The border vidette., 1903-09-19
A DAYS OUTING.
Border Vidette Reporter and Friends
Picnic In the PataSOniaS.


Ana Mining, Milling & Smelling
company, accompanied 10y District At
torney +. J. Duffy, MIR. Button of
Simmons Hardware company and the
writer EMO, ed a "picnic" they will
not soon forget. Some time ago
Messrs George Morris and Arthur
NJ cody of the San Joaquin mines, and
John Straith of the Golden Rose in =
vited the gentlemen to spend day
with them and last Sunday was the
day aud now they are sorry they can't
spend a month as guests OF their
friends.
The visitors had been promised the
'best yet" by their hosts, but they
never dreamed of the reception and
entertainment in store for them.
The picnickers we're met by MIR.
Moody, a couple of miles this side OF
the Rese Camp, which is situated
about twelve miles from Nogales on
the west side of the Patagonias near
the Buena Vista Copper mines owned
by the Nogales Copper company upon
which work has been suspended since
che company acquired the great Cerro
Prieto gold mines in Sonora. Our
guide escorted US to Camp Rose, which
is most delightfully."- situated on Il high
mesa covered with luxuriaut grass and
beautiful wild flowers. Here we were
given a warm welcome by ). A.
Straith, the metallurgist, who is large
Iy interested in the Golden Rose mines,
and his friend and guest, MIR. Stowe,
who is interested in properties in the
district. We had only been in camp
few minutes when George Morris,
Mr.. Moody's partner and the sweet
voiced warbler of the PatagOnias, made
his appearance from Camp San Joa-
quin in the canyon, where an arastra
is located to work the richer ores from
their "Big Lead mine. Notwith-
standing the slow nerve-wrecking
method of treating the ore. which is
packed two miles from the mine, the
boys say they can snake beans" and
If the sumptuous repast prepared and
served later by Chef Straith and his
assistant Stowe, is sample, the writer
would like some of those "beans.
Everybody wanted to see Camp San
Joaquin and the arastra, which was
the first several members of the party
had ever seen, and while Chef Straith
and his assistant were 'doing things
for our enjoyment, we visited the place
where John Millisan the mining man
and family resided number of year
while the Rose was being prospected
The Milligan house has since been dis
troyed by fire, but nearby beneath
spreading shade trees, are pitched the
tents of Moody, Morris and Wilson,
owners of the ''San Joaquin" and the
"Big Lead" gold properties. Little
Corporal Dan Rooney, the we'll known
prospector, formerly of the U. S
army, also lives here in a tent, the
latch string of which is always out.
While at Camp San Joaquin
our party was made glad by the arri-
val of Col. Harper S. Cunningham, a
prominent lawyer, mining and news
paper man of Guthrie, Oklahoma, who
is one of the principal stockholders OF
the Hermoso Mining company, now
successfully engaged in developing the
Old Hermoso silver mines at Harshaw.
The colonel was accompanied by his
son, Mr.. Harper J. Cunningham, gen
eral manager of the Endless Chain
company which is developing num-
Der of splendid properties in the Pata.
gonia district, and Mr.. George D
Gross, the efficient superintendent OF
the mines owned by the Four Metal
Mining company, which are situated
ia the Patagonia mountains, upon the
east side.
After spending a half hour at Camp
San Joaquin, the entire party returned
to Camp Rose, where Chef Straith
was waiting with a spread fit
for ''any old body" Truly it was a
royal feast and not soon will it be for
gotten::by the famished feasters, all of
whom hope some day to "get even"
with Mr.. Straith and his friends who
were factors in its preparation.
After dinner horses were saddled
and we rode over the trail to the prop
critics owned by Messrs. Moody, Morris
and Wilson, who for four years have
been prosecuting their development in
a small way, Messrs.:: Morris and Moody
having personally executed the work.
The boys have two groups comprising
in all thirteen claims The sBig Lead"
is well named indeed and is most
promising property. A shaft has
been sunk here to depth of So feet
at which point work was suspended on
account of the large amount of water
encountered. 1t is from this mine
the boys get the ore for their arastra
at Camp Joaquin, two miles away.
About mile south from the "Big
Lead" is situated the San Joaquin,
where the boys did their first mining.