Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-11-10
MEXICAN MINES, OPPORTUNITIES, CLIMATE AND
PEOPLE AS SEEN IN SONORA AND sINOLA
Continued from Page Nine,

Upton Sinclair will never know how
good II Is anu now pure It seeIns al
has q v ss:ss a. - Asss -et
Mexican coffee is spoiled In the max.
ing and one wants condensed coffet
with cream: il comes put up N tins
similar TO condensed milk cans and by
the same people and is good. There
are two brands, the English is per.
haps the better. A few cans of anoth.
er Chicago product-smali sausages
and possibly roast beef and the like
will assist the menu. So Will a pack
age of Ceylon tea, which one can
drink a la Russo. using the native
lines that are SO plenty everywhere.
AS an antidote TO toxical water or
bilious disorders these lines are ex-
ceIient when taken straight i5ut one
viii live chiefly on the staples OF the
region--toFtillas and frijoles, not
meat. for it is cut in too large chunks
to swallow whole and one cannot
chew it into smaller pieces.
Altogether too much is said of the
yenomous serpents of the west side;
there are few, but a common glass
hypodermic syringe and some crystals
of permanganate of potash may come
handy. II one wants this at all he
wants ii quick. It should be applied
by pinching up the flesh where blrren
or stung and injecting with the
syringe pink solution of the perman-
ganate. This is as good for the sting
of noxious insects as for snake bites.
Whisky is. contrary to general opin-
ion. of little use in either case. There
are many small insects whose bites
are more or less poisonous and quite
irritating; these will be worse near
the coast and in the thick brush than
higher up. They are very bad in the
costal plains near Mazatlan. There
are tarantulas, scorpions, eentipedes.
etc, which are bad but not so black
as they are painted
There is game, deer and various
sorts of fowl. as well as occasional
Esccaries or wild hogs. The deer are
quite plentiful and good They are
small in size and easily shot. ALI
gators thrive in many Of the rivers,
and they get long way from the sea.
Game viii make a nice addition to the
harder but cannot be depended on fer
much of the time.
Even in the widest par.s OF the
west coast one need not be more than
snery few days from tn3 federal tele-
graph lines. 1t costs from $50 10
pesos per 10 words 20 reach most
points in the United States. The ser
vice is usually quick ami quite accRr-
ate. language differences consider ed.
Identification of the mail routes are
remarkable and thougn not with
daily service, there arr few snail
puebloeitos lacking their postoffiee
Mails come down the west side from
Nogales. Ariz., and in from II Paso.
Tex, in the latter case arriving by
Durango.
Silver. gold, lead. bismuth and cop
per are the mineral products of Sin
loa, in the order named. In Sonora
the order is changed, copper leading.
There are more than 300 copper
mines. of various grades of import
ance, in Jalisco. In Topic the golo
and silver deposits predominates. Co
lima has vast iron outcrops, as well
as other. minerals. There is mercury
in JaIisco. Sonora, though. with fewer
copper mines than Jaliseo. is a far
greater producer of the red metal.
That it is in the beginning of Won
derful future in copper few can doubt.
That there may be more than one
Cananea is within the bounds of pos
sibility, while many districts give
promise of becoming large and impor-
tant, if not so great as this treiIayi,.
dous area that Mr.. Lindsay and Col
Greene opened. Speaking in general.
mine development among the Mex