Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-22
MINES OF MEXICO,
A sjnole District Out Of Which Great
 Wealth Is Pouring.

Wealth Is Pouring.
 Mir B. Tomiinson, accompanied bv
 hie con Ed. L. Tonilinson. nassed
 through the city yesterday en ropte
 from fhelr mining property in Cananea
 to Prescott. where they will vis,t
 friends and relatives until after ths boIidavs Mr. Tomlinson, ST. hss for
 several years past been Operating in
 northern Mexico. bis property being the Swansea located about seventy miles south of Cananea in the Bocua.
 chi district. His company Is prepar. ing at an early date to install a stamp. ing cyaniding and concentrating plant { of l5O tons capacity 10 be used in the
 treatment of it's ore. Of necessity it
 will take several months to make the
 installation. the transportation prob. lem being a great drawback in makinp
 tine with the work. At present they lfrelght from Ysabel. a station on the
 Nacozari road, and about forty miles from the mine.
 The principal mine in the district
 and the one according to Mir. Tomlip- son which has by the showing made
 insured the districts future is the Plea
 eho. managed by James Douglas. and
 the property of the Phelps-D Dodge com
 pany. In the deepest workings of the
 tunnel. run in now a distance of 1 100
 feet and 67J feet below the surface. the men have encountered the sulphide zone. 4 mill will soon be erected of twenty stamps, and a cyaniding plant and machinery to handle the low grade
 ore. W. R. Holmes, of the City of Mexico, a noted English metallurgist has been with the company for several
 months assisting in superintending the development work.
 Another district that is rapidly com ing to the front as one of the pro
 iucing districts of Sonora is the one located in the Sierra Azuls and Sierra danzanels. At present there are five shippping mines all producing copper. silver and gold One of the properties 'ocated in the district is the Alcatran, which ships by way of Cananea it's ore
 O Fl Paso. A. T. Halloran of San Francisco, is associated with the local capital in the ownership of the proper y. For some time past the ship ments have been two cars a week of ;1S5 ore.
 From the San Bernardino, weekly shipments are made, the product being purchased by the Greene company md handled at Cananea. The values average 200 ounces of silver and Is per cent copper to the ton. Not fal iistent from the San Bernardino Is coated the Gro Maximo, the property Detroit capitalists. At present some 20 men are at work taking out the old ore and soon a plant of forty amps will be installed with a 20t ol-capacity. Pumping machinery vii ilso have to be used and will be pu at the same time the mill is erecteC . P. Casey, the superintendent of th' ompany, is especially optimistic o1 ne future of the mine.
 Pittsburg parties are the owners oi he Guadalupe mine in the same dis jet as the properties above referred , and already they have on the trackl t Ysabel the machinery for a ter tamD mill which will be erected a nee. Enough ore is in sight to TUT he mill for the next ten years. Th' government of that section accordini e MT. Tomlison, is all that could b. .esired, the Mexican officials being es ,ecially glad to aid American capital sts in developing the section. The Ia ,or used is largely Mexican, who mak rood miners.
 ' Food supplies, however, and the ot aiming of them is one of the problem hat confront Sonora The last year wheat crop was a total failure and al effort is being made to have the Mez can government remove. the tariff re gently imposed on American wheat "As Sonora grows" said Md. Tomlir son. "so will the Salt river valley pros 7er for it is possible at the presen time for the shippers of Phoenix t ind a market in Sonora for more hay f-uit and vegetables than ranchers 0
 his section can produce. The price paid are such too. that it makes thei cultivation a profitable one"