The border vidette., 1907-04-27

the Tribune Mining 81 Milling Com
pany, owning Gel Rey del Orc" mines
in Magdalena, Sonora mining district,
have gone down to the mines after
completing the business of receiving
the property from Messrs. Rand. Bond
and Martin. A substantial payment
was made the owners, who are now on
Easy street, with bright future be-
| fore them. James Bent, the we'll
known successful mining man, is in
charge of the mines, where q big plant
| will in the near future be installed
under his personal supervision. All
| parties concerned in the recent deal
consu nlmated here, are to be con-
graduated. After spending a few
days at the mines Mr.. Baldwin will
return to Chicago to attend the ship
ment of the new plant. DR.. Nichol-
son, agent for the company, who en-
gineered the sale of the property, is
deserving well merited credit.
Harry Smith, the mining man, is
back from the Santa Cruz copper
fields in Sonora, where his partner o.
X Franklin, and himself have large
group of copper claims on which they
are doing big lot of exploration md
development work, under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Jack Radigan, an cx-
perienced mining man from Colorado.
The property is said co be in the heart
of the much talked of new copper belt
where Col. w. @. Greene and others
have recently become interested, and
Is said to contain great merit. Shafts
are being sunk, tunnels run, and cab
bins built by Mr.. Franklin and as
sociates. who propose to thoroughly
explore and develop their property.
without any attempt to save expenses,
If there is anything there worth while
Franklin and Smith will certainly
find it. At any rate, they are
thorous breeds; have the nerve, and
Messrs. Yaeger, Proto and Jones OF
this city bslieve in taking long
shot" and as result of that belief
they have denounced eight hundred
pertenencias of land just south of No
gales, Sonora, Mexico, which they
believe is the extension of this new
copper discovery at Santa Oruz.
twenty six miles east of Nogales,
which Lieutenant Henry o. Flipper
recently surveyed for Colonel w. O.
Greene, the millionaire, under the i'm
preston that it was an extension of
the great Cananea copper belt. The
gentlemen are anxious to get next to
Colonel Greene, and will expend con-
siderable money prospecting and
developing their new discovery, which
THE VIDETTE hopes will prove to be a
second Bisbee or Cananea. Certainly
,ich . oil Of
good luck. A big copper mine or
Nognles to any great extent.
Mr.. F. F. Cranz, the geologist. is
arranging for nm extended trip to
Lower California on mining business.
He will 60 by way Of San Diego. aud
expects to be absent from NogaleE
about month. 1t is understood
that MIR. Crane goes in the interest of
the Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany. +. +. Cranz knows a good
thing when he sees it. Twenty four
years, or mere ago, he left the old
Salero mining district, in this county.
where with his brothers Charley and
William s and George Clarke and
Jens Peterson, he operated the Darwin
mine, now operated successfully by
Professor Blake, of Tucson, and went
to Lower California where he secured
DOE session of the San Juan silver
bonanza, from which he and his
brothers took two and a half million
dollars. Even III those early days the
Darwin was a producing proposition.
but not big enough for all that bunch
of pioneers; hence the separation, and
later the great San Juan. which today
is said to be valuable property.
Mr. Frank Reagan, who arrived in
town Thursday night from the Mowry
mines, states that the big plant has
shut down and 200 men laid of at
that camp. No reason for the close
down was given by the management,
which will for the present, only employ
about fifty men doing exploration and
development work. Many of the men
laid off have gone to the Duquesne
Miuing IL Reduction Company at
Duauesne and Washington Camp,
where no doubt they will receive
employment. News of the curtailing
of the working force at Mowry will be
learned with reLret throughout the
county. for that camp has for some
time past, been the most active in the
county. giving employment to many
men, at good wages. The plans of the
mauagent for the future have not been
made public. Mr.. Reagan says he
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