Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-07
OLD SALEROS
MINE TO OPEN
IN NEAR FUTURE
At Present There Are Between
Thirty and Forty Men Grad
ing Road Between the Camp
and Patagonia.

PATAGONIA. June 6.-There Will
be something doing at the Old Saleros
mines In the near future. lust
now there is considerable doing IN
the preparatory line. The Saleros
Mines company has been prospecting
it's properties for several years pass,
but has not pasted on the rocks on
the hiilsides any typewriter reports
of results attained. They nave
sunk several deep holes with diamond
drills and are still doing that class
of work They have also done some
prospecting in the old way. by test
shaft and tunnel.
Just now they have between thirty
and forty men at work grading lne
road between Patagonia and the
camp. At places the work is done on
the old road and at other places the
road swings off from the old route,
along the hillsides, where it is being
graded by cutting down the rocky
slopes of the hills, and ruts and
small arroyos are being filled in,
making gradual grades that every
freshet will not damage. Severai
thousand dollars worth of work has
been done and several thousand more
will be expended before the road is
graded to the camp. When the
work is completed there viii be an
excellent road for freighting from
Patagonia to taat section of the
Santa Ritas
While the SaIeros Mines company
has not made public the result of its
diamond drill work, it is hardly prob
able that thousands of dollars would
be spent in grading a road to the
camp, through twelve miles of fairly
rough country, TO make the hauling of
freight to and from the camp less diff
ficult, unless the showing was salts
factory. The preparations for active
mining now being made is sufficient
proof that the diamond drill work and
other prospecting done by the COM
pany has shown the results antici-
pated by those who have been in
vesting many thousands Of dollars
every year for several years past
Lately the company has been
prospecting the big Montezuma vein.
Part of the big vein is covered by
claims owned by the Mccormick es-
tate of Chicago 1.-THE Mccormick of
Mccormick farm machinery Fame)
and part of it by claims owned by
George Clark and Jens Peterso two
OF the oldest prospectoTs in the Santa
Ritas. The holdings of Clark and
Peterson are bonded by the Saleros
Mines company and are being pros
pected by the company. Several
other claims in the same vicinity.
owned by the company are being
prospected and have been for several
years past.
Considerable work has been done
by the company at the Darwin and
now preparations are being made to
sink the Darwin shaft 500 feet. Con-
siderable rich silver ore was taken
out of the Darwin by it's former
owners, and copper was also en-
countered at that mine People in
this section expect to see the Saleros
Mines company open up big silver
and copper mine and the road
building and other preparations now
being made by the company after its
years of thorough prospecting OF
the properties, certinly go far 10
strengthening the belief and cause
the impression that the pros
pecting done has disclosed the
presence of ore bodies that warrant
the expenditures being made.
At the Eureka, also owned by the
company, tunnel is being driven in
to the hill on a rich silver vein.
The members of the Saleros Mines
company known in Patagonia are c.
H. Ferry of New ork, and Professor
W. P. Blake of Tucson. Mr.. Ferry is
millionaire and has invested money
literally in the work being done. Su-
perintendent W. z. Balcom has
charge of the work.
The Saleros is one OF the antigua
mines, worked long before Arizona
became a territory Of the United
States. Salero is the Spanish word
for salt-cellar and the Mexicans tell
the following story Of the naming Oh
the old mine: In the days when
the Mexican miners and prospectTs
gouged the rich ores from the veins
of the Santa Ritas, camp in that
section was visited by a bishop
from the Tumocacori mission. The
best the camp afforded was gath
cred together for a feast in honor of
the visit of the holy prelate, and it was
learned there was not a salt-cellar in
the camp. For a time the religious
residents of the camp were at loss
what to do. But serve salt TO the
bishop on a plate or in a teacup was
not to be thought Of. But in the
camp were two large nuggets OF
native silver, taken from the mine a
short time before. They were
larger taan salt-cellars and a Handy
Andy at the camp suggested that
they be used Chisels and files were
nut into use The nuggets were
Clipped and filed into shape, gouged
out and transformed into two service
able saleros. When the saH-cellars,
new and shining, were placed upon
the table before the bishop, they
aroused ais curiosity and he was told
how they were made. He then
named the mines from which the
nuggets were taken Los SalerOs. the
name by which they are still known
to all Msxicans and old timers in this
section"
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