Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-21
IN HE ALTAR DISTRICT.

uS cOHOId QtdI.I MlllHS anu Ml.f ing conpany's property Is adjoining the Reina Del Ora and they have enc shaft on the Fl Tiro vein at a depth of over 200 feet and producing a good grade of ore, which is hauled to thei.' 20-stamp mill one and one-half milss are located. This mill trea about forty tons per pay and cyanides the teilings and-I am informed they save from 94 10 9S per cent of the val ues. The grouIi below and up u this vein has all been worked as p'ac- CT claims for a distance of about eight miles square.
 This is a great placer field if only he water question could be solved. but here water is worth gold. There are thousands of acres of very valui- ble placer ground that will return a large profit with very lirtl- w.tei . This can be obtained by sinking wells n my opirion the time is rot T distant when some gringo will as tonish the world by the amount oi gold he will gather in this field
 The Sonora Quartz Mining and Min ing company are constructing a pipe line from La Cienesa. thirteen miles distant, for water for milling pur. poses, at a cost of s75.0O0, which Is necessary before the new mill is erected and for which they are now getting in the machinery.
 The Ale Indro Mining and Nilinc company. Douglas people. whose property joins the tracts above men toned, have shaft 100 feet deep on the Leasue vein and a 60-foot shaft on the Fl Tiro vein. This compaa. has large holdings, having about 150 claims. They are developing water in the 6Q-foot shaft and have quite a volume for this country. Their prop erty is well located, being close 10 the workings of the Sonora QuaI'Z Mining and Milling company and the Riena Del Ora, which are pay:ns lrpl ties on the west while the Co JcrIi mine is on the east.
 On Wednesday and Tuesday I p,cs rccTed and visited six antique mines These mines must certainly have pro. tuced large values as the amount oi work is certainty marvellous for the crude rl-thods used The or5s wert -rias red in Sand Host canyon. h" ., ihcre are wells Of water S5,as oi these mines l went in; others were filled with debris. and still others vrn,nll rn In to From all these mines l took sam ples. All are worked from the tor of the mine down and all are well located for tuneling. The location of these properties is such that r9 prospecting is required to find the veins, as they crop So distinctly that it would be impossible not to sec them.
 Appearances would indicate th9t there was a large population in this district at some previous date and tradition says several times the whole population were entirely de stroyed by Apache Indians and that they worked under very unfavorable conditions
 The Co Jon mine has just erectS4 a 20-stamp mill and cyanide plant and is now ready to commencc grinding. They have thirteen shafts on their property ard it seems that they should in a very short time De big producers This mine has al ready produced great values. The have a limited supply of water suff cient for their present mill and camp
 O. B. Steen of Tombstone. an a Mir Johnson of Bisbee. have uuf chased a very promising gold minc If the rock SEW from their 'lir was shown in Colorado the read: would be lined with men and ou' f S I have never seen country wherc i was so easy 10 find veins that vii show values. The Sonora count'l , should be teeming with prospecinrs | There is TO snow to trouble and rt large mcurt tains 10 climb; TO m | derbrush to bother. bu1 good Toa i' and a level country. Nearly all 'h present prospectors in this d!stric speak English and are old A"'zon: men, and all have good claims an are willing to give all the inf"rrnatiol they can to a stranger. What th; country needs is capital, and wit, good management there is money fo i everyone.
 Altar distric. is destined to be come one of the greatest gold produ, ing districts in old Mexico if no greater than any in the United State' There are great opportunities for car ital Labor is cheap, transports tion reasonable, and with a gold pro' osition free milling the imports ar limited. Wood is not very plent ful close in. although there enough for present needs. Twent
 miles away, on good roads, there abundance.
 Douglas should do all in is powe 70 help push along anything tendin
 to the development of any part .
 Sonora, as it is world-beater as
 mining state. Many man will dat
 the time of his location in Dougla
 with the time he got rich in Sonora Always give a good word to the pro' pectors, as they will in the future b