Arizona republican., 1904-08-01
A MEXICAN RAILROAD
Its Articles Were Certified in Phoenix
 Yesterday.

Hon. Robert F. Morrison was in the city yesterday. He came here on an important errand-to have the articles of incorporation of the La Dicha & Pacific railroad company certified by Mir. Augustin Pima, the Mexican con- sul, in order that they may be proper ly recorded in the City of Mexico The certif1ootion of MT. Pima is only one step. MT. Morrison will go to Washington next week to have the ar ticles approved by Senor Aspiroz, the minister of the republic of Mexico, and he will then go to the City of Mexico to have them recorded. The La Dicha & Pacific railroad company was incor- porated under the laws of this territo- ry. The president of the company is George Mitchell MT. Morrison is vice president and general counsel, and the secretary is c. E. Crary, a Los Angeles banker and broker. The directors are all among the foremost financial and professional men of the southwest. One of them is MT. Botsford of the Ameri- can National Bank of Los Angeles.
 The road is to be built from the La Dicha mines in the state of Guerrero to the bay of Acapulco a distance of forty-five miles. The sea terminus of the road is Port Marques, situated on a bay within the bay of Acapulco. This Is a most desirable port on a land locked harbor where the water at the wharves is forty feet deep.
 The road is to be built entirely for the purposes of the mine, to haul In machinery and supplies and to take out the output. It will be an electric line, the power for which will be furnished by a stream which cuts one side of the mine. A short distance below the mine there is a fall of seven:y-five feet and it has been ascertained that from | S0 GOO to 100000 horse power can be gen erateyF. The road will be built and will be in operation by the middle of next January.
 The La Dicha mines, better known as the Mitchell mines have been in the process of development for three years The company operating them, of which George Mitchell is the head, was Incorporated under the laws of Arizona and is known as the Mitchell Mining l company. Its Mexican name is the La Dicha Mining & Smelling company During the development period from l 15O to 25O men have been employed.
 There have been taken out 5000 tons of black sulphide ore 65 per cent cop per. There is a mass of 10000 tons of
 42 per cent ore to say nothing of the | thousands and thousands of tons of ore 1 that would be considered marvelously hrich in any of the great copper mines of this country. It is said that there has never been discovered any other
 such body of rich ere. A man from
 Montana who inspected it said that there was more ore in the La Dicha properties than in the whole Butte dis trict. Professor Hill of the geological survey took a trip from Washington | to see it and pronounced it to be mar velous.
 It's fame has spread to the great ore 1 buying companies of this country and
 London. A representative of London company specially iourneyed to New
 York to arrange for handling the ore
 The mining company has been offered
 by the ore buying companies as high
 as $45O,OOO to pay for the expenses oi
 the development, but all offers of that kind have been refused.
 1 There is already considerable machin-
 Try on the property ard a 200-ton smell 1
 by this time The machinery is ship
 ped by rail as far as the railroads go
 in that direction and is then carried over the mountains on the backs oi | mules.
 The mine will be operated under eX-
 traordinary advantages. The fuel ques- | ton is eliminated by water power.
 For smelting purposes Australian coke
 can be laid down At the mines for 8 | a ton. There is an abundance of fine timber. The company has a title
 to tract of 100000 acres. This timber
 is principally oak, much of il
 of such size that it is forty feet | to the first limbs. The cost of hewn
 timber at the mines is s5 Mexican mon-
 ey. Even that low figure will be re-
 duced when the company's big saw
 mill, which is probably on the ground has been set up.
 The labor question is also easily solV-
 ed. The average wage shown by the pay roll is fifty cents a day, Mexican. |