The border vidette., 1904-11-26
COL. "BILL" GREENE
The Copper King and Party Back
 From Mexico

of Sonora and Chihuahua, where, in company with Colonel Greene and a party of mining, engineering and tim Der experts, he made nasty examin- ation of certain properties which will be acquired by q new company which will be organized by Colonel Greene. according to an interview to a repre- sentative of The Citizen last (Friday) night just before he left for Los An geIes Speaking of the plans of the new company he said:
 The party went down over the Sier- ra Madre road last Tn ursday week, traye.ins by wagon from Nuevas Casas Grandes. by way of Celonia Pacheco Garcia, across Largo river to Rio Chico, and thence to Minaca, where we arrived Monday night. Our trip was partly through the Garcia tract of timber, which contains }, 246, 900 acIes of laad. This tract runs over into the State of Sonora, in which there are about 800, 900 acres of land. Colonel Greene has bought he McManUs tract of land and has an option on the tract of the Banco de Londres in Mexico City, the two aggregating about 7oO,- 900 acres and making, with the Garcia tract, practically ? 900, 900 altogether
 'sBesides the MuIatos gold mines in Sonora, which the Colonel has bought, he has just closed deal fer the cop per properties of Sam Dedrick, Judge A E. Fall and their associates, and has organized, under the laws of Cor necticut, the Sierra Madre Land and Lumber company, with a capitaliza- f-s77'J0. .-5o,s.- C K Jr--zSv -.73 .ss lumber, mining. milling and smelling enterprses of Northwestern Chihua- hua. He owns the entire capital stock of the company and intends to make 1t the greatest industrial con cern under one management in Mex ico.
 ''There are now five engineering parties in the field for the purpose of establishing a route for the extension of the Sierra Madre road from Terra z4s station, 125 miles to the junction of the Rio Chico with the Aros river where the town of Dedrick will be built and named in honor of the pic neer of that section, Samuel N. Ded- rick. Here the first sawmills will be esta biished and will be put in this winter. There will also be a blaming mill and a sash and door factory, the plan being to work mp 5OO,O ,OOO feet of lumber a day, to deal in all classes of dressed lumber, and to make special ty of extra sizes.
 ''The Colonel has also applied for a concession for custom shelter to be built at Dedrick to treat the ores of the Guayanopita district, wher- there are as fine copper deposits as l know of. The plant will probably be of 200 tonI capacity to start with The well known electrical expert, Mir w. B. Devereaux, is now looking up site for T large electrical plant to use water power for generating cleo tricity, which power will be used to run all the sawmills, shelter and other plants to be established at Derrick, and to run the 1000 ton quartz mill to be put up at the Mulatos mines, forty miles distant, and if enough water power can be had, it will be transmit ted to Cananea, where 15, 1000 horse power is used.
 ''As to the railroad extension,~ that will be connected later with the Chi huahua and Pacific road thus giving the city of Chihuahua a direct rail route to the rich mineral and timber sections of the western part of the State. Eventually this extension will go to Cananea, and in the end the road will be built to Alulatos
 ''The primary object of this immense timber project is to get that commoi- ity from a distance ef less than 400 miles, instead of from Puget Sound, distance of 1000 miles where we now get it.
 'The cutting of the timber will be