The oasis., 1901-01-26
WAYSIDE NOTES.

tOTy, anu US IecOTu ROcS as lar OdCh as lI54 since which time it has been worked by many different people, and between the periods of operation upon large scale the 'gambusinos" have dug out ores and treated them in their primitive way. In the middle of the last century about fifty years ago, the property passed into possession of one Alsua, an Ecuadorean, who worked It very successfully. During the period of the French intervention in Mexico SeflOr Alsua leased the property to MT. F. D. Car eton, gentleman from San Francisco, California, who still resides in the vicinity-at Santa Rosa -and the latter worked 1t very suc- cessfully during period of five years paving Alsua in royalties as high as twenty thousand dollars per month. Feeding money to pay troops in Son ora the Mexican government borrow ed large sums from Se1or Alsua, and in recognition of that service he was granted thirty sitios of fine land iL the lower Yaqui valley. Mir. Carl eton's lease expiring in 1869 Alsua sold the property to an English company, who erected the big lixiviation plant, and operated 1t some time. It was under this administration that La Trinidad saw it's palmiest days. MT. Carleton informed me that many an evening he counted two hundred Americans walking or seated around the plaza. They were all employed by the company, or in business connected with it's conduct. The plant was very large and fully equipped with two large rock breakers, six smaller ones, six sets of Cornish rolls, q battery of ten stamps, six revei beratory furnaces and revolving furnace, lixiviation tanks and melting furnaces according ly. The product was great, but through mismanagement expenses ate up the output, and the company abandoned operations, permitting the property to revert to Sehor Alsua. Last year Don Ramon Corral bought the property from the heirs of Alsua residing in Paris, France.
 At Trinidad the same general for nation prevails as at MulatUs, but the ore exposures are not so prominent and strongly marked, and there is a variation in the metals produced, sil- yer predominating. There is the same iron stained rock, on the surface, capping deposits of pay ore, rich in values, and at places in the face of the expo ures are to be seen the open ings which were made in developing the old workings. The mine is worked from tunnel lower down, but several hundred feet above the bottom of the canon, the mountain side making a splendid waste dump. From the mouth of the tunnel the ores are dropped down chute to ore bins below, and
 
 the ore across the canon on high trestle and around the mountain side above the town, to the top floor at the lower end of the town, to the top floor of the reduction works at the lower end of the camp. Experts say that property is still great possibility, and that with modern machinery, operated in large scale, it could be again numbered among the profit able producers in Mexico. The in- tentions of the present owner are not known.
 At Trinidad I met a Pennsylvania German named Harmon Rupert, who has resided there thirteen years. He owns mining property in the vicinity, which he hopes to sell to good advan. tage when the wave of investors all are waiting for shall come in, and he keeps bees. He has l30 stands of bees. To go with my breakfast he brought me plate of honey, and it was simply delicious. There were three different