El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-26
TEL PASO AS A
Some Remarks of a Visitor On the Pos
sibilities of the Mining Country
Tributary to This Place.

Just dropped in to rest up a day or
two and ook around a bit, SAID Dr-
Frank J.. Toussaint. of milwaukee,.
Wis, TO a Herald reporter today
Il like FL Paso. Why? a
most everyone else that knows any
thing about your city likes it. There
are many things about FL Paso that
are attractive to mining men, l meet
here competent. reliable mining men
who keep we'll posted on the diggings
in the great mineral belts of southwest
eru United States and old Mexico, and
who give a man a frank. candid op1n-
ION of the existing conditions ana pos
sible of any part OF that
country all of which is tributary to I'll
Paso.
"In the mountains l meet men who
like your city because thye snip their
ores to your smelters and get just re-
turns; Others because they send a
sample to your assayers and get quick
esults; others send for supplies and
their riders are quickly attended to.
People on the outside think your
citizens seem to nav the correct idea
about progress; you seem to reallze
that ZACH and every one of you are rae
tors in this proposition of progress,
YOU are a pushy, progressive people.
These are some of the reasons why
your city is constantly growing. not on
Iy in size and beauty. but as a mining
center"
In speaking of his last visit. the doc
tor said:
After purchasing my supplies. l
completed my Quitting at Casas
Grandes where the agents OF sierra
| Madre road gave me the benefit OF their
long and practical experience in select
| ing the proper animals for a long
| mountain trip. UGH as l was about to
| start on. After visiting a lumber OF
| promising prospects in the vicinity OF
Casas Grandes and spending a day or
/ two at some of the thrifty Mormon col
| onies. l started into the Sierra Madre
mountains. crossing the divide in the
picturesque Pulpit canyon, then solng
in a northwesterly direction and stop
ping a number of times to see mines,
| some Of great promise. and others in
| fine condition.; then swinging to the
south. 1 zigzagged across the country
| along the western slope OF the great
range. eventually coming to the Yaqui
| liver near it's mouth 2
N one can form any idea of the
| v~astness of the mineral belts of Chi
huahua and Souora unless he has had a
peep into that great treasure house Oh
the Mexican republic
In speaking of the Yaqui Indians, the
| doctor said: Eyes, the Yaqui Indian
is on the war path in Sonora. but not
near any of the mining districts. They
| live and confine their workings to a
small district near the mouth of the
| Yaqui river to about so miles east or
Guaymas and about the same distance
I'D the river from the coast. They
never get out of theis s~trongholds I'M
less closely pressed by the Mexican
oldiers who are constantly on the
lookout for them: then they scatter but
soon return. The district occupied by
The aYqui Indians in Sonora is in pro-
portion to the size of the state as one
block is to your city
Again the are not in any mining
district known in Sonora If there Is
any mineral wealth in what is known
as the Yaqui country. l have failed to
see anyone that has seen it. and L
have passed near their grounds a num-
Der of times. always unmolested. There
is little or no mining within so miles OF
them. and they are not looking for
miners, the are looking for Mexican
| soldiers, for the soldiers are looking
for the Yaquis.
From the Yaqui river I went to the
| Sonora railroad. then to lower Cali
fornia. parts of which are rich in min
erals but water is scarce. Crossing
the gulf l went into Sinaloa and later
back t the states by the way OF Qua
ymas and Nogales. Arizona Now l
am here preparing to start again and
take up where I left or"