Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-23
UR|QUE MINES
ARE FAMOUS
PRODUCERS
Rich In Silver and Copper,
Described In Full BY Enter
prising Mexican Newspaper.
Are Near Orient Railroad.
chihuahua Enterprise)

lShlnuahua Enterpriss)
The Enterprise has often had much
TO say about the great mineral belt
IN the Sierra Madras and in the west
ern part of the state, especially in
mat portion that forms, with the
states of Sinaloa and Sonora what
is called the Corner and is rich
IN silver, gold, lead and copper. No
part Of the world, perhaps, is more
heavily mineraliised, and many OF the
Old districts, like Unique, Batopilas,
Zapuri, Guazapares, the now tradi-
uonal Gloriapan, Chinipas, and many
others have poured their millions on
millions into the streams of silver
that have gone out of Mexico, botn
under the Mexican and the Spanish
rule.
1t is that section of chihuahua that
helps to form the Corner mentioned
which is especially awaiting the COM
pletion of the Kansas City, Mexico
and Orient railroad, through the ST.
era Madre range, only about go XII
lometers are yet to be built between
Sanchez, the present western termi--
nus in Chihuahua and the eastern.
end of the line in Sinaioa as bnilt
from Topobolampa bay. Already the
parts of the road bnilt are causing
american capitalists to seek mining
! Investments in the famous old min
| eral districts, and they are much
more easily reached. The Enter
prise promises a series of articles
| about these famous old camps and
this one will be of Unique.
Urique is an old silver camp. the.
| exact da fn of hn e
| seems to have been forgotten. but
it is fully 200 years old, no doubt 1t
| is located three days mule ride from
Creel station on the K. C. NJ. & O.,
| 10 kilometers west ofMinaca. The
editor of the Enterprise was recently
invited to visit Unique and started
on Dec. 81, 1907, with a party consist
ing of Martin Nesbitt, the well known
| mine owner and merchant of the
place, Carlos c. Harris, photographer
OF chihuahua, and Geo. B. Jacobs.
or Chihuahua, general manager of
the Rosario Mining and Smelling Co.,
the Pilon Mining and Smelling Co,
and the Criqua Development Co, all
OF which three corporations are Just
beginning operations in the Urique
district. The party went by way of
the Barranca de Cobre copper dis
trict, taking four days for the trip
instead of the more direct route of
three days.
The town and district of Urique are
situated in the deep gorge of the rfv-
er of that name, which in its upper
portion is called Barranca de Cobra-
This gorge is from 1000 to 5000 feet
deep at the small Mexican town of
cirque, which gives its name to the
| mineral district. The canrara or
volcanic overflow which has covered
practically the entire Sierra Madre
region, is here eroded, leaving a tract
on either side OF, and sloping rapidly
down to, tn Urique river, from a mile
to TWO miles in width and extending
up and down that stream. The for
ma ions are metamorphic states and
sanGstonas intersactad by assures and
basaltic and andesite bikes. Appar-
entity these bikes have nothing TO do
with the naturalization. The veins
are true assures.
The class of ore is generally slIver,
but copper which is rich in silver is
plentiful, and there is some gold. In
the past many of the ores were fab
ulo1sly rich and are now generally of
high grade. The entire district for
miles up and down the river is filed
vita veins of silver varying from d
few inches to several feet in width.
The town of Unique viii be about
six miles ride from the Orient railway
when it reaches Cerrocahua going to-
ward the west from Sanchez, the ter
minus at the present time. The road
10 the point mentioned means that
Urique will resume her former glory
as in the days of Jose Ma. Becerra
and of the Spaniards. It will be an
easy matter to build a branch rail-
reda from Cerrocahua to the edge of
the Barranca and then it is a matter
of aerial trans to the river below.
which is stream that will furnish
all kinds of water power On the
mountains above are pine and oak
galore.
Practically every mineral bearing
vein is a tunnel proposition, and it
is safe to say that among the numer-
Gus veins worked during the past two
hundred years, the level of the river
was not reached by any of them.
1t is in this rich mineral district
that several American companies
are acquiring properties and at least
four of them are beginning active OPP
erations. over 80 locations of new
properties have been made in the min
ing agents Office at Urique in the last
60 DAYS and Federal taxes are being
paid on probably 200 more.
Urique caa be considered the centre
of a mineralized section seventy
five miles in diameter.
The companies referred to above
are as follows; The Rohario Mining
and Smelling Co.. Pilon Mining and
Milling Co. and Unique Development
Co., all of New York; the Arosco
Mining Co. composed of Philadelphia Z.
capitalists; one or more companies
promoted by A. E. Stillweil, president
of the Orient railroad; a syndicate or
Minnesota and New York capitalists
that is organizing two companies to
take over and exploit properties in