Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-29
SONORA HINES ARE UNANIMOUSLY
 RICH
Something About Development of Mines in Country Near
 Douglas,

A correspondent writing from Doug l las to the Albuquerque Journal, thus | describes the rich mineral country in | Sonora which is tributary to Douglas: |
 While Goldfield, Death Valley, | Thunder Mountain and the Klondike l have been in the lime light of pub i licity for years, there have been men l delving into the ground in section | far richer than the richest of these, ! practically unknown to the outside | world.
 This region is in Sonora, Mexico, 1 and the gold oliver, and above all, the copper, production has become so large as to positively astound the markets of the world.
 With every train into Douglas which is the supply point for the richest part of section. come an increased number of men who outfit and go at once to the fields.
 Some of the mines were worked for hundreds of years. an one, the San Juan Bautista, produced for its Span ish conquerors $150,000,00 after be- ing worked for a century by Aztec and Toltec owners and the San Juan | Bautista is producing mine today. Two men arrived in Douglas on May 10 of this year with just s10O be- tween them. It required every cent of this for aE outfit, and on the Fourth of July these men, having returned to Douglas two weeks previously, sold | their announcements for sl5,OOO. with cut having struck pick into the earth 1 otner than to secure samples. These i samples taken within five feet of the surface, assayed 136 ounces of silver and 5 per cent copper, with a bold showing and came from a ledge six inches wide at the top widening every inch downward.
 l The Copper Queen owns at Naco- zarl, Sonora, seventy-five miles south or Douglas, and connected with this clty by their own railroad, the old Plares de Nacozari mine. a property worked by Tolrecs, Axtecs, and other spaniards until the Apache and Yaqui ialans got the upper hand; later by the Guggenheims. who gave the prop erty back to the wilderness because they could not solve the transportation problem. The Guggenheims hauled coke mare than two hundred miles at first and later a hundred miles, but even the last was too costly and the property was abandoned.
 | A striking illustration of what DOS abilities lie holden under the barren hills and deserts of Sonora is the Fl Tigre, another property in which shares cannot now be bought. Located thirty-five miles from YsabeI, which is on the Nacozari railroad, thirty-fiye l niles GNt1rh of of the worst trails on earth, this prop erty, with less than 800 feet of work iHgs, sold as gold mine for s625, 900, the largest price ever paid fer an un- developed prospect; and events have proved it to be the cheapest mine ever purchased. Losing it's value as a gold mine as depth Of shaft increased, it increased it's silver bearing ore un- til at 1000 feet a solid body of ore bearing 1000 10 1900 ounces of silver. an ounce and half of gold and s per cent copper, was struck, a body of ore. which since blocked out. will keep all the men who could possibly work in the space provided, digging in three shifts night and day, busy for fifty years before they could exhaust what ore is in sight.
 | At present the ore is milIed into con- centrates and packed by burro to YsabeI.
 Throughout this section of Sonora. which draws supplies from Douglas, mines of this character are to be found. The most of these, however, are but prospects, because, owing to the absolute lack of knowledge of the possibilities of the country by capital ists. it has been extremely difficult for the poor prospector to make a sale. With the advent Of cash into the camps of Cumpas, Nacoazri, Moctezu- ma, Nogal de Carisco and the other nearby camps. as we'll as the north
 western portion of Sonora, Sonora will simply astound the world in the pro duction of gold, copper and silver.
 So much for eastern Sonora; to the
 west is the Tyndal. Alta. Washing.
 ton, old Tucson, Gro Blanco, Mazda
 lena, Cocospera River, La Higuera, Ures. Copete, Minas Prieas, Guaymas and Lompazon district; some of these
 containing what even the inveterate foe of the prospector, the expert, has repeatedly declared to be among the
 gi ieatest mines Of the world.
 In the Tyndal district are now in op
 peration the Joplin group, Roundtree group, Presidential, Wandering Jew,
 Santa Rita, Warsaw, Trenton, Bland Victor, Royal Blue, Temporal, Happy . Jack, and some dozen others. all of which are paying at least 10 per cent ? dividends. some 20 per cent and all oi ]. them with their stock above par.