Weekly journal-miner., 1910-05-04
MAN HAS BONANZA IN HONDURAS Making Fortune Out Of
 Gold Mine In
 Tropics Declares That Country Is Century Behind The
 Times

After a visit of two weeks in Tomb. stone, his old home, and also visit. ing in Tucson and Bisbee for one or two days each, s. A. D. Upton left last night for Honduras, where he is interested in a valuable gold mining proposition, secured about three years ago. MT. Upton will sail for the southern country from New Or. leans.
 Al the depot, yesterday, while waiting for the departure of the night train for Fl Paso, Mir. Upton talked interestingly of the Honduras coun. try. He was induced to go there af. ter reading a book descriptive of Honduras and it's native resources. This book was written in the year 1929, and it has not changed much since then, says Mir. Upton.
 Honduras is virgin country" said Mir. Upton, "and regard it as good one for any young man look ing for an opportunity to get in on the ground floor in many enterprises; it is rich in gold and other metals; it has vast areas of the best timber 10 be found in the world, including pine, mahogany and other rare woods. The eountry has n popula. ton of about 35op0O people, and the entire area does not exceed 4s,O00 square miles. The native laborss will work for one peso per day, and his wife, the better worker of the two, expects to receive half that much. To describe the industrial condition now, should say it is about what Mexico was one hundred years ago. It contains only one railroad, about fifty miles long. This road is narrow gauge, the track is laid of IS pound steel and the ears are very similar to the old style of street cars in this country, when mules and horses were the only means of hauling them. This rail. road is bonded for more than one million dollars, SO I am told.
 "Yes, we have revolutions in that country, and every citizen is sup. posed to be n soldier," said Upton. Just what side of the revolution one of the native citizens falls to, depends on which side gets to him first and enlists him as a 'volun. tsre.' The nearest municipal gov. ernment to the mines we are work. ing is town called Ilncho. Since I have been at these mines an ambi. tious revoiutionist raided and cap. tured the place. He at once dis patched one of his officers to our camp, which is near others, demand. ing the local official of these com. munities to send him forthwith twen. ty-fve 'voluntares.'
 1.-The local official lost no time in herding the required number of men called for, and loading few old muskets into n wagon, started the outfit to Olancho. These men were all tied, their arms being tied be. hind them with short pieces of rope. The local official sent note to the commanding revolutionist, reading like this; Honored Sir: l take pleasure, as per your order, in sending you the twenty-five volun. | tares called for. Please return the ropes.'
 MT. Upton was a resident of Tomb. | stone for more than twenty years, | and for number of years was en. gagged in the practice of law. Prior to going to Honduras three years ago he had been looking after legal busi. ness for Col. W. c. Greene in Mex. leo. Coming from Mexico he found | panic raging here and decided to try his fortune in the new country. and he seems entirely satisfied with his venture in Honduras