Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-27
COL-. GREENE'S WONDERFUL
 CLAIMS
Ex- Governor Woodbridge of Vermont Visits Mines in Chi huahua, and Is Greatly Im- pressed With That Section.
Production of Properties De- bends on Extent of Machin- cry Installed to Take Out Ore and Do Mill Work.

Ex-Governor U. A. Woodbury has re- turned from Mexico and gave q Bur iington Free Press man the following
 account of his trip and of customs of people ths-e.
 Col. Greene's party or seventeen persons, mostly officials of the Greene Gold-Silver Co, left New York in three private cars Friday, April for Can.
 anea, Mex, where the great copper mines are located
 We arrived in Cananea Thursday, April 12, where directors meeting of he copper company was held. a.
 which improvements were authorized
 o be made to cost over a half a mil
 ion dollars. The copper company is now producing sixty million pounds
 1f pure copper per year and can pro
 luce more and at much less cost when -he authorized improvements are
 made. Enough ere is now blocked out to last eleven years, and but a small proportion of the mining area has
 1een touched.
 The party left Cananea at 2 D. m. the 18th. for Fl Paso, where we took Ia special train the lGth on the Mexi- can Central for Chihuahua, Mexico, taking with us two Panhard and two Pope Toledo autos of from 24 to 50 horse power. We stopped in Chihua- hua, place of 3O,009 people, and the capital of the state of the same. name
 --ell of the I7th, spending the day in sightseeing, an incident being re ception of our party by Governor Cfeel. had the pleasure of calling upon Dr. and Mrs. H. Nelson Jackson, who are very comfortably living in the city Dr. Jackson, aIF. Frank Wells and Mir. McGee, brother-inIaw of Mrs. Wells, own and are working the Buena Terra silver mine, which is of great value.
 We left in the afternoon on the Chi hGahua & Pacific railroad for Temosa- chic, two hundred miles distant, where we arrived in the morning. Temosa- chic is situated in 8 comparatively fer tile valley on the Aras river, a stream of considerable importance, and is the present terminus of the c. & F. rail road. From this point the railroad of the Sierra Madre Land & Lumber company is being built to San Pedro, thirty miles, which place is to be the center of the manufacture of lumber by that company.
 On the morning of the 18th. we un- loaded our autos. which were the first ever in the country. and started for Dedrick. forty miles away, in the for est of the lumber company. There were no bridges and many streams to ford. some with quite steep banks. and the | machines worked splendidly on the whole, and 1t was happy. if a tired party which sat down at dinner in the comfortable log house of the company In Dedrick. In the morning I, with others. took an eight mile ride through the timber. which, with what l had ridden on the auto the day before. made about twenty miles of timber had seen. The timber Is largely of hard pine, of which there is about one billion feet tributary to this point. predict successful future for this com pany.
 Friday. the goth. Col. Greene, MT. and Mrs. Romer and 1 started in a 35-40 horse power Pope Toledo auto for Concheno, mining camp 80 miles distant in the Sierra Madre noun 1 tains. We drove over a wagon road just built by the Greene Gold-Silver | Mining company, it being the only lOdu luLuiuS into Illdl oSStiOn OL llG country. All articles heretofore trans ported into the mountains were car ried upon burros. We saw many pack | trains of 10 to 90 burros laden with all | sorts of merchandise and other mate l rials. A burro will carry from 175 to 1 200 pounds.
 This highway was a work of great 1, magnitude. The grades run as high | IS fl to 20 per cent in a few places, l, put most of it is of much less grade | and is creditabIe piece of work The | last 40 miles is largely upon sides of i high mountains, requiring a great | amount of rock cutting. A few of the | larger streams are bridged, which is i unusual in the country. The ride | was wild one, as you can Imagine, 1 and the scenery magnificent. We GOV cred the 80 miles in about six and a | half hours, which was surprising un- l der the conditions. Many times we ! skirted along, around. mountains over ravines and canyons from four to eight l hundred feet in depth into which we should have been dashed if anything | had happened to our brakes or steer l ing gear. or had our chaffeur lost his |, nerve. This was the first auto ever | over this road or ever in this part of | Mexico and, of course, attracted great | attention from the natives who viewed l the strange carriage with wonder.
 The altitude of Temosachic is 5000 | feet and the highest point we made