Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-14
CONTROVERSY ABOUT
 FRONTERAS PROPERTY
CAUSES CHARGES AGAINST MExi.
 CAN OFFICIALS.
The Mining Agent Has His Say and C. E. Wallace Also Tells His Trouoles.-cerro Tordillo
 District Rich.
(Cananea Herald.)

l O the EullOT Ol tue NeAuduSd t1Si dlO. Dear Sir:-
 In the Heralds issue corresponding to this date, and under the heading of Racing for a Mining Title" appears an item relative to certain affairs developed in this town in the early part of the week with occasion of a mining discovery recently made with in the Municipality of Fronteras. After relating several incidents of the Ques- ton, the Herald" textually says: Other allegations of delay and ab- sence of certain officers are made and egal proceedings are a possibil- ity."
 Regarding such allegations I must say that since I entered the office of Mining Agent for Cananea, up to this date. have not yet been absent from my office during the prefixed hours. working hours, that is to say. from s a. m. to 12 m., and from p. m. to 6 p. m. every working day.
 As am one of the officers to whom such kind of affairs as related by the Herald concerns. I hereby request you to state for truthfulness sake in the columns of your paper who were the alleged officers. Thanking you in advance, beg leave to remain.
 Very respectfully yours.
 EUGENIO H. GAYOU.
 Mining Agent.
 The following interview, which E. C.. Wallace gave a Herald representative and requested that it be published, will answer NIT. Gayou's letter and give light on the affair at least from one side of the case.
 'I sent for the Herald's reporter" !" said Mir. Wallace, because l felt that I ought to at least get justice in the public press if I can not get it at the hands of the mining officials. l want to tell you the whole story and then you can see whether l have been wronged or not. Last July C. B. Bell made a very rich strike on the La Union mine No. 1, in the District of FrOnteras, and when 1 was down there not long ago found out about it. realized that the ledge of ore would run for great distance and asked him if the land in that direction was all taken. He told me he had had it denounced already. Well, l wasn | sure he had done so, so when I heard him trying to get a horse to ride to Cananea I was sure that he didn't have the land. Then I hustled to Fronteras and sent telegram to Mir Tenancy in Cananea telling him to denounce 100 pertenencias of the land lying on this ledge. Pete Tenancy got the telegram at l o'clock on Mon and Bell didn't arrive in town unti | 6 p. m. Tehaney immediately palC | the money for that amount of land $500, and got the receipt slip and alsC had the Announcement papers made out. At a. m. Tuesday morning | he was at the Mining Office and filet his application for the loo pertenen | cias. As he'd forgotten the stamp: he had to go over to RonquiIlo to th' office of the stamp agent to get them | The Stamp Agent was not In his offic' and Tenancy waited until 1 p. m. L see him and then as he did not com i in he wrote a note and left it on hi desk asking for the stamps. Whil Tenancy was waiting for the Stam Agent Bell got to him and got hi stamps and had his denunciation aC cepted at about 3:30 D. m.
 Then when Tehaney did get tn stamps and returned to the Minin Agents office he was handed bac his Announcement with the news tha the property was already taken III When I reached town I went to tn
 Mining Agents office and asked [
 see the maps and he would not sho'
 them to me as he is directed to d
 by law. l tried a number of times | see them but was not allowed and { - last had to get a lawyer and threate to report matters to Mexico City ovC the Agents head. Then he let IT } see the maps and I was able to d nounce 102 pertenencias a short di T tance away from the land I wante s This was on October 2 and I "; g forced to wait around a week befol could do SO at a great expense
 myself and with an additional cost
 $500. I will get the land I want' ]. if have to go to Mexico City myse | have clear case. IT the stan s Agent had been in his office as
 should have been I could have got
 As it is I was done out of it by croo + ed work"
 s What is being done in the Ger t Tordi1li district and what are u B. prospects for the future?" was ask : MT. Wallace.
 6 'T think that the Cerro Tordillo d y trict will be one of the greatest mi
 ing regions in the whole of Mexico = answered MT. Wallace. land within very short time. Good strikes a |, being made there almost daily a - there is no position about the val
 of the ore. It is very high and V 1. make Cerro Tordillo a mining cent