The border vidette., 1903-09-26
"vIvA LOS PINITOs."
A Party of NOsales People Picnic at
Campo Hays, Sonora, Mexico.

the Sonora railroad, branch of the
Espee, is what is known as Quiano
station established and maintained by
the lays Consolidated Mining, Mill
ing * Lumber company, which COM
pany ownes nearly everything for
many miles in any direction.
The station was established for the
purpose of making n direct connection
between the great timber, land and
mineral properties and the outside
world.
A page and then some, descriptive of
the magnitude and merit of this great
ombination of valuable products own
ed by the company, could be written,
but such is not the intention of the
writer who last Sunday in company
with number of ladies and gentlemen
visited a small portion of the III G.
NJ. NJ. g. L. Cos, great holdings lying
east from the railroad, at the in
stigation of Mr. A NJ. Conard, ex-as-
sistant general manager and a large
stakeholder in the company.
We were met at Quijano by our
host and party of friends, among
whom were Mr. and Mr.. W. Bowman,
who transact the company's business
at that point In a most commendable
manner. Teams were i'll readiness
and soon the entire party, bag and
baggage, were merrily on their way to
the Pinto (Pine) mountains, twelve
miles from the station where the great
gold mines of the company are situa-
ted.
Of course we went over the new
wagon road which on the 10Th of the
present month was completed at cost
of $4,000 gold. which considering the
tortuous mountainous route followed
and the splendid grade attained Is per
5 per cent on the other) is cheap road
building and reflects much credit on
Engineer Rudolph Castanedo and Mr..
Copard who directed the work. When
the summit, 5000 feet above sea level
is reached two magnificent views are
presented to the delighted traveller.
One looking back across the valley
from the Pinitos to the Cisita noun
tains, and the other looking east
across miles of stately pines to the
Sierra Azul mountains where the COM
pany also ownes valuable gold proper
ties Truly it was lovely sight not
soon forgotten.
Three miles from the summit amidst
pines of splendid griffith and great
height is situated Camp Hays, our
destination. description of which
will be given at length in the near
future. We were met by the famous
Magdalena orchestra which escorted
us to the large convenient staff house
where Auditor w. E. Harmon with
his charming wife and two lovely
children reside, as do also Assistant
General Manager D Duncan, Super
intendent Joe Scott and Forman D.
G. Chalmers. To say We were given a
warm welcome and treated royalty
would be putting it mildly. Mrs.
Harmon Immediately took charge of the
lady members of our party, for which
they will always remember her with
love, and the gentlemen were herded
by Messrs. Conard, Harmon, Shinn,
Castaneda, Soto, White, Heinicke,
Monreal, Scott and others.
Our one regret was that Mr. Duncan
who is a prince of good fellows. could,
not help us in our merrymaking. He
was confined to his bed with fever con-
tracted in South america.
In the afternoon we visited one of
the many valuable gold mines owned
by Mr. Conard's company, the indie
pendencia No. 2, which is about a
mile from camp and reached by a
splendid road which has grade of
only II per cent. This is a remark
able property. A vein of high grade
free milling ore which varies from five
to fifteen feet in width has been un-
covered for distance of more than
thousand feet along the outcrop. Sew
eral thousand feet of profitable work
has been done-at this remarkabl naine,
and under the efficient management of
MIR. Duncan, the new assistant man
ager, development work will be con-
tinued as fast as compatible with good
mining. Through the kindness of Mr..
Conard anu Mine Superintendent Scott
we were sho yn through the various
tunnels where busy miners were en-
gagged in taking out good ore, from some
of which Mr.. Scott panned a nice tail
of gold for the pleasure of the ladies
who had never seen gold extracted
from rock We were invited to visit
the Independence No. l, where large
force of miners is also employed, but
as climbing high mountains when one
is not accustomed to the practice, is
not as easy as picnicking on level
ground among tall pines, we declined
the invitation and returned to camp
and prepared for supper and the grand
ball that had been arranged for our