Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-19
MINERS sC0NQUER
 BIG FIRE
Flames Extend Twenty-Five Niles and Threaten consol-
 dated Company's Mill
NCGALES MINING NEWS
 INDICATES AvTlvlTY

MORALES, June 1S.--L. M Raines. general manager of the Columbia Con solidated Mining company is in town from visit to his properties. He says fierce fire has been raging in the Finite Mountains of thirty miles in length and twenty-five in width. He and General Manager Purcell of the 1 Fortuna Mining company, with twen- ty men have been fighting this fire for eight days past. There was grave dan ger of destruction of the twenty stamp mill and other buildings on the Co lumbia Consolidated ayerted by the utmost vigilance and constant fight ing of the flames which travelled in an unbroken sheet twenty-five miles i in length and flared high toward the smoke duiled sky, from the Cibua on
 the north end to Sierra del Ose, the southern extension of the property.
 On the Prote Brothers big cocospera
 ranch the fire is still destroying grass and devastating the timber tract. | Mir Raines states 1t is impossible to
 estimate the loss, as the heat is so in i tense no examination can be made of
 the ravaged timber lands.
 David Simpson and wife are in town | from Pierson, Sonora. Mir. Simpson is manager of the big Terrenata flour
 mN owned by Miguel Latz and broth CTS. He reports activity in mining in | terests and in agricultural lines. har- i vesting time being a busy one in his | district. but reports the country as | unusually dry and the bean and potato crops a little short because of late | frost in the spring. He says wheat is
 being brought from Durango and Sina- | loa now. whereas last year the mill was run or home grown wheat. And this year dating from the 18th Of the present month the mill will be supplied by only half of the home | products.
 | Mir. Simpson says the Sierra Prieta
 company is working full force of men and that Mir. Haack, general manager of the Sierra Plata came up few
 days ago to arrange with party for
 the sinking of shafts on the property.
 The Chicago. Patagonia Copper and
 Gold Mining company of which Mir. A.
 ". Brickwood of Chicago is president
 and J. T. Brickwood superintendent
 and general manager. have completed
 all the assessment work on their prop
 erty, including expenditures of twenty
 thousand dollars There are nineteen
 claims in all. within about mile and
 a half of the Four Metals, three miles
 from the National and two miles dis
 tant from the Nowry.' The company
 is now planning development work of an active and immediate nature. | F. J. Merrill the eminent geologist, with mining interests in Sonora will leave for an extended trip to New York and through the east and possi. bly, Canada tomorrow morning. Mir. Merrill is well informed as to the pos sibilities of the Sonora country and
 more inclined to talk about the open ing up of that country. than to discuss the nature of his visit to the east. though 1t is conjectured that his con
 nection with capitalists in New York means a pending deal of magnitude. He says the financial depression
 which has so affected the entire coun- try for the past year or two is near ing an end and this with the opening up of the Sierra Madre mining coun- try and of the Yaqui country will bring into prominence rich interests which have been more or less quiet as
 we'll as bring to the front that mart of Sonora which has been little explored and which includes the rich district along the western slope which lies
 along the Chihuahua boundary.
 | To the eastward of the Nacozari railroad is the Fl Tigre mine, which has shown very large ore bodies. In the southwestern country. in the area lin which this lies other valuable prop
 critics will no doubt be found, as soon as the southern extension of the rail
 road from Nacozari facilitates trans portation-
 At the present time stated MT. Mer- Till the chief mineral production Of i Sonora is copper from the fainous mines at Cananea and Nacozari. With small productions of silver from the : bid mines. the gold output of the state ! of Sonora is historic. but. says Mr. Merrill. larger amounts of these pre- . cious metals have ben derived from :, piacers. instead of veins, the import ant producers being the mines at Minas Prietas. He says the amount , of gold locked up in placers is enor- nous and awaits the solution, only, or
 mechanical problems involved in its extraction, owing to the high cost of l water.
 He further stated that the unex- plored copper deposits of Sonora are very extensive and will undoubtedly develop a number of important mines 1 in the near future.
 Il Harry Saxon continues his diligent
 search for the murderer or murderers l of Edwin Egan, tte crime thai
 so startled the entire county few days ago. He has had splendid help ' from the townspeoIle of Calabasas,
 among them Sam Lacy who has been , untirine in his efforts to obtain more { evidence against the man Casiano ! Romero. who is in jail suspected or
 the murder. Mir. Saxon and his as. , sociates on this hunt found part of the blood-stained shirt that had been Ipartially burned and buried and there is strong reason to suspect this man
 of being the murderer. When found ! he wore a pair of bloody shoes The sheriff is on the watch for another
 suspect though he is inclined to the
 opinion that this one man is the
 guilty party
 [ Mrs. Lydia Griswold returned last
 night from Tucson. where she mas , been visiting since Sunday. in com :. pany with her daughter, Aiieen who
 has been at the convent, being the youngest child in the school Under
 the chaperonage of Mrs. Griswoid , were the daughters of Senor F. A. rieTts of Nogales, Sonora, the Misses Teresa. Henrietta and Mary Anthony who have been in attendance at the