Bisbee daily review., 1903-07-18
ABOUT LOWER CALIFORNIA.
 A RICH MINERAL COUNTRY

American continent called Lower Cal 1fornia; it has never been thoroughly explored and the few travellers who ever undertook voyage in that desert ed land never left any data relative to its resources. Its few inhabitants ded- icate themselves to the cultivation Of tropical fruits. paying no attention, whatever. to the many mines which are known to exist in that territory of which it can be safely said that it is most extensively mineralized.
 am at loss to explain why Amer ican capital and American energy have neglected such promising field. The French syndicate which has been work ing the Boleo mines. situated near San ia Rosalia. Lower California, with very handsome results for the last fifteen years. has amply demonstrated that conditions for mining in Lower Cali fornia are most favorable. With capital of only s2,5OO 900 gold, the Bo- leo company has equipped one of the greatest copper mines in the world. producing over ten thousand tons of copper yearly with a net profit, year af- ter year. of 25 per cent of the capital. How is it that shuch an example has not ben followed? Lower California is a virgin mining field. the possibili- ties of which are as:oundingi The prospects are that Calmalii, Campo Aleman and Santa Clara districts con tain mines that may not be so exten- sive as the Boelo mines, but far rich CT as to the value of their ores. Gold and copper bearing veins in bizarre formation run through the Campo Ale man district, and have remained prac- tically untouched up to this date.
 When is American capital going to wake up and bring life and prosperity to a country which. on account of its barrenness and apparent poverty, has been for so many years so shamefully neglected. Here are well determined outcreps of large veins assaying from i6 to 20 per cent copper, with a value in gold ef $76 te $50 per ton. situated in a country of easy access and at a distance of only sixteen miles from that great waterway, the sea. and no- body takes any interest in such a promising fields! Surely these facts have not come to the knowledge of the great American republic which could 1 not have overlooked such an opportu- nity of making money. The Boleo people, who e%h an i'm mense property saath Of the volcanoes de las Virgenes" have found the ac- tual conditions of isolation most fa- vorable to the policy they have adopt ed which I could well name "the pol icy of the closed door" They have made every effort to keep in the dark the handsome results they have been getting, and while Santa Rosalia ought to have become d sort of headquarters for people engaged in prospecting in that part of the peninsula, situated be- tween the twenty-sixth and twenty ninth degrees north, it has been kept by them strictly closed to all but their own employees and the Mexican govern ment employees.
 Strangers. and most especially Amer ican prospectors, have been ordered out of Santa Rosalia which, owing to a special contract with the government belongs to them like in the feudal ages the land and its inhabitants belonged to the lords. This will explain to certain extent how the American cap italis.s have overlooked the great fu- ture of the central part of Lower Cali fornia, this and the lack of communi- cations by telegraph with the outside world, the irregularity with which the steamers carrying the mails run between the main continent and the peninsula.
 The actual government of Mexico has not overlooked the pitiful state of affairs in which Lower California has been lost; wireless telegraph has been lately established and the steamer zubyention for carrying the mails has been completed to put into service comfortable steamers which now run regularly. This is news for that neg iected land; it can well be said that the central part of Lower California was up to this date kind of reservation which has just been opened to the world.
 Such measures have awakened among the residents of it's little capi tai, Mulege. that spirit of enterprise without which there is no progress DOS sible and one of the foremost resi- dents of that small town, Don Vicenti Gorozave, has foated an exploration company under the name of Gorozave' Exploration company, to which he ha bonded all the mines he has been care fully selecteing for the last twent, years. both in the Campo Aleman an Santa Clara districts. and prospectin operations have been started at one in the Campo Aleman district. Tn faith of MT. GoroZave is such that h openly declares that what ore will b taken out of the prospecting shafts an
 drifts will amply balance the COST the works and MT. Gorozave is not
 new conner in the mining field but
 veteran. He was one of the discove
 CTS of the Boleo mines and when tn mining experts come to visit his min
 "Lucifer" (which he afterwards sol
 .od fo now fhe nroperty of the BOle