The border vidette., 1903-06-27

No! We'll you likely will soon. Your correspondent has had that pleasure 1 did not go into Mexico to write up mines nor to exploit the sunshiny relms of our neighbor re- public, TOT 1 am not an expert, to at | tempt the first, nor an essayist to portray the latter. But 1 have spent a layman's leisure in an agreeable | visit near Poza. While there l iourneyed with John Henderson, the well known mining man of Nogales, to some gold bearing mines owned by Fl Porvenir de Sonora. s. A., of general manager.
 The tract is large one and the fiold-bearing ledges, carrying both copper and silver as well, crop out of the ground in many places for great distance. They are readily discernible and as easily followed in siiafting or in tunpeling. Prospecting work has been going on at 8 goodly rate for some time with results far beyond the sanguin expectations of the manage ment and in the near future the Hunt iliAib AAOW OAA OLAC VIII OC pounding out tue yellow metal, but such surprisingly rick results from de- velopment have attended the enter prise, that the managers now realiz= that small-capacity equipment IS quite inadequate to the demands of the pro- position and large stamp mill and cyanide tanks, are to be installed, as quickly as possible, while necessary buildings are to be constructed at once. It augurs we'll for the success of this most promising property that it is in the hands of such conservative com- potent men as compose it's manage 1 ment-Messrs. John Henderson, Jud- son 4. Elliott and John T. Gave, the former being one of the best practical ! mining men in the country and the latter two gentlemeH successful tiuan- cIers and business men.
 There are six shafts now down vary. img in depth from forty to ninety five feet, while the tunnels | driven, have blocked out many tons of good ore. It IS the intention, so says Manager Henderson, to steadily push these shafts to tower levels, as every indication points to richer lodes nt an increased depth. One can find samples of free gold bearing ore from the out put now on the dumps, while banning out almost any pickup sample, re- leases gleams of the ''yellow chink."
 The old workings, employing the primitive arrastra method, are mere holes in the ground, yet nearly Sl00,- | 600 Is the amount credited as their output.
 Several nugget sized finds are of re cord from these dumps; Mir. Tender son, 'Jr., of our party, being particular ly favored in that respect. However, the property is not being exploited as 8 high grade n.cIcsltlen. If pockets are struck, well and good, say the modest officers of the company The diggings impress even the outsider l (tenderfootj as being so promising in their richnesss, that one asks himself after sojouru there, if another Minas Prietas Is not soon to be laid bare ia developing this gold property.
 A feature of importauce is the ac- feasibility of the mines. They lit due | Pe4a. The road traversed therefrem is over a gently rising plain ten miles to the foothills and thereafter few miles further, over good roads to the mines. Fuel IS plentiful and water that oftimes absent essential-has been struck in abundance.
 The officers of Fl Porvenir de So nora, S. A., are enthusiastic over the prospect of making these mines great gold producers and are using every
 means in their power to do so.
 The business life of q community re quires healthy and well managed or 1 ganlzatious to euchance the value of our nstitutions. How often we see the blight Of nismanaged corporations, often far-reaching in their evil iu
 huence on local affairs. Determining the character and responsibility there fore of the affairs of corporation is equally important with the character of its assets.
 Fortunately those in charge of Fl Porvenir de Sonora, $. A, affairs lend color to the value of this new and un- doubteoly rich looking proposition, which cannot but commend itself to the investing public. The holdings of the company also include some 200 acres of copper land in the Altar dis trict, beyond Caborca, in this state, immediately adjoining the properties of the Arizona-Mexican Copper Com, now under process of successful deve- | lopment and where a 500-t ton smelter has been determined on. It is a