The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1906-12-13
MINING ORES
IN MEXICO
Are Mostly By Capitalists From
western States, Writes Mr.. A.
P. Gladden, of This City.
fBy A. P. GLADDEN.. J

OCAMFOy CQ1nu6uud, MSACOs IT,
11-My last letter was from Mesa
coreo. where we camped for the
night. Snow was too plentiful to adj
NIT OF comfort. The day before our
stages drove from Mesa-Corea to
Navidad, where we had dinner at one
of the Greer Acompany's silver mines.
an uptodate Industrial point. with
electrical power and lights. The
Green gold and silver mining COM
pany is well known as one of the
largest mineral mining companies in
the United States or in the Mexican
republic. We have passed several
of their mining plants, which are
capitalized each in the millions and
are becoming large producers.
Our afternoon drive brought us to
a camping point in canyon-Ca llece
Durazno, where we took possession
of new stable building, which was
yet unroofed. W emade up our
hunks, had supper at Chinese res
taurant in a tent and went to bed
with our lcothes on and handker-
chiefs tied over our heads for
might caps" Some of US slept be-
tween snoring spells by Mine In
spector Clarke and Alvin Bassell. Az
Basel has won all honors on this
trip in killing game, he is now work
ing to deprive Mr.. Clarke Of belt
he has held for fifteen years as a
skilful snorer.
Bassell was the first of our party
to kill Mexican squirrel and rat
tlesnake. The first named is about
twice the size of West Virginia SPUR
rels. The latter was six feet and six
inches from tip to tip with nice rat
tie toy
From Durazno we reached the
terminus of the magnificent noun
tain-made road distance Of 10s
miles, which as whole is the great
est piece of engineering ever saw.
To condense lengthy detail will
mention the drive Of twelve miles in
the forenoon. There is burrow
trail from Durazno to ocampo,
which is said to be four miles. The
route by stage is twelve miles. We
reached the top of the mountain at
distance of six miles. In the
descent of the mountain we dropped
over 1000 feet in six miles. The
road was built by the Green Gold
Mining company at cost of over
half a million dollars. The roadbed
is single track for wagon At
many places the wheel of the vehicle
is within twelve inches of the break
OFF that looks to be over. 1000 feet
deep. If it had not been for show
ing want of nerve. I would have got
ten out of the stage and taken the
trunk platform in the rear and
Rugged close to the wall side OF the
road
/ had the pleasure of meeting the
engineer of this mountain road. who
is a young man formerly of Missouri.
I was surprised to meet SO many men
from the States. All industries here
seem to be controlled by men from
the States. I met this noon two
young men from Ohio and one from
Salem. Va. We receive hearty
welcome from all persons originally
from the States.
4 We have travelled through an al,
most continuous mining section
since we left Chihuahua City, a dis
lance of about s55 miles. The
State of Chihuahua is veritable
gold-silver-copper-lead mine. The
Green Mining Company is at work
cleaning out an old. abandoned gold
mine at this town, which has moi
been used for over 100 years. Il
was then owned and operated by the
Mexican natives and was known as
Jesus-M Mary. It is expected to be .
valuable producer
While waiting at this point for oul
mule transportation, which will con