Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-09-22
CHAS. A. SIDLER'S
INTERESTING LETTER

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INTERESTING LETTER
The following letter from Charles A
Slider, Esq, of Sunbury, who Is at
present at Etzatlan, Mexico, to his
brother Register and Recorder W. A.
Slider of this city, will prove of in
terest to many of our citizens. Mr..
Sidler is deeply interested in the Am
paro Mining Company,a "a heavy copper
producing concern. There are 10000
shares of Amparo mining stock held
by Danville residents and il may prove
an interesting fact to know that this
stock which originally brought 20
cents a share is now selling at 30 cents.
The letter reads as follows:
Dear Brother We arrived i'll Quad
alajara on the LIST, tired and dirty
travellers, as we had been travelling
five consecutive days and nights.
After attending to some business IN
Guadalajara we came to Etzatlan ON
the evening of the 3rd, or one week
ago. Mr.. Ferdinand Sustersic, our
new General Manager, met us at Dur
ango, and he and his wife were OF the
party during the rest of the journey.
Last Sunday we spent here at the
offices and saw the employees paid OFT,
which took about all of the forenoon.
Early Monday morning we started for
the mines, going up over the new road,
and arrived there in about two hours.
Clarence Voris rode up i'll the covered
wagon, but l preferred to go upon
horseback, and rode with Mr.. Suster-
sic.
After dinner we all went into the
mine and spent nearly all the after
noon there Mr.. Sustersic went all
through the different workings under
the guidance of Mr. Callahan, Mine
Superintendent, but Mr.. Voris and l
did not care to climb Mexican ladders,
so we went down in tue ore hoist and
met them at the bottom of the shaft
when they reached there. Mr.. Suster-
sic is man of few words, but after
his examination of the mine he said
that il was magnificent, one OF the
finest that he had ever seen. lie SAID
that it is rare thing to find mine
in which the side walls are so clearly
defined as in the Santo Domingo. They
shipped 81 cars of ore during the
month of August, and are now ship
ping about forty tons per day. The
San Juan shaft is 4l0 feet deep and
there is not a stick of timber IN IT.
The fact is there is no timber IN the
mine as the walls are so firm they do
not require it. Mr.. Callahan Is un-
stinted in his praise of the mine. he
says that he has examined most OF the
best mines in Mexico for different peo-
pie, some of which sold for anywhere
from s., 600, 900, to $8 600, 600 Mexl-
can money, and of them all there is
but one better mine in this country
than the Sento Domingo. He thinks
that our company has great future
before it, but that the change in the
management was made none too soon,
as many things were neglected by the
old management.
In Mr.. Sustersic the company has
one of the best metallurgists and en-
gineers in this country and under his
guidance our company is going to
forge to the front very rapidly. With
us the only question is how soon will
we be able to pay dividends. The
Santo Domingo has the reputation all
through this country of being one of
the great mines of Mexico. and it GER
tainly could not have gotten such
reputation unless it produced the ore.
One man III Guadalajara told me that
he has known the mine for the last
twenty five years, and that it is very
fine mine We are having the rainy
etdSOu ublb at plC5Chbt ohN 90 AANS
along in the cars in the valleys and
look out over the fields of corn, it is
NOT unlike ride through the country
there. But when we pass through
some immense ranch, where there are
fields OF two and three hundred acres
one realizes that he Is not in Pennsyl-
vauia at least. Last Saturday on our
way here we passed one field in which
| counted 80 team of oxen ploughing;
but not as we plough in our country.
They simply scratch the ground
around here The land is now being
prepared for wheat. They have plenty
of rain this season and the crops are
fine. Here you can see corn, sugar
cane and tobacco raised side by side.
Mr.. Voris expects to start for home
one week from today but | shall re-
main here until October lst and go in
to every detail of our business as re.
quested by Judge Paxson.
Your brother,
CHAS A. SIDLER.
Wall Strengthened.