Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-09

in this district The Papagos and oth- CT Indians have worked these fields along primitive lines for years, but scarcity of water will preclude them from becoming the standard important until some method of dry washing on a scale commensurate with the curren- cy demands of the country shall have been perfected
 Quartz mining has been fairly sue cessful of late years, the famous Fl Tiro ledge having contributed largely toward bringing the district into prom thence. The CerTo Colorado has also been an important producer and though low grade is apparently mex haustibIe This is the northwestern district of the state, lying along the gulf for a great distance.
 Water storage would go long way to solve the successful destiny of this historic district, which, however, is gradually improving in it's annual out put.
 Hermosilho District.
 This district is among the first rank in the state in regard to size re- sources and practically every feature of importance.
 The Minas Prietas mines alone have contributed immensely to make the district famous. Occupying an i'm mense stretch of territory in the cen tral, southwesterly division of the state reaching from the Yaqui river to the coast, it's geographical situation assisted by the presence of the c. R. Y. & P. railroad, render development of that locality easy. The history of the great Minas Prietas, twelve miles east of Torres. a station on the So- nora railroad with which it is connect ed by narrow guage. is familiar to the public. That property and others which go to make up the greatness of the district, is an immense gold prop osition, which by reason of it's im- mensity, enjoys most of the advan- tages of a great copper mine, without sharing in the embarrassment so ire quently arising in the fluctuation of the price of it's product
 The Creston Colorado company is another fine and steady producer and of bulk and capital with the big cop per proposition of the state, their az gregate output is clean, steady and of decided importance as a factor in the total product of Sonora. The La Colo rado lode is one of the greatest ever brought to the attention of the mining world, and as a reminder of the mag nitude on which gold properties have been handled in the past, the Grand Central is cyauiding and otherwise converting old dumps which it will re. quire their immense plant years to dis pose of.
 The Guaymas district in the extreme south, by reason of its remoteness for merly from standard systems of trans portation, has been seriously neglect. ed, but the advent or the Southern Pa. cific which traverses it extensively with main line and branches, insures it's early recognition as a vigorous young producer, while it's port facili ties will doubtless contribute immense ly to it's early development and healthy expansion.
 The Magdalena lies practically par allel to the Altar and joins it on the east, running north to the information al boundary. It has enjoyed the bene fits of the Sonora railroad throughout it's entire length for years, which has oCAFNu NO PlelSC IL HI VI oChAN of it's neighbors over whom it could boast 10 superiority from natura standpoint Included in the handsome list of solid producers in this district are the Cerro Prieto, the Black Noun tain. the holdings of the Hays com pany, the placers which have produc ed along uneven lines, put important in the aggregate and the early Spanish cospera and Planchas de Plata
 The Alamos district is in the ex treme south and shares the genera conditions of the Guaymas and will be benefited by the new Southern Pacific extensions in approximately the same measure. It lies between the RiC
 Yaqui and the Rio Mayo, and is the least known of any region of tht
 state. the advance guard, the engineers of the Southern Pacific surveying ser vice, being among the very first amoni white men to penetrate it's vast noun | tain and desert wastes. It Is knowI to be rich in quartz and placer bu comparatively unexplored.
 Sahuaripa District
 This district lies well to the south east It has been one of the least ex plored in the state. but the projection Of the Southern Pacific and stillwel
 systems with their northern connec tions. will operate strongly to bTsnt that section into the light It lies i'm mediately to the south of the Moctezu ma district, where the overwhelmini impulse tends to spread across th'
 border to the south to the benefit O | its southern neighbor. The country |
 exceedingiy wild and rugged, splendid | ly mineralized and offers excepticna
 Inducements to the prospector and in yestor. especially since the Yaqui sit
 uation, which for long time was con | sidered serious in that section, ha been practically disposed of. Broad
 Announcements have been made by
 strong companies in evident anticips ticn of the hour when every facflit, would favor the development of tn ldistrict. Several American companie are already operating in that sectio
 and the prospect of general activ1t lin the direction of development an mining operations in the near futur
 are very 1attering.
 The Cleneguita Copper company, a Chipions, the Garretson combination land the celebrated Mulatos, the latte
 belonging to the Greene Geld and Si iver company, are among those wh have already arisen to the dignity c
 steady producers in the district. I
 view of its undeveloped resources thi
 district properly claims future (
 unusual promise.
 The Ures district is centrally l' cated and enjoys practically all of tn (Continued on Page Ten)