Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-23
SAYS ALANOS IS
A VEGETABLE
H ELIIIIHULL
PARADISE
Haggot Returns From lnSpec-
ton of Mines and Gives En-
thuSiaStic Account of the
District in Sonora,

Tucson Star.l

Fresh from the AlamOs district il
Sonora, whose history reads like thai
of fairyland and whose story is one
of wealth and magnificence, full oi
praise for Sonora in general and theil
own district in particular, Ernest Hag
gott Of Prescott, 4. p. BallCu and Col
A. c. Waters of Chicago, arrived in
Tucson Sunday morning from Alamos
and left last night, the former for
Bisbee and the two latter for theiI
home in the east.
Mr.. Ballou is secretary, Col. Waters
a heavy stockholder and MIR. HaggOCt
the mining expert for the Sonora Cen
trail Mines company, which owns the
Santo Domingo mine near A'amOs.
They have been making a personal ex-
animation OF the properly in Sonora
and stopped of in this city - sG.,,Eer
with Southern Pacific officials regard
ing rates for the shipment Of their
ore to the Fl Paso smelter.
"Alamos is fairyIand," said Mr..
HaggUtt last night at the Santa Rita.
Il don't believe there is anything else
in the world Ike it. The mines are
all Of the very richest and the valley
near Alamos is of a richness that is
beyond belief"
The Alamos district is in southern
Sonora. $50 miles southeast Of Guay-
mas The town itself, with = pOpU-
lation Of 1000, is situated on branch
of one of the Hartman lines and Il
is here that the Santa Domingo, owned
and operated by the Sonora Central
Mines company, is located. The Santo
Domingo is a lead and silver PROPOSE
ton. averaging from 80 TO 40 ounces
in silver and about IL per cent lead.
The mine was worked more than 2cG
years ago and high grade silver ore in
great quantities was taken from it.
Next to the Santo Domingo lies the
Quintera, a property producing the
same kinds OF ore, owned and operat-
ed by a French syndicate, and from
which s4S,O00,000 worth or ore has
been taken since it was first deveI-
Oped. two hundred years ago by the
Spaniards. The Sonora Central COM
pany has eighteen other properties in
this district, some of which, according
to Mr.. Haggott, are of the very rich
est.
Mr.. Haggott is located in Prescott
and developed and equipped the ia
nous Bluebell mine in Yavapai conn
ty. He also made a favorable report
upon the mines in the Johnson dis
trict, which are now being worked on
quite an extensive scale.
The gentlemen all agreed that aside
from the wonderful wealth of its
mines, Alamos was destined TO be one ;
of the worlds beauty spots, owing to
the richness of the soil and the almost
perfect agricultural facilities. Ramon
Corral, vice president of the republic
of Mexico, is a native of AlamOs, and
is at the present time working on al
proposition for the building of a reser-
vOir and dam to furnish a sufficient
supply Of water for the development
of the wonderful agricultural richness
of the Alamos valley.
Alamos has been settled for 350l
years and there are numerous
churches and buildings in the town
which are 800 years old.
In 1904 Alexander Humboldt, world |
a.s;sGz1. GO = ssS2!Ges:st passed III sh
Alamos. and Just as he was entering !
the town he encountered a mule train
of 100 animals, loaded with silver bull |
lion taken from the mines of that Vi
cinity. The wealth which was loaded |
On the backs of the animals was es-
timated at a million and a half dol
lars. It was after returning from this
trip that Humboldt made his now IA
nous statement that Mexico was the
treasure land of the earth
From old records kept of the output
Of the Quintera, the Santo Domingo