Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-21
Fl COCHENO THE CENTER OF B|G
 ACTIVITY
s. A. D. Upton, Formerly of Tombstone. Tells of Great Work at Scene of Greene Gold and Silver Company.

s. \. D. Upton, formerly a resident of this county at Tombstone, where he practiced law for several years, was { visitor in BisDee yesterday on his way i from Fl Cocheno, in Chihuahua, the center of the great operations carried
 on in that state by W. C. Greene. MT. | Upton is resident attorney at Fl Co cheno for the Greene-Gold Silver Co.,, and is enthusiastic in hIs description
 of the great enterprises under way in | that section of Chihuahua, where 5000 men are employed in the building of i railroads. saw mills and in the mines and mills.
 | According to MT. Upton, great inn ! portance attaches to the early compile | ton of the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre i and Pacific Railroad, which is now ! building actively from Neuvas Casas Grandes south. This line starts from
 Juarez, across the line from Fl Paso, and is destined to eventually connect | with the c. Y. R. & F., the Hartman line, at present building out of Quay ! mas. Another force of railroad build CTS is also at work coming north from | Santa Elena on the Rio Aros about | forty kilometers easterly from Temo- i sachic, to make a connection with the | line coming south.
 The presidency of the Sierra Madre
 road, was recently rendered MT. Nick 1 erson, on account of his ability as a l railroad builder. Mr. Nickerson at ! first refused the offer until he had op- poTtunity to go over the country, and
 upon his return from a thorough in | spection of the route, accepted the po- sition and has already entered actively upon the discharge of his duties. It | is the expectation to have the main l line leaving JuareZ completed to Ma
 yadad and Cocheno within two years. After the railroad line reaches Co ! cheno, which is the central point of { the operations of the Greene Gold and ] Silver Company, the line follows the l Cocheno river to the great mesa country of Yepachic and then follows a course near Cerro Boludo, Santa i Brigida, Colon and Trinidad; thence | to a connection with the Cananea, ! Yaqui River & Pacific near Torrin, ; which will give the Sierra Madre an ] outlet to the coast at either Guaymas
 or Agiabampo.
 ] With the opening of the railroad, direct rail communication will not only be established with the extensive
 mining operations of the Greene Gold and Silver Company, but also with i the 3,7J0.000 acres of pine timber | lands controlled by w. c. Greene in ! the name of the Sierra Madre Lumber | Company, the center of the lumber operations being at Madeira, which is already within fifty-two klometers of railroad which runs out from Chi
 huahua City.
 In the big lumber camps near Ma daera there are now employed l5OO men. By August 1 the lumber. com pany will begin operations at the big saw mill camp which has a capacity of 300 GOO feet daily.
 At Cocheno, the headpuarteTs of the Greene Gold and Silver Company, the
 former 6O-stamp mill has been en-
 larged to 100 stamps, which will he
 further supplmented with a new mill
 ing plant and cyanide process of 35O
 tons daily capacity. Construction
 work on this additional plant is being
 actively prosecuted at this time.
 MT. Upton states that American miners at the property of the Greene Gold and Silver Company, receive the same wages as miners in Arizona and
 Mexican miners are paid at the Cana nea rate of wages.
 In addition to the Sierra Madre
 touching the properties of the Greene
 Gold and Silver Company, it will also
 tan the big coal fields of Ptlares,
 which according to the latest and most
 thorough exploration work, shows vast
 coal deposits with excellent quality
 for steam purposes.
 When asked about the reported death of Ranger Brooks, formerly a resident of NacO, in this county, MT linton stated that MT. Brooks was
 well and living at Madeira and that he had had no trouble of any description and was highly esteemed, not only by
 the Americans. but the Mexican au ! thorities as well.
 Mir. Upton will visit for few days at Tombstone and will then return to his headquarters in Chihuahua: