East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-27
THE LURE Of GOLD
FABULOUS NINE REPORTED
FOUND IN SONORA,
Mexican Indian Brought in q Mule
Load of Ore Which lie Sold for
$250-Rcfuscd to Reveal the Loca-
ton of His Mine-Amcricans Now
FlocklnG Into tho Mountains.

An interesting account of the mines
of fabulous richness situated in the
state of Sonora, Mexico, and which
are operated secretly by T. G. Glib
son. prominent American mining
man of Tepisco. that state. The In
diaus are called Mexican buscones.
Gibson said to the Mexican Herald:
"A few weeks ago a Mexican OF the
buscon class offered to sell me a con-
siderable amount of placer gold,
which he claimed he had found with
in 100 kilometers Of Tepisco, but he
refused to ten me where he had got
ii. Among this gold WAS one nugget
as large as an ordinary sized marble.
\ friend OF mine bought this gold for
$500 and a day or two later sold it
for $565.
at is no uncommon thing to find
the buscones of that part of the coun-
try with gold for sale. This nugget"
here he exhibited piece of
smoothly worn wash gold of irregu-
lar shape, about half an inch long
and a little over a quarter of an inch
wide, with piece or white quartz
running crosswise through it-"I
bought from buscon some three
years ago in Tepisco. He had several
other pieces of fine gUiu ore, but
bought this one simply for the pur-
pose of making pin out of 1t.
About eight months ago a buscon
brought into Tepisco a mule-load Of
silver ore, which he sold for $3.50 to
one OF the local ore buyers All eff
forts to induce him to reveal the
place where he obtained the ore
proved of no avail. When he found
that he was watched by spies of min
ing men he went back on little corn
ranch that he had in the nelghbor-
hood where he stayed until those
watching him got tired.
About two months ago he suddenly
disappeared and had not again been
seen there at the time Of my depart
ure, two weeks ago. In my opinion
he is again on the hunt ror the mine
from which he got the ore. Or, II
he knows where il Is, he is taking ore
out of II on the quiet. for he sold out
all his corn and realized on his other
crops at sacrifice before he left.
1T may be that he is taking out
announcement papers. But this |
doubt for an Indian of that country
rarely ever does that, for 1t means
the payment of taxes and, Incidental
~ =tVsa "a
the mine is situated. The Indian
about there has been so badly treated
| and cheated that he is afraid of
every one, and suspicious of even the
mining authorities, and in this he has
| been in the right, though now there
| is scarcely a district about where he
! would not meet with fair treatment
But have known Of many an indian
being bluffed out of his claims by
some mining man with money, and
I am sorry to say that Americans
have been among the buffers.
! "The silver ore which this Indian
brought into the town was an oxide
, almost Jet black, running like grea
| seam through wide vein of hard
l
that some day this district win bt
discovere 4. and then look out for
! boom. One of the pieces of ore
BROUGHT in Nv the Indian assavet
$500 to the ton in silver and $500
to the ton in gold Very little of I
ran much less. The man who made
the ASSAY tried every means I'm hi
power to in1uoe the indian to tel
him where the hidden mine is situat
ed. but the best ne could get out o
the man was that It was in the nortl
at a considerable distance from Te
pisco and that the whole region
which is on the borders OF the no
lands, is scanned with veins of silve
ore.
MANY people have been seen o'
the hunt for this hidlen mine eve
| since the Indian brought in the fam
Gus ore some months ago"