three hundred miles shorter /
haul TO Port St1lveH than 70 Guaymas-
Further down the river, the veins turn Il
more to gold and copper and mountains /
Of iron have often writ en- you q bout the
Rialito prospect gold proposition that !
the vein stands up boldly Ike a train of
cars on a Kansas railroad and sweeps
across the country north and south. The /
vein is full IS feet at the surface and
seems to widen out as II goes down They
have been offered five millions for it, but
they are so hopelessly tangled up in law
suits and petty quarrels, that the chances
are that it viii not be fully developed.
Baltimore is on the south end of it, It
assays-the RiaIito-from "A to LBS ounces
I am nearly the only foreigner, or
grfngo. who has ever visited It, they say
20, shuckst It's too wild country and
too far from civilization and transpOrta-
ton let IN on the MescaI and come back
TO earth and Kansas. Yet I know there
Is a ship load Of gold in it for some one
I know of a copper vein, literally a noun
tain of copper, within a day of this new
and three days to a agon road. I
best of II will assay over fifty per cent /
copper and assays hundred dollars silver /
and little geld. Other silver veins which |
have been worked down to wafer by the
old Mexican crude ways and then aban-
doued, the ores carried three hundred
miles on mules at a big profit 7 have ali
that a Visionary f1nancfer should want-a
ways to make a fortune and no
way to make living. but our blue and
red chips are all in-and most of our white
up to Mr. StIweIl and his K C..
NJ & o. r R. and we wonder what he's
g0t4 But. as yet, do not feel ike even
dividing the pot As ever.
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