Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-02-25
GREAT MINE BONANZA.
Il Was Located by Americans and
Yields $4,000 Per Ton.
DESCRIBED BY A WRITER.

A special dispatch from Nogales,
Ariz.. to the Denver News, under date
of February %, says:
The gold strike in the Torres noun
tains has caused a great deal of excite
ment in Arizona and the southwest and
a large number of miners and prospec-
tors have already started for the
scene. The strike is not a new one, it
having been found yer a year ago by
three Americans. L. Suns, who is a
civil engineer and assayer. employed
by the Mexican government, with e. NJ.
Sturgis and A. C. Riordan. The men
found the ledge and broke off some of
the rock, which showed free gold, n
after an assay was made by Suits they
took steps at once to denounce it and
obtain title to the ground from the
Mexican government. After title had
been received they started to do de-
velopment. A shaft was sunk on the
ledge to a depth of about fourteen feet
and ore was found all the way down.
The assays of some of the ore ran as
high as $12 900 to the ton, and no as
say made ran less than $4,000.
Millions in Sight.
The property has been examined by
three different experts and all give
out the report that the FL Tigre has
the biggest body of free milling gold
ore in the state of Sonora thus far
| found. They have carefully gone over
the ground and give estimates from
So, 900 900 to $500, 600 worth of gold
ore in sight. The owners are holding
the property for $500 600 gold, and will
not let it go for a cent less. A Phila-
delphia company has an option on the
property which lasts about thirty days
more, and the Phelps-Dodge company
of New York will take the property If
the Philadelphia parties are not able
to raise the money.
The Phelps-Dodge company W the
Pecacho mine. which is another high
grade gold mine, and shipped a few
weeks ago a solid train load of ore
which was valued at owe 81 600 600.
Colorado experts claim the Pecacho
has several million dollars nea the
surface, and the ore is being mined at
a very low price. The average of the
Pecacho ore is about the same as the
Ell Tigre. Both mines are free milling
and are located about forty miles
apart.
The heavy snow storms for the past
week have made prospecting and
travel in the new country impossible.
The Yaqui river is about ten feet over
it's banks and it is impossible to ford
it. Some placers are being worked in
the arroyas which run into the Yaqui,
and gold is being taken out in paying
quantities. When the nc has melted
in the Torres mountains and the Yaqui
has resumed it's normal condition a
large amount of gold will be found in
the placers and a large number of pros
pectors viii work the gold ON the bars
in the river.
Route to the Gold Fields.
The best way to get to the new gold
strike is to go by the way of Douglas,
Ariz,, and to Fronteras, which is on
the Nacozari railroad. Mules, burros
and horses can be obtained at From
teras, while at Cos and Turicachi it is
impossible to get any kind of convey
ance to the gold fields. The distance
from Fronteras to the new strike is
about sixty miles, but it is over easy
wagon roads and the trails are better
| than those by way of Turicachi. A
number of prospectors are preparing
to leave Douglas in about two weeks.
| Several parties are being formed in
Bisbee, Tombstone and other Arizona
mining camps and will start for the
scene Ga the excitement just as soon
as the snow is melted enough to get
animals over 1t.
There is a strip of country about five