Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-12
PATAGONIA VERY MUCH ALIVE.
Little Town to the North Is Center sf Expressive Mining Boom.
 (Nogales Oasis,)

Patagonia, twenty-eight miles north of Nogales, is now center of a mining
 boom that is attracting the attention
 of people in all parts of the United
 States. It is almost a daily occur renee for mining men from different
 parts of the country to get off the train at the little town and hiring a conveyance drive into the country. Some of them are looking up prospects and others are negotiating for the pur- chase of mines already partially or full ly developed.
 South of the little town in the Pat agCnia mountains are the Harshaw, Nowry and Washington districts. in the Hatshaw district is the famous old Hermosa mine, first worked in the days when the pioneer miners carried their rifles with them to their work The men who composed the old Her mosa Mining company cleaned up Sl.500,OO0 on the mine which produces gold, silver and lead. Years after they had abandoned it as worked out. it was relocated by James Finley, who wen. deeper in the workings and un- covered body of rich ore from which he cleared half a million dollars. changing his condition from that of poor Drospector to a capitalist. Re gently James Cochran purchased the mine from the Finley estate at a very low figure and further development has disclosed another treasure trove, which is TOW being developed. The mine now shows indications of mineral that will make another owner wealthy and will for some years at least fur rish employment for large force of men.
 In the same vicinity is the Worlds Fair mine, owned by Frank Powers, and estimated to be worth from S1 .000,. eco to s2.0O0000. The mine vas bonded tC a corporation of Chicago people for $450 GOO. the contract broken and a damage suit for breach of contract against the Powers was decided in favor of the defense at the April term CI the district court hrTe. The Worlds Fair is one of the richest gold. silver and lead mines in the southwest and will soon give employment to several hundred mcn.
 Four miles south of the Worlds Fair are the Mowry mines, operated by the Mowry Mines Company. A SIT reiter of 100 tons capacity is in oper- alton and a concentrator Of 200 tons opacity is now almost ready for work. When the mines are more fully de- veloped and the concentrator and smelter both ir operation, about eight hundred men will be employed. In the same district the Four Metals Min ing company is developing properties that when developed and producing will employ from two hundred to three hundred men. Four miles south of the Four Metals mines is Washington camp, where the Pride of the West mines and mill. now being opened UP, will soon be handling two hundred tons of ore daily.
 Close to Patagonia the Santa Cruz Mining Company is developing a gold, silver and lead property and seven miles north of the little town another company is developing large body of low grade gold ore. The ore is of a. character that to be worked at prof 1t. must be worked on very large scale, but the extent of the ore body Is so great that a large force of men at work with mill of great capacity to treat the product of the mine can make it a large dividend payer. Min ing men interested in the different properties are confident that the mines contiguous to Patagonia, now being developed, will furnish employment to several thousand men within the next few years and that Patagonia will de velop from way station to progress i've city. Patagonia is in Santa Cruz county and some years ago was the op- poDent of Nogales in the election for county seat. The loss of the county seat was a temporary drawback to the little town. which Is now waking up and forging ahead.